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Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06004What's New in Python 2.7.4
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02006
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06007*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02008
9Core and Builtins
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11
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +030012- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
13 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
14 Patch by Sven Marnach.
15
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +020016- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
17
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -040018- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
19
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -040020- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
21 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
22
23- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
24 special method with a different name.
25
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -040026- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
27
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +010028- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
29 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
30 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
31
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +020032- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
33 created with PyFile_FromString().
34
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -040035- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
36 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
37
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +020038- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
39 by Suman Saha.
40
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -040041- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
42 the module name that was not interned.
43
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -070044- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
45 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
46
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050047- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -050048 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
49 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050050
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +020051- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
52
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -060053- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
54 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
55
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +010056- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
57 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
58
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +000059- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
60 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
61 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
62 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
63
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -060064Library
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66
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -070067- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
68 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
69
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +080070- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
71 Header in Cookie.py.
72
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +080073- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
74 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
75
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +030076- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
77 ports stricter.
78
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +080079- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
80 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
81
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +030082- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
83 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
84 Xavier de Gaye.
85
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -040086- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
87 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
88
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +020089- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
90
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -070091- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
92 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
93 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
94 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
95 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
96
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +080097- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
98 Authentation in urllib2.
99
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700100- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
101 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
102
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200103- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
104 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
105
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200106- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
107
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800108- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
109 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
110
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200111- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
112 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
113
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200114- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
115 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
116
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400117- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
118 were missing, instead of raising an error.
119
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800120- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
121 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
122
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200123- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
124 module's active list after a fork().
125
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600126- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
127 a bare '/'.
128
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100129- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
130
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100131- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
132 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
133
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400134- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
135 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
136 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400137
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200138- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
139 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
140 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
141
Andrew Svetlov8af87292012-03-31 14:34:16 +0300142- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
143 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
144 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
145 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
Andrew Svetlovc37db102012-03-29 19:54:58 +0300146
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100147- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
148 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
149 was not meant to connect.
150
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400151- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
152 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
153
Andrew Svetlov7c010ee2012-03-21 13:35:08 +0200154- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
155 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
156
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100157- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
158 attribute.
159
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700160- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
161
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700162- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
163
Martin v. Löwisf163efd2012-03-13 14:46:22 -0700164- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
165
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100166- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
167 Windows when the child process has already exited.
168
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600169- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
170 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
171 fixed.
172
173- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
174 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
175 O(1) rather than O(n).
176
177- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
178
179- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
180 scripts found in the Tools directory.
181
182- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
183 on Windows.
184
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200185Tests
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187
188- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
189 a test failure in test_ssl.
190
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200191Build
192-----
193
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +0200194- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
195 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
196
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +0200197- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
198
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +0200199- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
200
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200201- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
202
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300203Documentation
204-------------
205
206- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
207
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600208
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700209What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
210===============================================
211
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -0500212*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700213
214Library
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216
217- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
218 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
219 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
220 modifications by the expat project.
221
222
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600223What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
224===============================================
225
226*Release date: 2012-02-23*
227
228Core and Builtins
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230
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +0100231- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
232 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
233
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -0500234- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
235 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
236 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
237 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
238
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +0100239- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
240 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
241
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -0500242- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
243 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
244
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +0100245- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
246 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
247 noticing.
248
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +0100249- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
250 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
251
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +0100252- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
253 already accepts them).
254
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +0200255- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
256 setobject.c.
257
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -0400258- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
259
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +0300260- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
261 Patch by Suman Saha.
262
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800263- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
264 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
265
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +1100266- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
267 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
268 embedded situations.
269
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -0400270- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
271 PySequence_DelItem.
272
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +0200273- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
274 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
275
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +0200276- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
277 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
278
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100279- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
280 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
281 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +0100282 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
283 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
284 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100285
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +0300286- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
287 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
288
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -0500289- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
290 and identifier types before compiling.
291
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400292- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
293 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -0500294
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +0200295- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
296 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
297 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
298 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
299 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
300
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +0100301- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
302 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +0200303
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +0200304- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
305 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
306
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +0200307- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200308 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
309 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
310
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +0200311- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
312 delimiter in URLs.
313
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400314- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
315 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +0100316
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200317Library
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Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200319
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +0200320- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
321 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
322
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +0200323- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
324
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +0100325- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
326 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
327
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -0800328- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
329
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +0100330- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
331
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200332- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +0200333 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200334
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +0100335- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
336 Patch by Suman Saha.
337
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -0600338- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
339 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
340
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +0100341- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
342 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
343
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +0200344- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
345
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +0200346- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
347
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +0200348- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
349 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
350 Kohtala.
351
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +0100352- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +0100353 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
354 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
355 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
356 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
357 is the case in 3.x.
358
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +0100359- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
360 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
361 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
362 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
363 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
364 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
365 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
366 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
367 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
368 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
369 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
370 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
371
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +0800372- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
373
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +0800374- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
375 relevant, instead send method.
376
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +0200377- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
378 raise a ProgrammingError now.
379
Ned Deily2c8bf042012-02-06 00:55:50 +0100380- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
381
Terry Jan Reedyadb87e22012-02-05 15:10:55 -0500382- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
383 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
384
Ned Deily61c95342012-02-04 18:35:23 +0100385- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
386 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
387
Ned Deilyfbc56fd2012-02-03 02:39:49 +0100388- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
389
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +0200390- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
391
Terry Jan Reedyb98000a2012-01-31 02:09:25 -0500392- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
393 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
394
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +0100395- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
396 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
397
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +0100398- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
399 IV attack countermeasure.
400
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +0800401- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
402
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +0200403- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
404 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
405
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100406- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
407 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
408
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +0100409- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
410 in the directory name.
411
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +0800412- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
413 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
414
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100415- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
416 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
417
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +0800418- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
419
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +0100420- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
421
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +0100422- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
423
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100424- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
425 Cédric Krier.
426
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +0100427- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
428 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
429
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +0100430- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
431 redirection or an error.
432
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -0800433- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
434 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
435 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
436
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +0100437- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
438 other than 900k.
439
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -0800440- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
441 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
442
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +0200443- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
444
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100445- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
446 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
447 Harring.
448
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100449- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
450 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
451
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +0100452- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
453
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100454- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
455 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
456 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
457 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
458 Patch by sbt.
459
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +0200460- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
461
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +0200462- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
463 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
464 Kenigsberg.
465
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -0800466- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
467 sequences.
468
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +0200469- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
470 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
471
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +0100472- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
473 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
474
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200475- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
476 locale.setlocale().
477
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +0200478- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
479 are read correctly.
480
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +0100481- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
482
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +0100483- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
484
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200485- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
486 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
487
488- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +0800489 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
490
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200491- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -0700492 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
493
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +0200494- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
495
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +0100496- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
497 multiple encodings.
498
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +0200499- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
500 before all tasks have completed.
501
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200502- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
503 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +0200504 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
505 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200506
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +0200507- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
508
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800509- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
510 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
511
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +0800512- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
513 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
514
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +0200515- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
516 now available on Windows.
517
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +0200518- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
519 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
520
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -0700521- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
522 contents cannot be read.
523
524- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
525 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
526
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +0200527- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
528 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
529
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +0200530- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
531 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
532 Craig Citro.
533
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +0200534- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
535 Thomas Jarosch.
536
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +0200537- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
538 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
539
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200540- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
541 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
542 present.
543
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +0200544- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
545 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200546
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +0200547- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
548 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
549 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
550 information was lost.
551
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +0200552- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
553 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
554
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +0200555- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
556 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
557
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +0200558- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
559 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
560
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +0200561- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
562 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
563
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +0200564- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
565 interpreter shutdown.
566
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +0200567- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
568 Pipe.
569
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +0200570- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
571 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
572
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +0200573- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
574 is compiled on Linux 3.
575
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +0200576- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
577
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +0200578- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
579
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +0200580- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
581 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
582
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -0400583- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
584 accepting unicode strings.
585
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +0800586- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
587 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
588
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +0200589- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
590
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +0200591- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
592 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
593
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +0200594- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
595 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
596
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +0200597- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
598
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -0700599- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
600 collections when it is done.
601
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +0200602- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
603 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
604
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +0200605- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
606 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
607
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +0200608- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
609
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +0200610- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
611 locales.
612
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +0200613- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +0200614
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +0200615- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
616
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +0200617- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
618
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200619- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
620 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
621 Linux 3.0.
622
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -0400623- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
624 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
625
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +0200626- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
627 Andreas Stührk.
628
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +0200629- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
630
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +0200631- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
632 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
633
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +0200634- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
635 if the process has only one pipe.
636
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +0200637- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
638 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
639
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +0200640- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
641 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
642
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -0700643- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
644 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
645 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
646 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
647 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
648 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
649 still possible to globally override the default by setting
650 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
651 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
652 was built.
653
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +0200654- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
655 it won't grow without bound.
656
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +0200657- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
658 Kitada.
659
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -0400660- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
661 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
662
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +0200663- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
664 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
665 written by Ezio Melotti.
666
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500667- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
668 functions.
669
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -0400670- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
671
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -0500672- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
673 instead of os.stat.
674
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +0100675- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
676 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
677
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -0700678- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
679
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400680- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
681 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
682 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
683 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
684 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
685 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -0700686
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +0200687- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
688 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
689 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
690
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400691Extension Modules
692-----------------
693
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +0100694- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
695 Possible crash.
696
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +0100697- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
698 json.loads().
699
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +0100700- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
701 Vilmos Nebehaj.
702
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +0200703- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
704 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
705
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +0200706- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
707 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
708 writer got cleared by the GC.
709
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -0500710- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
711
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -0500712- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
713 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
714
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +0200715- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
716 file descriptor was actually received.
717
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +0200718- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
719 object triggers the garbage collector.
720
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +0200721- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
722 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
723
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +0200724- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
725 a string.
726
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +0200727- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
728 some functions like file.write().
729
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400730- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
731 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
732 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
733
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700734Build
735-----
736
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +0100737- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
738
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +0100739- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
740
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +0100741- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
742
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700743- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
744 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
745 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
746 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
747
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400748Tools/Demos
749-----------
750
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +0200751- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
752 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
753
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -0800754- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
755 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
756 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
757 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
758
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400759- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
760 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
761
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +0100762- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
763 traceback if Python is optimized.
764
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200765Tests
766-----
767
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +0200768- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
769 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
770
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -0700771- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
772 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
773
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -0400774- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
775
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +0200776- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
777
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +0200778- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
779 Python.
780
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -0700781- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
782 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
783
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +0200784- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
785 failure in name resolution.
786
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +0100787- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
788 in test_telnetlib.py.
789
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +0100790- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
791
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +0200792- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
793 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
794 Web site.
795
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +0200796- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
797 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
798 is now skipped instead.
799
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -0700800- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
801 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
802 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
803
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -0700804- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
805 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
806 run outside of a build directory.
807
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700808- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
809 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
810
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -0700811- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
812 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
813
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200814- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
815 iso2022_kr).
816
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200817Documentation
818-------------
819
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +0200820- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
821 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +0200822
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +0200823- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
824
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -0500825- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
826
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -0600827- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
828 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
829
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -0600830- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
831 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
832
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +1000833- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
834 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
835
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200836- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
837
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200838
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000839What's New in Python 2.7.2?
840===========================
841
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -0500842*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500843
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -0500844Library
845-------
846
847- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
848
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -0500849Extension Modules
850-----------------
851
852- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
853
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500854
855What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
856===============================================
857
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -0500858*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000859
860Core and Builtins
861-----------------
862
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -0700863- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
864 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
865 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
866 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
867
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -0500868- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
869 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
870 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -0500871
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +0200872- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
873 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
874
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +0200875- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
876 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
877 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
878
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +0200879- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
880 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
881
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200882- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
883 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
884 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +0200885 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200886
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +0200887- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
888 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
889 by Charles-François Natali.
890
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +0300891- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
892 accepted too.
893
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +0300894- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
895 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
896 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
897
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +0200898- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
899 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
900 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
901
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +0000902- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
903 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
904 though the result was within the range of an int.
905
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +0100906- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
907 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
908
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +0000909- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
910 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
911
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +0000912- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
913 class.
914
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000915- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
916 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
917 Patch by Matt Bandy.
918
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +0000919- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
920
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +0000921- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
922 can now handle dates after 2038.
923
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +0000924- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
925 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
926 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
927
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +0200928- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
929 Patch by Torsten Becker.
930
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +0000931- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
932
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +0000933- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
934 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
935 0.0, not -0.0.
936
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +0000937- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
938 empty, instead of OverflowError.
939
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000940Library
941-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000942
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -0700943- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
944 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
945
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -0500946- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
947 closed StringIO instance.
