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Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
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10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +000015- Issue #6108: unicode(exception) and str(exception) should return the same
16 message when only __str__ (and not __unicode__) is overridden in the subclass.
17
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +000018- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
19 executables on OSX.
20
21 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
22 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
23 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
24
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +000025- Issue #1680159: unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks
26 the underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
27
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +000028- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
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Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +000030- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
31 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
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R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +000033
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +000034Library
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Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +000037- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64"
38 when building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
39
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +000040- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest
41 file in text mode.
42
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +000043- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
44 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
45 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
46
47- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +000048 Patch by Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
49
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +000050- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
51 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
52 the same as passing no argument.
53
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +000054- Issue #7348: StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1) now acts as if it got no argument
55 like other file objects.
56
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +000057- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
58 default.
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Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +000060- Issue #7470: logging: fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
61
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +000062- Issue #5949: fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is
63 missing proper end-of-line termination.
64
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +000065- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéa939ecd2009-12-08 08:56:49 +000066 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +000067
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +000068Build
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71- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +000072
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +000073- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the compiler might
74 use the wrong library.
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R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +000076Tests
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R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +000079- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
80 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
81
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +000082- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
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R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +000084- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
85 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +000089What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +000092*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +000093
94Core and Builtins
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96
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +000097- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
98 with invalid values.
99
Eric Smithc4ab8332009-11-29 17:40:57 +0000100- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the
101 result to upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f'
102 no longer converts to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +0000103
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +0000104- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats
105 larger than 1e50 in absolute value.
106
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +0000107- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g.,
108 "%.120g" % 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the
109 requested 120 significant digits instead.
110
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +0000111- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parenthesis.
112
Benjamin Peterson48f0a8d2009-11-19 23:19:29 +0000113- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for def f((x)=3): pass.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +0000114
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +0000115- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
116 on MacOSX 10.6.
117
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000118- Issue #7117: repr(x) for a float x returns a result based on the
119 shortest decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under
120 correct rounding (with round-half-to-even rounding mode).
121 Previously it gave a string based on rounding x to 17 decimal digits.
122 repr(x) for a complex number behaves similarly. On platforms where
123 the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is not supported (see below),
124 repr is unchanged.
125
126- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and
127 string-to-float conversions within Python are now correctly rounded.
128 Places these conversions occur include: str for floats and complex
129 numbers; the float and complex constructors; old-style and new-style
130 numeric formatting; serialization and deserialization of floats and
131 complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json; parsing of float and
132 imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float conversion.
133
134 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's
135 well-known dtoa.c, providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C
136 functions. This code is supported on Windows, and on Unix-like
137 platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as the C compiler. There may be a
138 small number of platforms on which correct operation of this code
139 cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably, this applies
140 to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64, and
141 to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit
142 precision and Python's configure script is unable to determine how
143 to change the FPU precision. On these platforms conversions use the
144 platform strtod and dtoa, as before.
145
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +0000146- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. round
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000147 now uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions
148 described above (when available), and so produces correctly rounded
149 results that will display nicely under the float repr. There are
150 two related small changes: (1) round now accepts any class with an
151 __index__ method for its second argument (but no longer accepts
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +0000152 floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively large second
153 integer argument (e.g., round(1.234, 10**100)) no longer raises an
154 exception.
155
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +0000156- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
157
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +0000158- Fix several issues with compile(). The input can now contain Windows and Mac
159 newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
160
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +0000161- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a
162 unicode string.
163
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +0000164- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
165 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
166
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +0000167- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
168
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +0000169- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
170 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
171 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
172
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +0000173- Issue #7168: Document PyFloat_AsString and PyFloat_AsReprString, and
174 note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
175
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000176- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
177 crash in GAE.
178
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +0000179- Issue #7140: The __dict__ of a module should not be cleared unless the module
180 is the only object holding a reference to it.
181
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +0000182- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
183 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
184 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
185
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +0000186- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
187 thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
188
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +0000189- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
190 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
191 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
192 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
193
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +0000194- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
195 assignment.
196
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +0000197- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
198 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
199 and Jani Hakala.
200
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +0000201- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
202 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
203
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +0000204- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
205 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
206
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +0000207- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +0000208 take keyword arguments.
209
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +0000210- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
211 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
212
Mark Dickinson4b9d4732009-09-27 16:05:21 +0000213- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and
214 long -> string conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +0000215
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +0000216- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
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Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +0000218- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
219 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
220
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +0000221- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
222
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +0000223- classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
224
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +0000225- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
226 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
227
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +0000228- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with
229 a target of tuple unpacking.
230
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +0000231- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
232
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +0000233- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
234
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +0000235- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
236 occurred in the argument chain.
237
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +0000238- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
239
240- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +0000241 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
242
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +0000243- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
244 separator and end should be unicode also.
245
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +0000246- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of builtin
247 functions and methods.
248
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +0000249- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
250 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
251 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
252
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +0000253- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
254
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +0000255- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
256 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
257
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +0000258- Removed the ipaddr module.
259
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +0000260- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
261 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
262
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +0000263- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from compile() were being masked.
264
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +0000265- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
266 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
267
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +0000268- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
269
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +0000270- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
271 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
272
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000273- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Benjamin Peterson95e5ebe2009-07-12 23:56:18 +0000274 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000275
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000276- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
277 function with __func__.
278
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000279- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
280 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000281
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000282- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
283 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
284
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000285- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
286 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
287 and imaginary literals.
288
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000289- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
290
Benjamin Peterson0c3b4c62009-05-16 23:34:19 +0000291- __instancecheck__ and __subclasscheck__ are now completely ignored on classic
292 classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000293
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000294- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
295
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000296- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
297 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
298 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
299 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
300 didn't match that of float('-nan').
301
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000302- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
303 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
304 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
305 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
306 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
307 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
308 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
309 the same way.
310
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000311- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
312 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
313 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
314
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000315- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
316 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
317
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000318- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000319 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
320
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000321- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
322 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
323
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000324- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
325 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
326
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000327- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
328 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
329
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000330- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
331 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
332
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000333- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
334
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000335- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
336 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
337
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000338- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
339 floats, ints, and longs.
340
341- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
342 leading zero formatting poorly.
343
344- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
345 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
346
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000347- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
348 correctly rounded.
349
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000350- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
351 some builtin types.
352
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000353- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000354 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000355
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000356- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
357
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000358- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
359
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000360- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
361 its clarity and its speed.
362
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000363- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
364
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000365- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
366 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
367
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000368- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
369
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000370- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
371 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
372
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000373- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
374 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
375 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
376 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
377
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000378- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
379 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
380 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
381
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000382- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
383 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
384 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
385 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
386 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
387 the internal format.
388
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000389- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
390 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
391
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000392- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
393 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
394 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
395
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000396- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
397 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
398
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000399- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
400 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
401
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000402- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
403 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
404 float arguments.
405
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000406- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
407 for ints and longs.
408
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000409- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
410 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
411 on a 64-bit system.
412
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000413- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
414 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
415
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000416- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
417 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
418
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000419- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
420
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000421- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000422 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
423 zip(), and bytearray().
424
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000425- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
426 functions.
427
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000428- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
429 OSError.
430
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000431- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
432
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000433- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
434 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
435 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
436
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000437- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
438 __next__ method.
439
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000440- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
441
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000442- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
443
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000444- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
445 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
446 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000447 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000448 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
449
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000450- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
451
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000452- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
453 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
454 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
455 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
456 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
457
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000458- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
459
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000460- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
461 file with `str' filename on Windows.
462
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000463- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
464 did not get collected.
465
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000466- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
467 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
468
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000469- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
470 directory on POSIX systems.
