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Georg Brandld33a9be2012-07-21 16:48:16 +02001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06004What's New in Python 2.7.4
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02006
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06007*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02008
9Core and Builtins
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Mark Dickinson7cac1c22013-03-03 11:13:34 +000012- Issue #16445: Fixed potential segmentation fault when deleting an exception
13 message.
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R David Murray5b2cf5e2013-02-23 22:11:21 -050015- Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of
16 BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom.
17
R David Murray5aff27a2013-02-18 22:04:59 -050018- Issue #7963: Fixed misleading error message that issued when object is
19 called without arguments.
20
Serhiy Storchaka34fe1b72013-02-13 12:07:43 +020021- Issue #5308: Raise ValueError when marshalling too large object (a sequence
22 with size >= 2**31), instead of producing illegal marshal data.
23
Serhiy Storchakad5327d92013-02-07 16:23:11 +020024- Issue #17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of
25 input buffer.
26
Serhiy Storchaka64cca122013-01-29 12:04:55 +020027- Issue #16979: Fix error handling bugs in the unicode-escape-decode decoder.
28
Serhiy Storchakac59c85c2013-01-26 12:13:40 +020029- Issue #10156: In the interpreter's initialization phase, unicode globals
30 are now initialized dynamically as needed.
31
Serhiy Storchaka01b3a082013-01-25 23:30:50 +020032- Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode decoder.
33
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +020034- Issue #14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping"
35 in any mapping, not only in a Unicode string.
Serhiy Storchaka95997452013-01-15 14:42:59 +020036
Serhiy Storchakac4b82c02013-01-08 23:12:00 +020037- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
38 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
39
Victor Stinner23a32ba2013-01-03 03:33:21 +010040- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB.
41
Benjamin Petersona708adf2013-01-02 12:21:32 -060042- Issue #15516: Fix a bug in PyString_FromFormat where it failed to properly
43 ignore errors from a __int__() method.
44
Benjamin Peterson6b3f8d32013-01-02 09:36:23 -060045- Issue #16839: Fix a segfault when calling unicode() on a classic class early
46 in interpreter initialization.
47
Serhiy Storchakacf095f82012-12-28 09:31:59 +020048- Issue #16761: Calling ``int()`` and ``long()`` with *base* argument only
49 now raises TypeError.
50
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -060051- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +020052 when retrieving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -060053 winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values.
54
Brian Curtin0e091b02012-12-27 12:28:51 -060055- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg
56 when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes ValueError in winreg.SetValueEx when
57 given a long.
58
Mark Dickinson9fade762012-12-24 16:33:18 +000059- Issue #13863: Work around buggy 'fstat' implementation on Windows / NTFS that
60 lead to incorrect timestamps (off by one hour) being stored in .pyc files on
61 some systems.
62
Antoine Pitroud38c9902012-12-08 21:15:26 +010063- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
64 chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
65 its refcount had dropped to zero.
66
Mark Dickinsonb1cc6aa2012-11-25 17:11:33 +000067- Issue #9011: Fix hacky AST code that modified the CST when compiling
68 a negated numeric literal.
69
Ezio Melottidb5947f2012-11-18 13:46:38 +020070- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
71 parameters where passed to the interpreter. Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
72
Antoine Pitroue3ae3212012-11-17 21:14:58 +010073- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
74 decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
75
Antoine Pitroub704eab2012-11-11 19:36:51 +010076- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
77
Gregory P. Smithc1ce93a2012-11-10 20:38:17 -080078- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
79 handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
80
Hynek Schlawackb271b3e2012-11-07 09:41:28 +010081- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
82 Stinner.
83
Ezio Melotti751a50f2012-11-05 00:06:50 +020084- Issue #5057: the peepholer no longer optimizes subscription on unicode
Ezio Melottic18cc0e2012-11-05 00:03:21 +020085 literals (e.g. u'foo'[0]) in order to produce compatible pyc files between
86 narrow and wide builds.
87
Ezio Melotti67dc4a82012-11-03 21:10:45 +020088- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
89 raises an error.
90
Mark Dickinson75d36002012-10-28 10:00:46 +000091- Issue #14700: Fix buggy overflow checks for large width and precision
92 in string formatting operations.
93
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -040094- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
Benjamin Petersonc40ddae2012-10-31 14:16:09 -040095 received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -040096
Nick Coghlanb48c0282012-10-19 21:58:18 +100097- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
98 user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
99
Chris Jerdonekad4b0002012-10-07 20:37:54 -0700100- Issue #14783: Improve int() and long() docstrings and switch docstrings for
101 unicode(), slice(), range(), and xrange() to use multi-line signatures.
102
Mark Dickinson218a8ab2012-09-28 20:36:36 +0100103- Issue #16030: Fix overflow bug in computing the `repr` of an xrange object
104 with large start, step or length.
105
106- Issue #16029: Fix overflow bug occurring when pickling xranges with large
107 start, step or length.
108
Christian Heimes671138f2012-09-25 13:29:30 +0200109- Issue #16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
110 HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
111 3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
112
Jesus Cea7ddd9c22012-12-05 14:41:11 +0100113- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread
114
Antoine Pitrou58098a72012-09-06 00:59:49 +0200115- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
116 sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
117 chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
118 types.
119
Benjamin Peterson23d49d32012-08-28 17:55:35 -0400120- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
121 subscriptable.
122
Antoine Pitrouc5bef752012-08-15 23:16:51 +0200123- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
124 errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
125
Andrew Svetlov15fc2202012-07-26 17:19:40 +0300126- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
127
Antoine Pitrou715a63b2012-07-21 00:52:06 +0200128- Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by
129 Serhiy Storchaka.
130
Meador Inge6642d1f2012-07-18 14:09:04 -0500131- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
132 non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
133
Jesus Ceae884be62012-10-03 02:13:05 +0200134- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
135 Patch by Felipe Cruz.
136
Jesus Ceabdf1b9e2012-10-31 17:00:19 +0100137- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
138
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +0200139- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
Senthil Kumaran3b30b192012-07-04 19:50:29 -0700140 return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
141
Gregory P. Smithb2ac4d62012-06-25 20:57:36 -0700142- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose
143 data when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no
144 longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
145 methods.
146
Éric Araujoe5567cc2012-07-03 01:23:46 -0400147- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
148 Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
149
Éric Araujo3cf202e2012-07-03 01:12:42 -0400150- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
151 on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
152
Hynek Schlawack9bd4bf22012-06-21 19:45:19 +0200153- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
154 the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
155
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +0200156- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
157 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
158
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +0300159- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
160 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
161 Patch by Sven Marnach.
162
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +0200163- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
164
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -0400165- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
166
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -0400167- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
168 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
169
170- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
171 special method with a different name.
172
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -0400173- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
174
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +0100175- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
176 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
177 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
178
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +0200179- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
180 created with PyFile_FromString().
181
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -0400182- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
183 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
184
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +0200185- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
186 by Suman Saha.
187
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -0400188- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
189 the module name that was not interned.
190
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -0700191- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
192 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
193
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500194- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -0500195 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
196 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500197
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +0200198- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
199
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -0600200- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
201 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
202
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +0100203- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
204 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
205
Ronald Oussoren1c60c7a2013-01-25 17:55:39 +0100206- Issue #1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``)
207 now fills the ``os.environ`` variable correctly.