948
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +0200949- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
950 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
951
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +0200952- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
953
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +0200954- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
955 if the file is closed.
956
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +0200957- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
958 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
959
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +0200960- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
961 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
962 final argument is True.
963
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +0200964- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
965 to be able to unload the module.
966
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +0200967- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
968 with Tk 8.5.
969
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +0200970- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
971 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
972
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +0200973- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +0200974 set in shell.
975
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +0200976- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
977 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
978
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +0200979- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
980 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
981 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
982 still within buffered data, and writing again).
983
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +0200984- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
985 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
986
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +0200987- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
988
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +0200989- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
990
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +0200991- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
992 by Kasun Herath.
993
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -0400994- Issue 11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
995 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
996 previous value of the mtime.
997
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +0200998- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
999 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1000 for the case.
1001
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03001002- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
1003
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02001004- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1005 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1006
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08001007- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
1008 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
1009
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03001010- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1011 strings are too long.
1012
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08001013- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1014
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02001015- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1016 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1017 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1018
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07001019- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1020 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1021
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02001022- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
1023 to avoid XSS attacks.
1024
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08001025- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
1026 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1027
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07001028- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1029
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08001030- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1031 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1032
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03001033- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1034 _json is not available.
1035
1036- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08001037 url contains #fragment.
1038
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04001039- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1040 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1041
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05001042- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1043 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1044
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001045- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
1046 a closed file.
1047
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07001048- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
1049 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
1050 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
1051
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02001052- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1053 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1054 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1055
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001056- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03001057
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02001058- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1059
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07001060- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07001061 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001062
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001063- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1064 arguments.
1065
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02001066- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1067
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01001068- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1069 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1070
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01001071- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1072 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1073 documentation.
1074
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02001075- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
1076
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07001077- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1078 that start with a leading underscore.
1079
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00001080- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
1081 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
1082
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01001083- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1084 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1085
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001086- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1087 setup and teardown.
1088
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04001089- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1090 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1091 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1092
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001093- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
1094 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04001095
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00001096- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
1097 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1098
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08001099- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1100 initialization fails.
1101
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01001102- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1103 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1104 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1105
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00001106- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1107 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1108 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1109
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00001110- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1111 on accept(), send() and recv().
1112
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00001113- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1114 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1115
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00001116- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1117 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1118
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00001119- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1120 argparse.
1121
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00001122- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1123 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1124 32-bit Windows.
1125
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00001126- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
1127 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
1128
1129- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1130
1131- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1132
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00001133- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
1134 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
1135
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00001136- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
1137 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
1138
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00001139- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
1140 Patch by Stan Mihai.
1141
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +00001142- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1143 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1144 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1145
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +00001146- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1147 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1148 64-/32-bit installer variant.
1149
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +00001150- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1151 commands.
1152
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001153- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1154
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00001155- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1156 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1157
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00001158- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1159 a symbol named FSTAT.
1160
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +00001161- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1162 Cocoa AquaTk.
1163
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00001164- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
1165 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
1166 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1167
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00001168- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1169
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001170- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
1171 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
1172 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
1173 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
1174 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
1175 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
1176
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00001177- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
1178 node twice.
1179
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00001180- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1181 on an existing file.
1182
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00001183- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1184 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1185
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00001186- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
1187 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
1188 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1189
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00001190- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
1191 DeprecationWarning.
1192
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00001193- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
1194
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001195- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00001196 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
1197 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
1198 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
1199
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001200- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00001201
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001202- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00001203 browsers actually parse cookies.
1204
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00001205- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
1206 email.header.Header.encode.
1207
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00001208- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1209 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1210 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1211
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00001212- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1213
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00001214- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00001215 about input.
1216
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00001217- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
1218
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00001219- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
1220 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1221
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00001222- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1223
1224- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00001225 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1226
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001227- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1228 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1229
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00001230- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1231 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001232
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00001233- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1234 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1235
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00001236- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1237
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00001238- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1239 causes debug mode to fail.
1240
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +00001241- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1242
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +00001243- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
1244 platforms).
1245
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00001246- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1247 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1248 current process.
1249
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00001250- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1251
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00001252- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1253
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00001254- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1255 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1256 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1257
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00001258- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1259 argparse.FileType.
1260
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01001261- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1262
1263- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1264
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01001265- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1266 their children.
1267
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02001268- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1269
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02001270- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1271
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001272Extension Modules
1273-----------------
1274
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05001275- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
1276 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
1277 attributes. (See #12099)
1278
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03001279- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
1280
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03001281- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1282 objects using the C accelerations.
1283
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03001284- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1285 objects using the C accelerations.
1286
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05001287- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1288 to an instance of the class.
1289
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001290- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1291
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001292Build
1293-----
1294
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07001295- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1296 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1297 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1298
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08001299- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1300
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00001301- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1302
1303- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1304
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00001305- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1306
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00001307- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1308 package had previously been installed.
1309
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00001310- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
1311 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
1312
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00001313- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1314 the system-provided Python.
1315
1316- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
1317 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
1318 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
1319 support enabled).
1320
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00001321- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
1322
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00001323- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1324 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1325
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001326- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1327 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1328
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00001329- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1330 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1331 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1332 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1333
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001334- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1335 using GCC 4.0.
1336
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -07001337IDLE
1338----
1339
1340- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1341 file in a package.
1342
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001343Tests
1344-----
1345
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07001346- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
1347
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03001348- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1349
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03001350- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1351
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02001352- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1353
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02001354- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1355 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1356
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07001357- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
1358 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
1359
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04001360- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1361 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1362
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00001363- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1364 by Ross Lagerwall.
1365
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00001366- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
1367 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
1368 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
1369
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00001370- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1371 encountering them.
1372
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001373- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1374 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1375
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001376
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001377What's New in Python 2.7.1?
1378===========================
1379
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00001380*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001381
1382Library
1383-------
1384
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00001385- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1386
1387- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1388
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00001389- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
1390 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
1391 iterator was undefined.
1392
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00001393- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
1394 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
1395
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00001396- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1397
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00001398- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
1399
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001400- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1401
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00001402- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1403
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001404- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1405 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1406
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00001407- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1408 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1409 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1410
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00001411- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
1412 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1413
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00001414- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1415 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1416
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00001417- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
1418
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00001419- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
1420 is called without data.
1421
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00001422- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1423 end of the file.
1424
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00001425- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1426
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001427Build
1428-----
1429
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00001430- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
1431
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001432- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
1433
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00001434Tests
1435-----
1436
1437- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
1438
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00001439Documentation
1440-------------
1441
1442- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1443
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001444
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001445What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
1446===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001447
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001448*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001449
1450Core and Builtins
1451-----------------
1452
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00001453- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1454 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1455
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001456- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
1457 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00001458
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001459- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
1460 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00001461
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00001462- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1463 resolution.
1464
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00001465- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
1466 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
1467
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00001468- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
1469 warning.
1470
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00001471- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1472 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1473
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00001474- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
1475 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
1476 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
1477 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
1478
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00001479- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
1480
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00001481- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1482 thread-local storage key.
1483
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001484- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
1485 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
1486 the same behaviour than the print statement.
1487
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00001488- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
1489 a memoryview object.
1490
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00001491- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
1492
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00001493- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1494
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001495- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
1496 of an array.
1497
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00001498- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
1499
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00001500- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
1501 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
1502
1503 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1504 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1505
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00001506- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
1507 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001508
1509Library
1510-------
1511
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001512- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001513
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00001514- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
1515 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
1516
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001517- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1518 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001519
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001520- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1521
1522- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1523
1524- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1525 not in build_clib.
1526
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00001527- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1528 Arfrever.
1529
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00001530- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1531
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00001532- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1533 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1534
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00001535- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
1536 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1537
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001538- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
1539 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00001540
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001541- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
1542
1543- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
1544 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
1545 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00001546
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00001547- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
1548 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1549
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00001550- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1551 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1552
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00001553- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
1554 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1555
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00001556- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
1557
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00001558- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
1559 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
1560
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00001561- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1562 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1563 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1564
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00001565- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
1566 initialization.
1567
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00001568- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
1569 ntpath.relpath().
1570
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001571- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00001572 debugging in doctests.
1573
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001574- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1575 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1576
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00001577- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
1578 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
1579
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00001580- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1581
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00001582- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
1583
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00001584- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
1585 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
1586
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00001587- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
1588 gettext.
1589
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00001590- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
1591 gname field.
1592
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00001593- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
1594 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
1595
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00001596- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
1597 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
1598
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00001599- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
1600 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
1601 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
1602 with a timeout.
1603
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00001604- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
1605
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00001606- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
1607
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00001608- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
1609
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00001610- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
1611
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00001612- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
1613 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
1614
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00001615- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
1616 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
1617 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
1618 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
1619 by Andrew Bennetts.
1620
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00001621- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
1622 values: d['x'] = d.
1623
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00001624- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00001625
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00001626- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
1627 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
1628
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00001629- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
1630 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
1631 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
1632 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
1633 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
1634 to zero.
1635
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001636- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001637 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001638 value.
1639
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00001640- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
1641 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
1642 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
1643 original error is re-raised.
1644
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00001645- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
1646 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
1647 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
1648
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00001649- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
1650 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
1651
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00001652- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1653 ConfigParser.write.
1654
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00001655- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
1656 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
1657
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00001658- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
1659 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
1660 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
1661
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00001662- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1663 falling into recursion.
1664
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00001665- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1666 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1667
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00001668- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
1669 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
1670
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001671- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00001672 error handling when accepting a new connection.
1673
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00001674- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
1675 errors.
1676
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001677- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1678
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00001679- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
1680 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
1681
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00001682- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1683 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1684
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001685- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
1686 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
1687
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00001688- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
1689 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
1690 overridden to provide ordered views.
1691
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00001692- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
1693 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
1694 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
1695
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00001696- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
1697 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
1698 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
1699
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00001700- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
1701 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
1702 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
1703 patch by Jason V. Miller.
1704
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00001705- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
1706 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
1707
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00001708- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
1709 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
1710
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00001711- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
1712 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
1713 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
1714
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00001715- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
1716 current node.
1717
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00001718- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1719
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00001720- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1721 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
1722
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00001723- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
1724 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
1725 behavior was wrong.
1726
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00001727- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
1728
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00001729- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
1730 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
1731
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00001732- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
1733 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
1734 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
1735
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001736- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
1737
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001738- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
1739 the command line.
1740
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00001741- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
1742 interactive browser.
1743
1744- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
1745 regular expressions.
1746
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00001747- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
1748 data generated with the profile module.
1749
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00001750- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
1751 entries, consider the first one.
1752
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00001753- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
1754 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
1755
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00001756- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
1757 in the top-level debugged frame.
1758
1759- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
1760 in doctests.
1761
1762- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
1763 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
1764
1765- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
1766 been reassigned.
1767
1768- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
1769 a breakpoint command.
1770
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00001771- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
1772 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
1773
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00001774- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
1775 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
1776
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00001777- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
1778
1779- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
1780 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
1781
1782- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
1783 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
1784
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00001785- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
1786
1787- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
1788
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00001789- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
1790 across devices.
1791
1792- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
1793
1794- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
1795
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00001796- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
1797 string when Unicode was previously output.
1798
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00001799- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
1800 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
1801
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00001802- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
1803 utf-16 incremental encoders.
1804
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00001805- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
1806
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00001807- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
1808 parameters.
1809
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00001810- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
1811 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
1812 XML-RPC request.
1813
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00001814- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
1815
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00001816- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
1817 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
1818 options).
1819
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00001820- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
1821
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00001822- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
1823 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
1824 (Jan Hosang).
1825
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00001826- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
1827
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00001828- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
1829 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
1830 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
1831
1832- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
1833 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
1834 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
1835
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00001836- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
1837 strings in add_option calls.
1838
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00001839- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
1840
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00001841- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001842
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00001843- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
1844
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001845- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
1846 for tracing methods.
1847
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001848Extension Modules
1849-----------------
1850
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00001851- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
1852 with expat version 2.0.1.
1853
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001854- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001855 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001856
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00001857- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
1858 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1859
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00001860- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
1861 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
1862
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001863- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
1864 interpreter by default.
1865
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00001866- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
1867 to prevent crashes.
1868
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00001869- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
1870 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
1871 2**31 elements.
1872
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00001873- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
1874
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00001875- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
1876 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
1877
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00001878- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
1879 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
1880
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00001881- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
1882
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00001883- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
1884
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00001885- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
1886
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00001887- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
1888 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
1889 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
1890 returns the same information as the id command.
1891
1892 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
1893
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00001894- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
1895 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
1896 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
1897 char is unsigned.