471
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000472- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
473 systems.
474
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000475- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
476 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
477
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000478- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
479 fail.
480
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000481- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
482 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
483 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
484
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000485- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
486
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000487- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
488 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
489
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000490- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
491 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
492
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000493- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
494 exceptions.
495
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000496- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
497 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
498 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
499 (on average) per string allocation.
500
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000501- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
502 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
503 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
504
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000505- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
506 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
507
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000508- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
509 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
510
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000511- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000512 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
513 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
514 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
515
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000516- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
517 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
518
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000519- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
520
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000521- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
522
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000523- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
524
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000525- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
526 exec statement.
527
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000528- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
529 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
530
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000531- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
532 __future__ import didn't work.
533
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000534- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000535 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000536
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000537- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
538 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
539 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
540
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000541- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
542 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
543 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
544 it correctly refers to the initial element.
545
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000546- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
547 which there are buffer exports.
548
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000549- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
550
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000551- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
552
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000553- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
554
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000555- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
556 short file names.
557
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000558- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
559 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000560
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000561- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
562 returned them on 64bit platforms.
563
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +0000564- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
565 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
566 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
567 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
568
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +0000569- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
570 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
571
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +0000572- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
573 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
574 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
575 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
576
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000577Library
578-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000579
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +0000580- Add a reverse() method to collections.deque().
581
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +0000582- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
583
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +0000584- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
585 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
586
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000587- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
588 TLS with authentication credentials.
589
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +0000590- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +0000591 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
592
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +0000593- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
594 msvc9compiler.
595
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +0000596- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
597 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
598 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
599
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +0000600- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
601 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
602 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
603
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +0000604- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
605 Robert Collins.
606
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000607- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
608
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +0000609- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
610 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
611 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
612
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +0000613- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
614 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
615 Brian Quinlan.
616
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000617- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
618
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +0000619- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
620
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +0000621- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
622 raises ReadError on empty files.
623
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000624- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +0000625 be 2.
626
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +0000627- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method instead to __unicode__
628 instead of __str__.
629
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +0000630- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
631 case of an error.
632
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +0000633- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
634 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
635
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +0000636- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
637
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +0000638- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
639 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
640
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +0000641- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
642 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
643
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +0000644- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
645 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
646 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
647 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
648 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
649
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +0000650- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
651 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
652 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
653 local connections.
654
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +0000655- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
656 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
657 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
658
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +0000659- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
660 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
661 `thread.start_new_thread()`.
662
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +0000663- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
664 which are part of a reference cycle.
665
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +0000666- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
667 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
668
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +0000669- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
670 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
671 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
672
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +0000673- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
674 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
675 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
676 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
677 OSes such as Solaris.
678
Mark Dickinson6f390012009-10-29 12:11:18 +0000679- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
680 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
681 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
682 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +0000683
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +0000684- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
685 header as required by RFC 1952.
686
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +0000687- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
688 Distutils.
689
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +0000690- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
691 an uppercase.
692
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +0000693- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
694 several threads at once.
695
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +0000696- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
697 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
698
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000699- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +0000700 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
701
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +0000702- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
703 protocol 2.
704
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000705- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
706
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +0000707- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
708 larger than emax.
709
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +0000710- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
711 GNU readline library version 6.0.
712
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +0000713- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
714
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +0000715- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code
716
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +0000717- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
718
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +0000719- Add support to the `ihooks` module for relative imports.
720
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000721- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +0000722
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000723- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
724 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000725
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +0000726- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
727 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
728
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +0000729- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
730 is too large to fit in the current precision.
731
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000732- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +0000733 Distutils.
734
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +0000735- Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
736
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +0000737- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
738 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
739
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +0000740- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
741 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
742
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +0000743- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
744
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +0000745- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
746
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +0000747- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
748 does now always result in NULL.
749
750- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
751 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +0000752
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +0000753- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
754 debug message.
755
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +0000756- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
757
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +0000758- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
759
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +0000760- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
761 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
762 Michael Haubenwallner.
763
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +0000764- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
765 instances.
766
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +0000767- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
768 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
769 in long(Decimal('nan')).
770
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +0000771- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
772 with no type specifier.
773
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +0000774- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
775
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +0000776- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
777 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
778 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
779 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
780
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +0000781- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
782 as documented.
783
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +0000784- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
785 names in the webbrowser module.
786
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +0000787- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
788
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +0000789- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
790 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
791
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +0000792- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
793
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +0000794- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
795
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +0000796- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
797
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +0000798- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
799
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +0000800- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
801
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +0000802- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
803 ScrolledText.
804
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +0000805- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
806
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +0000807- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
808 the xview* and yview* methods.
809
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +0000810- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
811 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
812 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
813 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
814
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +0000815- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
816 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
817
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +0000818- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
819 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
820 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
821
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +0000822- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
823 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
824 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
825
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +0000826- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
827 opening an empty or very small file.
828
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000829- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
830 containing incomplete data.
831
832- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +0000833 behavior is similar when used with -O.
834
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +0000835- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
836
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +0000837- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
838 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
839 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
840
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000841- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +0000842
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +0000843- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
844 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
845 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
846 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
847
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +0000848- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
849
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000850- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
851
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +0000852- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
853 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
854
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000855- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +0000856
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000857- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +0000858 attribute.
859
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +0000860- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
861
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +0000862- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
863 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
864
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +0000865- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
866
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000867- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +0000868 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
869 descriptor errors
870
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000871- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +0000872 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
873
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +0000874- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
875
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +0000876- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
877 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
878 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
879
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +0000880- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
881 argument.
882
883- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +0000884 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
885
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +0000886- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
887
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +0000888- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
889
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +0000890- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
891
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +0000892- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
893 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
894
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +0000895- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
896 (On Unix)
897
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +0000898- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
899 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
900 ``io`` module.
901
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +0000902- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
903
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000904- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
905 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
906
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +0000907- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
908
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +0000909- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
910 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
911 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
912
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +0000913- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
914
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +0000915- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
916 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
917
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +0000918- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
919
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +0000920- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
921 whitespace.
922
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +0000923- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
924 argument to the 'help' function.
925
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +0000926- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
927 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
928
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +0000929- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
930 the directory already exists.
931
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +0000932- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
933 specific Python version.
934
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +0000935- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
936 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
937 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
938
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +0000939- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
940 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000941
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +0000942- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
943 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
944 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
945
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +0000946- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
947 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
948
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000949- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +0000950 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
951
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +0000952- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
953
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +0000954- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
955 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
956
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000957- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +0000958 subcommand.
959
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +0000960- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
961 deepcopy()ing.
962
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +0000963- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
964
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +0000965- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
966
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +0000967- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
968
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +0000969- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
970 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
971
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +0000972- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
973 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
974
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +0000975- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
976 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
977
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +0000978- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
979 for old-style extensions.
980
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000981- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
982 trying to print a traceback.
983
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +0000984- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
985
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000986- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +0000987 ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
988
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +0000989- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
990 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
991 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
992 Cournapeau.
993
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +0000994- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
995 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
996
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +0000997- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
998 return directories.
999
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00001000- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1001
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00001002- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1003 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1004
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00001005- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
1006 extracting a file to the root directory.
1007
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00001008- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
1009
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00001010- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1011 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1012 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1013
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00001014- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1015 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1016
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00001017- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1018 Contributed by Google.
1019
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00001020- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1021
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001022- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00001023 anymore.
1024
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00001025- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1026
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00001027- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1028 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1029 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1030
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00001031- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1032 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1033 initialized before.
1034
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00001035- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1036 names which should not be exported.
1037
1038- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00001039 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
1040
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00001041- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1042
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00001043- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
1044 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
1045
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00001046- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1047
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00001048- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
1049 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
1050 instances.