208
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +0000209- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
210 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
211 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
212 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
213
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600214Library
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Antoine Pitrou49e4dfe2013-03-04 20:30:01 +0100217- Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when
218 the list is being resized concurrently.
219
Richard Oudkerkba482642013-02-26 12:37:07 +0000220- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
221
Petri Lehtinen9e147552013-02-23 19:05:09 +0100222- Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly.
223 Patch by Lowe Thiderman.
224
Serhiy Storchaka49d40222013-02-21 20:17:54 +0200225- Issue #17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting
226 with 1, as in other lines.
227
R David Murrayc32b6782013-02-19 20:00:11 -0500228- Issue #7842: backported fix for py_compile.compile() syntax error handling.
229
Serhiy Storchaka46764482013-02-18 13:00:08 +0200230- Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
231 a unicode argument contains non-BMP character.
232
Serhiy Storchaka6a8e2b42013-02-16 21:23:01 +0200233- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
234 non-greedy repeat. Patch by Matthew Barnett.
235
Serhiy Storchakae18e05c2013-02-16 16:47:15 +0200236- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
237 increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
238 64-bit).
239
Richard Oudkerkf4b65602013-02-13 15:17:47 +0000240- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.
241
Serhiy Storchaka8d7d6bc2013-02-13 12:26:58 +0200242- Issue #11311: StringIO.readline(0) now returns an empty string as all other
243 file-like objects.
244
Serhiy Storchaka0127de02013-02-13 00:34:46 +0200245- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when
246 the disk is full. Original patch by Amir Szekely.
247
Serhiy Storchakacdc7a912013-02-12 21:36:47 +0200248- Issue #13555: cPickle now supports files larger than 2 GiB.
249
Michael Foordc36bf992013-02-11 12:53:21 +0000250- Issue #17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader.
Michael Foordcb66ee72013-02-10 23:59:46 +0000251
Serhiy Storchakada5c2a02013-02-12 09:27:53 +0200252- Issue #4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now.
253
Serhiy Storchaka65d56392013-02-10 19:27:37 +0200254- Issue #17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no more hangs for large kappas.
255
Mark Dickinson9aaeb5e2013-02-10 14:13:40 +0000256- Issue #17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in
257 the range [0, 2*math.pi].
258
Serhiy Storchakaf8980382013-02-10 14:26:08 +0200259- Issue #1470548: XMLGenerator now works with UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings.
260
Serhiy Storchaka0dd3d302013-02-10 12:21:49 +0200261- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
262 symlinks on POSIX platforms.
263
Serhiy Storchaka15ea3ac2013-02-09 22:36:22 +0200264- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
265
Serhiy Storchaka276f1d52013-02-09 13:47:43 +0200266- Issue #7358: cStringIO.StringIO now supports writing to and reading from
267 a stream larger than 2 GiB on 64-bit systems.
268
Raymond Hettinger42349922013-02-09 14:20:55 -0500269- IDLE was displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks when running scripts
270 that terminated by raising SystemExit (i.e. unittest and turtledemo).
271
Serhiy Storchakabeaa3ad2013-02-09 12:20:18 +0200272- Issue #10355: In SpooledTemporaryFile class mode and name properties and
273 xreadlines method now work for unrolled files. encoding and newlines
274 properties now removed as they have no sense and always produced
275 AttributeError.
276
Serhiy Storchaka62e709c2013-02-09 11:10:30 +0200277- Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module. Fixed crashes in
278 avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv(). Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(),
279 and ratecv(). reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for
280 32-bit samples. max() and rms() no more returns a negative result and
281 various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
282
Serhiy Storchaka35c52b62013-02-07 16:59:34 +0200283- Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
284
Serhiy Storchakaa07a8b42013-02-04 12:45:46 +0200285- Issue #6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occured when PyArg_ParseTuple
286 parses nested mutating sequence.
287
Benjamin Petersonf727c312013-02-03 19:25:11 -0500288- Issue #5289: Fix ctypes.util.find_library on Solaris.
289
Serhiy Storchaka354d50e2013-02-03 17:10:42 +0200290- Issue #17106: Fix a segmentation fault in io.TextIOWrapper when an underlying
291 stream or a decoder produces data of an unexpected type (i.e. when
292 io.TextIOWrapper initialized with text stream or use bytes-to-bytes codec).
293
Éric Araujo3e081c72013-02-03 11:41:19 -0500294- Issue #13994: Add compatibility alias in distutils.ccompiler for
295 distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler.
296
Antoine Pitroud66c0ee2013-02-02 22:49:34 +0100297- Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server
298 sends less than the advertised Content-Length.
299
Benjamin Petersoneff492f2013-02-02 11:15:50 -0500300- Issue #15881: Fixed atexit hook in multiprocessing.
301
Gregory P. Smitha5df2902012-07-14 14:12:35 -0700302- Issue #14340: Upgrade the embedded expat library to version 2.1.0.
303
Serhiy Storchaka8673ab92013-02-02 10:28:30 +0200304- Issue #11159: SAX parser now supports unicode file names.
305
Gregory P. Smith608cc452013-02-01 11:40:18 -0800306- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
307 its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
308
Serhiy Storchaka8d510cd2013-01-31 15:57:51 +0200309- Issue #17049: Localized calendar methods now return unicode if a locale
310 includes an encoding and the result string contains month or weekday (was
311 regression from Python 2.6).
312
Serhiy Storchaka0be506a2013-01-31 15:26:55 +0200313- Issue #4844: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile when opens a ZIP file with an
314 incomplete "End of Central Directory" record. Original patch by Guilherme
315 Polo and Alan McIntyre.
316
Michael Foord77cd8aa2013-01-29 22:59:02 +0000317- Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is
318 set to a callable object.
319
Serhiy Storchakac12dcd22013-02-08 11:21:32 +0200320- Issue #17051: Fix a memory leak in os.path.isdir() on Windows. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka46f5b352013-01-28 20:19:50 +0200321 Robert Xiao.
322
Serhiy Storchaka9abc8302013-01-25 15:30:35 +0200323- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
324 interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
325
Serhiy Storchakab09ec9b2013-01-25 13:31:05 +0200326- Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
327 if all other iterators were very advanced before.
328
Serhiy Storchaka353e54e2013-01-22 17:13:26 +0200329- Issue #1159051: GzipFile now raises EOFError when reading a corrupted file
330 with truncated header or footer.
331
Benjamin Peterson08e153a2013-01-18 00:10:24 -0500332- Issue #16992: On Windows in signal.set_wakeup_fd, validate the file
333 descriptor argument.
334
Serhiy Storchakae39ba042013-01-15 18:01:21 +0200335- Issue #15861: tkinter now correctly works with lists and tuples containing
336 strings with whitespaces, backslashes or unbalanced braces.
337
Richard Oudkerk90b5d922013-01-14 23:09:14 +0000338- Issue #10527: Use poll() instead of select() for multiprocessing pipes.
339
Serhiy Storchaka80a9fd72013-01-15 00:29:51 +0200340- Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than
341 4 GiB.
342
Serhiy Storchakaeebcb5f2013-01-12 18:12:27 +0200343- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
344 special characters in the file path.