1898
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00001899- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
1900
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001901
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001902Tools/Demos
1903-----------
1904
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00001905- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
1906
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001907- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
1908 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
1909 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
1910
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001911Build
1912-----
1913
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00001914- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
1915
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00001916- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
1917 Akira Kitada.
1918
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00001919- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
1920
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00001921- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
1922
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00001923- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
1924 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
1925
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00001926- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
1927 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
1928
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00001929- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
1930 Sablé.
1931
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00001932- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
1933 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
1934 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00001935
1936- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
1937 Sébastien Sablé.
1938
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001939- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
1940
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001941- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
1942 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00001943
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001944- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
1945 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
1946 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00001947
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001948- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
1949 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
1950 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
1951
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00001952- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
1953 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001954
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001955Tests
1956-----
1957
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00001958- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
1959 in test_os)
1960
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00001961- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
1962
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001963- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
1964 case when running profile or trace, for example.
1965
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001966- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001967
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00001968- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
1969
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00001970- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
1971
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001972- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
1973
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00001974- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
1975
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00001976- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
1977 Michele Orrù.
1978
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001979- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
1980
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00001981- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
1982
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00001983Documentation
1984-------------
1985
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00001986- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
1987 to Doc/license.rst.
1988
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00001989- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
1990 with os.kill.
1991
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001992- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
1993 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00001994
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001995- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00001996
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001997
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001998What's New in Python 2.7?
1999=========================
2000
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00002001*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002002
2003Core and Builtins
2004-----------------
2005
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00002006- Prevent assignment to set literals.
2007
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002008Library
2009-------
2010
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00002011- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
2012 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
2013
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00002014- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
2015
2016Extension Modules
2017-----------------
2018
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00002019- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2020 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002021
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00002022- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
2023 on an OpenSSL structure.
2024
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00002025
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002026What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
2027=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002028
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00002029*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002030
2031Core and Builtins
2032-----------------
2033
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00002034- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2035
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00002036- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
2037 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
2038 See tracker issue for details.
2039
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00002040- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
2041 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
2042 (higher than 0x10000).
2043
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00002044- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
2045 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00002046
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00002047Build
2048-----
2049
2050- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2051
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002052Library
2053-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002054
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002055- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00002056 raises an exception.
2057
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00002058- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
2059 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
2060 and after calling foreign functions.
2061
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00002062- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
2063 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2064
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002065- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
2066 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
2067
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00002068- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002069
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002070- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
2071 now honored in unittest debug methods.
2072
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00002073Documentation
2074-------------
2075
2076- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2077 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2078
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002079Misc
2080----
2081
2082- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
2083
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002084
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00002085What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
2086=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002087
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00002088*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002089
2090Core and Builtins
2091-----------------
2092
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00002093- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
2094 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
2095 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
2096 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
2097 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
2098 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
2099 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
2100
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002101- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00002102 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
2103 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
2104 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
2105 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002106
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00002107- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2108 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
2109 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
2110 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
2111 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
2112 in sets or dicts.
2113
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00002114- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
2115 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
2116 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
2117
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00002118- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
2119 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
2120
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002121- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
2122 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00002123
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002124- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
2125 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00002126
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002127- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00002128 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
2129
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002130C-API
2131-----
2132
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002133- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
2134 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
2135 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002136 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2137
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002138Library
2139-------
2140
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00002141- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
2142 reported as a skip rather than an error.
2143
2144- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
2145 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
2146 reports.
2147
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00002148- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
2149
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00002150- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
2151 accepted by the codecs module.
2152
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00002153- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2154
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00002155- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
2156 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
2157
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00002158- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2159 mistake.
2160
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00002161- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
2162 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
2163
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00002164- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2165 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2166
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00002167- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
2168 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00002169
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00002170- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
2171
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00002172- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
2173
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00002174- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2175 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2176 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00002177
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002178- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002179 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002180
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00002181- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2182 of files without one.
2183
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002184- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00002185 comparing to a non-mapping.
2186
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002187- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00002188
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002189- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
2190 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00002191
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00002192- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2193
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002194- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
2195 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
2196 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00002197
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002198Extension Modules
2199-----------------
2200
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00002201- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
2202 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
2203 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
2204
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00002205- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
2206 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
2207
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002208- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002209 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002210
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002211Tests
2212-----
2213
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00002214- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
2215 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
2216
2217- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00002218 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
2219
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00002220- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
2221
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002222- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
2223 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
2224 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002225
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00002226Build
2227-----
2228
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00002229- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
2230 releases.
2231
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002232- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00002233 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002234
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00002235Tools/Demos
2236-----------
2237
2238- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
2239
2240
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002241What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
2242================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002243
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00002244*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002245
2246Core and Builtins
2247-----------------
2248
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002249- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00002250
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002251- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
2252 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
2253 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
2254 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
2255 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00002256
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002257- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
2258 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00002259
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00002260- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
2261
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002262- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002263 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002264 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
2265 Charles-François Natali.
2266
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00002267- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2268 passed to bytearray.
2269
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002270- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00002271
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002272- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00002273
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002274- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
2275 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
2276 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00002277
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002278Library
2279-------
2280
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002281- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2282 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00002283
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002284- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2285 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00002286
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002287- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002288
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002289- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2290 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2291 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2292 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002293
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002294- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
2295 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00002296
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00002297- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2298
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002299- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
2300 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00002301
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002302- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
2303 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00002304
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002305- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2306 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2307 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2308 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2309 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00002310
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002311- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002312 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
2313 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002314
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00002315- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
2316
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00002317- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2318 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2319
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002320- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2321 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00002322
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002323- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
2324 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00002325
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002326- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00002327 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
2328 "Include".
2329
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002330- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2331 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00002332
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002333- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2334 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00002335
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002336- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
2337 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00002338
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002339- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
2340 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
2341 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00002342
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002343- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
2344 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00002345
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002346- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00002347
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002348- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
2349 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00002350
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002351- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00002352
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002353- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2354 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2355 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2356 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00002357
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00002358- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2359 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2360
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002361- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2362 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00002363
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00002364- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2365
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002366- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
2367 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00002368
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002369- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
2370 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00002371
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002372- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2373 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2374 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00002375
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002376- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2377 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002378 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2379 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2380
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002381- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2382 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2383 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00002384
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00002385- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
2386
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002387- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
2388 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00002389
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002390- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00002391
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002392- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
2393 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00002394
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002395- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2396 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00002397
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00002398- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
2399
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00002400- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2401 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2402
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002403- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00002404 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2405
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002406- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002407 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
2408 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002409
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002410- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002411 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
2412 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002413
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00002414- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
2415
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002416- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
2417 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002418
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002419Extension Modules
2420-----------------
2421
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002422- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00002423
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00002424- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
2425
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002426- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
2427
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002428- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
2429 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00002430
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002431Tests
2432-----
2433
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002434- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
2435 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
2436 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00002437
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002438- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
2439 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00002440
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00002441- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
2442 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
2443
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002444- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
2445 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00002446
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002447- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
2448 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002449
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002450Build
2451-----
2452
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002453- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00002454 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
2455 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
2456 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
2457
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002458- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
2459
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002460- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
2461 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00002462
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002463- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00002464
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00002465Misc
2466----
2467
2468- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
2469
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002470
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002471What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
2472================================
2473
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00002474*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002475
2476Core and Builtins
2477-----------------
2478
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00002479- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2480
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00002481- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2482 changed.
2483
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002484- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00002485 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
2486 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
2487
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00002488- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2489
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002490- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00002491
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00002492- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2493
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002494- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2495 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2496 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2497 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00002498 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002499 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00002500
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00002501- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
2502 references.
2503
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002504- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2505 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00002506
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00002507- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00002508
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00002509- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
2510 arguments to a function correct.
2511
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00002512- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
2513
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002514- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002515 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
2516 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002517 module.
2518
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00002519- Code objects now support weak references.
2520
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002521Library
2522-------
2523
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00002524- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
2525
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002526- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002527 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
2528 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002529
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00002530- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
2531
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002532- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
2533 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00002534
2535 >>> Decimal(1.1)
2536 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
2537
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00002538- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
2539
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002540- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
2541 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002542
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002543- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
2544 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002545
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002546- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
2547 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00002548
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002549- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
2550 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
2551 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
2552 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00002553
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002554- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
2555 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
2556 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
2557 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00002558
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002559- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002560 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
2561 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
2562 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002563
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002564- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
2565 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00002566
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00002567- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
2568 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002569 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00002570
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002571- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
2572 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
2573 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
2574 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00002575
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00002576- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
2577
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00002578- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
2579
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00002580- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
2581 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
2582
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00002583- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
2584
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002585- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002586 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
2587 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002588
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00002589- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
2590 deprecated.
2591
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002592- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
2593 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00002594
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002595- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
2596 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00002597
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002598- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
2599 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
2600 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00002601
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002602- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
2603 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00002604
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00002605- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
2606 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
2607 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00002608
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00002609- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
2610
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00002611- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
2612
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002613- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
2614 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
2615 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00002616
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00002617- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
2618 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
2619
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002620- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00002621
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002622- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
2623 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00002624
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002625- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
2626 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002627 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00002628
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00002629- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002630 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
2631 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
2632 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00002633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002634- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00002635 cElementTree module is updated too.
2636
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00002637- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
2638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002639- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00002640 classes.
2641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002642- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
2643 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
2644 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
2645 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002646
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00002647- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
2648 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
2649
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00002650- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
2651
2652- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
2653 during test runs.
2654
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00002655- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00002656 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
2657
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002658Extension Modules
2659-----------------
2660
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00002661- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
2662
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00002663- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
2664
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00002665- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002666 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
2667 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00002668
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00002669- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
2670
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00002671- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
2672
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00002673- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
2674 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
2675 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
2676 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
2677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002678- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
2679 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
2680 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002681 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
2682 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
2683 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
2684 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002685
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002686- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
2687 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00002688
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00002689Tools/Demos
2690-----------
2691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002692- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
2693 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
2694 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002695
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00002696- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
2697
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002698Build
2699-----
2700
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002701- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
2702 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00002703
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002704- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
2705 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
2706 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00002707
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00002708- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
2709
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002710- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
2711
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00002712- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
2713 assembly file.
2714
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002715C-API
2716-----
2717
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002718- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002719 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2720 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002721
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002722- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
2723 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
2724 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
2725 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002726
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002727Tests
2728-----
2729
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002730- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
2731 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00002732
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002733- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
2734
2735- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
2736
2737- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
2738
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00002739- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
2740
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00002741- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2742
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00002743- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
2744 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
2745
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00002746- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
2747 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00002748
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002749- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
2750 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002751
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002752
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002753What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
2754=================================
2755
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00002756*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002757
2758Core and Builtins
2759-----------------
2760
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002761- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2762 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00002763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002764- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2765 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00002766
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002767- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002768 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002769
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00002770- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002771 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
2772 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002773
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002774- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2775 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00002776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002777- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00002778 Parser/myreadline.c.
2779
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002780- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002781 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002783- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
2784 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00002785
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002786Library
2787-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002788
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00002789- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2790 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2791 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2792
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00002793- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
2794 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002795
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00002796- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
2797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002798- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00002799 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00002800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002801- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00002802 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
2803
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002804- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
2805 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00002806
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002807- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002808 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002809
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002810- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00002811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002812- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
2813 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00002814
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002815- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00002816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002817- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
2818 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00002819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002820- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
2821 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00002822
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002823- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
2824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002825- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
2826 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
2827 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
2828 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00002829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002830- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
2831 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002832
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002833- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
2834 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
2835 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002836
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002837- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002838 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00002839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002840- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00002841
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002842- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00002843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002844- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00002845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002846- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
2847 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00002848
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002849- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002850 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002852- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00002853
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00002854- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
2855
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002856Extension Modules
2857-----------------
2858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002859- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00002860 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
2861
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002862- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
2863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002864- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00002865 handling.
2866
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002867- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
2868 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002870- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00002871 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
2872 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
2873
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002874- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
2875 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00002876
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002877Tests
2878-----
2879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002880- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
2881 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
2882 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00002883
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00002884- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
2885 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
2886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002887- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
2888 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00002889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002890- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00002891 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00002892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002893- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00002894 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
2895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002896- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
2897 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
2898 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
2899 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002900
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002901Build
2902-----
2903
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00002904- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002905
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002906
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002907What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
2908=================================
2909
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00002910*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002911
2912Core and Builtins
2913-----------------
2914
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002915- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
2916 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002917 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
2918 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002919
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002920- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002921 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00002922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002923- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
2924 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00002925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002926- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00002927
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002928- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
2929 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00002930
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002931- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
2932 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
2933 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
2934 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00002935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002936- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
2937 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
2938 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
2939 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00002940
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00002941- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
2942 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
2943 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002945- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
2946 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00002947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002948 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
2949 strings,
2950 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
2951 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
2952 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
2953 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
2954
2955- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
2956 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00002957
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00002958- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
2959
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00002960- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
2961
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00002962- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
2963
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002964Library
2965-------
2966
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00002967- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
2968 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
2969
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00002970- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
2971 interpreter shutdown.