1051
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00001052- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
1053 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
1054 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
1055
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00001056- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1057
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001058- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
1059
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00001060- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
1061 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
1062 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
1063 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
1064 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
1065
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00001066- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
1067
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00001068- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
1069 a value in SafeConfigParser.
1070
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00001071- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
1072
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001073- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00001074 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
1075
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00001076- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
1077 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
1078
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00001079- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
1080 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
1081
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00001082- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
1083 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
1084
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001085- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00001086
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001087- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00001088
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001089- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00001090
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001091- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00001092
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001093- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00001094
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001095- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00001096 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1097
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001098- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +00001099 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00001100
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001101- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00001102 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
1103 to note the limitation
1104
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001105- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00001106 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001107
1108- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00001109 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001110
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001111- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were added.
1112 addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
1113 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
1114 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
1115
1116- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
1117 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001118
1119- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001120 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001121
1122- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001123 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001124
1125- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
1126 called immediately before and after a test run.
1127
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00001128- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
1129 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
1130 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
1131 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001132
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00001133- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
1134
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00001135- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
1136 printing out values.
1137
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00001138- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
1139
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00001140- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1141 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1142 threads.
1143
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00001144- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1145
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00001146- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
1147
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00001148- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
1149 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1150 that it was failing to do localization.
1151
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00001152- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
1153 Brandl.
1154
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00001155- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1156 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1157
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00001158- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
1159 with the threading module.
1160
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00001161- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1162
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00001163- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1164
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00001165- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1166 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1167
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001168- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00001169 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1170 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1171
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00001172- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
1173 defined (part of issue #5035).
1174
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00001175- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
1176 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
1177 output compared to previous Python versions.
1178
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00001179- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
1180
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00001181- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
1182 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
1183 a with statement.
1184
1185- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
1186 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
1187 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
1188 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
1189
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00001190- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1191 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1192 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1193 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1194
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00001195- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
1196 even if an exception occurs.
1197
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00001198- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
1199 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
1200
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00001201- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1202 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1203
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00001204- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1205 '>' alignment characters.
1206
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00001207- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1208 character.
1209
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00001210- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1211 Tim Golden.
1212
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00001213- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1214
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00001215- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1216 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1217 window flashing.
1218
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00001219- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1220 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1221 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1222
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00001223- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1224
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00001225- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1226 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1227
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00001228- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1229
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00001230- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1231
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00001232- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1233
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00001234- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1235
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00001236- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1237
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00001238- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
1239 ready received.
1240
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00001241- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1242 import guess_extension`` was used.
1243
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00001244- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1245 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1246
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00001247- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1248 overrun.
1249
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00001250- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1251 bdist_rpm command.
1252
1253- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1254
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00001255- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1256
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001257- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
1258 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
1259
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00001260- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1261 in Distutils tests.
1262
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001263- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1264 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001265
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00001266- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1267 The file was resized to wrong size.
1268
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00001269- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1270
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001271- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00001272 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1273
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001274- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00001275 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1276
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00001277- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1278 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1279
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00001280- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1281
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00001282- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
1283 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
1284
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00001285- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1286 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1287
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00001288- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1289 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1290
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00001291- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1292 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1293 ctime of the files involved.
1294
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00001295- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1296 deadlock.
1297
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00001298- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1299 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1300 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1301
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00001302- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1303
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001304- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
1305 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
1306
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00001307- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1308 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1309
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001310- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1311 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +00001312 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1313 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001314
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +00001315- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1316 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1317 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1318 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00001319
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001320- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00001321 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1322
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001323- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1324 Ross Light.
1325
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001326- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1327 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1328
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001329- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001330 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1331
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001332- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1333
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001334- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1335 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1336 "src.new").
1337
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001338- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001339 Iterator and MutableSet.
1340
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001341- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1342
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001343- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001344 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1345
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001346- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1347 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1348
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001349- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1350 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1351
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001352- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1353
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +00001354- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1355 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001356
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001357- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001358 allowed non-integer arguments.
1359
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001360- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1361 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1362 examples.
1363
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001364- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1365 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1366
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001367- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1368 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1369
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001370- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1371 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1372
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001373- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001374 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1375 be disabled, and not compiled.
1376
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001377- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1378 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1379 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1380 traditional 2.x file object.
1381
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001382- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1383 parameter was set.
1384
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001385- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1386 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001387 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001388
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001389- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1390 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1391 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1392
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001393- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1394 in sharedctypes.py.
1395
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001396- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1397 __getattr__.
1398
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001399- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1400 opened with other applications.
1401
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001402- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
1403 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1404
1405- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001406 counting.
1407
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001408- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1409
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001410- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1411 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1412 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1413 Jacques Frechet.
1414
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001415- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1416
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001417- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001418 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1419
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001420- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
1421 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
1422 deprecated for removal in 3.x
1423
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001424- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1425 to the decimal module.
1426
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001427- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1428 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1429
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001430- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1431 the function is not a generator.
1432
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001433- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1434 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001435
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001436- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001437 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1438
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001439- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1440 cast as floats.
1441
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001442- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001443 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1444
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001445- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1446
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001447- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1448
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001449- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1450 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1451
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001452- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1453 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1454
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001455- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1456 Gabriel Genellina.
1457
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001458- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1459
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001460- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1461
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001462- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1463 handling.
1464
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001465- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1466 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1467 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1468
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001469- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1470 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1471 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1472
1473- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1474 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1475 Alexander Belopolsky.
1476
1477- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1478 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1479 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1480 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1481 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1482 Alexander Belopolsky.
1483
1484- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1485 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1486 Alexander Belopolsky.
1487
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001488- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1489 when given an unicode string.
1490
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001491- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1492
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001493- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1494 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1495 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1496
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001497- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1498 --dry-run option.
1499
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001500- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1501 libs.
1502
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001503- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1504 statements.
1505
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001506- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1507 not a malformed option.
1508
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +00001509- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001510 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1511
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001512- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1513 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1514 Content-Disposition headers.
1515
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001516- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1517 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1518 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1519 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1520 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001521
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001522- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1523 exception.
1524
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00001525- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1526 the ctypes module is not present.
1527
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00001528- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1529
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00001530- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1531
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00001532- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
1533 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
1534
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00001535- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1536 and then remove it.
1537
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00001538- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1539
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00001540- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1541 debugging.
1542
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00001543- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1544 inspect.getargvalues.
1545
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00001546- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1547
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00001548- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1549 to claiming it is Mature.
1550
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00001551- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1552 when protocol 0 is used.
1553
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00001554- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
1555 to be consistent with Apple tools.
1556
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001557- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001558 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001559
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00001560- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1561
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00001562- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1563 module.
1564
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00001565- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1566 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1567
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00001568- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
1569
1570- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
1571
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00001572- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1573 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1574
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00001575- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1576 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1577 and getservbyport().
1578
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00001579- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
1580 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
1581
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00001582- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1583 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1584
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00001585- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1586 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1587 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1588
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00001589- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1590
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001591Tools/Demos
1592-----------
1593
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00001594- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1595
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001596- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1597
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001598Build
1599-----
1600
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00001601- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1602 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1603 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1604
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001605- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX:
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001606 ``intel`` builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures,
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001607 while ``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386``
1608 and ``x86_64`` architectures.
1609
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00001610- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1611
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00001612- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1613
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00001614- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1615 extensions are installed.
1616
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00001617- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1618 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1619
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00001620- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1621 and a python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1622 Clinton Roy.
