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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 Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00004What's New in Python 2.7.2?
5===========================
6
7*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
8
9Core and Builtins
10-----------------
11
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +000012- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
13 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
14 though the result was within the range of an int.
15
Mark Dickinsond3cb2f62011-03-26 10:02:37 +000016- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
17 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
18 documentation.
19
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +010020- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
21 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
22
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +000023- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
24 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
25
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +000026- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
27 class.
28
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +000029- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
30 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
31 Patch by Matt Bandy.
32
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +000033- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
34
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +000035- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
36 can now handle dates after 2038.
37
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +000038- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
39 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
40 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
41
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +000042- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
43
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +000044- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
45 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
46 0.0, not -0.0.
47
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +000048- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
49 empty, instead of OverflowError.
50
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +000051Library
52-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +000053
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -070054- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
55 that start with a leading underscore.
56
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +000057- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
58 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
59
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +010060- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
61 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
62
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -040063- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
64 setup and teardown.
65
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -040066- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
67 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
68 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
69
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -040070- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
71 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -040072
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +000073- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
74 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
75
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -080076- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
77 initialization fails.
78
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +010079- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
80 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
81 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
82
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +000083- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
84 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
85 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
86
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +000087- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
88 on accept(), send() and recv().
89
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +000090- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
91 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
92
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +000093- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
94 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
95
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +000096- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
97 argparse.
98
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +000099- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
100 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
101 32-bit Windows.
102
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +0000103- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
104 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
105
106- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
107
108- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
109
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +0000110- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
111 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
112
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +0000113- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
114 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
115
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +0000116- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
117 Patch by Stan Mihai.
118
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +0000119- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
120 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
121 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
122
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +0000123- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
124 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
125 64-/32-bit installer variant.
126
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +0000127- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
128 commands.
129
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +0000130- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
131
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +0000132- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
133 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
134
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +0000135- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
136 a symbol named FSTAT.
137
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +0000138- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
139 Cocoa AquaTk.
140
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +0000141- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
142 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
143 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
144
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +0000145- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
146
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000147- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
148 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
149 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
150 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
151 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
152 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
153
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +0000154- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
155 node twice.
156
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +0000157- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
158 on an existing file.
159
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +0000160- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
161 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
162
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +0000163- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
164 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
165 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
166
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +0000167- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
168 DeprecationWarning.
169
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +0000170- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
171
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100172- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +0000173 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
174 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
175 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
176
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100177- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +0000178
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100179- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +0000180 browsers actually parse cookies.
181
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +0000182- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
183 email.header.Header.encode.
184
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +0000185- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
186 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
187 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
188
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +0000189- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
190
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +0000191- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +0000192 about input.
193
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +0000194- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
195
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +0000196- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
197 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
198
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +0000199- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
200
201- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +0000202 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
203
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000204- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
205 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
206
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +0000207- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
208 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000209
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +0000210- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
211 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
212
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +0000213- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
214
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +0000215- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
216 causes debug mode to fail.
217
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +0000218- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
219
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +0000220- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
221 platforms).
222
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +0000223- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
224 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
225 current process.
226
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +0000227- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
228
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +0000229- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
230
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +0000231- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
232 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
233 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
234
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +0000235- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
236 argparse.FileType.
237
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +0100238- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
239
240- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
241
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +0100242- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
243 their children.
244
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000245Extension Modules
246-----------------
247
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -0500248- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
249 to an instance of the class.
250
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000251- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
252
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000253Build
254-----
255
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -0800256- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
257
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +0000258- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
259
260- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
261
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +0000262- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
263
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +0000264- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
265 package had previously been installed.
266
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +0000267- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
268 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
269
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +0000270- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
271 the system-provided Python.
272
273- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
274 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
275 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
276 support enabled).
277
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +0000278- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
279
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +0000280- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
281 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
282
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000283- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
284 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
285
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +0000286- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
287 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
288 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
289 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
290
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400291- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
292 using GCC 4.0.
293
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000294Tests
295-----
296
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -0400297- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
298 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
299
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +0000300- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
301 by Ross Lagerwall.
302
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +0000303- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
304 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
305 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
306
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +0000307- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
308 encountering them.
309
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000310- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
311 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
312
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000313
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000314What's New in Python 2.7.1?
315===========================
316
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +0000317*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000318
319Library
320-------
321
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +0000322- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
323
324- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
325
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +0000326- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
327 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
328 iterator was undefined.
329
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +0000330- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
331 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
332
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +0000333- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
334
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +0000335- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
336
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000337- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
338
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +0000339- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
340
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000341- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
342 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
343
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +0000344- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
345 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
346 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
347
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +0000348- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
349 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
350
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +0000351- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
352 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
353
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +0000354- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
355
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +0000356- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
357 is called without data.
358
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +0000359- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
360 end of the file.
361
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +0000362- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
363
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000364Build
365-----
366
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +0000367- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
368
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000369- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
370
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +0000371Tests
372-----
373
374- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
375
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +0000376Documentation
377-------------
378
379- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
380
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000381
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000382What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
383===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000384
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000385*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000386
387Core and Builtins
388-----------------
389
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +0000390- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
391 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
392
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000393- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
394 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +0000395
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000396- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
397 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +0000398
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +0000399- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
400 resolution.
401
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +0000402- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
403 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
404
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +0000405- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
406 warning.
407
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +0000408- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
409 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
410
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +0000411- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
412 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
413 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
414 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
415
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +0000416- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
417
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +0000418- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
419 thread-local storage key.
420
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000421- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
422 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
423 the same behaviour than the print statement.
424
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +0000425- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
426 a memoryview object.
427
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +0000428- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
429
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +0000430- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
431
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000432- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
433 of an array.
434
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +0000435- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
436
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +0000437- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
438 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
439
440 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
441 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
442
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +0000443- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
444 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000445
446Library
447-------
448
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100449- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000450
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +0000451- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
452 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
453
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000454- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
455 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000456
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000457- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
458
459- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
460
461- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
462 not in build_clib.
463
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +0000464- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
465 Arfrever.
466
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +0000467- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
468
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +0000469- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
470 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
471
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +0000472- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
473 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
474
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000475- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
476 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +0000477
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000478- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
479
480- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
481 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
482 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +0000483
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +0000484- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
485 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
486
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +0000487- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
488 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
489
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +0000490- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
491 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
492
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +0000493- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
494
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +0000495- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
496 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
497
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +0000498- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
499 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
500 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
501
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +0000502- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
503 initialization.
504
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +0000505- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
506 ntpath.relpath().
507
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100508- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +0000509 debugging in doctests.
510
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000511- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
512 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
513
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +0000514- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
515 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
516
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +0000517- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
518
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +0000519- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
520
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +0000521- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
522 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
523
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +0000524- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
525 gettext.
526
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +0000527- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
528 gname field.
529
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +0000530- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
531 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
532
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +0000533- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
534 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
535
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +0000536- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
537 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
538 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
539 with a timeout.
540
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +0000541- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
542
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +0000543- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
544
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +0000545- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
546
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +0000547- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
548
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +0000549- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
550 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
551
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +0000552- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
553 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
554 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
555 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
556 by Andrew Bennetts.
557
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +0000558- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
559 values: d['x'] = d.
560
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +0000561- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +0000562
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +0000563- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
564 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
565
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +0000566- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
567 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
568 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
569 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
570 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
571 to zero.
572
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +0000573- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000574 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +0000575 value.
576
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +0000577- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
578 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
579 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
580 original error is re-raised.
581
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +0000582- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
583 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
584 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
585
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +0000586- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
587 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
588
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +0000589- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
590 ConfigParser.write.
591
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +0000592- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
593 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
594
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +0000595- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
596 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
597 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
598
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +0000599- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
600 falling into recursion.
601
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +0000602- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
603 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
604
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +0000605- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
606 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
607
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000608- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +0000609 error handling when accepting a new connection.
610
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +0000611- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
612 errors.
613
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +0000614- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
615
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +0000616- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
617 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
618
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +0000619- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
620 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
621
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000622- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
623 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
624
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +0000625- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
626 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
627 overridden to provide ordered views.
628
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +0000629- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
630 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
631 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
632
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +0000633- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
634 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
635 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
636
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +0000637- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
638 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
639 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
640 patch by Jason V. Miller.
641
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +0000642- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
643 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
644
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +0000645- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
646 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
647
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +0000648- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
649 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
650 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
651
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +0000652- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
653 current node.
654
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +0000655- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
656
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +0000657- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
658 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
659
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +0000660- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
661 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
662 behavior was wrong.
663
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +0000664- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
665
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +0000666- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
667 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
668
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +0000669- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
670 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
671 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
672
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +0000673- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
674
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000675- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
676 the command line.
677
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +0000678- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
679 interactive browser.
680
681- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
682 regular expressions.
683
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +0000684- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
685 data generated with the profile module.
686
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +0000687- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
688 entries, consider the first one.
689
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +0000690- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
691 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
692
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +0000693- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
694 in the top-level debugged frame.
695
696- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
697 in doctests.
698
699- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
700 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
701
702- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
703 been reassigned.
704
705- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
706 a breakpoint command.
707
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +0000708- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
709 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
710
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +0000711- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
712 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
713
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +0000714- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
715
716- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
717 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
718
719- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
720 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
721
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +0000722- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
723
724- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
725
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +0000726- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
727 across devices.
728
729- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
730
731- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
732
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +0000733- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
734 string when Unicode was previously output.
735
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +0000736- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
737 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
738
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +0000739- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
740 utf-16 incremental encoders.
741
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +0000742- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
743
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +0000744- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
745 parameters.
746
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +0000747- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
748 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
749 XML-RPC request.
750
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +0000751- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
752
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +0000753- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
754 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
755 options).
756
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +0000757- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
758
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +0000759- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
760 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
761 (Jan Hosang).
762
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +0000763- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
764
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +0000765- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
766 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
767 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
768
769- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
770 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
771 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
772
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +0000773- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
774 strings in add_option calls.
775
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +0000776- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
777
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +0000778- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000779
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +0000780- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
781
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +0000782- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
783 for tracing methods.
784
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000785Extension Modules
786-----------------
787
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +0000788- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
789 with expat version 2.0.1.
790
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +0000791- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000792 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +0000793
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +0000794- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
795 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
796
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +0000797- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
798 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
799
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000800- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
801 interpreter by default.
802
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +0000803- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
804 to prevent crashes.
805
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +0000806- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
807 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
808 2**31 elements.
809
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +0000810- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
811
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +0000812- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
813 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
814
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +0000815- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
816 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
817
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +0000818- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
819
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +0000820- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
821
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +0000822- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
823
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +0000824- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
825 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
826 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
827 returns the same information as the id command.
828
829 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
830
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +0000831- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
832 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
833 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
834 char is unsigned.