2972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002973- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
2974 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
2975 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
2976 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00002977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002978- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00002979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002980- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00002981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002982- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00002983
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00002984- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002985 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00002986 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
2987 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
2988
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00002989- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
2990
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00002991- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002992 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
2993 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00002994 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2995
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002996- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
2997 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
2998 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
2999 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
3000 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
3001 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00003002
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00003003- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003005- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
3006 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00003007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003008- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
3009 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00003010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003011- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
3012 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
3013 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
3014 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00003015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003016- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00003017 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
3018 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
3019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003020- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00003021 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3022
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003023- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3024 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00003025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003026- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
3027 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00003028
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003029- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3030 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00003031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003032- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
3033 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00003034
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003035- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003036 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
3037 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003038
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00003039Extension Modules
3040-----------------
3041
3042- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3043 (CVE_2009_3560).
3044
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003045Build
3046-----
3047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003048- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3049 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3050 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00003051
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00003052- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
3053
3054- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
3055 MacOSX.
3056
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003057- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
3058 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3059
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003060Tools/Demos
3061-----------
3062
3063- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003064 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003065 sandbox.
3066
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003067Tests
3068-----
3069
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003070- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003071 instead of a hard coded port.
3072
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003073Documentation
3074-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003076- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
3077 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003079- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003080 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
3081
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003082
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003083What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
3084=================================
3085
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00003086*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003087
3088Core and Builtins
3089-----------------
3090
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003091- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
3092 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00003093
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00003094- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3095 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3096
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003097- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003098 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
3099 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
3100 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
3101 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
3102 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003103
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00003104- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3105 AttributeError.
3106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003107- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3108 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00003109
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003110- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00003111
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00003112- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
3113 used to drop the time part of the result.
3114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003115- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3116 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3117 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3118 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00003119
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003120- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
3121 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
3122 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00003123
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003124- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003125 executables on OSX.
3126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003127 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3128 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3129 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003130
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003131- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
3132 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00003133
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00003134- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
3135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003136- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3137 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00003138
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003139
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003140Library
3141-------
3142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003143- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
3144 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3145 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00003146
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003147- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3148 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
3149 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00003150
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003151- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003152 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
3153 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003154 Xicluna.
3155
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003156- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3157 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00003158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003159- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
3160 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00003161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003162- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3163 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
3164 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00003165
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003166- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00003167 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003169- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
3170 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00003171
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003172- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00003173 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
3174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003175- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
3176 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00003177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003178- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
3179 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00003180
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003181- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3182 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3183 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00003184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003185- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3186 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00003187
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00003188- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3189 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3190 the same as passing no argument.
3191
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003192- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
3193 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00003194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003195- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00003196
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003197- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00003198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003199- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
3200 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003202- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
3203 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003205- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
3206 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003207
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003208C-API
3209-----
3210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003211- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
3212 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00003213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003214- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
3215 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
3216 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
3217 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
3218 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
3219 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
3220 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003222- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003223
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00003224Build
3225-----
3226
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00003227- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3228
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003229- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003230 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003232- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
3233 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
3234 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00003235
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00003236- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3237 found.
3238
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00003239- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003241- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
3242 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00003243
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003244Tests
3245-----
3246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003247- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00003248 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3249
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003250- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00003251
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003252- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
3253 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3254
3255
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003256What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
3257================================
3258
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00003259*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003260
3261Core and Builtins
3262-----------------
3263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003264- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
3265 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003267- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
3268 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
3269 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003271- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
3272 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00003273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003274- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
3275 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
3276 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00003277
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003278- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003280- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003282- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3283 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00003284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003285- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
3286 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
3287 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
3288 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
3289 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
3290 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003291
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003292- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
3293 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
3294 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
3295 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
3296 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
3297 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
3298 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003300 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
3301 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
3302 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
3303 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
3304 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
3305 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
3306 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
3307 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
3308 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
3309 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003310
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003311- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
3312 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
3313 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
3314 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
3315 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
3316 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
3317 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
3318 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00003319
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00003320- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003322- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
3323 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00003324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003325- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
3326 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00003327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003328- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
3329 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00003330
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00003331- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003333- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
3334 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3335 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00003336
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003337- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
3338 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00003339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003340- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3341 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003343- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
3344 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00003345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003346- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3347 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3348 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00003349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003350- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
3351 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00003352
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00003353- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3354 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3355 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3356 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3357
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00003358- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
3359 assignment.
3360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003361- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
3362 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00003363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003364- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3365 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00003366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003367- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
3368 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00003369
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00003370- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00003371 take keyword arguments.
3372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003373- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
3374 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00003375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003376- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
3377 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00003378
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00003379- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
3380
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00003381- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
3382 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
3383
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00003384- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003386- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00003387
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003388- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00003389 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
3390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003391- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
3392 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00003393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003394- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00003395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003396- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00003397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003398- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00003399 occurred in the argument chain.
3400
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00003401- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003403- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3404 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00003405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003406- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00003407 separator and end should be unicode also.
3408
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003409- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
3410 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00003411
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003412- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3413 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3414 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00003415
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00003416- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3417
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00003418- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
3419 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
3420
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00003421- Removed the ipaddr module.
3422
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00003423- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
3424 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
3425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003426- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00003427
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00003428- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
3429 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
3430
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00003431- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
3432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003433- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
3434 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00003435
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003436- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003437 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003439- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
3440 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00003441
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00003442- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003443 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00003444
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00003445- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
3446 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
3447
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003448- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
3449 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
3450 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00003451
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00003452- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
3453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003454- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
3455 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00003456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003457- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00003458
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003459- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003461 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
3462 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
3463 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00003464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003465- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
3466 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
3467 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
3468 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
3469 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
3470 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
3471 complex.__format__ in the same way.
3472
3473- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
3474 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
3475 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00003476
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003477- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003478 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003479
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003480- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
3481 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00003482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003483- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
3484 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00003485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003486- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
3487 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00003488
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003489- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
3490 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00003491
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00003492- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
3493 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
3494
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00003495- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
3496
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003497- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
3498 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00003499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003500- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
3501 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003503- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
3504 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003506- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
3507 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003509- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
3510 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00003511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003512- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003513 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00003514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003515- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
3516 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00003517
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00003518- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
3519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003520- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00003521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003522- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
3523 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00003524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003525- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00003526
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00003527- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
3528 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
3529
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00003530- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
3531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003532- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
3533 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00003534
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003535- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003536 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
3537 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
3538 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003539
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003540- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
3541 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
3542 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00003543
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003544- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
3545 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
3546 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
3547 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
3548 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00003549
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00003550- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
3551 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
3552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003553- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
3554 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
3555 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00003556
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003557- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
3558 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00003559
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003560- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00003561 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
3562
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003563- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
3564 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00003565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003566- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
3567 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00003568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003569- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
3570 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00003571
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00003572- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
3573 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
3574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003575- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
3576 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00003577
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00003578- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
3579
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003580- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00003581 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
3582 zip(), and bytearray().
3583
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00003584- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
3585 functions.
3586
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00003587- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
3588 OSError.
3589
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00003590- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
3591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003592- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
3593 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
3594 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00003595
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00003596- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
3597 __next__ method.
3598
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00003599- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
3600
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00003601- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
3602
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003603- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
3604 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
3605 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00003606 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003607 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
3608
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00003609- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
3610
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003611- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
3612 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
3613 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
3614 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
3615 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00003616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003617- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00003618
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00003619- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
3620 file with `str' filename on Windows.
3621
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00003622- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
3623 did not get collected.
3624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003625- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
3626 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00003627
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00003628- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
3629 directory on POSIX systems.
3630
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00003631- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
3632 systems.
3633
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003634- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003635 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003636
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00003637- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
3638 fail.
3639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003640- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
3641 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
3642 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00003643
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00003644- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
3645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003646- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
3647 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00003648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003649- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
3650 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00003651
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003652- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00003653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003654- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
3655 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
3656 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
3657 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00003658
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00003659- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
3660 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
3661 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
3662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003663- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
3664 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00003665
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00003666- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
3667 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
3668
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003669- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
3670 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
3671 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
3672 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00003673
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00003674- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
3675 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
3676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003677- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00003678
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00003679- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
3680
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00003681- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
3682
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00003683- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
3684 exec statement.
3685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003686- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
3687 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00003688
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00003689- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
3690 __future__ import didn't work.
3691
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003692- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00003693 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003695- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
3696 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
3697 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
3698 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00003699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003700- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
3701 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
3702 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
3703 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00003704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003705- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
3706 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00003707
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00003708- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
3709
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00003710- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
3711
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00003712- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
3713
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003714- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
3715 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00003716
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00003717- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
3718 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00003719
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00003720- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
3721 returned them on 64bit platforms.
3722
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00003723- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
3724 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
3725 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
3726 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
3727
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00003728- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
3729 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
3730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003731- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3732 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3733 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3734 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00003735
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003736Library
3737-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003738
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00003739- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00003740
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00003741- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3742
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003743- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3744 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00003745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003746- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003747 TLS with authentication credentials.
3748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003749- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3750 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00003751
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00003752- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3753 msvc9compiler.
3754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003755- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
3756 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3757 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00003758
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00003759- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3760 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3761 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003763- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3764 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00003765
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003766- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3767
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003768- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003769 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003770 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003772- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
3773 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3774 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00003775
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003776- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
3777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003778- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
3779 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00003780
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00003781- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3782 raises ReadError on empty files.
3783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003784- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00003785
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00003786- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
3787 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00003788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003789- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
3790 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00003791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003792- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
3793 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00003794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003795- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00003796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003797- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
3798 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00003799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003800- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
3801 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00003802
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003803- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
3804 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
3805 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00003806 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
3807 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
3808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003809- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
3810 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
3811 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00003812
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003813- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003814 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003815 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
3816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003817- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
3818 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
3819 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00003820
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00003821- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
3822 which are part of a reference cycle.
3823
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003824- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
3825 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00003826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003827- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00003828 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
3829 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
3830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003831- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
3832 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
3833 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
3834 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00003835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003836- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
3837 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
3838 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
3839 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00003840
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00003841- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
3842 header as required by RFC 1952.
3843
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00003844- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
3845 Distutils.
3846
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00003847- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
3848 an uppercase.
3849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003850- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
3851 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00003852
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00003853- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
3854 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
3855
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003856- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00003857 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
3858
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00003859- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
3860 protocol 2.
3861
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00003862- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
3863
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00003864- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
3865 larger than emax.
3866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003867- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
3868 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00003869
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00003870- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
3871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003872- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00003873
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00003874- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
3875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003876- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00003877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003878- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00003879
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00003880- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
3881 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003883- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
3884 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00003885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003886- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
3887 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00003888
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003889- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00003890 Distutils.
3891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003892- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00003893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003894- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
3895 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00003896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003897- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
3898 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00003899
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00003900- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
3901
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00003902- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
3903
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003904- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
3905 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00003906
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003907- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
3908 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00003909
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003910- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
3911 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00003912
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00003913- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
3914
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00003915- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3916
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003917- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003918 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
3919 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003921- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00003922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003923- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
3924 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
3925 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00003926
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003927- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
3928 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00003929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003930- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00003931
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003932- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
3933 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
3934 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
3935 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00003936
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00003937- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
3938 as documented.
3939
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00003940- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
3941 names in the webbrowser module.
3942
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00003943- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
3944
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00003945- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
3946 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
3947
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00003948- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
3949
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00003950- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
3951
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00003952- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
3953
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00003954- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
3955
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00003956- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
3957
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00003958- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
3959 ScrolledText.
3960
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00003961- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
3962
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003963- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
3964 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00003965
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00003966- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
3967 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
3968 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
3969 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
3970
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00003971- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
3972 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
3973
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003974- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003975 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
3976 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003978- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
3979 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
3980 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00003981
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00003982- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
3983 opening an empty or very small file.
3984
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003985- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
3986 containing incomplete data.
3987
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003988- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
3989 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00003990
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00003991- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
3992
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003993- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
3994 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
3995 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00003996
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003997- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00003998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003999- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
4000 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
4001 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
4002 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00004003
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004004- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00004005
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004006- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4007
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00004008- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
4009 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4010
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004011- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00004012
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004013- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00004014 attribute.