1623
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00001624- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1625
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00001626- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1627
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00001628- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1629 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1630
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001631- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001632 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001633
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00001634- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1635
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00001636- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1637
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00001638- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1639
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00001640- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1641
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00001642- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1643
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00001644- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1645
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00001646- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1647
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00001648- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1649
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00001650- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1651
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00001652- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1653
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00001654- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1655
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00001656- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1657
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001658- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1659
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00001660- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1661
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00001662Documentation
1663-------------
1664
1665- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1666 for Windows.
1667
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001668- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001669 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001670
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001671C-API
1672-----
1673
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00001674- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
1675
Mark Dickinson26285902009-12-04 11:30:16 +00001676- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00001677 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
1678
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00001679- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated
1680 PyOS_ascii_atof and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
1681
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00001682- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string
1683 instead. This is in preparation for (but not strictly related to)
1684 issue #7117, short float repr.
1685
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001686- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
Benjamin Petersonfe8745d2009-08-17 13:39:41 +00001687 NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00001688
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00001689- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1690 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1691
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00001692- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1693 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1694
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00001695- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1696 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1697
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00001698- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
1699
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00001700- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1701 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1702
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00001703- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1704
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00001705- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1706 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1707
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001708- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1709 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001710
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00001711- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
1712 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001713
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001714Extension Modules
1715-----------------
1716
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00001717- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
1718
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00001719- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1720
Mark Dickinson5ff37ae2009-12-19 11:07:23 +00001721- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math
1722 module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00001723
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00001724- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
1725 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
1726 range.
1727
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00001728- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
1729 on OSX.
1730
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00001731- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1732 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1733
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00001734- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1735 module.
1736
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00001737- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1738
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00001739- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
1740 tokenizer not stopping.
1741
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00001742- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1743 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1744 matched characters with category 'No'.
1745
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00001746- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack
1747 with an integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range
1748 integer now consistently raises struct.error.
1749
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00001750- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies
1751 for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*'
1752 represents any of '=', '<', '>'.
1753
1754 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning.
1755 Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
1756
1757 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always
1758 result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method
1759 could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h'
1760 ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by
1761 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__,
1762 TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for
1763 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases.
1764
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00001765- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1766
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00001767- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
1768 GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
1769
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00001770- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1771 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1772 implementations or external openssl library).
1773
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00001774- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00001775
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00001776- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1777
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00001778- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1779
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00001780- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1781
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00001782- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1783
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00001784- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1785 OpenBSD.
1786
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00001787- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1788
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001789- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1790
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00001791- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1792
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001793Tests
1794-----
1795
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00001796- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00001797 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
1798 user running the tests.
1799
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00001800- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1801 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1802
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00001803- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1804 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1805
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00001806- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1807
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00001808- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1809 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1810
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00001811- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1812 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1813 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1814 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1815 :func:`thread._count()`.
1816
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00001817- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1818 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1819
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00001820- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1821 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1822
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00001823- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1824 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1825 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00001826
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00001827- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1828
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00001829- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
1830 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
1831
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00001832- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1833 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1834 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1835 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1836
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00001837- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1838 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1839
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00001840- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1841 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1842 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1843 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1844 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1845
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00001846- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1847
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00001848- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1849
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001850- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1851
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001852- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001853 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001854 from test support, which does the conversion.
1855
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001856- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1857
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00001858- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1859 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1860 incorrectly on __exit__.
1861
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00001862- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1863
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00001864Misc
1865----
1866
1867- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
1868
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001869
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001870What's New in Python 2.6 final
1871==============================
1872
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001873*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001874
1875Core and Builtins
1876-----------------
1877
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001878- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1879 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1880
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001881- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1882 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1883
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001884- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1885
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001886Library
1887-------
1888
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001889- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1890 true singleton object.
1891
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001892- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1893 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1894 into a float.
1895
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001896- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1897
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001898- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1899 sizes.
1900
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001901- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1902
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001903- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1904 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1905
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001906Build
1907-----
1908
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001909- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1910 installer.
1911
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001912- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1913
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001914
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001915What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1916=============================================
1917
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001918*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001919
1920Core and Builtins
1921-----------------
1922
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001923Extension Modules
1924-----------------
1925
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001926- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1927 segfault as a result.
1928
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001929- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1930 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001931
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001932Tools/Demos
1933-----------
1934
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00001935- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001936 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1937 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1938 are caught and silenced.
1939
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001940Build
1941-----
1942
1943- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1944 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1945
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001946
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001947What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1948=============================================
1949
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001950*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001951
1952Core and Builtins
1953-----------------
1954
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001955- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1956
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001957- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1958 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1959 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1960 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1961 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1962 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1963 64bit values.
1964
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001965- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1966 error.
1967
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001968- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1969 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1970 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1971 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1972
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001973- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1974 a unicode argument.
1975
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001976- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1977
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001978- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001979 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001980 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1981
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001982- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001983 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1984 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1985 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1986 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1987 type object.
1988
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001989- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1990
1991- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1992
1993- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1994
1995- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1996
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001997- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1998 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1999
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00002000- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
2001 ``__delslice__``.
2002
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00002003- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
2004 library targets in the Makefile.
2005
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00002006- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
2007 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
2008 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
2009
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00002010C-API
2011-----
2012
2013- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
2014
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002015Library
2016-------
2017
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00002018- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
2019 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
2020
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00002021- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
2022
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00002023- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
2024
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002025- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
2026 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
2027 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
2028
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002029- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
2030
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002031- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00002032 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
2033
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00002034- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
2035
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00002036- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
2037
2038- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00002039
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00002040- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
2041 its symbolic link.
2042
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002043- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
2044
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00002045- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
2046 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
2047 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
2048
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00002049- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
2050 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
2051
2052- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00002053
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00002054- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
2055 path to the Python binary.
2056
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00002057- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
2058 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
2059 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
2060 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
2061
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00002062- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
2063
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002064- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
2065
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00002066- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
2067
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00002068- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
2069
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002070- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
2071 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00002072
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00002073- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
2074 non-integer floating point number.
2075
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002076- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00002077 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
2078
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002079Extension Modules
2080-----------------
2081
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00002082- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2083 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2084
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00002085- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
2086 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
2087 without limit.
2088
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002089- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
2090 exploitation of poor argument checking.
2091
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00002092- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
2093
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00002094- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
2095 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
2096
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00002097- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
2098 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
2099 threads/processes.
2100
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002101Tests
2102-----
2103
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002104- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
2105 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
2106 that expected warning messages are being reported.
2107
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002108- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
2109
2110- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002111
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002112Build
2113-----
2114
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00002115- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
2116
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00002117- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
2118 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
2119
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00002120- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
2121
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002122- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002123 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002124
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002125
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002126What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
2127================================
2128
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00002129*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002130
2131Core and Builtins
2132-----------------
2133
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00002134- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
2135 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
2136 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
2137 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
2138 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
2139 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
2140 default.
2141
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00002142- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
2143 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
2144
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00002145- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
2146 value again.
2147
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00002148- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
2149 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
2150 and introducing s*.
2151
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00002152- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
2153 object was stored in the freelist.
2154
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00002155- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
2156 ValueError consistently across platforms.
2157
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00002158- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
2159 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
2160 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
2161
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00002162- Apply security patches from Apple.
2163
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00002164- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
2165 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
2166
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00002167- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
2168 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
2169
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00002170- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
2171 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
2172 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
2173
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00002174- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
2175 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
2176 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
2177 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
2178 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
2179 failed have been fixed.
2180
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002181Library
2182-------
2183
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00002184- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
2185
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00002186- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
2187 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
2188
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00002189- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
2190 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
2191 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
2192
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00002193- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
2194 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
2195 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
2196 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
2197 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
2198 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
2199
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00002200- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
2201 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
2202
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00002203- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
2204
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00002205- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
2206
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00002207- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
2208
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00002209- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
2210 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
2211
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00002212- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00002213 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
2214
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00002215- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
2216 in a redirect.