835
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +0000836- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
837
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400838
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +0000839Tools/Demos
840-----------
841
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +0000842- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
843
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +0000844- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
845 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
846 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
847
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000848Build
849-----
850
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +0000851- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
852
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +0000853- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
854 Akira Kitada.
855
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +0000856- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
857
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +0000858- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
859
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +0000860- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
861 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
862
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +0000863- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
864 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
865
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +0000866- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
867 Sablé.
868
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +0000869- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
870 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
871 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +0000872
873- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
874 Sébastien Sablé.
875
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000876- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
877
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000878- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
879 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +0000880
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000881- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
882 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
883 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +0000884
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +0000885- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
886 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
887 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
888
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +0000889- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
890 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +0000891
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000892Tests
893-----
894
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +0000895- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
896 in test_os)
897
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +0000898- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
899
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000900- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
901 case when running profile or trace, for example.
902
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +0000903- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000904
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +0000905- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
906
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +0000907- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
908
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000909- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
910
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +0000911- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
912
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +0000913- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
914 Michele Orrù.
915
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000916- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
917
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +0000918- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
919
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000920Documentation
921-------------
922
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +0000923- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
924 to Doc/license.rst.
925
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +0000926- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
927 with os.kill.
928
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000929- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
930 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +0000931
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000932- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000933
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000934
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000935What's New in Python 2.7?
936=========================
937
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +0000938*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000939
940Core and Builtins
941-----------------
942
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +0000943- Prevent assignment to set literals.
944
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000945Library
946-------
947
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +0000948- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
949 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
950
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +0000951- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
952
953Extension Modules
954-----------------
955
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +0000956- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
957 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +0000958
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +0000959- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
960 on an OpenSSL structure.
961
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +0000962
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +0000963What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
964=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000965
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +0000966*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000967
968Core and Builtins
969-----------------
970
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +0000971- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
972
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +0000973- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
974 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
975 See tracker issue for details.
976
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +0000977- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
978 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
979 (higher than 0x10000).
980
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +0000981- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
982 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +0000983
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +0000984Build
985-----
986
987- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
988
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000989Library
990-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +0000991
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +0000992- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +0000993 raises an exception.
994
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +0000995- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
996 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
997 and after calling foreign functions.
998
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +0000999- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
1000 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
1001
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001002- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
1003 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
1004
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00001005- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001006
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001007- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
1008 now honored in unittest debug methods.
1009
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00001010Documentation
1011-------------
1012
1013- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
1014 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
1015
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001016Misc
1017----
1018
1019- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
1020
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001021
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00001022What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
1023=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001024
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00001025*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001026
1027Core and Builtins
1028-----------------
1029
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00001030- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
1031 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
1032 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
1033 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
1034 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
1035 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
1036 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
1037
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001038- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00001039 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
1040 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
1041 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
1042 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001043
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00001044- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
1045 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
1046 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
1047 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
1048 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
1049 in sets or dicts.
1050
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00001051- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
1052 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
1053 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
1054
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00001055- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
1056 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
1057
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001058- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
1059 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00001060
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001061- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
1062 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00001063
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001064- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00001065 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
1066
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001067C-API
1068-----
1069
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001070- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
1071 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
1072 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001073 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
1074
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001075Library
1076-------
1077
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00001078- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
1079 reported as a skip rather than an error.
1080
1081- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
1082 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
1083 reports.
1084
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00001085- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
1086
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00001087- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
1088 accepted by the codecs module.
1089
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00001090- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
1091
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00001092- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
1093 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
1094
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00001095- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
1096 mistake.
1097
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00001098- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
1099 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
1100
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00001101- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
1102 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
1103
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00001104- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
1105 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00001106
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00001107- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
1108
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00001109- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
1110
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00001111- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
1112 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
1113 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00001114
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001115- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001116 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001117
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00001118- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
1119 of files without one.
1120
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001121- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00001122 comparing to a non-mapping.
1123
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001124- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00001125
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001126- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
1127 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00001128
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00001129- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
1130
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001131- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
1132 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
1133 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00001134
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001135Extension Modules
1136-----------------
1137
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00001138- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
1139 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
1140 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
1141
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00001142- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
1143 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
1144
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001145- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001146 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001147
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001148Tests
1149-----
1150
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00001151- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
1152 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
1153
1154- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00001155 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
1156
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00001157- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
1158
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001159- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
1160 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
1161 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001162
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00001163Build
1164-----
1165
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00001166- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
1167 releases.
1168
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001169- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00001170 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001171
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00001172Tools/Demos
1173-----------
1174
1175- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
1176
1177
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001178What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
1179================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001180
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00001181*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001182
1183Core and Builtins
1184-----------------
1185
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001186- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00001187
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001188- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
1189 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
1190 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
1191 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
1192 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00001193
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001194- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
1195 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00001196
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00001197- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
1198
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001199- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001200 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001201 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
1202 Charles-François Natali.
1203
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00001204- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
1205 passed to bytearray.
1206
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001207- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00001208
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001209- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00001210
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001211- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
1212 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
1213 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00001214
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001215Library
1216-------
1217
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001218- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
1219 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00001220
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001221- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
1222 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00001223
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001224- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001225
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001226- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
1227 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
1228 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
1229 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001230
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001231- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
1232 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00001233
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00001234- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
1235
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001236- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
1237 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00001238
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001239- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
1240 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00001241
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001242- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
1243 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
1244 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
1245 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
1246 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00001247
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001248- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001249 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
1250 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001251
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00001252- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
1253
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00001254- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
1255 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
1256
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001257- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
1258 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00001259
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001260- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
1261 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00001262
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001263- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00001264 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
1265 "Include".
1266
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001267- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
1268 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00001269
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001270- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
1271 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00001272
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001273- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
1274 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00001275
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001276- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
1277 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
1278 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00001279
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001280- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
1281 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00001282
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001283- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00001284
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001285- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
1286 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00001287
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001288- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00001289
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001290- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
1291 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
1292 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
1293 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00001294
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00001295- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
1296 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
1297
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001298- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
1299 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00001300
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00001301- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
1302
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001303- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
1304 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00001305
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001306- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
1307 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00001308
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001309- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
1310 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
1311 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00001312
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001313- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
1314 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001315 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
1316 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
1317
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001318- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
1319 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
1320 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00001321
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00001322- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
1323
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001324- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
1325 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00001326
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001327- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00001328
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001329- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
1330 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00001331
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001332- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
1333 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00001334
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00001335- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
1336
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00001337- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
1338 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
1339
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001340- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00001341 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
1342
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001343- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001344 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
1345 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001346
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001347- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001348 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
1349 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001350
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00001351- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
1352
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001353- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
1354 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001355
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001356Extension Modules
1357-----------------
1358
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001359- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00001360
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00001361- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
1362
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001363- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
1364
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001365- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
1366 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00001367
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001368Tests
1369-----
1370
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001371- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
1372 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
1373 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00001374
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001375- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
1376 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00001377
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00001378- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
1379 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
1380
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001381- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
1382 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00001383
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001384- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
1385 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001386
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001387Build
1388-----
1389
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001390- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00001391 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
1392 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
1393 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
1394
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001395- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
1396
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001397- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
1398 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00001399
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001400- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00001401
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00001402Misc
1403----
1404
1405- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
1406
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001407
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001408What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
1409================================
1410
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00001411*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001412
1413Core and Builtins
1414-----------------
1415
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00001416- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
1417
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00001418- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
1419 changed.
1420
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001421- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00001422 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
1423 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
1424
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00001425- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
1426
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001427- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00001428
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00001429- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
1430
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001431- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
1432 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
1433 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
1434 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00001435 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001436 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00001437
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00001438- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
1439 references.
1440
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001441- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
1442 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00001443
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00001444- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00001445
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00001446- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
1447 arguments to a function correct.
1448
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00001449- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
1450
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001451- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001452 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
1453 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001454 module.
1455
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00001456- Code objects now support weak references.
1457
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001458Library
1459-------
1460
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00001461- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
1462
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001463- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001464 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
1465 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001466
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00001467- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
1468
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001469- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
1470 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00001471
1472 >>> Decimal(1.1)
1473 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
1474
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00001475- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
1476
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001477- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
1478 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001479
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001480- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
1481 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001482
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001483- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
1484 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00001485
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001486- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
1487 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
1488 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
1489 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00001490
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001491- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
1492 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
1493 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
1494 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00001495
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001496- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001497 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
1498 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
1499 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001500
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001501- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
1502 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00001503
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00001504- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
1505 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001506 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00001507
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001508- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
1509 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
1510 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
1511 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00001512
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00001513- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
1514
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00001515- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
1516
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00001517- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
1518 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
1519
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00001520- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
1521
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001522- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001523 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
1524 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001525
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00001526- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
1527 deprecated.
1528
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001529- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
1530 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00001531
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001532- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
1533 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00001534
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001535- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
1536 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
1537 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00001538
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001539- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
1540 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00001541
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00001542- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
1543 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
1544 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00001545
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00001546- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
1547
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00001548- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
1549
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001550- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
1551 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
1552 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00001553
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00001554- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
1555 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
1556
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001557- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00001558
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001559- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
1560 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00001561
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001562- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
1563 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001564 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00001565
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00001566- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001567 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
1568 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
1569 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00001570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001571- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00001572 cElementTree module is updated too.
1573
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00001574- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
1575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001576- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00001577 classes.
1578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001579- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
1580 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
1581 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
1582 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001583
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00001584- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
1585 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
1586
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00001587- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
1588
1589- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
1590 during test runs.
1591
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00001592- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00001593 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
1594
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001595Extension Modules
1596-----------------
1597
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00001598- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
1599
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00001600- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
1601
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00001602- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001603 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
1604 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00001605
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00001606- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
1607
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00001608- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
1609
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00001610- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
1611 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
1612 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
1613 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
1614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001615- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
1616 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
1617 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001618 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
1619 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
1620 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
1621 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001622
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001623- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
1624 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00001625
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00001626Tools/Demos
1627-----------
1628
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001629- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
1630 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
1631 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001632
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00001633- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1634
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001635Build
1636-----
1637
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001638- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
1639 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00001640
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001641- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
1642 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
1643 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00001644
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00001645- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
1646
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001647- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
1648
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00001649- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
1650 assembly file.
1651
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001652C-API
1653-----
1654
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001655- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001656 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
1657 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001658
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001659- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
1660 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
1661 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
1662 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001663
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001664Tests
1665-----
1666
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001667- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
1668 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00001669
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001670- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
1671
1672- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
1673
1674- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
1675
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00001676- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1677
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00001678- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1679
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00001680- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1681 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1682
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00001683- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1684 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00001685
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001686- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1687 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001688
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001689
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001690What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
1691=================================
1692
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00001693*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001694
1695Core and Builtins
1696-----------------
1697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001698- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
1699 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00001700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001701- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
1702 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00001703
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001704- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001705 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001706
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00001707- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001708 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
1709 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001711- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
1712 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00001713
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001714- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00001715 Parser/myreadline.c.