4015
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00004016- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4017
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00004018- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4019 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4020
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00004021- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4022
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004023- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004024 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004025 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004026
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004027- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00004028 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4029
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00004030- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004032- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
4033 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00004034 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
4035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004036- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00004037 argument.
4038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004039- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
4040 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00004041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004042- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00004043
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00004044- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
4045
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00004046- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4047
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00004048- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4049 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004051- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
4052 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00004053
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00004054- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
4055 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
4056 ``io`` module.
4057
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00004058- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4059
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00004060- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004061 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4062
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00004063- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4064
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004065- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
4066 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4067 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00004068
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00004069- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
4070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004071- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
4072 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00004073
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00004074- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4075
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00004076- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4077 whitespace.
4078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004079- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
4080 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00004081
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00004082- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4083 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004085- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
4086 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00004087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004088- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
4089 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00004090
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00004091- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4092 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4093 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4094
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00004095- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
4096 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004098- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
4099 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
4100 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00004101
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00004102- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4103 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4104
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004105- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00004106 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004108- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00004109
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004110- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
4111 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00004112
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004113- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00004114 subcommand.
4115
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00004116- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4117 deepcopy()ing.
4118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004119- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00004120
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00004121- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004123- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00004124
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004125- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00004126 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4127
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00004128- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4129 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
4130
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004131- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004132 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004134- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
4135 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00004136
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004137- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
4138 trying to print a traceback.
4139
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00004140- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4141
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004142- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
4143 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00004144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004145- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
4146 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4147 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00004148 Cournapeau.
4149
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004150- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004151 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00004152
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004153- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
4154 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00004155
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00004156- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4157
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00004158- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4159 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004161- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00004162 extracting a file to the root directory.
4163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004164- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00004165
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004166- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4167 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
4168 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00004169
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00004170- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4171 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4172
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00004173- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4174 Contributed by Google.
4175
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00004176- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004178- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00004179
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00004180- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004182- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
4183 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00004184 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4185
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004186- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00004187 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4188 initialized before.
4189
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00004190- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4191 names which should not be exported.
4192
4193- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004194 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00004195
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00004196- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004198- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
4199 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00004200
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00004201- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4202
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004203- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004204 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004206- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
4207 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
4208 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00004209
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00004210- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4211
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004212- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
4213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004214- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
4215 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
4216 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
4217 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
4218 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00004219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004220- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00004221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004222- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
4223 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00004224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004225- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00004226
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004227- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004228 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00004229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004230- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
4231 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00004232
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004233- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
4234 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00004235
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004236- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
4237 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00004238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004239- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
4240 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00004241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004242- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00004243
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004244- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00004245
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004246- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00004247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004248- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00004249
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004250- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00004251 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004253- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
4254 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00004255
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004256- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
4257 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
4258 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00004259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004260- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
4261 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004262
4263- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00004264 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004266- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
4267 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004268 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
4269 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
4270
4271- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
4272 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004273
4274- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004275 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004276
4277- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004278 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004279
4280- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
4281 called immediately before and after a test run.
4282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004283- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00004284 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
4285 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
4286 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004288- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00004289
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00004290- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
4291 printing out values.
4292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004293- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00004294
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00004295- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4296 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4297 threads.
4298
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00004299- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4300
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00004301- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
4302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004303- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00004304 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4305 that it was failing to do localization.
4306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004307- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00004308 Brandl.
4309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004310- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
4311 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00004312
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00004313- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
4314 with the threading module.
4315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004316- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00004317
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00004318- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004320- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
4321 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00004322
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004323- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004324 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
4325 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00004326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004327- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
4328 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00004329
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00004330- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
4331 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
4332 output compared to previous Python versions.
4333
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00004334- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
4335
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004336- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004337 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
4338 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004340- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
4341 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
4342 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
4343 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004344
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004345- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
4346 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
4347 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
4348 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00004349
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00004350- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
4351 even if an exception occurs.
4352
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00004353- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
4354 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
4355
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004356- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
4357 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00004358
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004359- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
4360 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00004361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004362- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00004363 character.
4364
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004365- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
4366 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00004367
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004368- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00004369
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004370- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004371 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
4372 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004374- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
4375 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
4376 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00004377
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00004378- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004380- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00004381 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4382
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00004383- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4384
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00004385- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004387- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00004388
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00004389- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4390
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00004391- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4392
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00004393- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
4394 ready received.
4395
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00004396- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4397 import guess_extension`` was used.
4398
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004399- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
4400 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00004401
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00004402- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4403 overrun.
4404
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004405- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
4406 bdist_rpm command.
4407
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004408- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004410- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00004411
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004412- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
4413 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
4414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004415- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
4416 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00004417
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00004418- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
4419 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004420
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004421- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
4422 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00004423
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00004424- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
4425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004426- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
4427 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00004428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004429- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00004430 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
4431
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00004432- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
4433 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
4434
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004435- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00004436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004437- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
4438 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00004439
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00004440- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
4441 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
4442
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00004443- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
4444 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
4445
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004446- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004447 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004448 ctime of the files involved.
4449
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00004450- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
4451 deadlock.
4452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004453- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
4454 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
4455 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00004456
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00004457- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
4458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004459- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
4460 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004462- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
4463 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00004464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004465- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
4466 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
4467 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00004468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004469- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
4470 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
4471 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
4472 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00004473
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004474- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00004475 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
4476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004477- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
4478 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00004479
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00004480- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
4481 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
4482
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004483- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00004484 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
4485
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00004486- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
4487
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004488- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
4489 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00004490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004491- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
4492 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00004493
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00004494- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
4495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004496- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00004497 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
4498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004499- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
4500 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00004501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004502- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
4503 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00004504
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00004505- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
4506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004507- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00004508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004509- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
4510 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00004511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004512- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
4513 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00004514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004515- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00004516 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
4517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004518- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
4519 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00004520
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004521- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
4522 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00004523
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004524- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004525 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
4526 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00004527
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004528- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
4529 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
4530 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
4531 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00004532
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004533- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
4534 parameter was set.
4535
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004536- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
4537 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00004538 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004539
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004540- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004541 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
4542 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004543
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00004544- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
4545 in sharedctypes.py.
4546
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00004547- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
4548 __getattr__.
4549
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004550- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
4551 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00004552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004553- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00004554 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
4555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004556- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00004557
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00004558- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
4559
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004560- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004561 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
4562 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004563 Jacques Frechet.
4564
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00004565- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
4566
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004567- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00004568 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
4569
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004570- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004571 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
4572 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004574- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
4575 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00004576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004577- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
4578 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00004579
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00004580- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
4581 the function is not a generator.
4582
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004583- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
4584 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00004585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004586- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
4587 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00004588
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004589- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
4590 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004592- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
4593 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004594
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00004595- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
4596
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00004597- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
4598
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004599- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
4600 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00004601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004602- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
4603 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00004604
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00004605- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
4606 Gabriel Genellina.
4607
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00004608- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
4609
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00004610- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
4611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004612- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00004613
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004614- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
4615 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
4616 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00004617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004618- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
4619 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004620 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
4621
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004622- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
4623 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
4624 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004626- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
4627 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
4628 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
4629 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
4630 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004632- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
4633 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004634
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00004635- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
4636 when given an unicode string.
4637
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00004638- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
4639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004640- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
4641 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
4642 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00004643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004644- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
4645 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00004646
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004647- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00004648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004649- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00004650 statements.
4651
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00004652- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
4653 not a malformed option.
4654
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004655- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
4656 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00004657
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00004658- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
4659 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
4660 Content-Disposition headers.
4661
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00004662- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004663 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
4664 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
4665 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
4666 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00004667
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00004668- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
4669 exception.
4670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004671- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
4672 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00004673
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00004674- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
4675
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00004676- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
4677
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00004678- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
4679 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
4680
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00004681- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
4682 and then remove it.
4683
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00004684- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
4685
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00004686- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
4687 debugging.
4688
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00004689- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
4690 inspect.getargvalues.
4691
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00004692- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
4693
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00004694- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
4695 to claiming it is Mature.
4696
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00004697- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
4698 when protocol 0 is used.
4699
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00004700- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
4701 to be consistent with Apple tools.
4702
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004703- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004704 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004705
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00004706- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
4707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004708- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00004709 module.
4710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004711- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
4712 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00004713
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004714- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004716- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004717
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004718- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004719 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004720
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004721- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004722 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
4723 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004724
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00004725- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
4726 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
4727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004728- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
4729 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00004730
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00004731- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4732 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4733 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4734
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00004735- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
4736
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004737Tools/Demos
4738-----------
4739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004740- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00004741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004742- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004743
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004744Build
4745-----
4746
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004747- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4748 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4749 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00004750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004751- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
4752 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
4753 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004755- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00004756
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00004757- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4758
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004759- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004760 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00004761
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004762- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004763 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00004764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004765- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
4766 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00004767
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00004768- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
4769
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00004770- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
4771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004772- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
4773 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00004774
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004775- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004776 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004777
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00004778- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
4779
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00004780- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
4781
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00004782- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
4783
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00004784- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
4785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004786- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00004787
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00004788- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
4789
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00004790- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
4791
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00004792- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
4793
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00004794- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
4795
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00004796- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
4797
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00004798- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
4799
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00004800- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
4801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004802- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004803
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00004804- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
4805
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004806Documentation
4807-------------
4808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004809- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4810 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004812- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
4813 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00004814
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004815C-API
4816-----
4817
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00004818- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
4819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004820- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4821 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00004822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004823- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
4824 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00004825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004826- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
4827 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00004828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004829- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
4830 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00004831
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00004832- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4833 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4834
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00004835- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4836 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4837
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00004838- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4839 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4840
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00004841- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
4842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004843- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
4844 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00004845
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00004846- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
4847
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004848- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
4849 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00004850
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004851- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
4852 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004854- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00004855 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004856
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004857Extension Modules
4858-----------------
4859
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00004860- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
4861
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00004862- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
4863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004864- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00004865
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004866- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004867 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004869- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
4870 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00004871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004872- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
4873 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00004874
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00004875- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
4876 module.
4877
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00004878- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
4879
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004880- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00004881 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004883- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
4884 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
4885 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00004886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004887- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
4888 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
4889 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00004890
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004891- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
4892 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
4893 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004895 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
4896 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004897
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004898 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
4899 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
4900 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
4901 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
4902 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
4903 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
4904 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004906 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
4907 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
4908 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00004909
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00004910- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
4911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004912- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
4913 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00004914
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004915- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
4916 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004917 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004918
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00004919- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00004920
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00004921- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
4922
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00004923- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
4924
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00004925- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
4926
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00004927- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
4928
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00004929- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
4930 OpenBSD.
4931
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00004932- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
4933
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004934- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
4935
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00004936- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
4937
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004938Tests
4939-----
4940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004941- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
4942 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
4943 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00004944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004945- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
4946 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00004947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004948- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
4949 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00004950
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00004951- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
4952
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00004953- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
4954 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
4955
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004956- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004957 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
4958 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
4959 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004960
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004961- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
4962 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00004963
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00004964- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
4965 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
4966
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00004967- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
4968 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
4969 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00004970
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00004971- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
4972
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00004973- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
4974 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
4975
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004976- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
4977 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004978 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
4979 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004980
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00004981- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
4982 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
4983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004984- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
4985 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
4986 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
4987 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
4988 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00004989
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00004990- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
4991
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00004992- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
4993
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00004994- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
4995
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004996- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
4997 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
4998 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00004999
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005000- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5001
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00005002- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5003 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5004 incorrectly on __exit__.
5005
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00005006- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5007
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00005008Misc
5009----
5010
5011- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
5012
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005013
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005014What's New in Python 2.6 final
5015==============================
5016
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00005017*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005018
5019Core and Builtins
5020-----------------
5021
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00005022- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
5023 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
5024
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00005025- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
5026 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
5027
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00005028- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
5029
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005030Library
5031-------
5032
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00005033- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
5034 true singleton object.
5035
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00005036- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
5037 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
5038 into a float.
5039
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00005040- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
5041
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00005042- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
5043 sizes.
5044
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00005045- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
5046
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00005047- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
5048 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
5049
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005050Build
5051-----
5052
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00005053- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
5054 installer.
5055
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005056- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
5057
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005058
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005059What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
5060=============================================
5061
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00005062*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005063
5064Core and Builtins
5065-----------------
5066
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005067Extension Modules
5068-----------------
5069
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00005070- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
5071 segfault as a result.
5072
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005073- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
5074 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005075
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005076Tools/Demos
5077-----------
5078
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00005079- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005080 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
5081 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
5082 are caught and silenced.