2217
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002218- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00002219 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002220
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00002221- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
2222 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
2223
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00002224- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
2225 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
2226 regular expression.
2227
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00002228- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
2229 thread-safe.
2230
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00002231- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
2232 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
2233 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
2234
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00002235- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
2236
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00002237- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
2238 menu entries were not deleted.
2239
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00002240- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
2241 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
2242
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00002243- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
2244 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
2245
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00002246- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
2247 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
2248 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
2249
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00002250- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
2251 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
2252 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
2253
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00002254- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
2255 the reload() built-in has been removed.
2256
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002257- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00002258 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00002259 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
2260 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
2261 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
2262 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
2263 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002264
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00002265- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
2266 raised an AttributeError.
2267
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002268- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00002269 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
2270 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002271
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00002272- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
2273 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
2274
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00002275- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
2276
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00002277- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
2278 on a closed shelf.
2279
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00002280- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
2281
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002282- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
2283
2284- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
2285 invalid arguments.
2286
2287- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
2288 with None arguments.
2289
2290- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
2291 configuration files.
2292
2293- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
2294
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00002295- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
2296 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
2297 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
2298
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00002299- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
2300 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
2301 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
2302
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00002303Build
2304-----
2305
2306- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
2307
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002308Documentation
2309-------------
2310
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00002311- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
2312 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
2313
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002314- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
2315 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
2316 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
2317 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
2318
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002319
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002320What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
2321================================
2322
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002323*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
2324
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002325Core and Builtins
2326-----------------
2327
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00002328- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
2329 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
2330 an integer using operator.index().
2331
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00002332- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
2333 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
2334
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00002335- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
2336 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
2337
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00002338- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
2339 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
2340 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
2341
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00002342- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
2343 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
2344 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
2345 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
2346 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
2347 level.
2348
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00002349- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
2350 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
2351 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
2352 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
2353 all imports from that module to fail.
2354
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00002355- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
2356 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
2357 new-style classes.
2358
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00002359- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
2360 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
2361 another file in sys.stdout.
2362
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00002363- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
2364 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
2365 another thread's dictionary.
2366
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002367- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2368 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2369 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2370 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2371 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2372 10, -1).
2373
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002374- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2375 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2376 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002377
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002378- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2379 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2380 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002381
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002382Library
2383-------
2384
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002385- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2386 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2387 error when they failed.
2388
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002389- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2390
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002391- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2392
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002393- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2394
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002395- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2396
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002397- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2398 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2399
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002400- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002401
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002402- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2403 a valid dlerror() message.
2404
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002405- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2406 incomplete structure was created.
2407
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002408- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2409
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002410- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2411
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002412- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002413
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002414- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2415 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002416 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002417 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2418 merged into trunk.
2419
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002420- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2421
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002422- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2423
2424- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2425
2426- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2427 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002428 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002429
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002430- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002431 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002432
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002433- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2434 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2435
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002436- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2437 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2438
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002439- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2440 interrupted by a signal.
2441
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002442- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002443 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2444 Prevents a deadlock.
2445
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002446- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2447 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2448 default https port (443).
2449
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002450- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2451 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2452 if the new process uses the threading module.
2453
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002454Tests
2455-----
2456
2457- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2458 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2459 have been added to test_warnings.
2460
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002461Build
2462-----
2463
2464- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2465
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002466
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002467Documentation
2468-------------
2469
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002470- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002471 Python 3.0.
2472
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002473- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2474
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002475- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2476 Python 3.0.
2477
2478- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2479 Python 3.0.
2480
2481
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002482What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2483================================
2484
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002485*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002486
2487Core and Builtins
2488-----------------
2489
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002490- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2491 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2492 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2493 bus error.
2494
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002495- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2496 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2497
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002498- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2499
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002500- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002501 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002502
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002503- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2504
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002505- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2506
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002507- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2508
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002509- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002511- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2512 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2513 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2514 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002515
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002516- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002518- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2519 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002521- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2522 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002524- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2525 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2526 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002527
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002528- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2529 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2530 can't be triggered from Python code.
2531
2532
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002533Extension Modules
2534-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002535- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002536
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002537- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2538
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002539- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002540
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002541- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2542 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2543
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002544- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2545 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2546
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002547- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2548 weakref.proxy.
2549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002550- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2551 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002552
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002553- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002554
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002555- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002556 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2557 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002559- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2560 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2561 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002562
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002563- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2564 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2565 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002567- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002568
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002569- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002570
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002571Library
2572-------
2573
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002574- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2575 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2576
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002577- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2578
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002579- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2580 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2581 sense).
2582
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002583- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2584
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002585- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2586 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2587 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2588 the patch.
2589
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002590- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2591 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2592 the patch).
2593
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002594- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2595 os.uname exists.
2596
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002597- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2598
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002599- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2600
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002601- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2602 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2603 pointer-like object.
2604
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002605- Added the ast module.
2606
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002607- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002608
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002609- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2610 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2611
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002612- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2613 to errno.
2614
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002615- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002616
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002617- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002618 msilib.Record objects.
2619
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002620- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2621 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2622
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002623- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2624 in Python 3.0.
2625
2626- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2627 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002628
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002629- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2630 False boolean value now.
2631
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002632- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2633 transfers.
2634
2635- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2636 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002637
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002638- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2639 when the TarFile is closed.
2640
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002641- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2642 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2643 an exception.
2644
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002645- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2646 otherwise be produced.
2647
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002648- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2649 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2650
2651- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2652 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2653
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002654- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2655 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2656 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2657
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002658- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002660- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002661 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2662 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2663 'm' or 'c'.
2664
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002665- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002667- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2668 removal in Python 3.0.
2669
2670- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2671 3.0.
2672
2673- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2674 3.0.
2675
2676- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2677 3.0.
2678
2679- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002680 Python 3.0.
2681
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002682- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2683 Python 3.0.
2684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002685- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2686 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002688- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2689 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002691- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2692 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002694- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2695 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002697- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002698 Python 3.0.
2699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002700- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2701 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002703- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2704 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002706- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2707 3.0.
2708
2709- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2710 removal in Python 3.0.
2711
2712- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2713 3.0.
2714
2715- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2716 3.0.
2717
2718- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2719 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002721- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2722 removal in Python 3.0.
2723
2724- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002725 Python 3.0.
2726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002727- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2728 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002729
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002730- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2731 Python 3.0.
2732
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002733- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2734 Python 3.0.
2735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002736- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002737
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002738- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2739
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002740- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2741
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002742- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2743
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002744- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002746- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2747 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2748 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002750- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2751 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002752
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002753- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002755- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2756 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002757
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002758- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2759
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002760- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2761
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002762- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2763
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002764- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2765
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002766- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002768- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2769 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002770
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002771- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2772
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002773- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2774
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002775- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2776 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2777 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2778 OverflowError.
2779
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002780- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002782- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2783 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002784
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002785- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2786
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002787- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2788
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002789- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2790
2791- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002792
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002793- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2794
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002795- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2796
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002797- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2798
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002799- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002801- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2802 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002803
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002804- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002805 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2806 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2807 of Python.
2808
2809- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2810 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2811
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002812- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2813 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002814
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002815Build
2816-----
2817
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002818- 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 +00002819
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002820- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2821
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002822- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2823
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002824- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2825 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002826 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002827
2828 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2829
2830 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2831
2832 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2833
2834 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2835
2836 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2837
2838 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2839
2840
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002841C API
2842-----
2843
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002844- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2845
2846- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002847
2848- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2849 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2850 PyString names.