345
Ezio Melotti5c4e32b2013-01-11 08:32:01 +0200346- Issue #13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
347 when used inside character classes (e.g. '[\A]'). Patch by Matthew Barnett.
348
Raymond Hettinger2cdb6432013-01-12 00:05:00 -0800349- Issue #16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers
350 and doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs.
351
R David Murray32851d62013-01-10 21:10:40 -0500352- Issue #15109: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it would
353 die with an encoding error if the database contained string values
354 containing non-ASCII. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
355
R David Murrayd6186842013-01-10 11:30:51 -0500356- Issue #15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was
357 failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
358 produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
359
Nadeem Vawda895cc222013-01-02 22:59:51 +0100360- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(''). Patch by
361 Martin Packman.
362
Serhiy Storchaka14224422013-01-01 22:27:45 +0200363- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode literals.
364
Richard Oudkerk7450a812013-01-01 17:25:09 +0000365- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
366
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +0200367- Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.
Giampaolo Rodola'cef20062012-12-31 17:23:09 +0100368
Serhiy Storchakadbaac372013-01-02 11:56:58 +0200369- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed
370 on closing an aifc file.
Serhiy Storchaka4ed797e2012-12-29 22:25:59 +0200371
Antoine Pitrou40f12ab2012-12-28 19:03:43 +0100372- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
373 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
374
Serhiy Storchaka61006a22012-12-27 21:34:23 +0200375- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
376 Roger Serwy.
377
Senthil Kumaran2f01e232012-12-26 01:45:22 -0800378- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
379 localhost tests.
380
Senthil Kumaran1974baa2012-12-24 13:56:54 -0800381- Issue #16713: Fix the parsing of tel url with params using urlparse module.
382
Andrew Svetlov1c6c90f2012-12-23 20:09:01 +0200383- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
384 Patch by Anton Kasyanov.
385
Petri Lehtinenab7dd182012-12-20 21:06:14 +0200386- Issue #8853: Allow port to be of type long for socket.getaddrinfo().
387
Benjamin Peterson92014422012-12-20 12:55:52 -0600388- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
389 if invoking flush() fails.
390
Senthil Kumaranf8a6b002012-12-23 09:00:47 -0800391- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information.
392
Giampaolo Rodola'c2a81692012-12-17 14:30:48 +0100393- Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details.
394 (patch by Serhiy Storchaka)
395
Antoine Pitrou124ee8b2012-12-16 13:55:47 +0100396- Issue #16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the
397 pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path. Patch by Serhiy
398 Storchaka.
399
Antoine Pitrou4113d2b2012-12-15 19:11:54 +0100400- Issue #16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no
401 Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished. Patch by Eran
402 Rundstein.
403
Antoine Pitrou7dddec42012-12-09 14:46:18 +0100404- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
405 tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python. Patch by Zachary Ware.
406
Antoine Pitrou8eeda722012-12-08 11:05:50 +0100407- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
408
Éric Araujo2320fa02012-12-08 22:26:57 -0500409- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
410 Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.
411
Antoine Pitroub83575b2012-12-02 12:52:36 +0100412- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
413 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
414
Benjamin Peterson256aaf72012-11-29 10:57:01 -0500415- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous
416 list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
417 passed enumerate().
418
Ezio Melottidef6ee52012-11-29 02:22:49 +0200419- Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
420
Antoine Pitroub83ea142012-11-20 22:30:42 +0100421- Issue #1160: Fix compiling large regular expressions on UCS2 builds.
422 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
423
Ezio Melotti9e949722012-11-18 13:18:06 +0200424- Issue #14313: zipfile now raises NotImplementedError when the compression
425 type is unknown.
426
Antoine Pitrou02512fb2012-11-17 23:56:53 +0100427- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions
428 in the zipfile module. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
429
Gregory P. Smith9d3b6e92012-11-10 22:49:03 -0800430- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
431 used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
432
Gregory P. Smithf2705ae2012-11-10 21:13:20 -0800433- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
434 expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
435
Nadeem Vawda3c309702012-11-11 03:14:56 +0100436- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
437 previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
438
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100439- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100440 successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100441 to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
442 unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
443 unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100444
Ezio Melottief317382012-11-03 20:31:12 +0200445- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
446 is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
447
Ezio Melotti7d24b162012-11-03 17:30:51 +0200448- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
449 no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
450
Andrew Svetlov5018db72012-11-01 22:39:14 +0200451- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
452 Patch by Todd Rovito.
453
Antoine Pitrou0552fc22012-11-01 20:13:54 +0100454- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
455 size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
456
Antoine Pitroue9e35c32012-11-01 20:07:40 +0100457- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
458 while it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
459
Petri Lehtinen5c89c192012-10-29 21:16:57 +0200460- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
461 struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
462
R David Murray54eed2e2012-10-27 14:42:36 -0400463- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
464 mode when the logdir option is specified.
465
Nadeem Vawda45dba1d2012-10-21 23:09:08 +0200466- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
467
Nadeem Vawdadd72b3f2012-10-21 18:15:05 +0200468- Issue #5148: Ignore 'U' in mode given to gzip.open() and gzip.GzipFile().
469
Antoine Pitroue97a24d2012-10-21 14:09:05 +0200470- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
471 Patch by Brent Tubbs.
472
Jesus Ceaf34e4de2012-11-17 03:38:17 +0100473- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
474 and sample rate of 44100 Hz.
475
Brian Curtinc1924ab2012-10-11 16:16:50 -0500476- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
477
Gregory P. Smith0798cbc2012-09-29 12:02:48 -0700478- Issue #15756: subprocess.poll() now properly handles errno.ECHILD to
479 return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot
480 be waited on.
481
Michael Foordbf2ad342012-09-28 12:54:56 +0100482- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
483
Petri Lehtinena4fd0dc2012-09-25 21:57:59 +0300484- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
485
Senthil Kumarand41dc7c2012-09-25 02:48:21 -0700486- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
487 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
488
Ezio Melotticadff702012-09-21 17:26:35 +0300489- Issue #15421: fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
490 datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier.
491
Ezio Melotti6d6fb3a2012-09-19 08:11:03 +0300492- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
493 elements 'meta' and 'param'.
494
Jesus Cea8b54d6d2012-09-10 00:22:39 +0200495- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
496 offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
497
Antoine Pitroue299cae2012-09-07 23:49:07 +0200498- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
499 be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
500
Antoine Pitrouc5eec0e2012-09-05 20:11:49 +0200501- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
502 io.BytesIO and io.StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has
503 been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
504
Jesus Cea3e94e142012-10-04 15:06:57 +0200505- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
506 /usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin.
507
R David Murray20101872012-08-31 23:15:28 -0400508- Issue #12776,#11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
509 only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
510 default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was
511 especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always
512 be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
513
Barry Warsaw03fcfbe2012-09-11 21:06:29 -0400514- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
515 when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
516
Ronald Oussorena00b1002012-08-25 11:18:48 +0200517- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
518 compiled using the clang compiler
519
Mark Dickinson088cec32012-08-24 20:06:30 +0100520- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
521
Petri Lehtinen4efdc092012-08-20 21:05:56 +0300522- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
523 Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
524
Mark Dickinson2de4be22012-08-18 12:31:34 +0100525- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
526 system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
527
Petri Lehtinen2d44cee2012-08-15 14:22:46 +0300528- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
529
Richard Oudkerkfaee75c2012-08-14 11:41:19 +0100530- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
531 multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
532 idiom.