5083
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00005084Build
5085-----
5086
5087- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
5088 C runtime in the Windows installer.
5089
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005090
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005091What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
5092=============================================
5093
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00005094*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005095
5096Core and Builtins
5097-----------------
5098
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00005099- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
5100
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00005101- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
5102 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
5103 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
5104 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
5105 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
5106 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
5107 64bit values.
5108
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00005109- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
5110 error.
5111
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00005112- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
5113 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
5114 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
5115 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
5116
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00005117- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
5118 a unicode argument.
5119
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005120- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
5121
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005122- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005123 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005124 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
5125
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005126- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00005127 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
5128 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
5129 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
5130 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
5131 type object.
5132
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00005133- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
5134
5135- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
5136
5137- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
5138
5139- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
5140
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00005141- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
5142 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
5143
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00005144- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
5145 ``__delslice__``.
5146
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00005147- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
5148 library targets in the Makefile.
5149
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00005150- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
5151 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
5152 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
5153
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00005154C-API
5155-----
5156
5157- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
5158
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005159Library
5160-------
5161
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00005162- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
5163 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
5164
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00005165- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
5166
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00005167- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
5168
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005169- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
5170 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
5171 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
5172
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005173- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
5174
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005175- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00005176 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
5177
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00005178- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
5179
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00005180- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
5181
5182- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00005183
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00005184- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
5185 its symbolic link.
5186
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005187- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
5188
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005189- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00005190 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
5191 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
5192
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00005193- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
5194 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
5195
5196- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00005197
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00005198- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
5199 path to the Python binary.
5200
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005201- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00005202 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
5203 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
5204 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
5205
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00005206- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
5207
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005208- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
5209
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00005210- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
5211
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00005212- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
5213
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005214- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
5215 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00005216
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00005217- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
5218 non-integer floating point number.
5219
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005220- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00005221 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
5222
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005223Extension Modules
5224-----------------
5225
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00005226- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5227 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5228
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00005229- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
5230 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
5231 without limit.
5232
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005233- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
5234 exploitation of poor argument checking.
5235
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00005236- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
5237
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00005238- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
5239 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
5240
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00005241- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
5242 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
5243 threads/processes.
5244
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005245Tests
5246-----
5247
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005248- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
5249 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
5250 that expected warning messages are being reported.
5251
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005252- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
5253
5254- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005255
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005256Build
5257-----
5258
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00005259- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
5260
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00005261- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
5262 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
5263
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00005264- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
5265
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005266- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005267 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005268
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005269
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005270What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
5271================================
5272
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00005273*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005274
5275Core and Builtins
5276-----------------
5277
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00005278- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
5279 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
5280 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
5281 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
5282 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
5283 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
5284 default.
5285
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00005286- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
5287 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
5288
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00005289- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
5290 value again.
5291
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00005292- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
5293 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
5294 and introducing s*.
5295
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00005296- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
5297 object was stored in the freelist.
5298
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00005299- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
5300 ValueError consistently across platforms.
5301
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00005302- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
5303 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
5304 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
5305
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00005306- Apply security patches from Apple.
5307
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00005308- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
5309 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
5310
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00005311- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
5312 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
5313
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00005314- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
5315 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
5316 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
5317
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00005318- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
5319 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
5320 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
5321 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
5322 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
5323 failed have been fixed.
5324
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005325Library
5326-------
5327
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00005328- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
5329
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00005330- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
5331 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
5332
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00005333- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
5334 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
5335 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
5336
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00005337- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
5338 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
5339 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
5340 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
5341 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
5342 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
5343
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00005344- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
5345 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
5346
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00005347- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
5348
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00005349- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
5350
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00005351- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
5352
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00005353- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
5354 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
5355
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00005356- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00005357 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
5358
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005359- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00005360 in a redirect.
5361
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005362- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00005363 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005364
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00005365- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
5366 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
5367
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00005368- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
5369 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
5370 regular expression.
5371
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00005372- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
5373 thread-safe.
5374
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00005375- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
5376 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
5377 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
5378
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00005379- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
5380
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00005381- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
5382 menu entries were not deleted.
5383
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00005384- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
5385 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
5386
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00005387- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
5388 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
5389
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00005390- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
5391 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
5392 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
5393
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00005394- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
5395 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
5396 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
5397
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00005398- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
5399 the reload() built-in has been removed.
5400
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005401- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00005402 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00005403 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
5404 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
5405 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
5406 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
5407 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005408
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00005409- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
5410 raised an AttributeError.
5411
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005412- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00005413 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
5414 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005415
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00005416- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
5417 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
5418
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005419- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00005420
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005421- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00005422 on a closed shelf.
5423
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00005424- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
5425
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005426- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
5427
5428- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
5429 invalid arguments.
5430
5431- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
5432 with None arguments.
5433
5434- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
5435 configuration files.
5436
5437- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
5438
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00005439- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
5440 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
5441 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
5442
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00005443- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
5444 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
5445 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
5446
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00005447Build
5448-----
5449
5450- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
5451
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005452Documentation
5453-------------
5454
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00005455- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
5456 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
5457
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005458- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
5459 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
5460 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
5461 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
5462
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005463
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005464What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
5465================================
5466
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005467*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
5468
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005469Core and Builtins
5470-----------------
5471
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00005472- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
5473 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
5474 an integer using operator.index().
5475
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00005476- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
5477 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
5478
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00005479- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
5480 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
5481
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00005482- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
5483 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
5484 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
5485
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00005486- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
5487 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
5488 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
5489 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
5490 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
5491 level.
5492
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00005493- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
5494 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
5495 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
5496 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
5497 all imports from that module to fail.
5498
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00005499- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
5500 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
5501 new-style classes.
5502
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00005503- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
5504 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
5505 another file in sys.stdout.
5506
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00005507- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
5508 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
5509 another thread's dictionary.
5510
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00005511- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
5512 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
5513 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
5514 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
5515 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
5516 10, -1).
5517
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005518- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
5519 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
5520 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00005521
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005522- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
5523 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
5524 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00005525
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005526Library
5527-------
5528
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00005529- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
5530 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
5531 error when they failed.
5532
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00005533- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
5534
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00005535- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
5536
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00005537- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
5538
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00005539- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
5540
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005541- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
5542 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
5543
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005544- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005545
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00005546- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
5547 a valid dlerror() message.
5548
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00005549- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
5550 incomplete structure was created.
5551
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00005552- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
5553
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00005554- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
5555
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005556- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00005557
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005558- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
5559 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005560 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005561 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
5562 merged into trunk.
5563
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00005564- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
5565
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005566- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
5567
5568- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
5569
5570- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
5571 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005572 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005573
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005574- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005575 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00005576
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00005577- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
5578 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
5579
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005580- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
5581 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
5582
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00005583- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
5584 interrupted by a signal.
5585
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005586- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00005587 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
5588 Prevents a deadlock.
5589
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00005590- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
5591 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
5592 default https port (443).
5593
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00005594- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
5595 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
5596 if the new process uses the threading module.
5597
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00005598Tests
5599-----
5600
5601- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
5602 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
5603 have been added to test_warnings.
5604
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00005605Build
5606-----
5607
5608- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
5609
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005610
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005611Documentation
5612-------------
5613
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00005614- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00005615 Python 3.0.
5616
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00005617- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
5618
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005619- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5620 Python 3.0.
5621
5622- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5623 Python 3.0.
5624
5625
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005626What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
5627================================
5628
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00005629*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005630
5631Core and Builtins
5632-----------------
5633
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00005634- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
5635 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
5636 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
5637 bus error.
5638
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00005639- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
5640 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
5641
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00005642- Add future_builtins.ascii().
5643
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00005644- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00005645 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00005646
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00005647- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
5648
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00005649- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
5650
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00005651- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
5652
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00005653- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
5654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005655- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
5656 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
5657 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
5658 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00005659
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00005660- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
5661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005662- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
5663 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00005664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005665- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
5666 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00005667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005668- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
5669 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
5670 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00005671
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00005672- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
5673 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
5674 can't be triggered from Python code.
5675
5676
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005677Extension Modules
5678-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00005679- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005680
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00005681- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
5682
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00005683- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00005684
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00005685- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
5686 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
5687
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00005688- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
5689 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
5690
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00005691- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
5692 weakref.proxy.
5693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005694- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
5695 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00005696
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005697- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00005698
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00005699- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005700 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
5701 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00005702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005703- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
5704 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
5705 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00005706
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00005707- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
5708 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
5709 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
5710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005711- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00005712
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00005713- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00005714
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005715Library
5716-------
5717
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00005718- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
5719 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
5720
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00005721- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
5722
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00005723- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
5724 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
5725 sense).
5726
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00005727- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
5728
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00005729- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
5730 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
5731 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
5732 the patch.
5733
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005734- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
5735 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
5736 the patch).
5737
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00005738- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
5739 os.uname exists.
5740
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00005741- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5742
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00005743- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5744
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00005745- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
5746 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
5747 pointer-like object.
5748
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00005749- Added the ast module.
5750
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005751- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00005752
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00005753- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
5754 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
5755
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00005756- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
5757 to errno.
5758
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005759- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00005760
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005761- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00005762 msilib.Record objects.
5763
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00005764- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
5765 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
5766
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00005767- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
5768 in Python 3.0.
5769
5770- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
5771 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00005772
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00005773- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
5774 False boolean value now.
5775
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00005776- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
5777 transfers.
5778
5779- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
5780 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00005781
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00005782- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
5783 when the TarFile is closed.
5784
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00005785- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
5786 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
5787 an exception.
5788
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00005789- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
5790 otherwise be produced.
5791
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00005792- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
5793 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
5794
5795- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
5796 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
5797
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00005798- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
5799 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
5800 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
5801
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00005802- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
5803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005804- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00005805 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
5806 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
5807 'm' or 'c'.
5808
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00005809- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005811- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
5812 removal in Python 3.0.
5813
5814- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5815 3.0.
5816
5817- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5818 3.0.
5819
5820- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5821 3.0.
5822
5823- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00005824 Python 3.0.
5825
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00005826- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
5827 Python 3.0.
5828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005829- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5830 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00005831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005832- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5833 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00005834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005835- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5836 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00005837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005838- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5839 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00005840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005841- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00005842 Python 3.0.
5843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005844- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5845 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00005846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005847- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5848 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00005849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005850- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5851 3.0.
5852
5853- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
5854 removal in Python 3.0.
5855
5856- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5857 3.0.
5858
5859- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5860 3.0.
5861
5862- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
5863 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005865- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
5866 removal in Python 3.0.
5867
5868- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00005869 Python 3.0.
5870
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005871- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5872 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00005873
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00005874- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5875 Python 3.0.
5876
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00005877- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5878 Python 3.0.
5879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005880- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00005881
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00005882- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5883
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00005884- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5885
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00005886- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
5887
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00005888- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005890- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
5891 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
5892 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00005893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005894- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
5895 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00005896
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00005897- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005899- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5900 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00005901
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00005902- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5903
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00005904- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5905
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00005906- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5907
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00005908- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5909
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00005910- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005912- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
5913 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00005914
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00005915- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5916
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00005917- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5918
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00005919- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
5920 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
5921 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
5922 OverflowError.
5923
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00005924- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005926- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5927 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00005928
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00005929- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5930
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00005931- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5932
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00005933- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5934
5935- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00005936
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005937- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5938
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00005939- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
5940
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00005941- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
5942
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00005943- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00005944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005945- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
5946 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00005947
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005948- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005949 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
5950 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
5951 of Python.
5952
5953- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
5954 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
5955
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00005956- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
5957 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00005958
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005959Build
5960-----
5961
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00005962- 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 +00005963
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00005964- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
5965
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00005966- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
5967
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005968- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
5969 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005970 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005971
5972 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
5973
5974 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
5975
5976 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
5977
5978 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
5979
5980 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
5981
5982 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
5983
5984
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00005985C API
5986-----
5987
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00005988- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
5989
5990- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00005991
5992- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
5993 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
5994 PyString names.
5995
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00005996
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005997What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005998=================================
5999
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00006000*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006001
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006002Core and builtins
6003-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006004
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00006005- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
6006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006007- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
6008 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00006009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006010- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
6011 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00006012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006013- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00006014
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006015Extension Modules
6016-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006018- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
6019 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00006020
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00006021- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
6022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006023- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
6024 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006026- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
6027 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006029- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
6030 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00006031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006032- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
6033 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
6034 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
6035 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
6036 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
6037 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
6038 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
6039 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00006040
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006041Library
6042-------
6043
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00006044- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006046- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
6047 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00006048
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00006049- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
6050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006051- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
6052 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00006053
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00006054- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
6055 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
6056 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
6057
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006058- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006059 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006060
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00006061- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00006062 reference to themselves.
6063
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00006064- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
6065 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
6066 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00006067
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00006068- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
6069 1900-01-01.