1716
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001717- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001718 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001719
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001720- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
1721 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00001722
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001723Library
1724-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001725
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00001726- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
1727 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
1728 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
1729
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00001730- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
1731 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001732
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00001733- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
1734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001735- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00001736 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00001737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001738- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00001739 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
1740
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001741- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
1742 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00001743
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001744- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001745 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001746
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001747- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00001748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001749- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
1750 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00001751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001752- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00001753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001754- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
1755 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00001756
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001757- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
1758 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00001759
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001760- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
1761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001762- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
1763 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
1764 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
1765 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00001766
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001767- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
1768 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001769
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001770- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1771 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1772 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001773
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001774- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001775 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00001776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001777- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00001778
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001779- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00001780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001781- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00001782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001783- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
1784 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00001785
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001786- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001787 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001789- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00001790
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00001791- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1792
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001793Extension Modules
1794-----------------
1795
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001796- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00001797 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
1798
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001799- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
1800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001801- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00001802 handling.
1803
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001804- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1805 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001806
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001807- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00001808 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1809 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001811- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
1812 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00001813
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001814Tests
1815-----
1816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001817- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
1818 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
1819 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00001820
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00001821- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1822 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1823
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001824- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
1825 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00001826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001827- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00001828 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00001829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001830- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00001831 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001833- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
1834 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
1835 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
1836 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001837
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001838Build
1839-----
1840
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00001841- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001842
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001843
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001844What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
1845=================================
1846
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00001847*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001848
1849Core and Builtins
1850-----------------
1851
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001852- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
1853 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001854 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
1855 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001856
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001857- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001858 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00001859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001860- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
1861 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00001862
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001863- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00001864
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001865- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
1866 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00001867
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001868- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
1869 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
1870 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
1871 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00001872
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001873- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
1874 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
1875 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
1876 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00001877
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00001878- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
1879 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
1880 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1881
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001882- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
1883 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00001884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001885 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
1886 strings,
1887 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
1888 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
1889 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
1890 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
1891
1892- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
1893 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00001894
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00001895- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
1896
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00001897- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
1898
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00001899- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
1900
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001901Library
1902-------
1903
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00001904- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
1905 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
1906
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00001907- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
1908 interpreter shutdown.
1909
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001910- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
1911 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
1912 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
1913 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00001914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001915- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00001916
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001917- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00001918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001919- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00001920
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001921- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001922 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001923 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
1924 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
1925
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00001926- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
1927
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001928- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001929 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
1930 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001931 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001933- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
1934 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
1935 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
1936 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
1937 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
1938 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00001939
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00001940- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
1941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001942- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
1943 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00001944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001945- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
1946 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00001947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001948- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
1949 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
1950 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
1951 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00001952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001953- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00001954 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
1955 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
1956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001957- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00001958 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001960- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
1961 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00001962
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001963- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
1964 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00001965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001966- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
1967 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00001968
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001969- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
1970 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00001971
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001972- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001973 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
1974 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001975
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00001976Extension Modules
1977-----------------
1978
1979- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1980 (CVE_2009_3560).
1981
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001982Build
1983-----
1984
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001985- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
1986 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
1987 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00001988
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00001989- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
1990
1991- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
1992 MacOSX.
1993
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001994- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
1995 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1996
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001997Tools/Demos
1998-----------
1999
2000- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002001 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002002 sandbox.
2003
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002004Tests
2005-----
2006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002007- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002008 instead of a hard coded port.
2009
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002010Documentation
2011-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002012
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002013- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
2014 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002016- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002017 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
2018
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002019
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002020What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
2021=================================
2022
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00002023*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002024
2025Core and Builtins
2026-----------------
2027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002028- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
2029 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00002030
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00002031- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
2032 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2033
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002034- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002035 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
2036 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
2037 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
2038 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
2039 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002040
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00002041- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
2042 AttributeError.
2043
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002044- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
2045 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00002046
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002047- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00002048
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00002049- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
2050 used to drop the time part of the result.
2051
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002052- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
2053 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
2054 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
2055 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00002056
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002057- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
2058 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
2059 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00002060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002061- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002062 executables on OSX.
2063
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002064 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
2065 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
2066 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002068- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
2069 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00002070
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00002071- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
2072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002073- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
2074 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00002075
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002076
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002077Library
2078-------
2079
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002080- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
2081 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
2082 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00002083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002084- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
2085 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
2086 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00002087
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002088- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002089 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
2090 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002091 Xicluna.
2092
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002093- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
2094 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00002095
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002096- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
2097 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00002098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002099- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
2100 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
2101 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00002102
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002103- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00002104 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
2105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002106- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
2107 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00002108
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002109- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00002110 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
2111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002112- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
2113 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00002114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002115- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
2116 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00002117
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002118- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
2119 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
2120 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00002121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002122- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
2123 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00002124
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00002125- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
2126 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
2127 the same as passing no argument.
2128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002129- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
2130 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00002131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002132- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00002133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002134- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00002135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002136- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
2137 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002139- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
2140 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002141
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002142- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
2143 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002144
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002145C-API
2146-----
2147
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002148- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
2149 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00002150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002151- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
2152 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
2153 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
2154 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
2155 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
2156 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
2157 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002159- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002160
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00002161Build
2162-----
2163
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00002164- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
2165
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002166- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002167 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002169- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
2170 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
2171 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00002172
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00002173- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
2174 found.
2175
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00002176- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002178- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
2179 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00002180
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002181Tests
2182-----
2183
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002184- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00002185 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
2186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002187- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00002188
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002189- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
2190 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
2191
2192
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002193What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
2194================================
2195
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00002196*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002197
2198Core and Builtins
2199-----------------
2200
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002201- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
2202 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002204- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
2205 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
2206 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002208- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
2209 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00002210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002211- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
2212 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
2213 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00002214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002215- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002217- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002218
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002219- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
2220 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00002221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002222- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
2223 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
2224 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
2225 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
2226 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
2227 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002229- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
2230 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
2231 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
2232 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
2233 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
2234 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
2235 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002237 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
2238 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
2239 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
2240 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
2241 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
2242 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
2243 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
2244 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
2245 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
2246 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002248- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
2249 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
2250 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
2251 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
2252 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
2253 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
2254 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
2255 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00002256
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00002257- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
2258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002259- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
2260 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00002261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002262- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
2263 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00002264
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002265- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
2266 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00002267
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00002268- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
2269
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002270- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
2271 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
2272 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00002273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002274- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
2275 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00002276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002277- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
2278 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002280- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
2281 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00002282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002283- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
2284 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
2285 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00002286
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002287- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
2288 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00002289
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00002290- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
2291 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
2292 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
2293 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
2294
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00002295- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
2296 assignment.
2297
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002298- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
2299 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00002300
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002301- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
2302 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00002303
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002304- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
2305 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00002306
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00002307- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00002308 take keyword arguments.
2309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002310- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
2311 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00002312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002313- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
2314 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00002315
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00002316- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
2317
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00002318- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
2319 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
2320
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00002321- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
2322
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002323- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00002324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002325- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00002326 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
2327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002328- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
2329 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00002330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002331- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00002332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002333- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00002334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002335- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00002336 occurred in the argument chain.
2337
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00002338- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
2339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002340- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
2341 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00002342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002343- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00002344 separator and end should be unicode also.
2345
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002346- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
2347 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00002348
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002349- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
2350 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
2351 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00002352
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00002353- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
2354
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00002355- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
2356 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
2357
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00002358- Removed the ipaddr module.
2359
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00002360- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
2361 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
2362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002363- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00002364
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00002365- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
2366 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
2367
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00002368- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
2369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002370- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
2371 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00002372
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002373- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002374 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002376- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
2377 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00002378
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00002379- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002380 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00002381
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00002382- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
2383 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
2384
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002385- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
2386 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
2387 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00002388
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00002389- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
2390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002391- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
2392 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00002393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002394- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00002395
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002396- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002398 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
2399 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
2400 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00002401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002402- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
2403 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
2404 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
2405 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
2406 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
2407 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
2408 complex.__format__ in the same way.
2409
2410- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
2411 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
2412 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00002413
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002414- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002415 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002416
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002417- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
2418 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00002419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002420- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
2421 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00002422
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002423- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
2424 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00002425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002426- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
2427 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00002428
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00002429- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
2430 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
2431
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00002432- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
2433
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002434- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
2435 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00002436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002437- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
2438 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002440- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
2441 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002442
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002443- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
2444 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002445
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002446- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
2447 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00002448
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002449- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002450 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00002451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002452- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
2453 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00002454
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00002455- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
2456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002457- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00002458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002459- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
2460 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00002461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002462- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00002463
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00002464- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2465 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2466
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00002467- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
2468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002469- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
2470 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00002471
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002472- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002473 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
2474 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
2475 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002477- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
2478 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
2479 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00002480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002481- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
2482 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
2483 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
2484 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
2485 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00002486
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00002487- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
2488 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
2489
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002490- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
2491 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
2492 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00002493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002494- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
2495 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00002496
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002497- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00002498 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
2499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002500- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
2501 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00002502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002503- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
2504 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00002505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002506- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
2507 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00002508
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00002509- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2510 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002512- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
2513 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00002514
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00002515- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
2516
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002517- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00002518 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
2519 zip(), and bytearray().
2520
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00002521- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
2522 functions.
2523
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00002524- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
2525 OSError.
2526
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00002527- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
2528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002529- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
2530 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
2531 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00002532
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00002533- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2534 __next__ method.
2535
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00002536- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2537
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00002538- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2539
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002540- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2541 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2542 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00002543 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002544 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2545
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00002546- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
2547
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002548- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
2549 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
2550 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
2551 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
2552 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00002553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002554- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00002555
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00002556- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
2557 file with `str' filename on Windows.
2558
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00002559- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
2560 did not get collected.
2561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002562- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
2563 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00002564
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00002565- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
2566 directory on POSIX systems.
2567
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00002568- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
2569 systems.
2570
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00002571- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002572 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00002573
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00002574- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
2575 fail.
2576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002577- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
2578 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
2579 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00002580
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00002581- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
2582
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002583- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
2584 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00002585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002586- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
2587 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00002588
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002589- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00002590
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002591- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
2592 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
2593 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
2594 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00002595
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00002596- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
2597 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
2598 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
2599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002600- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
2601 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00002602
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00002603- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
2604 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
2605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002606- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
2607 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
2608 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
2609 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00002610
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00002611- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
2612 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
2613
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002614- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00002615
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00002616- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
2617
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00002618- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
2619
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00002620- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
2621 exec statement.
2622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002623- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
2624 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00002625
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00002626- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
2627 __future__ import didn't work.
2628
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002629- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00002630 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002632- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
2633 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
2634 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
2635 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00002636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002637- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
2638 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
2639 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
2640 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00002641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002642- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
2643 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00002644
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00002645- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
2646
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00002647- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
2648
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00002649- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
2650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002651- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
2652 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00002653
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00002654- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
2655 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00002656
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00002657- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
2658 returned them on 64bit platforms.