2851
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002852
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002853What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002854=================================
2855
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002856*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002857
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002858Core and builtins
2859-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002860
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002861- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002863- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2864 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002866- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2867 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002869- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002870
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002871Extension Modules
2872-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002874- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2875 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002876
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002877- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002879- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2880 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002882- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2883 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002885- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2886 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002888- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2889 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2890 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2891 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2892 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2893 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2894 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2895 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002896
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002897Library
2898-------
2899
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002900- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002902- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2903 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002904
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002905- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002907- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2908 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002909
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002910- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2911 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2912 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2913
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002914- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002915 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002916
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002917- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002918 reference to themselves.
2919
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002920- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2921 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2922 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002923
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002924- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2925 1900-01-01.
2926
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002927- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2928 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2929
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002930- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2931 now implemented in C for better performance.
2932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002933- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2934 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2935 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002937- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002938 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2939 build documentation for more information.
2940
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002941- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2942 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2943 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2944 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2945
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002946- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2947 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2948 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002950- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2951 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2952 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2953 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002954
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002955Tests
2956-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002958- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2959 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2960 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2961 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2962 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2963 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2964 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2965 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2966 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2967 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2968 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2969 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2970 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2971 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2972 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2973 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2974 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2975 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2976 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2977 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2978
2979 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2980 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2981 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2982 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2983 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2984 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2985 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2986 access to the underlying socket used.
2987
2988 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2989 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2990 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002991
2992 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002993 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002994 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2995 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002997 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2998 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002999
3000Build
3001-----
3002
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00003003- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
3004
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00003005- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
3006 gcc is used as compiler.
3007
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003008- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003009 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003010
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003011C API
3012-----
3013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003014- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
3015 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
3016 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
3017 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003018
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00003019- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00003020
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003021
3022What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
3023=================================
3024
3025*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
3026
3027Core and builtins
3028-----------------
3029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003030- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
3031 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
3032 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00003033
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00003034- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
3035 cannot be executed.
3036
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00003037- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
3038 reference on the outer class name.
3039
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003040- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003041 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003043- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
3044 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00003045
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003046- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003047
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003048- Added backport of bytearray type.
3049
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003050- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
3051
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003052- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003053 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
3054 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
3055 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
3056 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
3057 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003058
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00003059- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
3060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003061- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
3062 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00003063
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00003064- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003065
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00003066- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
3067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003068- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
3069 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00003070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003071- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
3072 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00003073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003074- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00003075 exception instances.
3076
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003077- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003078 doesn't derive from BaseException.
3079
3080- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
3081 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003082
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00003083- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
3084 memory usage in some circumstances.
3085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003086- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
3087 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
3088 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00003089
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00003090- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
3091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003092- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00003093 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
3094 longer passed.
3095
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00003096- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
3097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003098- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
3099 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
3100 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00003101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003102- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
3103 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003104
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00003105- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
3106
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003107Extension Modules
3108-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00003109
3110- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
3111
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003112Library
3113-------
3114
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003115- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
3116 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003117
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003118- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
3119 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
3120 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003122- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
3123 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003125- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
3126 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
3127 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00003128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003129- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
3130 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003131
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003132- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
3133
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00003134- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
3135 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
3136 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
3137
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00003138- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
3139
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00003140- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
3141 advertised in the docs.
3142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003143- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00003144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003145- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00003146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003147- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
3148 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00003149
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003150- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
3151 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
3152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003153- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
3154 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003155 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
3156 information as well.
3157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003158- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
3159 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00003160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003161- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
3162 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00003163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003164- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
3165 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
3166 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00003167
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00003168- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
3169 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
3170 strftime.
3171
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003172- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003173 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
3174 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003175
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003176- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
3177 correctly under win32
3178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003179- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003180
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003181- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003182 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
3183 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
3184 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003185
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00003186- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
3187 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
3188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003189- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
3190 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00003191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003192- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
3193 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
3194 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00003195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003196- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00003197 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
3198
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00003199- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
3200 from 't' to '?'.
3201
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003202- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3203 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003204 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
3205 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
3206 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003208- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
3209 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00003210
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003211Tests
3212-----
3213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003214- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
3215 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00003216
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00003217- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
3218
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00003219- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
3220
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00003221- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
3222
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00003223- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
3224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003225- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
3226 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00003227
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00003228- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
3229
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00003230- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
3231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003232- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
3233 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00003234
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00003235- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
3236
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00003237- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
3238
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003239- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
3240 permission to create files in the root directory.
3241
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003242Build
3243-----
3244
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00003245- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
3246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003247- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
3248 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00003249
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003250- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003251
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003252C API
3253-----
3254
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003255- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003256 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
3257
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003258
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003259What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
3260=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003261
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00003262*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003263
3264Core and builtins
3265-----------------
3266
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00003267- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00003268 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00003269
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00003270- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
3271
3272- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00003273
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003274- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00003275 issue 215555 for a discussion.
3276
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00003277- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
3278 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
3279 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
3280 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
3281 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
3282 module is:
3283 from future_builtins import hex, oct
3284
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00003285- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
3286 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
3287 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
3288 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
3289 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
3290 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
3291
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00003292- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
3293 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
3294 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
3295 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
3296 PyObject_Format().
3297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003298- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
3299 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
3300 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00003301
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003302- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003303 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
3304 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00003305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003306- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
3307 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00003308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003309- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
3310 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
3311 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00003312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003313- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
3314 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
3315 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00003316
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00003317- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
3318 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
3319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003320- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
3321 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00003322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003323- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
3324 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00003325 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
3326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003327- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
3328 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
3329 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003331- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
3332 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00003333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003334- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
3335 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00003336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003337- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
3338 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00003339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003340- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
3341 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00003342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003343- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
3344 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
3345 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00003346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003347- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
3348 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
3349 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
3350 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00003351
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00003352- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
3353 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
3354 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
3355
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003356- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00003357 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
3358 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
3359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003360- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00003361 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
3362 support.
3363
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00003364- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
3365 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3366
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003367- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3368
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003369- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003370 added.
3371
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003372- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3373 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003375- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3376 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003378- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3379 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3380 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003382- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3383 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003384
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003385- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3386 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003387
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003388- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003390- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3391 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3392 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003394- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3395 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3396 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003398- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003400- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3401 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003402
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003403- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003404 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3405 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003407- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3408 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3409 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3410 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003412- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003414- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3415 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003417- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3418 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003419
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003420- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003421 SystemError.
3422
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003423- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3424 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3425 __package__ attribute.
3426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003427- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3428 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3429 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003430
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003431- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3432
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003433- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003434 attribute of an empty cell object.
3435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003436- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3437 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003439- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3440 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3441 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3442 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003444- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3445 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3446 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003447
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003448- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3449
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003450- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3451
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003452- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003454- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
3455 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3456 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003457
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003458- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3459 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3460 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3461 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3462 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3463 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003465- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3466 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3467 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3468 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3469 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003471- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3472 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3473 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003474
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003475- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3476 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003477
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003478- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003479 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3480 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3481 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3482 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3483 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003485- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3486 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003487
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003488- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3489 with %G.
3490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003491- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3492 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003494- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003496- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003497
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003498- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003499 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3500 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003501
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003502- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3503 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3504
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003505- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3506 calls.
3507
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003508- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003509 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3510 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003511
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003512- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003514- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003515 inherited from a builtin base.
3516
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003517- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003518 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3519
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003520- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3521
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003522- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3523 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3524 remaining characters.