533
Brian Curtina9391052012-08-09 23:04:42 -0500534- Issue #15567: Fix NameError when running threading._test
535
Meador Inge2d639d52012-08-10 22:05:45 -0500536- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
537 Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
538
Andrew Svetlov8ba844a2012-08-04 21:45:23 +0300539- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
540 ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
541
Antoine Pitrou1fa9f7b2012-08-02 20:37:12 +0200542- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
543 emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
544
Andrew Svetlov8a15c372012-07-31 19:51:27 +0300545- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
546 Patch by Roger Serwy.
547
Andrew Svetlov2d968482012-07-30 20:04:53 +0300548- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
549 for tkinter SimpleDialog.
550
Antoine Pitroubaee34c2012-07-30 00:01:06 +0200551- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
552 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
553
Jesus Cead4e58dc2012-08-03 14:48:23 +0200554- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
555 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
556
Antoine Pitroubff5df02012-07-29 19:02:46 +0200557- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
558 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
559
Jesus Cea3e3192d2012-08-03 14:25:53 +0200560- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
561 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
562
Meador Inge87c5b942012-07-23 09:27:00 -0500563- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
564 return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
565 Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
566
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400567- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
R David Murray70098452012-07-24 14:24:42 -0400568 lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400569
R David Murray68f555c2012-07-21 22:54:34 -0400570- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
571 after the first one.
572
R David Murray056c31f2012-07-21 22:35:00 -0400573- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
574
Meador Inge25be3f62012-07-18 23:51:05 -0500575- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
576 of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
577
Gregory P. Smithe0c22202012-07-15 22:16:06 -0700578- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
579 to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
580
Antoine Pitrouc2ec9922012-07-06 18:48:24 +0200581- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
582 pointing to a directory.
583
Mark Dickinsone0afb722012-06-30 17:19:35 +0100584- Issue #14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
585 Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
586
Petri Lehtinend07de402012-06-29 15:09:12 +0300587- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
588 files on flush().
589
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd958cc92012-06-29 01:42:46 +0200590- Issue #15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with
591 invalid parameters.
592
Petri Lehtinen45f0d982012-06-28 13:48:17 +0300593- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
594 created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
595 mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
596
Alexander Belopolskye99d3a12012-06-21 20:57:39 -0400597- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
598 mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
599
Richard Oudkerke4b99382012-07-27 14:05:46 +0100600- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
601 sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
602
Richard Oudkerk4215d272012-06-18 15:37:31 +0100603- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
604
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -0500605- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
606 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
607 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
608
Petri Lehtinen48ee6902012-06-18 10:42:05 +0300609- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
610 between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
611 MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +0300612
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +0100613- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
614 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
615
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +0100616- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
617 non-string argument to SystemExit.
618
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +0100619- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
620 patch by mouad.
621
Ned Deily10e93a62012-12-31 15:06:38 -0800622- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and byte
623 literals currently supported in Python 2.7.
624
Ned Deily5e247b72012-05-31 09:17:29 -0700625- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
626 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
627
Ned Deily71489842012-05-29 10:42:34 -0700628- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
629
Terry Jan Reedy5525eb72012-06-07 19:50:30 -0400630- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
Terry Jan Reedyd9d276b2012-05-27 21:28:42 -0400631 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
632
Terry Jan Reedyeaa7e782012-05-26 20:33:32 -0400633- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
634 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
635
Terry Jan Reedy42f7b7e2012-05-26 16:55:43 -0400636- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
637 Patch by Roger Serwy.
638
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +0800639- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
640 not go in illegal range and returns None.
641
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +0200642- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
643 larger than 2**32 bytes.
644
Jesus Cea03a9d2a2012-09-10 21:04:42 +0200645- Issue #15908: Fix misbehaviour of the sha1 module when called on data
646 larger than 2**32 bytes.
647
Jesus Cea3fb774e2012-09-10 21:39:07 +0200648- Issue #15910: Fix misbehaviour of _md5 and sha1 modules when "updating"
649 on data larger than 2**32 bytes.
650
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600651- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
652
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -0700653- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
654 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
655
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +0800656- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
657 Header in Cookie.py.
658
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +0800659- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
660 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
661
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +0300662- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
663 ports stricter.
664
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +0800665- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
666 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
667
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +0300668- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
669 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
670 Xavier de Gaye.
671
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400672- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
673 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
674
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200675- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
676
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700677- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
678 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
679 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
680 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
681 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
682
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800683- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
684 Authentation in urllib2.
685
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700686- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
687 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
688
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200689- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
690 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
691
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200692- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
693
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800694- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
695 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
696
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200697- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
698 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
699
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200700- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
701 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
702
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400703- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
704 were missing, instead of raising an error.
705
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800706- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
707 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600708
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200709- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
710 module's active list after a fork().
711
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600712- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
713 a bare '/'.
714
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100715- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
716
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100717- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
718 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
719
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400720- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
721 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
722 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400723
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200724- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
725 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
726 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
727
Andrew Svetlov8af87292012-03-31 14:34:16 +0300728- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
729 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
730 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
731 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
Andrew Svetlovc37db102012-03-29 19:54:58 +0300732
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100733- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
734 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
735 was not meant to connect.
736
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400737- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
738 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
739
Andrew Svetlov7c010ee2012-03-21 13:35:08 +0200740- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
741 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
742
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100743- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
744 attribute.
745
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700746- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
747
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700748- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
749
Martin v. Löwisf163efd2012-03-13 14:46:22 -0700750- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
751
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100752- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
753 Windows when the child process has already exited.
754
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600755- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
756 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
757 fixed.
758
759- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
760 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
761 O(1) rather than O(n).
762
763- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
764
765- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
766 scripts found in the Tools directory.
767
768- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
769 on Windows.
770
Chris Withers2cc0b072012-11-09 15:48:17 +0000771- Issue #16441: Avoid excessive memory usage working with large gzip
772 files using the gzip module.
773
Ned Deilyec8f8f72013-01-09 22:04:35 -0800774- Issue #15782: Prevent compile errors of OS X Carbon modules _Fm, _Qd, and
775 _Qdoffs when compiling with an SDK of 10.7 or later. The OS X APIs they
776 wrap have long been deprecated and have now been removed with 10.7.
777 These modules were already empty for 64-bit builds and have been removed
778 in Python 3.
779
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +0200780Extension Modules
781-----------------
782
Gregory P. Smitha06ad5b2013-02-01 13:07:27 -0800783- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
784 when a write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
Gregory P. Smitha998ad02013-02-01 13:02:59 -0800785
Gregory P. Smith0d68ab32012-11-27 10:19:29 -0800786- Fix the leak of a dict in the time module when used in an embedded
787 interpreter that is repeatedly initialized and shutdown and reinitialized.
788
Gregory P. Smith99716162012-10-12 13:02:06 -0700789- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read or readall methods
790 no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted
791 within an io module object. IOError is no longer raised due to a read
792 system call returning EINTR from within these methods.
793
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +0200794- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
795 method doesn't require an argument again.