2659
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00002660- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
2661 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
2662 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
2663 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
2664
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00002665- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
2666 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
2667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002668- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
2669 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
2670 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
2671 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00002672
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002673Library
2674-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002675
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00002676- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00002677
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00002678- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
2679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002680- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
2681 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00002682
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002683- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00002684 TLS with authentication credentials.
2685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002686- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
2687 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00002688
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00002689- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
2690 msvc9compiler.
2691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002692- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
2693 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
2694 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00002695
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00002696- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
2697 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
2698 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
2699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002700- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
2701 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00002702
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00002703- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
2704
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002705- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002706 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002707 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
2708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002709- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
2710 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
2711 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00002712
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002713- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
2714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002715- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
2716 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00002717
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00002718- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
2719 raises ReadError on empty files.
2720
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002721- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00002722
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00002723- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
2724 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00002725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002726- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
2727 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00002728
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002729- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
2730 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00002731
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002732- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00002733
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002734- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
2735 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00002736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002737- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
2738 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00002739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002740- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
2741 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
2742 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00002743 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
2744 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
2745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002746- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
2747 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
2748 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00002749
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002750- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002751 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002752 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
2753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002754- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
2755 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
2756 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00002757
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00002758- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
2759 which are part of a reference cycle.
2760
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002761- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
2762 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00002763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002764- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00002765 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
2766 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
2767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002768- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
2769 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
2770 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
2771 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00002772
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002773- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
2774 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
2775 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
2776 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00002777
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00002778- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
2779 header as required by RFC 1952.
2780
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00002781- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
2782 Distutils.
2783
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00002784- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
2785 an uppercase.
2786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002787- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
2788 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00002789
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00002790- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2791 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2792
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002793- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00002794 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2795
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00002796- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
2797 protocol 2.
2798
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00002799- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
2800
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00002801- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
2802 larger than emax.
2803
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002804- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
2805 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00002806
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00002807- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
2808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002809- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00002810
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00002811- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
2812
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002813- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00002814
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002815- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00002816
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00002817- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
2818 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002820- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
2821 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00002822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002823- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
2824 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00002825
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002826- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00002827 Distutils.
2828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002829- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00002830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002831- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
2832 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00002833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002834- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
2835 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00002836
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00002837- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2838
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00002839- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
2840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002841- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
2842 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00002843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002844- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
2845 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00002846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002847- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
2848 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00002849
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00002850- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
2851
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00002852- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2853
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002854- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002855 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
2856 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002858- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00002859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002860- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
2861 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
2862 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00002863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002864- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
2865 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00002866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002867- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00002868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002869- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
2870 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
2871 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
2872 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00002873
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00002874- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
2875 as documented.
2876
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00002877- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
2878 names in the webbrowser module.
2879
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00002880- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
2881
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00002882- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
2883 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
2884
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00002885- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2886
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00002887- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
2888
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00002889- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
2890
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00002891- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
2892
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00002893- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
2894
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00002895- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
2896 ScrolledText.
2897
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00002898- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
2899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002900- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
2901 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00002902
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00002903- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
2904 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
2905 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
2906 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
2907
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00002908- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
2909 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
2910
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002911- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002912 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
2913 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002915- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
2916 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
2917 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00002918
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00002919- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2920 opening an empty or very small file.
2921
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002922- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
2923 containing incomplete data.
2924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002925- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
2926 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00002927
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00002928- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002930- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
2931 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
2932 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00002933
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002934- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00002935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002936- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
2937 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
2938 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
2939 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00002940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002941- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00002942
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002943- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2944
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00002945- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2946 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2947
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002948- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00002949
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002950- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00002951 attribute.
2952
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00002953- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2954
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00002955- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
2956 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
2957
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00002958- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002960- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002961 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002962 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002963
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002964- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00002965 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2966
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00002967- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
2968
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002969- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
2970 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00002971 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
2972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002973- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00002974 argument.
2975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002976- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
2977 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00002978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002979- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00002980
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00002981- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
2982
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00002983- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2984
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00002985- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2986 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2987
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002988- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
2989 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00002990
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00002991- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
2992 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
2993 ``io`` module.
2994
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00002995- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
2996
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00002997- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002998 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
2999
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00003000- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
3001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003002- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
3003 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
3004 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00003005
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00003006- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
3007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003008- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
3009 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00003010
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00003011- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
3012
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00003013- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
3014 whitespace.
3015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003016- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
3017 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00003018
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00003019- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
3020 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
3021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003022- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
3023 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00003024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003025- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
3026 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00003027
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00003028- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
3029 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
3030 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
3031
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00003032- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
3033 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003035- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
3036 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
3037 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00003038
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00003039- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
3040 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
3041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003042- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00003043 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
3044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003045- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00003046
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003047- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
3048 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00003049
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003050- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00003051 subcommand.
3052
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00003053- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
3054 deepcopy()ing.
3055
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003056- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00003057
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00003058- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
3059
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003060- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00003061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003062- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00003063 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
3064
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00003065- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
3066 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
3067
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003068- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003069 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003071- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
3072 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00003073
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003074- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
3075 trying to print a traceback.
3076
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00003077- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
3078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003079- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
3080 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00003081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003082- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
3083 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
3084 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00003085 Cournapeau.
3086
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003087- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003088 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00003089
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003090- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
3091 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00003092
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00003093- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
3094
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00003095- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
3096 looking for files given by a relative filename.
3097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003098- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00003099 extracting a file to the root directory.
3100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003101- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00003102
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003103- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
3104 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
3105 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00003106
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00003107- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
3108 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
3109
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00003110- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
3111 Contributed by Google.
3112
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00003113- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
3114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003115- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00003116
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00003117- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
3118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003119- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
3120 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00003121 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
3122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003123- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00003124 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
3125 initialized before.
3126
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00003127- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
3128 names which should not be exported.
3129
3130- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003131 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00003132
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00003133- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
3134
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003135- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
3136 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00003137
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00003138- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
3139
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003140- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003141 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003143- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
3144 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
3145 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00003146
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00003147- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
3148
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003149- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
3150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003151- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
3152 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
3153 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
3154 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
3155 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00003156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003157- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00003158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003159- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
3160 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00003161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003162- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00003163
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003164- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003165 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00003166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003167- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
3168 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00003169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003170- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
3171 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00003172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003173- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
3174 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00003175
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003176- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
3177 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00003178
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003179- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00003180
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003181- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00003182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003183- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00003184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003185- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00003186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003187- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00003188 mailbox.MH.get_message().
3189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003190- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
3191 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00003192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003193- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
3194 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
3195 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00003196
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003197- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
3198 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003199
3200- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00003201 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003203- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
3204 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003205 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
3206 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
3207
3208- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
3209 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003210
3211- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003212 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003213
3214- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003215 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003216
3217- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
3218 called immediately before and after a test run.
3219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003220- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00003221 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
3222 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
3223 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003225- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00003226
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00003227- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
3228 printing out values.
3229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003230- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00003231
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00003232- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
3233 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
3234 threads.
3235
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00003236- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
3237
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00003238- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
3239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003240- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00003241 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
3242 that it was failing to do localization.
3243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003244- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00003245 Brandl.
3246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003247- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
3248 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00003249
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00003250- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
3251 with the threading module.
3252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003253- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00003254
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00003255- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
3256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003257- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
3258 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00003259
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003260- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003261 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
3262 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00003263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003264- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
3265 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00003266
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00003267- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
3268 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
3269 output compared to previous Python versions.
3270
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00003271- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
3272
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003273- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003274 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
3275 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003277- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
3278 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
3279 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
3280 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003282- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
3283 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
3284 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
3285 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00003286
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00003287- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
3288 even if an exception occurs.
3289
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00003290- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
3291 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
3292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003293- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
3294 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00003295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003296- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
3297 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00003298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003299- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00003300 character.
3301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003302- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
3303 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00003304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003305- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00003306
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003307- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003308 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
3309 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003310
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003311- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
3312 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
3313 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00003314
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00003315- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
3316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003317- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00003318 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
3319
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00003320- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
3321
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00003322- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
3323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003324- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00003325
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00003326- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
3327
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00003328- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
3329
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00003330- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
3331 ready received.
3332
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00003333- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
3334 import guess_extension`` was used.
3335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003336- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
3337 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00003338
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00003339- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
3340 overrun.
3341
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003342- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
3343 bdist_rpm command.
3344
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003345- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003346
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003347- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00003348
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003349- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
3350 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
3351
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003352- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
3353 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00003354
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00003355- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
3356 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003358- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
3359 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00003360
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00003361- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
3362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003363- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
3364 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00003365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003366- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00003367 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
3368
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00003369- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
3370 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
3371
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003372- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00003373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003374- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
3375 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00003376
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00003377- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
3378 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
3379
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00003380- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
3381 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
3382
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003383- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003384 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003385 ctime of the files involved.
3386
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00003387- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
3388 deadlock.
3389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003390- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
3391 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
3392 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00003393
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00003394- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
3395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003396- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
3397 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003398
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003399- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
3400 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00003401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003402- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
3403 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
3404 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00003405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003406- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
3407 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
3408 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
3409 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00003410
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003411- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00003412 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
3413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003414- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
3415 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00003416
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00003417- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
3418 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
3419
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003420- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00003421 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
3422
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00003423- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
3424
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003425- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
3426 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00003427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003428- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
3429 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00003430
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00003431- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
3432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003433- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00003434 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
3435
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003436- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
3437 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00003438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003439- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
3440 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00003441
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00003442- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
3443
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003444- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00003445
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003446- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
3447 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00003448
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003449- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
3450 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00003451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003452- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00003453 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
3454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003455- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
3456 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00003457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003458- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
3459 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00003460
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003461- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003462 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
3463 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00003464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003465- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
3466 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
3467 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
3468 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00003469
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003470- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
3471 parameter was set.
3472
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003473- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
3474 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00003475 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003476
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003477- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003478 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
3479 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003480
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00003481- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
3482 in sharedctypes.py.
3483
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00003484- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
3485 __getattr__.
3486
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003487- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
3488 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00003489
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003490- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00003491 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
3492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003493- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00003494
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00003495- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
3496
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003497- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003498 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
3499 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003500 Jacques Frechet.
3501
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00003502- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
3503
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003504- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00003505 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
3506
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003507- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003508 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
3509 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003511- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
3512 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00003513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003514- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
3515 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00003516
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00003517- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
3518 the function is not a generator.
3519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003520- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
3521 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00003522
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003523- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
3524 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00003525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003526- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
3527 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003529- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
3530 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003531
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00003532- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
3533
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00003534- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
3535
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003536- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
3537 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00003538
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003539- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
3540 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00003541
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00003542- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
3543 Gabriel Genellina.
3544
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00003545- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
3546
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00003547- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
3548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003549- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00003550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003551- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
3552 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
3553 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00003554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003555- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
3556 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003557 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
3558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003559- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
3560 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
3561 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003562
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003563- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
3564 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
3565 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
3566 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
3567 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003569- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
3570 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003571
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00003572- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
3573 when given an unicode string.