3525
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003526- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3527 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3528
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003529- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3530
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003531- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3532 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3533 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3534 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3535 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003536 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3537 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003539- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3540 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3541 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3542 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3543 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003545- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3546 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3547 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003549- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3550 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003552- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3553 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3554 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003556- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3557 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003558
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003559- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3560
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003561- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3562 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3563
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003564- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003565 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3566 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3567 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003568
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003569- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3570 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003572- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3573 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003575- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3576 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3577 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003578
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003579- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003580 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3581 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003582
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003583- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3584 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003585 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3586 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003588- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3589 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003591- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3592 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003593
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003594- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3595 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003597- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3598 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3599 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003601- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3602 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003604- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3605 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003607- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3608 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3609 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003610
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003611- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3612 frame's thread state.
3613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003614- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3615 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003617- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3618 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003620- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3621 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003623- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3624 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003626- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3627 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003628
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003629- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3630
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003631- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3632
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003633- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003635- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3636 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003638- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003639
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003640- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3641 again, no longer the posix error code.
3642
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003643- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3644 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003646- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3647 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003648
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003649- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3650 embedded in the string to convert.
3651
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003652- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3653 recognized and rejected.
3654
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003655- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3656
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003657- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3658 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3659 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003660
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003661- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3662 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3663
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003664- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003665 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3666 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003668- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3669 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3670 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003671
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003672- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3673
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003674- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3675
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003676- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003678- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3679 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3680 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003681
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003682- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3683 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3684 'exceptions'.
3685
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003686- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3687 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3688
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003689- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3690 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3691
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003692- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3693
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003694- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3695
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003696- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3697 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3698
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003699- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003700 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3701 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3702 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003703
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003704- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003706- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3707 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003708
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003709- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3710 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003712- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003713 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3714 it actually exited.
3715
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003716
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003717Library
3718-------
3719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003720- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003721
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003722- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3723
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003724- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003726- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3727 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003729- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003731- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3732 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3733 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003735- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3736 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003738- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003739 (ignore-case)
3740
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003741- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3742 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3743 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3744 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003746- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3747 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003749- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3750 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003751
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003752- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3753 pickled.
3754
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003755- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3756 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3757
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003758- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3759 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3760 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003762- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3763 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003765- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3766 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3767 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003769- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3770 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003772- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3773 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003775- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3776 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3777 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3778 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003780- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3781 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003782 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3783
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003784- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3785
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003786- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3787 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003789- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003791- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3792 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003793
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003794- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3795 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003797- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3798 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003800- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3801 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003803- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3804 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3805 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003807- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3808 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003810- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3811 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003813- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3814 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003816- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3817 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003819- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3820 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003822- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3823 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003824
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003825- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3826 with extended local headers.
3827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003828- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3829 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003831- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003832 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3833 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003835- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3836 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003838- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3839 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003841- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3842 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003844- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3845 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003847- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3848 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003849
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003850- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003851 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003852 Textbox.gather().
3853
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003854- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3855 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003856 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3857 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003858
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003859- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3860 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3861
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003862- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3863 and when creating a recursive instance.
3864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003865- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3866 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3867 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003868
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003869- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3870 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3871 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003873- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3874 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003875
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003876- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003877 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003879- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003880 good for long regular expression matches.
3881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003882- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3883 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003884
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003885- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3886 the current context.
3887
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003888- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3889 zipfile module.
3890
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003891- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003893- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3894 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003895
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003896- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3897
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003898- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003900- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3901 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003902
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003903- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003905- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3906 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003908- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3909 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003910
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003911- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3912
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003913- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3914 Tcl objects.
3915
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003916- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003918- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3919 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3920 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3921 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003923- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3924 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003926- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3927 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003929- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3930 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003932- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3933 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003934
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003935- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3936 method used universal newlines.
3937
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003938- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3939 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3940
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003941- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3942 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3943
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003944- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3945 files are updated.
3946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003947- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3948 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003949
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003950- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3951 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3952
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003953- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003954 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003955
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003956- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003958- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3959 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3960 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003962- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3963 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003964
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003965- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003966
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003967- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003969- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3970 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003971
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003972- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3973 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3974
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003975- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3976
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003977- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003979- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3980 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3981 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003982
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003983- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3984 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003986- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3987 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003989- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3990 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003991
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003992- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3993
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003994- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3995
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003996- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3997 syllables.
3998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003999- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
4000 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00004001
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00004002- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
4003
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00004004- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
4005 represent the result in a single character.
4006
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00004007- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
4008
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00004009- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
4010
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00004011- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
4012 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
4013 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
4014
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00004015- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004017- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
4018 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00004019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004020- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
4021 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
4022 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00004023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004024- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
4025 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
4026 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00004027
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004028- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004029 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
4030 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004032- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
4033 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00004034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004035- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
4036 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00004037
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00004038- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4039
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00004040- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004042- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
4043 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
4044 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00004045
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00004046- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4047
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00004048- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4049
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00004050- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
4051 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
4052
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00004053- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
4054
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00004055- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
4056
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00004057- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004059- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
4060 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00004061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004062- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
4063 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00004064
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00004065- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
4066 the directories).
4067
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00004068- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
4069 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
4070 injecting HTML into the error page.
4071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004072- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
4073 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00004074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004075- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
4076 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004077
4078- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
4079
4080- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
4081
4082- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
4083 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
4084 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
4085
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00004086- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
4087 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
4088 ".cpp" too.
4089
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004090- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004091 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
4092 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
4093 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004095- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
4096 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00004097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004098- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
4099 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00004100
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00004101- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
4102 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
4103 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
4104 closes patch #723312.
4105
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004106- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
4107 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00004108 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00004109
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00004110- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
4111
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00004112- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
4113 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
4114
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00004115- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
4116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004117- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
4118 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00004119 directories.
4120
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00004121- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
4122 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
4123 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
4124 trying Mozilla variants.
4125
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00004126- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
4127
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00004128- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
4129 initialization failed.
4130
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004131- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004132 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
4133 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004135- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
4136 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
4137 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00004138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004139- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
4140 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00004141 correctly now.
4142
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00004143- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
4144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004145- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
4146 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00004147
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00004148- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
4149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004150- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
4151 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
4152 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00004153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004154- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
4155 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
4156 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
4157 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00004158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004159- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
4160 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
4161 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00004162
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00004163- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
4164 whitespace while wrapping.
4165
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004166- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004167 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
4168 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004170- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
4171 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
4172 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00004173
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00004174- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
4175 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
4176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004177- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
4178 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00004179
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00004180- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
4181 concatenation in robotparser.
4182
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004183- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004184 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
4185 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004186
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00004187- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
4188 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
4189
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00004190- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
4191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004192- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
4193 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
4194 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00004195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004196- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
4197 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
4198 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00004199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004200- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
4201 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00004202 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00004203
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00004204- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
4205 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
4206
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00004207- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
4208 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
4209
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00004210- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
4211 returned string up to the first NUL character.
4212
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00004213- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
4214
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00004215- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
4216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004217- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
4218 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
4219 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00004220
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00004221- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
4222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004223- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
4224 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
4225 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
4226 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
4227 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
4228 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00004229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004230- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
4231 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00004232
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00004233- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
4234 comprehensive test suite for the module.
4235
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00004236- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
4237 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
4238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004239- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
4240 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
4241 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00004242
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004243- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00004244 in HTMLParser.
4245
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00004246- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
4247 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
4248
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00004249- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
4250
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00004251- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
4252
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00004253- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
4254
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00004255- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00004256
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00004257- Added itertools.izip_longest().
4258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004259- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
4260 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00004261
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00004262- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
4263
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00004264- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
4265 doesn't exist.