796
Ned Deily18fae3f2013-01-31 01:24:55 -0800797- Issue #13590: OS X Xcode 4 - improve support for universal extension modules
798 In particular, fix extension module build failures when trying to use
799 32-bit-only installer Pythons on systems with Xcode 4 (currently
800 OS X 10.8, 10.7, and optionally 10.6).
801 * Backport 3.3.0 fixes to 2.7 branch (for release in 2.7.4)
802 * Since Xcode 4 removes ppc support, extension module builds now
803 check for ppc compiler support and by default remove ppc and
804 ppc64 archs when they are not available.
805 * Extension module builds now revert to using system installed
806 headers and libs (/usr and /System/Library) if the SDK used
807 to build the interpreter is not installed or has moved.
808 * Try to avoid building extension modules with deprecated
809 and problematic Apple llvm-gcc compiler. If original compiler
810 is not available, use clang instead by default.
811
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200812Tests
813-----
814
Ezio Melottiefaad092013-03-11 00:34:33 +0200815- Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess.
816
Ezio Melotti2fddfd82013-02-23 05:45:37 +0200817- Issue #17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads.
818
R David Murraya5e7f8f2013-02-09 12:53:29 -0500819- We now run both test_email.py and test_email_renamed.py when running the
820 test_email regression test. test_email_renamed contains some tests that
821 test_email does not.
822
Serhiy Storchaka72121c62013-01-27 19:45:49 +0200823- Issue #17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the
824 --without-doc-strings option.
825
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +0200826- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.
827
Chris Jerdonek3684c792012-12-27 18:14:01 -0800828- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile and --randomize options.
829
Hynek Schlawack4a5a4c22012-12-27 10:24:21 +0100830- Issue #16618: Add more regression tests for glob.
831 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
832
Hynek Schlawack646c7b52012-12-16 12:30:57 +0100833- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
834 starting with a ".". Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
835
Victor Stinner8c7c6972012-12-04 10:07:16 +0100836- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
837 UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
838 tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
839
Ezio Melottid8feba92012-11-29 02:14:52 +0200840- Issue #16549: Add tests for json.tools. Initial patch by Berker Peksag
841 and Serhiy Storchaka.
842
Ezio Melotti282d3312012-11-26 19:22:58 +0200843- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
844 official test suite at json.org. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
845
Trent Nelsone9992292012-10-26 22:21:46 -0400846- Issue #16274: Fix test_asyncore on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
847
Petri Lehtinen9ad6a562012-10-23 14:39:34 +0300848- Issue #15040: Close files in mailbox tests for PyPy compatibility.
849 Original patch by Matti Picus.
850
Petri Lehtinen80f45532012-09-01 14:25:48 +0300851- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
852 by Serhiy Storchaka.
853
Trent Nelsonda4277a2012-08-29 09:20:41 -0400854- Issue #15765: Extend a previous fix to Solaris and OpenBSD for quirky
855 getcwd() behaviour (issue #9185) to NetBSD as well.
856
Antoine Pitrou0e3a4c82012-08-18 20:51:05 +0200857- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
858 input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
859
Brian Curtinbc77d362012-08-13 17:26:48 -0500860- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows.
861 Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
862
Nick Coghlana0933122012-06-17 19:03:39 +1000863- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
864 block loading of the gdb hooks
865
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200866- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
867 a test failure in test_ssl.
868
Ned Deilycc23cc62013-02-02 15:06:45 -0800869- Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
870 deployment target prior to 10.6.
871
Ned Deilyaa1e1a22013-02-11 22:10:59 -0800872- Issue #17111: Prevent test_surrogates (test_fileio) failure on OS X 10.4.
873
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200874Build
875-----
876
Ezio Melotti617e2c12013-03-11 09:14:09 +0200877- Issue #16004: Add `make touch`.
878
Petri Lehtinenc23178b2013-02-23 17:05:28 +0100879- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the
880 SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.
881
Benjamin Peterson8e830a02013-02-20 16:54:30 -0500882- Issue #17228: Fix building without pymalloc.
883
doko@python.orgd65e2ba2013-01-31 23:52:03 +0100884- Issue #17086: Backport the patches from the 3.3 branch to cross-build
885 the package.
886
doko@python.orgfa3f9a32013-01-25 15:32:31 +0100887- Issue #3754: fix typo in pthread AC_CACHE_VAL.
888
doko@python.org4e63fbe2013-01-25 13:08:27 +0100889- Issue #17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory.
890
Charles-François Natalia41cf292013-01-19 12:15:56 +0100891- Issue #16953: Fix socket module compilation on platforms with
892 HAVE_BROKEN_POLL. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
893
Charles-François Natalibe2b9072013-01-08 19:47:00 +0100894- Issue #16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host.
895
Ezio Melottic820de52012-09-30 22:41:37 +0300896- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
897 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
898
doko@ubuntu.com3d2fc152012-09-21 13:51:40 +0200899- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development
900 tools (dpkg-dev) installed.
901
Trent Nelsonf6407a12012-08-30 14:56:13 +0000902- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
903 source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
904
Ned Deily10fc1042012-09-08 18:47:27 -0700905- Issue #15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
Ned Deily8622f092012-08-22 23:26:06 -0700906
Ned Deily67028042012-08-05 14:42:45 -0700907- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
908
Martin v. Löwis33f8c3a2012-08-01 10:05:27 +0200909- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
910
Ned Deilyd8ec4642012-07-30 04:07:49 -0700911- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
912
Ned Deilyacf7b952013-02-01 13:58:00 -0800913- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
914
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +0200915- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
916 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
917
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +0200918- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
919
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +0200920- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
921
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200922- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
923
Ned Deily6e7da152013-02-01 23:10:56 -0800924- Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with
925 Retina displays. Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X
926 framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5.
927
Ned Deilyed1e4382013-02-08 22:51:52 -0800928- Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python2 and python man page.
929
Ned Deilyeec152d2013-03-04 14:31:04 -0800930- Issue #16848: python-config now returns proper --ldflags values for OS X
931 framework builds.
932
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +0100933Tools/Demos
934-----------
935
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +0200936- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. Now
937 pindent.py works with a "with" statement. pindent.py no longer produces
938 improper indentation. pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
939 "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line.
940
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +0100941- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
942 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
943
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300944Documentation
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700945-------------
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -0400946
Terry Jan Reedy21e52aa2013-03-12 02:19:09 -0400947- Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
Terry Jan Reedyf9d31062013-03-12 01:26:28 -0400948 reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.
949
Chris Jerdonek2277b942013-02-27 09:55:39 -0800950- Issue #16406: combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.
951
Petri Lehtinenfead3c82013-02-23 21:05:27 +0100952- Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in
953 PKG-INFO. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
954
Petri Lehtinen23427842013-02-23 19:53:03 +0100955- Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a
956 dot. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
957
Petri Lehtinen0b785032013-02-23 19:24:08 +0100958- Issue #8890: Stop advertising an insecure practice by replacing uses
959 of the /tmp directory with better alternatives in the documentation.
960 Patch by Geoff Wilson.
961
Chris Jerdonek13cee162013-02-21 18:52:12 -0800962- Issue #17203: add long option names to unittest discovery docs.