6070
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00006071- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
6072 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
6073
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00006074- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
6075 now implemented in C for better performance.
6076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006077- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
6078 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
6079 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00006080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006081- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00006082 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
6083 build documentation for more information.
6084
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00006085- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
6086 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
6087 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
6088 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
6089
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00006090- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6091 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
6092 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
6093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006094- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
6095 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
6096 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
6097 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00006098
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006099Tests
6100-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006102- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
6103 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
6104 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
6105 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
6106 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
6107 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
6108 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
6109 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
6110 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
6111 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
6112 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
6113 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
6114 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
6115 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
6116 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
6117 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
6118 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
6119 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
6120 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
6121 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
6122
6123 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
6124 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
6125 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
6126 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
6127 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
6128 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
6129 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
6130 access to the underlying socket used.
6131
6132 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
6133 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
6134 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006135
6136 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006137 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006138 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
6139 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
6140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006141 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
6142 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006143
6144Build
6145-----
6146
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00006147- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
6148
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00006149- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
6150 gcc is used as compiler.
6151
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006152- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006153 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006154
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006155C API
6156-----
6157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006158- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
6159 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
6160 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
6161 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006162
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00006163- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00006164
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006165
6166What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
6167=================================
6168
6169*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
6170
6171Core and builtins
6172-----------------
6173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006174- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
6175 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
6176 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00006177
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00006178- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
6179 cannot be executed.
6180
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00006181- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
6182 reference on the outer class name.
6183
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006184- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006185 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006187- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
6188 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00006189
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006190- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006191
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006192- Added backport of bytearray type.
6193
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006194- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
6195
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006196- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006197 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
6198 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
6199 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
6200 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
6201 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006202
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00006203- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
6204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006205- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
6206 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00006207
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00006208- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006209
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00006210- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
6211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006212- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
6213 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00006214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006215- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
6216 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00006217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006218- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00006219 exception instances.
6220
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006221- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006222 doesn't derive from BaseException.
6223
6224- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
6225 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006226
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00006227- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
6228 memory usage in some circumstances.
6229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006230- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
6231 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
6232 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00006233
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00006234- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
6235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006236- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00006237 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
6238 longer passed.
6239
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00006240- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
6241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006242- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
6243 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
6244 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00006245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006246- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
6247 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006248
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00006249- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
6250
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006251Extension Modules
6252-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00006253
6254- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
6255
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006256Library
6257-------
6258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006259- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
6260 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006262- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
6263 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
6264 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006266- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
6267 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006269- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
6270 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
6271 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00006272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006273- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
6274 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006275
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006276- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
6277
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00006278- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
6279 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
6280 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
6281
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00006282- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
6283
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00006284- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
6285 advertised in the docs.
6286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006287- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00006288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006289- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00006290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006291- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
6292 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00006293
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006294- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
6295 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
6296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006297- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
6298 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006299 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
6300 information as well.
6301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006302- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
6303 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00006304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006305- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
6306 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00006307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006308- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
6309 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
6310 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00006311
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00006312- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
6313 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
6314 strftime.
6315
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006316- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006317 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
6318 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006319
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006320- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
6321 correctly under win32
6322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006323- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006324
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006325- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006326 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
6327 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
6328 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006329
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00006330- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
6331 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
6332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006333- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
6334 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00006335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006336- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
6337 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
6338 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00006339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006340- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00006341 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
6342
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00006343- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
6344 from 't' to '?'.
6345
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006346- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6347 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006348 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
6349 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
6350 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006352- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
6353 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00006354
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006355Tests
6356-----
6357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006358- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
6359 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00006360
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00006361- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
6362
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00006363- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
6364
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00006365- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
6366
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00006367- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
6368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006369- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
6370 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00006371
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00006372- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
6373
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006374- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00006375
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006376- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
6377 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00006378
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00006379- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
6380
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00006381- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
6382
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006383- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
6384 permission to create files in the root directory.
6385
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006386Build
6387-----
6388
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00006389- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
6390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006391- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
6392 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00006393
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006394- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006395
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006396C API
6397-----
6398
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006399- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006400 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
6401
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006402
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006403What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
6404=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006405
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00006406*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006407
6408Core and builtins
6409-----------------
6410
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00006411- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00006412 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00006413
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00006414- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
6415
6416- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00006417
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006418- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006419 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00006420
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00006421- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
6422 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
6423 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
6424 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
6425 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
6426 module is:
6427 from future_builtins import hex, oct
6428
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00006429- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
6430 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
6431 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
6432 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
6433 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
6434 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
6435
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00006436- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
6437 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
6438 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
6439 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
6440 PyObject_Format().
6441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006442- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
6443 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
6444 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00006445
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006446- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006447 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
6448 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00006449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006450- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
6451 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00006452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006453- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
6454 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
6455 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00006456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006457- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
6458 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
6459 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00006460
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00006461- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
6462 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
6463
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006464- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006465 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00006466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006467- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
6468 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00006469 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
6470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006471- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
6472 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
6473 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006474
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006475- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
6476 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00006477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006478- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
6479 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00006480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006481- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
6482 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00006483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006484- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
6485 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00006486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006487- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
6488 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
6489 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00006490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006491- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
6492 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
6493 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
6494 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00006495
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00006496- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
6497 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
6498 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
6499
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006500- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00006501 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
6502 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
6503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006504- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00006505 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
6506 support.
6507
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00006508- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
6509 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
6510
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00006511- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
6512
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006513- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00006514 added.
6515
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00006516- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
6517 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
6518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006519- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
6520 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00006521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006522- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
6523 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
6524 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00006525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006526- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
6527 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00006528
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00006529- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
6530 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00006531
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00006532- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
6533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006534- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
6535 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
6536 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00006537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006538- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
6539 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
6540 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00006541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006542- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00006543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006544- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
6545 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00006546
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006547- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006548 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
6549 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006551- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
6552 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
6553 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
6554 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00006555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006556- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00006557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006558- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
6559 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00006560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006561- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
6562 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00006563
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00006564- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00006565 SystemError.
6566
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00006567- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
6568 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
6569 __package__ attribute.
6570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006571- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
6572 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
6573 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00006574
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006575- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
6576
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006577- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00006578 attribute of an empty cell object.
6579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006580- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
6581 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00006582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006583- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
6584 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
6585 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
6586 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00006587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006588- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
6589 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
6590 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00006591
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00006592- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
6593
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00006594- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
6595
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00006596- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
6597
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006598- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006599 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
6600 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00006601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006602- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
6603 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
6604 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
6605 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
6606 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
6607 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00006608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006609- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
6610 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
6611 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
6612 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
6613 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00006614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006615- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
6616 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
6617 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00006618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006619- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
6620 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00006621
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006622- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006623 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
6624 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
6625 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
6626 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
6627 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006629- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
6630 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00006631
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00006632- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
6633 with %G.
6634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006635- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
6636 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00006637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006638- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00006639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006640- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00006641
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006642- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006643 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
6644 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006645
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00006646- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
6647 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
6648
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00006649- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
6650 calls.
6651
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006652- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006653 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
6654 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006655
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00006656- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
6657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006658- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006659 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00006660
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006661- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00006662 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
6663
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00006664- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
6665
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00006666- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
6667 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
6668 remaining characters.
6669
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00006670- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
6671 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
6672
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00006673- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
6674
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006675- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
6676 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
6677 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
6678 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
6679 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00006680 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
6681 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006683- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
6684 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
6685 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
6686 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
6687 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00006688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006689- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
6690 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
6691 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00006692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006693- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
6694 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00006695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006696- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
6697 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
6698 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00006699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006700- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
6701 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00006702
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00006703- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
6704
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00006705- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
6706 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
6707
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006708- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006709 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
6710 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
6711 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006712
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00006713- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
6714 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
6715
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006716- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
6717 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00006718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006719- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
6720 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
6721 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00006722
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006723- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006724 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
6725 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006726
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006727- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
6728 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006729 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
6730 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006732- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
6733 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00006734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006735- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
6736 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00006737
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00006738- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
6739 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
6740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006741- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
6742 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
6743 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00006744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006745- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
6746 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00006747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006748- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
6749 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00006750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006751- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
6752 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
6753 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00006754
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00006755- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
6756 frame's thread state.
6757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006758- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
6759 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00006760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006761- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
6762 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00006763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006764- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
6765 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00006766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006767- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
6768 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00006769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006770- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
6771 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00006772
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00006773- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
6774
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00006775- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
6776
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00006777- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
6778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006779- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
6780 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00006781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006782- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00006783
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00006784- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
6785 again, no longer the posix error code.
6786
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00006787- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
6788 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
6789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006790- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
6791 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00006792
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00006793- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
6794 embedded in the string to convert.
6795
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00006796- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
6797 recognized and rejected.
6798
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006799- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
6800
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006801- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
6802 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
6803 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00006804
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00006805- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
6806 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
6807
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006808- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006809 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
6810 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006812- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
6813 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
6814 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00006815
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00006816- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
6817
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00006818- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
6819
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00006820- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
6821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006822- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
6823 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
6824 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00006825
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006826- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
6827 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
6828 'exceptions'.
6829
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00006830- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
6831 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
6832
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00006833- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
6834 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
6835
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00006836- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
6837
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006838- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
6839
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00006840- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
6841 head is the original string if sep was not found.
6842
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006843- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006844 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
6845 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
6846 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006847
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006848- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00006849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006850- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
6851 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006852
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006853- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
6854 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00006855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006856- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00006857 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
6858 it actually exited.
6859
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006860
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006861Library
6862-------
6863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006864- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00006865
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00006866- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
6867
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00006868- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
6869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006870- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
6871 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00006872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006873- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00006874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006875- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
6876 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
6877 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00006878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006879- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
6880 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00006881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006882- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00006883 (ignore-case)
6884
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00006885- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
6886 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
6887 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
6888 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
6889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006890- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
6891 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00006892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006893- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
6894 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00006895
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00006896- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
6897 pickled.
6898
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00006899- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
6900 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
6901
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00006902- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
6903 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
6904 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
6905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006906- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
6907 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00006908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006909- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
6910 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
6911 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00006912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006913- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
6914 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00006915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006916- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
6917 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00006918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006919- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
6920 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
6921 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
6922 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00006923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006924- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
6925 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006926 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
6927
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00006928- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
6929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006930- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
6931 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00006932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006933- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00006934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006935- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
6936 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006938- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
6939 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006941- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
6942 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006944- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
6945 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006947- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
6948 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
6949 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00006950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006951- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
6952 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00006953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006954- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
6955 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00006956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006957- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
6958 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00006959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006960- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
6961 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00006962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006963- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
6964 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00006965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006966- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
6967 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00006968
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00006969- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
6970 with extended local headers.
6971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006972- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
6973 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00006974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006975- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00006976 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
6977 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
6978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006979- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
6980 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00006981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006982- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
6983 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00006984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006985- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
6986 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00006987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006988- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
6989 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00006990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006991- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
6992 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00006993
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00006994- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006995 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00006996 Textbox.gather().
6997
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006998- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
6999 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00007000 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
7001 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007002
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00007003- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
7004 that array types do not live longer than needed.
7005
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007006- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
7007 and when creating a recursive instance.
7008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007009- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
7010 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
7011 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00007012
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00007013- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
7014 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
7015 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
7016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007017- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
7018 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00007019
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007020- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00007021 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
7022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007023- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00007024 good for long regular expression matches.
7025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007026- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
7027 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00007028
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00007029- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
7030 the current context.
7031
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00007032- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
7033 zipfile module.
7034
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007035- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
7036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007037- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
7038 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00007039
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00007040- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
7041
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00007042- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
7043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007044- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
7045 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00007046
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00007047- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
7048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007049- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
7050 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00007051
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007052- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
7053 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00007054
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00007055- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
7056
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00007057- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
7058 Tcl objects.
7059
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00007060- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
7061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007062- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
7063 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
7064 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
7065 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00007066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007067- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
7068 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00007069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007070- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
7071 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00007072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007073- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
7074 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00007075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007076- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
7077 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00007078
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00007079- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
7080 method used universal newlines.
7081
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00007082- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
7083 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
7084
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00007085- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
7086 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
7087
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00007088- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
7089 files are updated.
7090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007091- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
7092 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007093
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00007094- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
7095 configured with --with-system-ffi.
7096
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007097- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007098 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007099
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00007100- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
7101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007102- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
7103 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
7104 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00007105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007106- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
7107 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00007108
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00007109- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00007110
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00007111- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
7112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007113- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
7114 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00007115
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00007116- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
7117 to be orderable to properly represent them.