3574
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00003575- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
3576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003577- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
3578 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
3579 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00003580
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003581- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
3582 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00003583
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003584- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00003585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003586- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00003587 statements.
3588
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00003589- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
3590 not a malformed option.
3591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003592- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
3593 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00003594
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00003595- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
3596 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
3597 Content-Disposition headers.
3598
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00003599- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003600 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
3601 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
3602 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
3603 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00003604
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00003605- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
3606 exception.
3607
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003608- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
3609 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00003610
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00003611- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
3612
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00003613- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
3614
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00003615- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
3616 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
3617
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00003618- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
3619 and then remove it.
3620
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00003621- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
3622
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00003623- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
3624 debugging.
3625
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00003626- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
3627 inspect.getargvalues.
3628
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00003629- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
3630
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00003631- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
3632 to claiming it is Mature.
3633
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00003634- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
3635 when protocol 0 is used.
3636
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00003637- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
3638 to be consistent with Apple tools.
3639
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003640- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003641 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003642
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00003643- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
3644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003645- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00003646 module.
3647
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003648- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
3649 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00003650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003651- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003653- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003654
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003655- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003656 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003657
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003658- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003659 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
3660 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003661
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00003662- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
3663 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
3664
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003665- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
3666 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00003667
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00003668- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
3669 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
3670 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
3671
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00003672- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
3673
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003674Tools/Demos
3675-----------
3676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003677- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00003678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003679- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003680
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003681Build
3682-----
3683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003684- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
3685 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
3686 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00003687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003688- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
3689 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
3690 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003692- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00003693
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00003694- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
3695
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003696- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003697 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00003698
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003699- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003700 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00003701
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003702- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
3703 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00003704
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00003705- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
3706
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00003707- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
3708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003709- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
3710 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00003711
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003712- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003713 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003714
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00003715- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
3716
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00003717- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
3718
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00003719- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
3720
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00003721- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
3722
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003723- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00003724
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00003725- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
3726
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00003727- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
3728
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00003729- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
3730
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00003731- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
3732
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00003733- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
3734
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00003735- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
3736
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00003737- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
3738
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003739- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003740
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00003741- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
3742
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003743Documentation
3744-------------
3745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003746- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
3747 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003749- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
3750 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00003751
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003752C-API
3753-----
3754
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00003755- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
3756
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003757- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3758 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00003759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003760- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
3761 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00003762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003763- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
3764 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00003765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003766- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
3767 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00003768
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00003769- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3770 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3771
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00003772- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3773 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3774
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00003775- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3776 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3777
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00003778- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
3779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003780- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
3781 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00003782
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00003783- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
3784
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003785- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
3786 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00003787
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003788- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
3789 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003790
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003791- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00003792 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003793
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003794Extension Modules
3795-----------------
3796
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00003797- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
3798
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00003799- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
3800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003801- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00003802
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003803- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003804 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003806- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
3807 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00003808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003809- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
3810 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00003811
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00003812- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
3813 module.
3814
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00003815- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
3816
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003817- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00003818 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003820- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
3821 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
3822 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00003823
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003824- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
3825 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
3826 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00003827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003828- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
3829 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
3830 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003832 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
3833 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003835 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
3836 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
3837 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
3838 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
3839 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
3840 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
3841 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003843 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
3844 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
3845 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003846
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00003847- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
3848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003849- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
3850 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00003851
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003852- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
3853 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003854 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003855
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00003856- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00003857
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00003858- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
3859
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00003860- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
3861
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00003862- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
3863
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00003864- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
3865
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00003866- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
3867 OpenBSD.
3868
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00003869- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
3870
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003871- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
3872
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00003873- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
3874
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003875Tests
3876-----
3877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003878- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
3879 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
3880 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00003881
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003882- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
3883 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00003884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003885- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
3886 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00003887
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00003888- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
3889
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00003890- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
3891 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
3892
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003893- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003894 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
3895 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
3896 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003897
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003898- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
3899 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00003900
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00003901- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
3902 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
3903
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00003904- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
3905 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
3906 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00003907
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00003908- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
3909
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00003910- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
3911 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
3912
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003913- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
3914 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003915 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
3916 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003917
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00003918- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
3919 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
3920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003921- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
3922 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
3923 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
3924 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
3925 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00003926
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00003927- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3928
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00003929- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3930
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00003931- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
3932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003933- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
3934 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
3935 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00003936
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003937- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
3938
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00003939- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
3940 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
3941 incorrectly on __exit__.
3942
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00003943- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
3944
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00003945Misc
3946----
3947
3948- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
3949
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003950
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003951What's New in Python 2.6 final
3952==============================
3953
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00003954*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003955
3956Core and Builtins
3957-----------------
3958
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00003959- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
3960 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
3961
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00003962- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
3963 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
3964
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00003965- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
3966
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003967Library
3968-------
3969
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00003970- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
3971 true singleton object.
3972
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00003973- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
3974 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
3975 into a float.
3976
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00003977- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
3978
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00003979- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
3980 sizes.
3981
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00003982- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
3983
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00003984- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
3985 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
3986
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003987Build
3988-----
3989
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00003990- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
3991 installer.
3992
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003993- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
3994
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003995
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003996What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
3997=============================================
3998
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00003999*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004000
4001Core and Builtins
4002-----------------
4003
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004004Extension Modules
4005-----------------
4006
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00004007- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
4008 segfault as a result.
4009
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004010- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
4011 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004012
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004013Tools/Demos
4014-----------
4015
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00004016- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004017 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
4018 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
4019 are caught and silenced.
4020
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00004021Build
4022-----
4023
4024- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
4025 C runtime in the Windows installer.
4026
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004027
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004028What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
4029=============================================
4030
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00004031*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004032
4033Core and Builtins
4034-----------------
4035
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00004036- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
4037
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00004038- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
4039 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
4040 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
4041 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
4042 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
4043 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
4044 64bit values.
4045
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00004046- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
4047 error.
4048
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00004049- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
4050 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
4051 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
4052 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
4053
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00004054- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
4055 a unicode argument.
4056
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004057- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
4058
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004059- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004060 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004061 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
4062
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004063- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00004064 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
4065 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
4066 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
4067 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
4068 type object.
4069
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00004070- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
4071
4072- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
4073
4074- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
4075
4076- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
4077
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00004078- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
4079 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
4080
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00004081- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
4082 ``__delslice__``.
4083
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00004084- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
4085 library targets in the Makefile.
4086
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00004087- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
4088 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
4089 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
4090
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00004091C-API
4092-----
4093
4094- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
4095
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004096Library
4097-------
4098
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00004099- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
4100 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
4101
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00004102- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
4103
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00004104- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
4105
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004106- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
4107 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
4108 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
4109
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004110- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
4111
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004112- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00004113 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
4114
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00004115- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
4116
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00004117- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
4118
4119- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00004120
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00004121- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
4122 its symbolic link.
4123
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004124- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
4125
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004126- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00004127 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
4128 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
4129
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00004130- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
4131 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
4132
4133- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00004134
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00004135- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
4136 path to the Python binary.
4137
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004138- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00004139 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
4140 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
4141 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
4142
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00004143- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
4144
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004145- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
4146
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00004147- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
4148
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00004149- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
4150
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004151- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
4152 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00004153
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00004154- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
4155 non-integer floating point number.
4156
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004157- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00004158 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
4159
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004160Extension Modules
4161-----------------
4162
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00004163- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
4164 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
4165
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00004166- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
4167 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
4168 without limit.
4169
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004170- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
4171 exploitation of poor argument checking.
4172
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00004173- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
4174
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00004175- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
4176 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
4177
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00004178- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
4179 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
4180 threads/processes.
4181
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004182Tests
4183-----
4184
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004185- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
4186 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
4187 that expected warning messages are being reported.
4188
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004189- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
4190
4191- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004192
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004193Build
4194-----
4195
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00004196- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
4197
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00004198- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
4199 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
4200
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00004201- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
4202
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004203- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004204 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004205
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004206
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004207What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
4208================================
4209
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00004210*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004211
4212Core and Builtins
4213-----------------
4214
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00004215- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
4216 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
4217 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
4218 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
4219 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
4220 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
4221 default.
4222
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00004223- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
4224 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
4225
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00004226- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
4227 value again.
4228
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00004229- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
4230 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
4231 and introducing s*.
4232
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00004233- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
4234 object was stored in the freelist.
4235
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00004236- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
4237 ValueError consistently across platforms.
4238
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00004239- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
4240 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
4241 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
4242
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00004243- Apply security patches from Apple.
4244
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00004245- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
4246 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
4247
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00004248- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
4249 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
4250
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00004251- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
4252 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
4253 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
4254
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00004255- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
4256 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
4257 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
4258 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
4259 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
4260 failed have been fixed.
4261
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004262Library
4263-------
4264
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00004265- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
4266
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00004267- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
4268 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
4269
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00004270- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
4271 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
4272 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
4273
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00004274- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
4275 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
4276 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
4277 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
4278 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
4279 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
4280
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00004281- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
4282 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
4283
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00004284- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
4285
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00004286- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
4287
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00004288- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
4289
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00004290- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
4291 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
4292
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00004293- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00004294 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
4295
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004296- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00004297 in a redirect.
4298
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004299- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00004300 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004301
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00004302- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
4303 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
4304
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00004305- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
4306 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
4307 regular expression.
4308
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00004309- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
4310 thread-safe.
4311
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00004312- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
4313 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
4314 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
4315
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00004316- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
4317
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00004318- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
4319 menu entries were not deleted.
4320
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00004321- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
4322 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
4323
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00004324- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
4325 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
4326
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00004327- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
4328 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
4329 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
4330
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00004331- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
4332 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
4333 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
4334
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00004335- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
4336 the reload() built-in has been removed.
4337
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004338- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00004339 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00004340 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
4341 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
4342 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
4343 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
4344 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004345
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00004346- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
4347 raised an AttributeError.
4348
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004349- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00004350 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
4351 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004352
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00004353- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
4354 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
4355
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004356- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00004357
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004358- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00004359 on a closed shelf.
4360
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00004361- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
4362
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004363- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
4364
4365- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
4366 invalid arguments.
4367
4368- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
4369 with None arguments.
4370
4371- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
4372 configuration files.
4373
4374- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
4375
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00004376- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
4377 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
4378 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
4379
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00004380- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
4381 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
4382 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
4383
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00004384Build
4385-----
4386
4387- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
4388
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004389Documentation
4390-------------
4391
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00004392- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
4393 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
4394
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004395- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
4396 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
4397 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
4398 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
4399
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004400
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004401What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
4402================================
4403
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004404*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
4405
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004406Core and Builtins
4407-----------------
4408
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00004409- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
4410 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
4411 an integer using operator.index().
4412
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00004413- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
4414 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
4415
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00004416- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
4417 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
4418
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00004419- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
4420 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
4421 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
4422
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00004423- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
4424 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
4425 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
4426 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
4427 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
4428 level.