963
Ezio Melotti58abc5b2013-01-05 00:49:48 +0200964- Issue #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values
965 all return the same result?" programming FAQ.
966
Brian Curtinbc453ca2012-12-17 00:17:49 -0600967- Issue #14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ.
968 Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.
969
Chris Jerdonek8da82682012-11-29 19:03:37 -0800970- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.
971
Chris Jerdonek08012312012-11-14 12:36:53 -0800972- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
973 PyPI displays.
974
Nadeem Vawda04050b82012-11-11 13:52:10 +0100975- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
976 mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
977
Ezio Melotti3d072062012-10-27 22:04:56 +0300978- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by
979 Yury Selivanov.
980
Chris Jerdonek1906c0c2012-10-08 23:18:17 -0700981- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
982 and executable arguments.
983
Ezio Melotti31a9e832012-10-02 05:34:38 +0300984- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
985
Chris Jerdonek71d74b02012-09-30 21:07:56 -0700986- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
987 arguments.
988
Barry Warsaw0dea9362012-09-25 10:32:53 -0400989- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
990 default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
991
Petri Lehtinenf9e1f112012-09-01 07:27:58 +0300992- Issue #13769: Document the effect of ensure_ascii to the return type
993 of JSON decoding functions.
994
Hynek Schlawack7d978902012-08-28 12:33:46 +0200995- Issue #14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect.
996 Patch by Chris Rebert.
997
Antoine Pitrouf3e0a692012-08-24 19:46:17 +0200998- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
999 Patch by Chris Rebert.
1000
Senthil Kumaran2f76f732012-08-12 11:58:53 -07001001- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
1002 Daniel Ellis.
1003
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -04001004- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
1005 execfile().
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +03001006
1007- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
1008
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -07001009- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
1010 contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
1011
Ned Deily7045f052013-02-02 00:14:44 -08001012- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
1013 supported.
1014
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001015
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -07001016What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
1017===============================================
1018
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -05001019*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -07001020
1021Library
1022-------
1023
1024- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
1025 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
1026 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
1027 modifications by the expat project.
1028
1029
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001030What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
1031===============================================
1032
1033*Release date: 2012-02-23*
1034
1035Core and Builtins
1036-----------------
1037
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +01001038- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
1039 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
1040
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -05001041- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
1042 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
1043 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
1044 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
1045
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +01001046- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
1047 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
1048
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -05001049- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
1050 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
1051
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +01001052- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
1053 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
1054 noticing.
1055
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +01001056- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
1057 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
1058
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +01001059- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
1060 already accepts them).
1061
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +02001062- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
1063 setobject.c.
1064
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -04001065- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
1066
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +03001067- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
1068 Patch by Suman Saha.
1069
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08001070- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
1071 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
1072
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +11001073- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
1074 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
1075 embedded situations.
1076
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -04001077- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
1078 PySequence_DelItem.
1079
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +02001080- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
1081 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
1082
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +02001083- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
1084 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
1085
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +01001086- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
1087 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
1088 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +01001089 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
1090 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
1091 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +01001092
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +03001093- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
1094 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
1095
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -05001096- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
1097 and identifier types before compiling.
1098
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001099- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
1100 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -05001101
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +02001102- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
1103 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
1104 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
1105 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
1106 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
1107
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +01001108- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
1109 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +02001110
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +02001111- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
1112 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
1113
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +02001114- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001115 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
1116 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
1117
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +02001118- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
1119 delimiter in URLs.
1120
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001121- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
1122 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +01001123
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001124Library
1125-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02001126
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +02001127- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
1128 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
1129
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +02001130- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
1131
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +01001132- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
1133 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
1134
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -08001135- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
1136
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +01001137- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
1138
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +02001139- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +02001140 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +02001141
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +01001142- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
1143 Patch by Suman Saha.
1144
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -06001145- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
1146 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
1147
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +01001148- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
1149 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
1150
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +02001151- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
1152
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +02001153- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
1154
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +02001155- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
1156 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
1157 Kohtala.
1158
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +01001159- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +01001160 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
1161 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
1162 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
1163 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
1164 is the case in 3.x.
1165
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +01001166- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
1167 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
1168 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
1169 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
1170 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
1171 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
1172 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
1173 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
1174 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
1175 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
1176 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
1177 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
1178
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +08001179- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
1180
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +08001181- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
1182 relevant, instead send method.
1183
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +02001184- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
1185 raise a ProgrammingError now.
1186
Ned Deily2c8bf042012-02-06 00:55:50 +01001187- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
1188
Terry Jan Reedyadb87e22012-02-05 15:10:55 -05001189- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
1190 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
1191
Ned Deily61c95342012-02-04 18:35:23 +01001192- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
1193 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
1194
Ned Deilyfbc56fd2012-02-03 02:39:49 +01001195- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
1196
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +02001197- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
1198
Terry Jan Reedyb98000a2012-01-31 02:09:25 -05001199- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
1200 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
1201
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +01001202- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
1203 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
1204
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +01001205- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
1206 IV attack countermeasure.
1207
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +08001208- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
1209
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +02001210- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
1211 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
1212
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +01001213- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
1214 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
1215
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +01001216- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
1217 in the directory name.
1218
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +08001219- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
1220 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
1221
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +01001222- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
1223 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
1224
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +08001225- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
1226
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +01001227- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
1228
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +01001229- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
1230
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +01001231- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
1232 Cédric Krier.
1233
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +01001234- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
1235 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
1236
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +01001237- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
1238 redirection or an error.
1239
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -08001240- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
1241 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
1242 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
1243
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +01001244- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
1245 other than 900k.
1246
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -08001247- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
1248 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
1249
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +02001250- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
1251
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +01001252- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
1253 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
1254 Harring.
1255
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +01001256- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
1257 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
1258
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +01001259- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
1260
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +01001261- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
1262 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
1263 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
1264 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
1265 Patch by sbt.
1266
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +02001267- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
1268
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +02001269- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
1270 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
1271 Kenigsberg.
1272
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -08001273- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
1274 sequences.
1275
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +02001276- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
1277 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
1278
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +01001279- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
1280 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
1281
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +02001282- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
1283 locale.setlocale().
1284
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +02001285- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
1286 are read correctly.
1287
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +01001288- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
1289
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +01001290- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
1291
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +02001292- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
1293 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
1294
1295- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +08001296 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1297
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +02001298- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -07001299 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
1300
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +02001301- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
1302
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +01001303- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
1304 multiple encodings.
1305
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +02001306- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
1307 before all tasks have completed.
1308
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02001309- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
1310 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +02001311 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
1312 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02001313
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +02001314- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
1315
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08001316- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
1317 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
1318
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +08001319- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
1320 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
1321
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +02001322- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
1323 now available on Windows.
1324
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +02001325- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
1326 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
1327
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -07001328- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
1329 contents cannot be read.
1330
1331- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
1332 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
1333
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +02001334- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
1335 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
1336
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +02001337- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
1338 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
1339 Craig Citro.
1340
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +02001341- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
1342 Thomas Jarosch.
1343
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +02001344- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
1345 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
1346
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02001347- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
1348 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
1349 present.
1350
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +02001351- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
1352 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001353
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +02001354- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
1355 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
1356 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
1357 information was lost.