4266
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00004267- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
4268
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00004269- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
4270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004271- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00004272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004273- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
4274 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00004275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004276- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
4277 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00004278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004279- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
4280 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00004281
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004282- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004283 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004284
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00004285- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
4286 iso8859_16.
4287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004288- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
4289 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
4290 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
4291 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00004292
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004293- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
4294
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00004295- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
4296 directories.
4297
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00004298- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
4299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004300- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
4301 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00004302
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004303- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004304 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004305
4306- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004307 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004308
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004309- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004311- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
4312 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00004313
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00004314- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
4315
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00004316- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
4317 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
4318 parameterless foreign function calls work.
4319
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00004320- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
4321
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00004322- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
4323 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
4324 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
4325
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004326- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4327 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
4328
4329- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4330 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
4331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004332- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
4333 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
4334 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004336- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
4337 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00004338
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00004339- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
4340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004341- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
4342 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00004343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004344- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
4345 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00004346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004347- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
4348 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00004349
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004350- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
4351 separated lists read from logging config files.
4352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004353- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
4354 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
4355 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004357- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
4358 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00004359
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00004360- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
4361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004362- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
4363 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00004364
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00004365- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4366
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004367- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004369- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4370 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004371
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004372- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4373 regular files.
4374
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004375- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004377- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4378 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004380- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4381 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004382
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004383- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4384 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4385
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004386- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4387 file name mangling.
4388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004389- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4390 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004391
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004392- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4393
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004394- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004395 HTTPConnection.request().
4396
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004397- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4398 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4399 objects.
4400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004401- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4402 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4403 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004405- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4406 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4407 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004408
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004409- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004410
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004411- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004412
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004413- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4414
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004415- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004416 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004417
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004418- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4419
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004420- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4421 GNU modes.
4422
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004423- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
4424 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
4425 opcode.
4426
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004427- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4428 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4429 statement (bug #1586513).
4430
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004431- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4432 correctly.
4433
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004434- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004436- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4437 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004438
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004439- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4440 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4441 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004443- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4444 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4445 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004447- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4448 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004449
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004450- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4451
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004452- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004454- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4455 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004457- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4458 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004459
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004460- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4461 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4462
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004463- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4464 with a slash.
4465
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004466- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4467 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4468
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004469- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004470 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004471
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004472- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4473 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4474 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004476- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4477 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004479- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4480 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004482- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4483 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004484
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004485- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4486
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004487- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004488 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004490- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4491 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004493- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4494 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004495
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004496- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004498- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4499 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004501- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4502 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4503 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004505- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4506 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4507 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004509- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4510 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4511 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4512 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004514- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004515 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4516 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004517 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4518 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4519 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004521- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4522 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004523
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004524Extension Modules
4525-----------------
4526
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004527- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004528
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004529- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4530
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004531- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4532
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004533- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004535- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4536 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004538- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4539 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004541- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4542 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004543
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004544- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4545
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004546- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004548- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4549 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004550
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004551- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004553- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4554 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004555
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004556- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004558- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4559 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004561- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004562 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4563 parameter.
4564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004565- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4566 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4567 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4568 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004570- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4571 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004573- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4574 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004576- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4577 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4578 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004580- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4581 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004582
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004583- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4584
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004585- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004587- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4588 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4589 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004591- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4592 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004593
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004594- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4595
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004596- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004598- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4599 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4600 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4601 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004602
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004603- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4604 get_completion_type to readline.
4605
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004606- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4607 structure.
4608
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004609- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4610
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004611- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4612
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004613- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4614 intended for RECNO databases.
4615
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004616- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004617 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4618 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4619 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4620 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4621 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4622 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004623
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004624- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4625
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004626- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004628- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4629 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4630 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4631 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4632 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004633
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004634- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4635 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4636
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004637- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4638 of Py_ssize_t.
4639
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004640- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4641 fractional times. With unittest.
4642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004643- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4644 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4645 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004646
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004647- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4648
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004649- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4650
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004651- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4652
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004653- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004655- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
4656 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004658- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4659 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004661- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4662 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004663
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004664- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4665 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004667- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4668 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4669 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004670
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004671- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4672
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004673- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4674 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4675 does.
4676
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004677- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4678
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004679- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4680
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004681- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4682
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004683- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4684
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004685- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4686 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4687
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004688- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4689 datetime's strftime function.
4690
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004691- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4692
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004693- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004695- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4696 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004697
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004698- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4699
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004700- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004701 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4702 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004704- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4705 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004706
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004707- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004708 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4709 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004710 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4711 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004712 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004713 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004714
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004715- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4716 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4717 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4718 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4719
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004720- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4721 were transposed.
4722
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004723- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4724 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004726- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4727 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4728 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004729
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004730- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4731
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004732- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4733
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004734- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4735
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004736- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004737
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004738- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4739 databases without a DBEnv.
4740
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004741- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4742
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004743Tests
4744-----
4745
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004746- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004748- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4749 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004751- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4752 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4753 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004754
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004755- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4756 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004758- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4759 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004761- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4762 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4763 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004764
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004765- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004767- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4768 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4769 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004770
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004771- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4772
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004773- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4774
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004775- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4776 number properly.
4777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004778- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4779 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004780
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004781Tools
4782-----
4783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004784- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4785 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4786 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4787 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004789- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4790 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4791 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004792
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004793- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4794 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004796- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4797 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004799- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4800 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004801
4802- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004803 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4804 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004805
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004806
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004807Documentation
4808-------------
4809
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004810- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4811 include new optional delay argument.
4812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004813- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4814 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4815 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004816
4817- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4818 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4819
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004820- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4821 Python tutorial.
4822
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004823- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004825- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4826 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004827
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004828- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4829 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4830
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004831- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4832 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4833
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004834- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4835
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004836- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4837 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4838
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004839- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
4840 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4841
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004842- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4843 docs.
4844
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004845- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4846
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004847- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4848 string pointed to by its parameter.
4849
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004850- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4851
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004852- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004853 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4854 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4855 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004856
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004857
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004858Tools/Demos
4859-----------
4860
4861- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004862
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004863- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004864 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4865 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004866
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004867- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4868 file not to get reported properly.
4869
4870
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004871Build
4872-----
4873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004874- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4875 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4876 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004877
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004878- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4879 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4880
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004881- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004883- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004885- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4886 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4887 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4888 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004890- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4891 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004892
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004893- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4894
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004895- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4896 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4897 without this option!
4898
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004899- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4900
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004901- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004902 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4903 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4904 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004906- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4907 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004908
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004909- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4910
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004911- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004913- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4914 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004916- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4917 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004918
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004919- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4920 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4921 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4922
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004923- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4924 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4925
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004926- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4927
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004928- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004930- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4931 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004932
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004933- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004934 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004936- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4937 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004938
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004939- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004941- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004942
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004943- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4944
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004945- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4946
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004947- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004948
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004949- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4950 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4951 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004952
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004953
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004954C API
4955-----
4956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004957- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4958 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4959 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4960 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004962- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4963 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4964 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004965
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004966- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004968- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4969 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4970 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004971
4972- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4973
4974- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4975 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004977- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4978 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4979 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4980 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004982- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4983 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004985- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4986 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4987 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004989- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4990 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004991
4992- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4993
4994- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4995
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004996- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4997
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004998- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4999
5000- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
5001 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
5002
5003- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
5004 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
5005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005006- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
5007 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
5008 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005010- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
5011 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005013- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
5014 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00005015
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005016
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005017Windows
5018-------
5019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005020- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
5021 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
5022 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
5023 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00005024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005025- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
5026 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005027
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00005028- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
5029
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005030
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005031Mac
5032---
5033
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00005034- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5035
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00005036- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005038- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5039 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
5040 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00005041
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00005042----
5043
5044**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**