4429
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00004430- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
4431 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
4432 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
4433 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
4434 all imports from that module to fail.
4435
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00004436- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
4437 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
4438 new-style classes.
4439
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00004440- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
4441 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
4442 another file in sys.stdout.
4443
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00004444- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
4445 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
4446 another thread's dictionary.
4447
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00004448- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
4449 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
4450 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
4451 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
4452 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
4453 10, -1).
4454
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004455- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
4456 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
4457 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00004458
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004459- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
4460 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
4461 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00004462
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004463Library
4464-------
4465
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00004466- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
4467 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
4468 error when they failed.
4469
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00004470- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
4471
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00004472- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
4473
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00004474- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
4475
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00004476- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
4477
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004478- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
4479 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
4480
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004481- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004482
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00004483- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
4484 a valid dlerror() message.
4485
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00004486- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
4487 incomplete structure was created.
4488
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00004489- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
4490
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00004491- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
4492
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004493- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00004494
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004495- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
4496 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004497 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004498 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
4499 merged into trunk.
4500
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00004501- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
4502
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004503- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
4504
4505- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
4506
4507- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
4508 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004509 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004510
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004511- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004512 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00004513
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00004514- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
4515 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
4516
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004517- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
4518 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
4519
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00004520- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
4521 interrupted by a signal.
4522
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004523- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00004524 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
4525 Prevents a deadlock.
4526
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00004527- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
4528 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
4529 default https port (443).
4530
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00004531- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
4532 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
4533 if the new process uses the threading module.
4534
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00004535Tests
4536-----
4537
4538- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
4539 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
4540 have been added to test_warnings.
4541
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00004542Build
4543-----
4544
4545- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
4546
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004547
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004548Documentation
4549-------------
4550
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00004551- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00004552 Python 3.0.
4553
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00004554- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
4555
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004556- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4557 Python 3.0.
4558
4559- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4560 Python 3.0.
4561
4562
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004563What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
4564================================
4565
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00004566*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004567
4568Core and Builtins
4569-----------------
4570
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00004571- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
4572 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
4573 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
4574 bus error.
4575
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00004576- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
4577 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
4578
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00004579- Add future_builtins.ascii().
4580
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00004581- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00004582 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00004583
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00004584- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
4585
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00004586- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
4587
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00004588- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
4589
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00004590- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
4591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004592- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
4593 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
4594 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
4595 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00004596
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00004597- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
4598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004599- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
4600 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00004601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004602- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
4603 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00004604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004605- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
4606 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
4607 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00004608
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00004609- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
4610 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
4611 can't be triggered from Python code.
4612
4613
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004614Extension Modules
4615-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00004616- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004617
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00004618- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
4619
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00004620- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00004621
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00004622- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
4623 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
4624
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00004625- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
4626 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
4627
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00004628- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
4629 weakref.proxy.
4630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004631- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
4632 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00004633
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004634- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00004635
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00004636- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004637 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
4638 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00004639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004640- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
4641 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
4642 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00004643
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00004644- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
4645 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
4646 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
4647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004648- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00004649
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00004650- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00004651
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004652Library
4653-------
4654
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00004655- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
4656 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
4657
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00004658- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
4659
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00004660- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
4661 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
4662 sense).
4663
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00004664- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
4665
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00004666- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
4667 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
4668 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
4669 the patch.
4670
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004671- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
4672 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
4673 the patch).
4674
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00004675- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
4676 os.uname exists.
4677
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00004678- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4679
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00004680- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4681
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00004682- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
4683 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
4684 pointer-like object.
4685
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00004686- Added the ast module.
4687
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004688- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00004689
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00004690- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
4691 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
4692
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00004693- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
4694 to errno.
4695
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004696- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00004697
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004698- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00004699 msilib.Record objects.
4700
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00004701- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
4702 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
4703
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00004704- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
4705 in Python 3.0.
4706
4707- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
4708 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00004709
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00004710- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
4711 False boolean value now.
4712
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00004713- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
4714 transfers.
4715
4716- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
4717 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00004718
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00004719- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
4720 when the TarFile is closed.
4721
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00004722- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
4723 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
4724 an exception.
4725
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00004726- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
4727 otherwise be produced.
4728
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00004729- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
4730 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
4731
4732- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
4733 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
4734
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00004735- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
4736 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
4737 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
4738
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00004739- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
4740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004741- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00004742 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
4743 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
4744 'm' or 'c'.
4745
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00004746- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004748- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
4749 removal in Python 3.0.
4750
4751- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4752 3.0.
4753
4754- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4755 3.0.
4756
4757- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4758 3.0.
4759
4760- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00004761 Python 3.0.
4762
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00004763- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
4764 Python 3.0.
4765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004766- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4767 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00004768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004769- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4770 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00004771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004772- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4773 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00004774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004775- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4776 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00004777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004778- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00004779 Python 3.0.
4780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004781- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4782 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00004783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004784- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4785 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00004786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004787- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4788 3.0.
4789
4790- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
4791 removal in Python 3.0.
4792
4793- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4794 3.0.
4795
4796- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4797 3.0.
4798
4799- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
4800 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004802- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
4803 removal in Python 3.0.
4804
4805- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00004806 Python 3.0.
4807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004808- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4809 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00004810
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00004811- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4812 Python 3.0.
4813
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00004814- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4815 Python 3.0.
4816
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004817- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00004818
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00004819- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4820
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00004821- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4822
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00004823- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
4824
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00004825- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004827- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
4828 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
4829 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00004830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004831- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
4832 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00004833
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00004834- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4835
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004836- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4837 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00004838
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00004839- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4840
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00004841- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4842
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00004843- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4844
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00004845- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4846
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00004847- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004849- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
4850 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00004851
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00004852- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4853
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00004854- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4855
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00004856- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
4857 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
4858 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
4859 OverflowError.
4860
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00004861- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004863- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4864 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00004865
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00004866- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4867
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00004868- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4869
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00004870- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4871
4872- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00004873
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004874- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4875
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00004876- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
4877
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00004878- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
4879
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00004880- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00004881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004882- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
4883 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00004884
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004885- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004886 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
4887 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
4888 of Python.
4889
4890- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
4891 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
4892
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00004893- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
4894 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00004895
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004896Build
4897-----
4898
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00004899- 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 +00004900
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00004901- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
4902
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00004903- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
4904
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004905- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
4906 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004907 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004908
4909 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
4910
4911 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
4912
4913 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
4914
4915 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
4916
4917 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
4918
4919 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
4920
4921
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004922C API
4923-----
4924
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00004925- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
4926
4927- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004928
4929- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
4930 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
4931 PyString names.
4932
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00004933
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004934What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004935=================================
4936
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00004937*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004938
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004939Core and builtins
4940-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004941
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00004942- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
4943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004944- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
4945 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00004946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004947- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
4948 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00004949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004950- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00004951
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004952Extension Modules
4953-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004955- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
4956 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00004957
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00004958- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
4959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004960- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
4961 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004963- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
4964 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004966- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
4967 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00004968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004969- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
4970 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
4971 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
4972 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
4973 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
4974 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
4975 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
4976 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00004977
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004978Library
4979-------
4980
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00004981- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004983- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
4984 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00004985
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00004986- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
4987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004988- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
4989 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00004990
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00004991- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
4992 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
4993 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
4994
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004995- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004996 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004997
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00004998- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00004999 reference to themselves.
5000
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00005001- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
5002 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
5003 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00005004
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00005005- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
5006 1900-01-01.
5007
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00005008- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
5009 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
5010
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00005011- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
5012 now implemented in C for better performance.
5013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005014- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
5015 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
5016 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00005017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005018- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00005019 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
5020 build documentation for more information.
5021
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00005022- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
5023 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
5024 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
5025 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
5026
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00005027- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5028 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
5029 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
5030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005031- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
5032 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
5033 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
5034 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00005035
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005036Tests
5037-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005039- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
5040 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
5041 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
5042 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
5043 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
5044 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
5045 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
5046 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
5047 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
5048 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
5049 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
5050 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
5051 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
5052 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
5053 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
5054 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
5055 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
5056 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
5057 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
5058 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
5059
5060 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
5061 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
5062 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
5063 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
5064 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
5065 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
5066 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
5067 access to the underlying socket used.
5068
5069 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
5070 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
5071 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005072
5073 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005074 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005075 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
5076 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
5077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005078 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
5079 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005080
5081Build
5082-----
5083
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00005084- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
5085
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00005086- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
5087 gcc is used as compiler.
5088
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005089- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005090 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005091
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005092C API
5093-----
5094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005095- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
5096 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
5097 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
5098 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005099
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00005100- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00005101
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005102
5103What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
5104=================================
5105
5106*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
5107
5108Core and builtins
5109-----------------
5110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005111- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
5112 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
5113 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00005114
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00005115- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
5116 cannot be executed.
5117
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00005118- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
5119 reference on the outer class name.
5120
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005121- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005122 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005124- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
5125 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00005126
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005127- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005128
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005129- Added backport of bytearray type.
5130
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005131- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
5132
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005133- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005134 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
5135 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
5136 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
5137 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
5138 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005139
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00005140- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
5141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005142- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
5143 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00005144
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00005145- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005146
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00005147- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
5148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005149- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
5150 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00005151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005152- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
5153 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00005154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005155- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00005156 exception instances.
5157
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005158- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005159 doesn't derive from BaseException.
5160
5161- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
5162 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005163
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00005164- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
5165 memory usage in some circumstances.
5166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005167- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
5168 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
5169 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00005170
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00005171- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
5172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005173- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00005174 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
5175 longer passed.
5176
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00005177- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
5178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005179- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
5180 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
5181 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00005182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005183- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
5184 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005185
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00005186- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
5187
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005188Extension Modules
5189-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00005190
5191- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
5192
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005193Library
5194-------
5195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005196- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
5197 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005199- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
5200 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
5201 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005203- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
5204 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005206- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
5207 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
5208 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00005209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005210- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
5211 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005212
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005213- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
5214
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00005215- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
5216 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
5217 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
5218
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00005219- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
5220
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00005221- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
5222 advertised in the docs.
5223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005224- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00005225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005226- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00005227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005228- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
5229 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00005230
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005231- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
5232 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
5233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005234- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
5235 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005236 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
5237 information as well.
5238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005239- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
5240 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00005241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005242- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
5243 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00005244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005245- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
5246 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
5247 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00005248
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00005249- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
5250 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
5251 strftime.
5252
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005253- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005254 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
5255 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005256
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005257- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
5258 correctly under win32
5259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005260- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005261
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005262- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005263 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
5264 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
5265 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005266
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00005267- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
5268 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
5269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005270- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
5271 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00005272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005273- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
5274 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
5275 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00005276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005277- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00005278 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
5279
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00005280- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
5281 from 't' to '?'.