1358
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +02001359- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
1360 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
1361
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +02001362- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
1363 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
1364
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +02001365- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
1366 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
1367
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +02001368- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
1369 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
1370
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +02001371- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
1372 interpreter shutdown.
1373
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +02001374- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
1375 Pipe.
1376
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +02001377- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
1378 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
1379
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +02001380- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
1381 is compiled on Linux 3.
1382
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +02001383- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
1384
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +02001385- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
1386
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +02001387- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
1388 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
1389
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -04001390- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
1391 accepting unicode strings.
1392
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +08001393- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
1394 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
1395
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +02001396- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
1397
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +02001398- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
1399 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
1400
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +02001401- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
1402 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
1403
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +02001404- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
1405
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -07001406- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
1407 collections when it is done.
1408
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +02001409- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
1410 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
1411
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +02001412- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
1413 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1414
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +02001415- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
1416
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +02001417- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
1418 locales.
1419
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +02001420- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +02001421
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +02001422- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
1423
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +02001424- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
1425
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +02001426- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
1427 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
1428 Linux 3.0.
1429
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -04001430- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
1431 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
1432
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +02001433- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
1434 Andreas Stührk.
1435
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +02001436- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
1437
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +02001438- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
1439 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
1440
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +02001441- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
1442 if the process has only one pipe.
1443
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +02001444- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
1445 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
1446
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +02001447- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
1448 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
1449
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001450- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
1451 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
1452 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
1453 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02001454 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001455 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
1456 still possible to globally override the default by setting
1457 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
1458 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
1459 was built.
1460
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +02001461- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
1462 it won't grow without bound.
1463
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +02001464- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
1465 Kitada.
1466
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -04001467- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
1468 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
1469
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +02001470- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
1471 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
1472 written by Ezio Melotti.
1473
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -05001474- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
1475 functions.
1476
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -04001477- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
1478
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -05001479- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
1480 instead of os.stat.
1481
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +01001482- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
1483 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
1484
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -07001485- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
1486
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001487- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
1488 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
1489 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
1490 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
1491 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
1492 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -07001493
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +02001494- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
1495 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
1496 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
1497
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001498Extension Modules
1499-----------------
1500
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -05001501- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
1502 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
1503 case of overflow has been fixed.
1504
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +01001505- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
1506 Possible crash.
1507
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +01001508- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
1509 json.loads().
1510
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +01001511- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
1512 Vilmos Nebehaj.
1513
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +02001514- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
1515 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
1516
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +02001517- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
1518 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
1519 writer got cleared by the GC.
1520
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -05001521- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
1522
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -05001523- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
1524 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
1525
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +02001526- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
1527 file descriptor was actually received.
1528
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +02001529- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
1530 object triggers the garbage collector.
1531
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +02001532- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
1533 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
1534
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +02001535- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
1536 a string.
1537
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +02001538- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
1539 some functions like file.write().
1540
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001541- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1542 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1543 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1544
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001545Build
1546-----
1547
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +01001548- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
1549
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +01001550- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
1551
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +01001552- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
1553
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001554- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1555 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1556 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1557 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1558
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001559Tools/Demos
1560-----------
1561
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +02001562- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
1563 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
1564
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -08001565- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
1566 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
1567 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
1568 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
1569
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001570- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1571 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
1572
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +01001573- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
1574 traceback if Python is optimized.
1575
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001576Tests
1577-----
1578
Martin v. Löwisc02e1e62012-07-29 16:30:50 +02001579- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
1580 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1581
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +02001582- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
1583 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
1584
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -07001585- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
1586 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
1587
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -04001588- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
1589
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +02001590- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
1591
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +02001592- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1593 Python.
1594
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -07001595- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1596 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1597
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +02001598- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1599 failure in name resolution.
1600
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +01001601- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
1602 in test_telnetlib.py.
1603
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +01001604- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
1605
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +02001606- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1607 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1608 Web site.
1609
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +02001610- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1611 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1612 is now skipped instead.
1613
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -07001614- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1615 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1616 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1617
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -07001618- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
1619 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
1620 run outside of a build directory.
1621
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001622- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1623 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1624
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -07001625- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1626 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1627
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001628- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1629 iso2022_kr).
1630
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001631Documentation
1632-------------
1633
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +02001634- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
1635 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +02001636
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +02001637- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
1638
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -05001639- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
1640
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -06001641- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
1642 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
1643
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -06001644- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
1645 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
1646
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +10001647- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
1648 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
1649
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001650- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
1651
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001652
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001653What's New in Python 2.7.2?
1654===========================
1655
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -05001656*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001657
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -05001658Library
1659-------
1660
1661- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
1662
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -05001663Extension Modules
1664-----------------
1665
1666- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
1667
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001668
1669What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
1670===============================================
1671
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -05001672*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001673
1674Core and Builtins
1675-----------------
1676
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -07001677- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
1678 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
1679 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
1680 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1681
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -05001682- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
1683 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
1684 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -05001685
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +02001686- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
1687 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
1688
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +02001689- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1690 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1691 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1692
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +02001693- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
1694 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
1695
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001696- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
1697 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
1698 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +02001699 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001700
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +02001701- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
1702 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
1703 by Charles-François Natali.
1704
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +03001705- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
1706 accepted too.
1707
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +03001708- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
1709 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
1710 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
1711
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +02001712- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
1713 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
1714 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1715
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +00001716- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
1717 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
1718 though the result was within the range of an int.
1719
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +01001720- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
1721 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1722
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +00001723- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1724 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1725
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +00001726- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1727 class.
1728
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001729- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
1730 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
1731 Patch by Matt Bandy.
1732
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +00001733- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1734
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +00001735- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1736 can now handle dates after 2038.
1737
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +00001738- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
1739 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1740 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
1741
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02001742- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +02001743 Patch by Torsten Becker.
1744
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +00001745- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
1746
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +00001747- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
1748 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
1749 0.0, not -0.0.
1750
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +00001751- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
1752 empty, instead of OverflowError.
1753
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001754Library
1755-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001756
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -07001757- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
1758 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
1759
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -05001760- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
1761 closed StringIO instance.
1762
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +02001763- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
1764 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
1765
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +02001766- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
1767
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02001768- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
1769 if the file is closed.
1770
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02001771- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
1772 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
1773
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02001774- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
1775 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
1776 final argument is True.
1777
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001778- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
1779 to be able to unload the module.
1780
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +02001781- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
1782 with Tk 8.5.
1783
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02001784- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1785 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1786
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001787- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02001788 set in shell.
1789
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02001790- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
1791 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
1792
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02001793- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
1794 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
1795 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
1796 still within buffered data, and writing again).
1797
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02001798- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
1799 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
1800
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02001801- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
1802
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +02001803- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
1804
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02001805- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
1806 by Kasun Herath.
1807
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02001808- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04001809 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1810 previous value of the mtime.
1811
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02001812- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1813 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1814 for the case.
1815
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03001816- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
1817
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02001818- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1819 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1820
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08001821- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
1822 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
1823
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03001824- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1825 strings are too long.
1826
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08001827- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1828
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02001829- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1830 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1831 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1832
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07001833- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1834 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1835
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02001836- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
1837 to avoid XSS attacks.
1838
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08001839- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
1840 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1841
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07001842- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1843
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08001844- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1845 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1846
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03001847- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1848 _json is not available.