7118
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00007119- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
7120
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00007121- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
7122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007123- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
7124 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
7125 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007126
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00007127- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
7128 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
7129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007130- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
7131 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00007132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007133- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
7134 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00007135
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00007136- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
7137
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00007138- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
7139
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00007140- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
7141 syllables.
7142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007143- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
7144 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00007145
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00007146- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
7147
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00007148- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
7149 represent the result in a single character.
7150
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00007151- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
7152
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00007153- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
7154
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00007155- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
7156 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
7157 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
7158
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00007159- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
7160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007161- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
7162 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00007163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007164- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
7165 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
7166 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00007167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007168- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
7169 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
7170 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00007171
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007172- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007173 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
7174 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007176- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
7177 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00007178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007179- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
7180 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00007181
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00007182- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7183
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00007184- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007186- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
7187 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
7188 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00007189
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00007190- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7191
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00007192- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7193
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00007194- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
7195 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
7196
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00007197- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
7198
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00007199- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
7200
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00007201- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007203- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
7204 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00007205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007206- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
7207 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00007208
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00007209- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
7210 the directories).
7211
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00007212- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
7213 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
7214 injecting HTML into the error page.
7215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007216- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
7217 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00007218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007219- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
7220 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007221
7222- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
7223
7224- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
7225
7226- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
7227 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
7228 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
7229
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00007230- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
7231 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
7232 ".cpp" too.
7233
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007234- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007235 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
7236 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
7237 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007239- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
7240 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00007241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007242- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
7243 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00007244
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00007245- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
7246 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
7247 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
7248 closes patch #723312.
7249
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007250- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
7251 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00007252 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00007253
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00007254- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
7255
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00007256- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
7257 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
7258
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00007259- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
7260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007261- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
7262 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00007263 directories.
7264
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00007265- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
7266 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
7267 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
7268 trying Mozilla variants.
7269
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00007270- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
7271
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00007272- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
7273 initialization failed.
7274
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007275- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007276 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
7277 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007279- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
7280 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
7281 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00007282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007283- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
7284 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00007285 correctly now.
7286
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00007287- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
7288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007289- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
7290 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00007291
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00007292- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
7293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007294- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
7295 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
7296 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00007297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007298- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
7299 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
7300 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
7301 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00007302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007303- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
7304 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
7305 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00007306
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00007307- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
7308 whitespace while wrapping.
7309
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007310- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007311 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
7312 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007314- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
7315 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
7316 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00007317
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00007318- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
7319 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
7320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007321- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
7322 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00007323
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00007324- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
7325 concatenation in robotparser.
7326
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007327- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007328 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
7329 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007330
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00007331- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
7332 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
7333
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00007334- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
7335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007336- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
7337 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
7338 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00007339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007340- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
7341 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
7342 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00007343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007344- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
7345 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00007346 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00007347
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00007348- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
7349 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
7350
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00007351- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
7352 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
7353
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00007354- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
7355 returned string up to the first NUL character.
7356
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00007357- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
7358
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00007359- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
7360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007361- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
7362 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
7363 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00007364
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00007365- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
7366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007367- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
7368 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
7369 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
7370 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
7371 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
7372 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00007373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007374- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
7375 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00007376
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00007377- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
7378 comprehensive test suite for the module.
7379
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00007380- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
7381 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
7382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007383- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
7384 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
7385 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00007386
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007387- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00007388 in HTMLParser.
7389
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00007390- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
7391 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
7392
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00007393- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
7394
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00007395- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
7396
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00007397- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
7398
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00007399- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00007400
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00007401- Added itertools.izip_longest().
7402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007403- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
7404 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00007405
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00007406- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
7407
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00007408- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
7409 doesn't exist.
7410
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00007411- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
7412
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00007413- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
7414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007415- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00007416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007417- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
7418 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00007419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007420- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
7421 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00007422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007423- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
7424 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00007425
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007426- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007427 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007428
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00007429- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
7430 iso8859_16.
7431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007432- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
7433 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
7434 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
7435 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00007436
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007437- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
7438
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00007439- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
7440 directories.
7441
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00007442- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
7443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007444- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
7445 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00007446
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007447- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007448 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007449
7450- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007451 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007452
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007453- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007455- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
7456 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00007457
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00007458- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
7459
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00007460- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
7461 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
7462 parameterless foreign function calls work.
7463
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00007464- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
7465
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00007466- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
7467 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
7468 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
7469
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007470- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7471 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
7472
7473- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7474 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
7475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007476- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
7477 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
7478 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007480- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
7481 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00007482
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00007483- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
7484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007485- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
7486 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00007487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007488- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
7489 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00007490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007491- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
7492 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00007493
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007494- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
7495 separated lists read from logging config files.
7496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007497- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
7498 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
7499 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007501- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
7502 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00007503
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00007504- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
7505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007506- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
7507 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00007508
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00007509- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
7510
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00007511- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
7512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007513- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
7514 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00007515
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00007516- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
7517 regular files.
7518
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00007519- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
7520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007521- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
7522 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00007523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007524- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
7525 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00007526
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00007527- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
7528 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
7529
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00007530- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
7531 file name mangling.
7532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007533- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
7534 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00007535
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00007536- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
7537
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007538- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00007539 HTTPConnection.request().
7540
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00007541- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
7542 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
7543 objects.
7544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007545- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
7546 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
7547 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00007548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007549- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
7550 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
7551 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00007552
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007553- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00007554
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007555- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00007556
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00007557- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
7558
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007559- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007560 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007561
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00007562- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
7563
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00007564- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
7565 GNU modes.
7566
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007567- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007568 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007569 opcode.
7570
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00007571- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
7572 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
7573 statement (bug #1586513).
7574
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007575- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
7576 correctly.
7577
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00007578- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
7579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007580- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
7581 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00007582
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00007583- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
7584 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
7585 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
7586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007587- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
7588 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
7589 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00007590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007591- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
7592 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00007593
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00007594- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
7595
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00007596- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
7597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007598- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
7599 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00007600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007601- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
7602 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00007603
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00007604- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
7605 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
7606
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00007607- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
7608 with a slash.
7609
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00007610- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
7611 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
7612
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00007613- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007614 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00007615
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00007616- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
7617 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
7618 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
7619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007620- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
7621 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00007622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007623- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
7624 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00007625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007626- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
7627 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00007628
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007629- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
7630
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007631- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007632 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007634- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
7635 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00007636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007637- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
7638 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007639
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00007640- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
7641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007642- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
7643 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00007644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007645- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
7646 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
7647 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007649- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
7650 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
7651 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00007652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007653- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
7654 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
7655 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
7656 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00007657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007658- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007659 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
7660 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007661 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
7662 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
7663 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007665- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
7666 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007667
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007668Extension Modules
7669-----------------
7670
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007671- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00007672
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00007673- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
7674
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00007675- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
7676
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007677- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00007678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007679- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
7680 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00007681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007682- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
7683 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00007684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007685- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
7686 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00007687
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00007688- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
7689
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00007690- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
7691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007692- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
7693 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007694
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00007695- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
7696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007697- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
7698 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00007699
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00007700- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
7701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007702- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
7703 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00007704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007705- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00007706 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
7707 parameter.
7708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007709- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
7710 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
7711 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
7712 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00007713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007714- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
7715 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00007716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007717- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
7718 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00007719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007720- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
7721 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
7722 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007724- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
7725 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00007726
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00007727- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
7728
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00007729- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
7730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007731- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
7732 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
7733 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00007734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007735- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
7736 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00007737
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00007738- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
7739
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007740- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
7741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007742- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
7743 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
7744 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
7745 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00007746
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00007747- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
7748 get_completion_type to readline.
7749
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00007750- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
7751 structure.
7752
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00007753- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7754
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00007755- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
7756
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00007757- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
7758 intended for RECNO databases.
7759
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007760- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007761 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
7762 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
7763 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
7764 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
7765 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
7766 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007767
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00007768- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
7769
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00007770- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
7771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007772- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
7773 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
7774 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
7775 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
7776 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00007777
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00007778- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
7779 error in spite of a succesful compression.
7780
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00007781- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
7782 of Py_ssize_t.
7783
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00007784- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
7785 fractional times. With unittest.
7786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007787- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
7788 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
7789 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00007790
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00007791- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
7792
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00007793- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
7794
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00007795- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
7796
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00007797- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
7798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007799- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007800 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00007801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007802- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
7803 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00007804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007805- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
7806 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00007807
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00007808- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
7809 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
7810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007811- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
7812 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
7813 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00007814
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00007815- Speed up function calls into the math module.
7816
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00007817- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
7818 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
7819 does.
7820
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00007821- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
7822
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00007823- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
7824
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00007825- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
7826
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00007827- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
7828
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00007829- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
7830 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
7831
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00007832- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
7833 datetime's strftime function.
7834
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00007835- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
7836
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00007837- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
7838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007839- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
7840 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00007841
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00007842- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
7843
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007844- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007845 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
7846 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007848- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
7849 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00007850
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007851- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007852 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
7853 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007854 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
7855 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00007856 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007857 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007858
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007859- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
7860 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
7861 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
7862 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
7863
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00007864- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
7865 were transposed.
7866
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00007867- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
7868 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00007869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007870- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
7871 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
7872 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007873
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007874- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
7875
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00007876- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
7877
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00007878- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
7879
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00007880- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007881
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00007882- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
7883 databases without a DBEnv.
7884
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00007885- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
7886
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007887Tests
7888-----
7889
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00007890- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00007891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007892- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
7893 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00007894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007895- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
7896 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
7897 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00007898
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00007899- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
7900 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00007901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007902- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
7903 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00007904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007905- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
7906 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
7907 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00007908
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00007909- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
7910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007911- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
7912 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
7913 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00007914
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007915- Added some tests for modulefinder.
7916
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00007917- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
7918
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00007919- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
7920 number properly.
7921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007922- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
7923 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007924
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007925Tools
7926-----
7927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007928- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
7929 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
7930 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007931 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00007932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007933- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
7934 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
7935 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00007936
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007937- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
7938 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
7939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007940- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
7941 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007943- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
7944 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007945
7946- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007947 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
7948 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007949
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007950
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007951Documentation
7952-------------
7953
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007954- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
7955 include new optional delay argument.
7956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007957- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
7958 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
7959 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007960
7961- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
7962 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
7963
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00007964- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
7965 Python tutorial.
7966
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00007967- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
7968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007969- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
7970 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00007971
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00007972- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
7973 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
7974
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00007975- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
7976 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
7977
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00007978- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
7979
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00007980- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
7981 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
7982
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007983- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00007984 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
7985
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00007986- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
7987 docs.
7988
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00007989- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
7990
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00007991- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
7992 string pointed to by its parameter.
7993
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00007994- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
7995
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00007996- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007997 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
7998 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
7999 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008000
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008001
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008002Tools/Demos
8003-----------
8004
8005- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008006
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008007- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008008 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
8009 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008010
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008011- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
8012 file not to get reported properly.
8013
8014
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008015Build
8016-----
8017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008018- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
8019 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
8020 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00008021
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008022- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
8023 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
8024
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00008025- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
8026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008027- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008029- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
8030 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
8031 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
8032 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008034- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
8035 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008036
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00008037- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
8038
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00008039- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
8040 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
8041 without this option!
8042
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00008043- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
8044
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008045- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008046 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
8047 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
8048 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008050- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
8051 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00008052
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00008053- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
8054
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00008055- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
8056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008057- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
8058 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00008059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008060- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
8061 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00008062
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00008063- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
8064 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
8065 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
8066
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00008067- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
8068 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
8069
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00008070- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
8071
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00008072- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
8073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008074- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
8075 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00008076
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008077- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00008078 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
8079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008080- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
8081 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00008082
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00008083- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
8084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008085- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00008086
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00008087- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
8088
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00008089- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
8090
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00008091- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008093- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
8094 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
8095 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00008096
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008097
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008098C API
8099-----
8100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008101- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
8102 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
8103 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
8104 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00008105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008106- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
8107 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
8108 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008109
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008110- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008112- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
8113 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
8114 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008115
8116- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
8117
8118- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
8119 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
8120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008121- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
8122 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
8123 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
8124 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008126- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
8127 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008129- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
8130 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
8131 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008133- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
8134 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008135
8136- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
8137
8138- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
8139
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008140- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
8141
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008142- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
8143
8144- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
8145 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
8146
8147- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
8148 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
8149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008150- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
8151 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
8152 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008154- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
8155 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008157- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
8158 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00008159
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008160
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008161Windows
8162-------
8163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008164- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
8165 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
8166 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
8167 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00008168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008169- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
8170 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008171
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00008172- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
8173
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008174
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008175Mac
8176---
8177
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00008178- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8179
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00008180- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008182- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8183 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
8184 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00008185
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00008186----
8187
8188**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**