5282
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005283- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5284 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005285 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
5286 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
5287 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005289- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
5290 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00005291
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005292Tests
5293-----
5294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005295- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
5296 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00005297
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00005298- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
5299
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00005300- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
5301
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00005302- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
5303
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00005304- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
5305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005306- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
5307 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00005308
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00005309- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
5310
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005311- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00005312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005313- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
5314 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00005315
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00005316- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
5317
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00005318- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
5319
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005320- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
5321 permission to create files in the root directory.
5322
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005323Build
5324-----
5325
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00005326- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
5327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005328- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
5329 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00005330
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005331- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005332
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005333C API
5334-----
5335
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005336- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005337 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
5338
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005339
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005340What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
5341=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005342
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00005343*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005344
5345Core and builtins
5346-----------------
5347
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00005348- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00005349 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00005350
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00005351- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
5352
5353- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00005354
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005355- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005356 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00005357
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00005358- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
5359 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
5360 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
5361 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
5362 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
5363 module is:
5364 from future_builtins import hex, oct
5365
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00005366- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
5367 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
5368 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
5369 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
5370 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
5371 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
5372
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00005373- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
5374 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
5375 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
5376 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
5377 PyObject_Format().
5378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005379- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
5380 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
5381 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00005382
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005383- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005384 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
5385 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00005386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005387- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
5388 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00005389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005390- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
5391 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
5392 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00005393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005394- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
5395 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
5396 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00005397
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00005398- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
5399 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
5400
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005401- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005402 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00005403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005404- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
5405 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00005406 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
5407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005408- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
5409 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
5410 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005412- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
5413 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00005414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005415- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
5416 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00005417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005418- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
5419 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00005420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005421- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
5422 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00005423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005424- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
5425 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
5426 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00005427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005428- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
5429 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
5430 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
5431 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00005432
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00005433- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
5434 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
5435 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
5436
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005437- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00005438 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
5439 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
5440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005441- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00005442 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
5443 support.
5444
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00005445- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
5446 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
5447
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00005448- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
5449
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005450- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00005451 added.
5452
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00005453- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
5454 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
5455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005456- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
5457 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00005458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005459- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
5460 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
5461 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00005462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005463- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
5464 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00005465
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00005466- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
5467 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00005468
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00005469- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
5470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005471- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
5472 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
5473 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00005474
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005475- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
5476 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
5477 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00005478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005479- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00005480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005481- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
5482 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00005483
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005484- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005485 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
5486 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005488- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
5489 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
5490 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
5491 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00005492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005493- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00005494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005495- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
5496 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00005497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005498- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
5499 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00005500
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00005501- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00005502 SystemError.
5503
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00005504- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
5505 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
5506 __package__ attribute.
5507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005508- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
5509 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
5510 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00005511
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005512- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
5513
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005514- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00005515 attribute of an empty cell object.
5516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005517- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
5518 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00005519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005520- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
5521 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
5522 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
5523 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00005524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005525- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
5526 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
5527 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00005528
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00005529- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
5530
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00005531- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
5532
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00005533- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
5534
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005535- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005536 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
5537 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00005538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005539- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
5540 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
5541 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
5542 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
5543 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
5544 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00005545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005546- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
5547 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
5548 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
5549 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
5550 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00005551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005552- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
5553 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
5554 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00005555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005556- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
5557 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00005558
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005559- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005560 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
5561 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
5562 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
5563 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
5564 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005566- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
5567 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00005568
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00005569- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
5570 with %G.
5571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005572- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
5573 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00005574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005575- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00005576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005577- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00005578
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00005579- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005580 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
5581 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00005582
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00005583- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
5584 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
5585
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00005586- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
5587 calls.
5588
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00005589- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005590 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
5591 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00005592
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00005593- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
5594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005595- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005596 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00005597
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005598- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00005599 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
5600
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00005601- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
5602
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00005603- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
5604 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
5605 remaining characters.
5606
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00005607- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
5608 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
5609
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00005610- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
5611
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005612- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
5613 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
5614 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
5615 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
5616 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00005617 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
5618 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005620- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
5621 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
5622 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
5623 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
5624 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00005625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005626- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
5627 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
5628 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00005629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005630- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
5631 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00005632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005633- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
5634 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
5635 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00005636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005637- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
5638 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00005639
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00005640- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
5641
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00005642- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
5643 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
5644
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005645- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005646 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
5647 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
5648 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005649
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00005650- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
5651 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
5652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005653- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
5654 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00005655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005656- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
5657 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
5658 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00005659
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005660- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005661 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
5662 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005663
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005664- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
5665 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005666 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
5667 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005669- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
5670 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00005671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005672- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
5673 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00005674
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00005675- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
5676 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
5677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005678- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
5679 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
5680 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00005681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005682- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
5683 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00005684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005685- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
5686 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00005687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005688- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
5689 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
5690 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00005691
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00005692- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
5693 frame's thread state.
5694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005695- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
5696 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00005697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005698- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
5699 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00005700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005701- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
5702 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00005703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005704- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
5705 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00005706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005707- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
5708 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00005709
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00005710- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
5711
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00005712- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
5713
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00005714- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
5715
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005716- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
5717 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00005718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005719- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00005720
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00005721- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
5722 again, no longer the posix error code.
5723
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00005724- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
5725 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
5726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005727- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
5728 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00005729
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00005730- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
5731 embedded in the string to convert.
5732
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00005733- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
5734 recognized and rejected.
5735
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005736- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
5737
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005738- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
5739 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
5740 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00005741
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00005742- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
5743 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
5744
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005745- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005746 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
5747 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005749- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
5750 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
5751 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00005752
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00005753- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
5754
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00005755- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
5756
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00005757- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
5758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005759- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
5760 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
5761 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00005762
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005763- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
5764 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
5765 'exceptions'.
5766
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00005767- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
5768 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
5769
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00005770- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
5771 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
5772
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00005773- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
5774
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005775- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
5776
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00005777- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
5778 head is the original string if sep was not found.
5779
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005780- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005781 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
5782 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
5783 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005784
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005785- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00005786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005787- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
5788 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005789
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005790- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
5791 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00005792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005793- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00005794 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
5795 it actually exited.
5796
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005797
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005798Library
5799-------
5800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005801- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00005802
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00005803- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
5804
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00005805- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
5806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005807- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
5808 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00005809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005810- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00005811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005812- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
5813 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
5814 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00005815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005816- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
5817 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00005818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005819- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00005820 (ignore-case)
5821
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00005822- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
5823 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
5824 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
5825 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
5826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005827- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
5828 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00005829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005830- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
5831 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00005832
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00005833- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
5834 pickled.
5835
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00005836- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
5837 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
5838
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00005839- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
5840 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
5841 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
5842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005843- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
5844 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00005845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005846- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
5847 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
5848 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00005849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005850- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
5851 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00005852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005853- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
5854 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00005855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005856- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
5857 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
5858 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
5859 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00005860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005861- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
5862 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005863 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
5864
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00005865- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
5866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005867- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
5868 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00005869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005870- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00005871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005872- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
5873 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005875- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
5876 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005877
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005878- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
5879 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005881- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
5882 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005884- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
5885 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
5886 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00005887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005888- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
5889 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00005890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005891- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
5892 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00005893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005894- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
5895 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00005896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005897- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
5898 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00005899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005900- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
5901 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00005902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005903- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
5904 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00005905
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00005906- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
5907 with extended local headers.
5908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005909- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
5910 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00005911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005912- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00005913 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
5914 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
5915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005916- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
5917 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00005918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005919- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
5920 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00005921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005922- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
5923 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00005924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005925- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
5926 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00005927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005928- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
5929 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00005930
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005931- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005932 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005933 Textbox.gather().
5934
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00005935- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
5936 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00005937 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
5938 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00005939
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00005940- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
5941 that array types do not live longer than needed.
5942
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005943- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
5944 and when creating a recursive instance.
5945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005946- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
5947 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
5948 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00005949
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00005950- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
5951 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
5952 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
5953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005954- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
5955 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00005956
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005957- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00005958 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
5959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005960- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00005961 good for long regular expression matches.
5962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005963- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
5964 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00005965
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00005966- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
5967 the current context.
5968
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00005969- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
5970 zipfile module.
5971
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005972- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
5973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005974- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
5975 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00005976
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00005977- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
5978
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00005979- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
5980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005981- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
5982 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00005983
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00005984- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
5985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005986- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
5987 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00005988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005989- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
5990 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00005991
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00005992- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
5993
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00005994- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
5995 Tcl objects.
5996
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00005997- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
5998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005999- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
6000 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
6001 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
6002 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00006003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006004- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
6005 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00006006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006007- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
6008 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00006009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006010- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
6011 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00006012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006013- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
6014 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00006015
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00006016- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
6017 method used universal newlines.
6018
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00006019- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
6020 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
6021
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00006022- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
6023 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
6024
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00006025- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
6026 files are updated.
6027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006028- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
6029 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006030
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00006031- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
6032 configured with --with-system-ffi.
6033
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006034- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006035 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006036
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00006037- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
6038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006039- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
6040 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
6041 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00006042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006043- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
6044 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00006045
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00006046- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00006047
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00006048- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
6049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006050- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
6051 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00006052
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00006053- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
6054 to be orderable to properly represent them.
6055
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00006056- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
6057
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00006058- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
6059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006060- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
6061 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
6062 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006063
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00006064- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
6065 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
6066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006067- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
6068 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00006069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006070- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
6071 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00006072
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00006073- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
6074
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00006075- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
6076
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00006077- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
6078 syllables.
6079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006080- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
6081 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00006082
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00006083- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
6084
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00006085- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
6086 represent the result in a single character.
6087
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00006088- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
6089
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00006090- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
6091
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00006092- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
6093 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
6094 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
6095
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00006096- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
6097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006098- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
6099 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00006100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006101- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
6102 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
6103 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00006104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006105- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
6106 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
6107 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00006108
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006109- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006110 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
6111 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006113- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
6114 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00006115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006116- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
6117 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00006118
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00006119- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6120
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00006121- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006123- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
6124 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
6125 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00006126
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00006127- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6128
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00006129- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6130
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00006131- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
6132 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
6133
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00006134- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
6135
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00006136- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
6137
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00006138- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006140- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
6141 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00006142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006143- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
6144 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00006145
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00006146- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
6147 the directories).
6148
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00006149- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
6150 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
6151 injecting HTML into the error page.
6152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006153- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
6154 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00006155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006156- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
6157 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006158
6159- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
6160
6161- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
6162
6163- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
6164 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
6165 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
6166
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00006167- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
6168 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
6169 ".cpp" too.
6170
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006171- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006172 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
6173 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
6174 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006176- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
6177 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00006178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006179- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
6180 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00006181
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00006182- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
6183 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
6184 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
6185 closes patch #723312.
6186
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006187- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
6188 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00006189 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00006190
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00006191- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
6192
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00006193- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
6194 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
6195
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00006196- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
6197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006198- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
6199 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00006200 directories.
6201
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00006202- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
6203 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
6204 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
6205 trying Mozilla variants.
6206
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00006207- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
6208
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00006209- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
6210 initialization failed.
6211
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006212- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006213 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
6214 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006216- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
6217 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
6218 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00006219
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006220- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
6221 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00006222 correctly now.
6223
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00006224- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
6225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006226- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
6227 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00006228
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00006229- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
6230
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006231- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
6232 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
6233 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00006234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006235- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
6236 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
6237 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
6238 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00006239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006240- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
6241 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
6242 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00006243
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00006244- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
6245 whitespace while wrapping.
6246
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006247- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006248 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
6249 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006251- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
6252 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
6253 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00006254
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00006255- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
6256 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
6257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006258- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
6259 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00006260
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00006261- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
6262 concatenation in robotparser.
6263
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006264- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006265 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
6266 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006267
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00006268- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
6269 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
6270
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00006271- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
6272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006273- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
6274 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
6275 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00006276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006277- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
6278 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
6279 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00006280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006281- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
6282 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00006283 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00006284
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00006285- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
6286 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
6287
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00006288- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
6289 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
6290
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00006291- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
6292 returned string up to the first NUL character.
6293
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00006294- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
6295
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00006296- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
6297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006298- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
6299 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
6300 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00006301
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00006302- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
6303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006304- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
6305 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
6306 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
6307 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
6308 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
6309 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00006310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006311- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
6312 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00006313
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00006314- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
6315 comprehensive test suite for the module.
6316
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00006317- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
6318 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
6319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006320- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
6321 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
6322 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00006323
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006324- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00006325 in HTMLParser.
6326
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00006327- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
6328 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
6329
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00006330- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
6331
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00006332- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
6333
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00006334- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
6335
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00006336- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00006337
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00006338- Added itertools.izip_longest().
6339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006340- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
6341 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00006342
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00006343- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
6344
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00006345- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
6346 doesn't exist.
6347
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00006348- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
6349
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00006350- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
6351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006352- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00006353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006354- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
6355 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00006356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006357- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
6358 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00006359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006360- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
6361 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00006362
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006363- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006364 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006365
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00006366- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
6367 iso8859_16.
6368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006369- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
6370 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
6371 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
6372 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00006373
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006374- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
6375
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00006376- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
6377 directories.
6378
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00006379- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
6380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006381- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
6382 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00006383
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006384- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006385 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006386
6387- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006388 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006389
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006390- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006392- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
6393 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00006394
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00006395- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
6396
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00006397- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
6398 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
6399 parameterless foreign function calls work.
6400
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00006401- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
6402
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00006403- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
6404 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
6405 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
6406
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006407- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6408 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
6409
6410- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6411 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
6412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006413- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
6414 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
6415 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006417- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
6418 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00006419
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00006420- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
6421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006422- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
6423 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00006424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006425- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
6426 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00006427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006428- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
6429 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00006430
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006431- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
6432 separated lists read from logging config files.
6433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006434- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
6435 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
6436 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006438- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
6439 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00006440
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00006441- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
6442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006443- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
6444 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00006445
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00006446- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
6447
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00006448- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
6449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006450- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
6451 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00006452
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00006453- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
6454 regular files.
6455
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00006456- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
6457
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006458- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
6459 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00006460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006461- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
6462 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00006463
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00006464- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
6465 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
6466
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00006467- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
6468 file name mangling.
6469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006470- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
6471 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00006472
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00006473- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
6474
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006475- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00006476 HTTPConnection.request().
6477
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00006478- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
6479 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
6480 objects.
6481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006482- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
6483 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
6484 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00006485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006486- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
6487 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
6488 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00006489
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006490- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00006491
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006492- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00006493
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00006494- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
6495
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006496- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006497 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006498
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00006499- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
6500
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00006501- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
6502 GNU modes.
6503
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006504- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006505 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006506 opcode.
6507
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00006508- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
6509 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
6510 statement (bug #1586513).
6511
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006512- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
6513 correctly.
6514
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00006515- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
6516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006517- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
6518 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00006519
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00006520- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
6521 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
6522 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
6523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006524- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
6525 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
6526 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00006527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006528- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
6529 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00006530
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00006531- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
6532
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00006533- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
6534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006535- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
6536 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00006537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006538- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
6539 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00006540
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00006541- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
6542 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
6543
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00006544- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
6545 with a slash.
6546
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00006547- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
6548 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
6549
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00006550- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006551 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00006552
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00006553- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
6554 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
6555 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
6556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006557- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
6558 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00006559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006560- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
6561 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00006562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006563- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
6564 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00006565
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006566- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
6567
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006568- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006569 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006571- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
6572 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00006573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006574- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
6575 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006576
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00006577- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
6578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006579- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
6580 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00006581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006582- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
6583 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
6584 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00006585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006586- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
6587 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
6588 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00006589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006590- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
6591 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
6592 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
6593 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00006594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006595- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00006596 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
6597 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006598 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
6599 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
6600 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00006601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006602- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
6603 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006604
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006605Extension Modules
6606-----------------
6607
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006608- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00006609
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00006610- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
6611
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00006612- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
6613
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006614- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00006615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006616- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
6617 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00006618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006619- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
6620 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00006621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006622- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
6623 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00006624
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00006625- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
6626
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00006627- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
6628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006629- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
6630 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006631
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00006632- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
6633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006634- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
6635 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00006636
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00006637- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
6638
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006639- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
6640 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00006641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006642- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00006643 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
6644 parameter.
6645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006646- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
6647 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
6648 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
6649 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00006650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006651- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
6652 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00006653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006654- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
6655 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00006656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006657- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
6658 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
6659 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006661- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
6662 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00006663
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00006664- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
6665
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00006666- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
6667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006668- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
6669 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
6670 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00006671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006672- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
6673 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00006674
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00006675- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
6676
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006677- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
6678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006679- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
6680 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
6681 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
6682 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00006683
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00006684- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
6685 get_completion_type to readline.
6686
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00006687- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
6688 structure.
6689
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00006690- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6691
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00006692- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
6693
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00006694- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
6695 intended for RECNO databases.
6696
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006697- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006698 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
6699 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
6700 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
6701 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
6702 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
6703 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006704
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00006705- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
6706
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00006707- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
6708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006709- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
6710 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
6711 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
6712 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
6713 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00006714
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00006715- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
6716 error in spite of a succesful compression.
6717
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00006718- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
6719 of Py_ssize_t.
6720
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00006721- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
6722 fractional times. With unittest.
6723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006724- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
6725 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
6726 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00006727
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00006728- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
6729
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00006730- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
6731
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00006732- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
6733
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00006734- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
6735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006736- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006737 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00006738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006739- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
6740 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00006741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006742- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
6743 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00006744
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00006745- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
6746 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
6747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006748- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
6749 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
6750 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00006751
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00006752- Speed up function calls into the math module.
6753
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00006754- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
6755 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
6756 does.
6757
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00006758- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
6759
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00006760- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
6761
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00006762- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
6763
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00006764- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
6765
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00006766- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
6767 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
6768
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00006769- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
6770 datetime's strftime function.
6771
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00006772- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
6773
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00006774- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
6775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006776- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
6777 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00006778
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00006779- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
6780
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006781- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006782 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
6783 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006785- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
6786 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00006787
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006788- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006789 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
6790 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006791 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
6792 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00006793 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006794 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006795
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006796- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
6797 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
6798 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
6799 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
6800
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00006801- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
6802 were transposed.
6803
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006804- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
6805 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00006806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006807- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
6808 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
6809 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006810
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006811- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
6812
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00006813- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
6814
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00006815- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
6816
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00006817- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006818
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00006819- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
6820 databases without a DBEnv.
6821
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00006822- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
6823
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006824Tests
6825-----
6826
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00006827- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00006828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006829- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
6830 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00006831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006832- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
6833 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
6834 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00006835
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00006836- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
6837 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00006838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006839- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
6840 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00006841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006842- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
6843 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
6844 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00006845
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00006846- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
6847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006848- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
6849 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
6850 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00006851
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006852- Added some tests for modulefinder.
6853
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00006854- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
6855
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00006856- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
6857 number properly.
6858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006859- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
6860 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006861
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006862Tools
6863-----
6864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006865- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
6866 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
6867 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006868 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00006869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006870- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
6871 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
6872 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00006873
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006874- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
6875 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
6876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006877- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
6878 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006880- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
6881 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006882
6883- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006884 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
6885 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006886
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006887
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006888Documentation
6889-------------
6890
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006891- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
6892 include new optional delay argument.
6893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006894- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
6895 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
6896 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006897
6898- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
6899 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
6900
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00006901- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
6902 Python tutorial.
6903
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00006904- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
6905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006906- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
6907 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00006908
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00006909- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
6910 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
6911
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00006912- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
6913 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
6914
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00006915- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
6916
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00006917- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
6918 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
6919
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006920- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00006921 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
6922
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00006923- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
6924 docs.
6925
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00006926- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
6927
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00006928- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
6929 string pointed to by its parameter.
6930
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00006931- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
6932
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006933- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006934 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
6935 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
6936 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006937
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006938
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00006939Tools/Demos
6940-----------
6941
6942- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006943
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006944- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006945 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
6946 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006947
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006948- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
6949 file not to get reported properly.
6950
6951
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006952Build
6953-----
6954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006955- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
6956 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
6957 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00006958
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006959- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
6960 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
6961
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00006962- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
6963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006964- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006966- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
6967 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
6968 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
6969 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006971- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
6972 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006973
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00006974- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
6975
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00006976- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
6977 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
6978 without this option!
6979
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00006980- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
6981
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006982- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006983 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
6984 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
6985 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006987- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
6988 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00006989
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00006990- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
6991
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00006992- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
6993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006994- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
6995 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00006996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006997- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
6998 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00006999
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00007000- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
7001 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
7002 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
7003
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00007004- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
7005 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
7006
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00007007- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
7008
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00007009- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
7010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007011- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
7012 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00007013
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007014- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00007015 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
7016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007017- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
7018 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00007019
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00007020- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
7021
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007022- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00007023
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00007024- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
7025
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00007026- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
7027
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00007028- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007030- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
7031 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
7032 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00007033
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007034
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007035C API
7036-----
7037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007038- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
7039 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
7040 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
7041 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00007042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007043- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
7044 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
7045 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007046
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007047- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007049- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
7050 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
7051 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007052
7053- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
7054
7055- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
7056 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
7057
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007058- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
7059 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
7060 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
7061 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007062
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007063- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
7064 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007066- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
7067 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
7068 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007070- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
7071 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007072
7073- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
7074
7075- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
7076
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007077- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
7078
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007079- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
7080
7081- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
7082 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
7083
7084- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
7085 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
7086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007087- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
7088 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
7089 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007091- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
7092 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007094- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
7095 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00007096
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007097
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007098Windows
7099-------
7100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007101- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
7102 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
7103 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
7104 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00007105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007106- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
7107 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007108
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00007109- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
7110
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007111
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007112Mac
7113---
7114
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00007115- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7116
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00007117- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007119- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7120 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
7121 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00007122
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00007123----
7124
7125**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**