1849
1850- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08001851 url contains #fragment.
1852
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04001853- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1854 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1855
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05001856- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1857 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1858
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001859- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
1860 a closed file.
1861
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07001862- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
1863 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
1864 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
1865
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02001866- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1867 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1868 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1869
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001870- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03001871
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02001872- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1873
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07001874- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07001875 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001876
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001877- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1878 arguments.
1879
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02001880- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1881
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01001882- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1883 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1884
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01001885- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1886 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1887 documentation.
1888
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02001889- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
1890
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07001891- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1892 that start with a leading underscore.
1893
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00001894- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
1895 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
1896
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01001897- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1898 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1899
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001900- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1901 setup and teardown.
1902
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04001903- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1904 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1905 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1906
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001907- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
1908 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04001909
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00001910- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
1911 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1912
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08001913- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1914 initialization fails.
1915
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01001916- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1917 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1918 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1919
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00001920- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1921 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1922 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1923
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00001924- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1925 on accept(), send() and recv().
1926
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00001927- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1928 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1929
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00001930- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1931 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1932
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00001933- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1934 argparse.
1935
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00001936- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1937 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1938 32-bit Windows.
1939
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00001940- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
1941 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
1942
1943- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1944
1945- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1946
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00001947- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
1948 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
1949
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00001950- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
1951 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
1952
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00001953- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
1954 Patch by Stan Mihai.
1955
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +00001956- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1957 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1958 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1959
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +00001960- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1961 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1962 64-/32-bit installer variant.
1963
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +00001964- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1965 commands.
1966
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001967- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1968
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00001969- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1970 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1971
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00001972- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1973 a symbol named FSTAT.
1974
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +00001975- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1976 Cocoa AquaTk.
1977
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00001978- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
1979 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
1980 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1981
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00001982- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1983
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001984- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
1985 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
1986 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
1987 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
1988 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
1989 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
1990
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00001991- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
1992 node twice.
1993
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00001994- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1995 on an existing file.
1996
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00001997- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1998 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1999
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00002000- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
2001 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
2002 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2003
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00002004- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
2005 DeprecationWarning.
2006
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00002007- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
2008
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002009- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00002010 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
2011 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
2012 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
2013
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002014- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00002015
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002016- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00002017 browsers actually parse cookies.
2018
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00002019- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
2020 email.header.Header.encode.
2021
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00002022- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
2023 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
2024 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
2025
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00002026- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
2027
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00002028- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00002029 about input.
2030
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00002031- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
2032
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00002033- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
2034 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
2035
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00002036- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
2037
2038- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00002039 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
2040
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002041- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
2042 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
2043
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00002044- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
2045 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002046
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00002047- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
2048 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2049
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00002050- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
2051
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00002052- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
2053 causes debug mode to fail.
2054
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +00002055- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
2056
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +00002057- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
2058 platforms).
2059
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00002060- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2061 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2062 current process.
2063
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00002064- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
2065
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00002066- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2067
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00002068- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
2069 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
2070 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
2071
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00002072- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
2073 argparse.FileType.
2074
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01002075- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
2076
2077- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
2078
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01002079- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
2080 their children.
2081
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02002082- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
2083
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02002084- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
2085
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00002086Extension Modules
2087-----------------
2088
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05002089- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
2090 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
2091 attributes. (See #12099)
2092
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03002093- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
2094
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03002095- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
2096 objects using the C accelerations.
2097
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03002098- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
2099 objects using the C accelerations.
2100
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05002101- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
2102 to an instance of the class.
2103
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00002104- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2105
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00002106Build
2107-----
2108
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07002109- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
2110 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
2111 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
2112
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08002113- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
2114
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00002115- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
2116
2117- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
2118
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00002119- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
2120
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00002121- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
2122 package had previously been installed.
2123
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00002124- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
2125 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
2126
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00002127- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
2128 the system-provided Python.
2129
2130- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
2131 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
2132 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
2133 support enabled).
2134
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00002135- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
2136
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00002137- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
2138 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
2139
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00002140- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
2141 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
2142
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00002143- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
2144 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
2145 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
2146 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
2147
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002148- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
2149 using GCC 4.0.
2150
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -07002151IDLE
2152----
2153
2154- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
2155 file in a package.
2156
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00002157Tests
2158-----
2159
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07002160- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
2161
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03002162- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
2163
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03002164- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
2165
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02002166- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
2167
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02002168- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
2169 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
2170
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07002171- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
2172 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
2173
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04002174- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
2175 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
2176
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00002177- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
2178 by Ross Lagerwall.
2179
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00002180- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
2181 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
2182 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
2183
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00002184- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
2185 encountering them.
2186
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00002187- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
2188 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
2189
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002190
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002191What's New in Python 2.7.1?
2192===========================
2193
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00002194*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002195
2196Library
2197-------
2198
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00002199- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2200
2201- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2202
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00002203- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
2204 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
2205 iterator was undefined.
2206
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00002207- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
2208 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
2209
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00002210- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2211
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00002212- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
2213
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00002214- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2215
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00002216- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2217
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00002218- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2219 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2220
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00002221- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2222 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2223 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2224
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00002225- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
2226 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2227
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00002228- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2229 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2230
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00002231- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
2232
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00002233- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
2234 is called without data.
2235
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00002236- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2237 end of the file.
2238
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00002239- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2240
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00002241Build
2242-----
2243
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00002244- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
2245
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00002246- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
2247
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00002248Tests
2249-----
2250
2251- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
2252
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00002253Documentation
2254-------------
2255
2256- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2257
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002258
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00002259What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
2260===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002261
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00002262*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002263
2264Core and Builtins
2265-----------------
2266
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00002267- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2268 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2269
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002270- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
2271 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00002272
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002273- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
2274 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00002275
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00002276- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2277 resolution.
2278
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00002279- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
2280 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
2281
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00002282- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
2283 warning.
2284
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00002285- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2286 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2287
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00002288- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
2289 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
2290 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
2291 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
2292
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00002293- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
2294
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00002295- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2296 thread-local storage key.
2297
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002298- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
2299 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
2300 the same behaviour than the print statement.
2301
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00002302- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
2303 a memoryview object.
2304
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00002305- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
2306
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00002307- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
2308
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002309- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
2310 of an array.
2311
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00002312- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
2313
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00002314- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
2315 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
2316
2317 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
2318 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
2319
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00002320- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
2321 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002322
2323Library
2324-------
2325
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002326- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00002327
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00002328- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
2329 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
2330
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00002331- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2332 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00002333
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00002334- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2335
2336- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2337
2338- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2339 not in build_clib.
2340
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00002341- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2342 Arfrever.
2343
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00002344- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2345
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00002346- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2347 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2348
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00002349- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
2350 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
2351
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002352- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
2353 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00002354
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002355- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
2356
2357- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
2358 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
2359 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00002360
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00002361- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
2362 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2363
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00002364- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2365 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2366
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00002367- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
2368 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2369
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00002370- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
2371
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00002372- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
2373 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
2374
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00002375- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2376 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2377 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2378
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00002379- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
2380 initialization.
2381
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00002382- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
2383 ntpath.relpath().
2384
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002385- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00002386 debugging in doctests.
2387
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002388- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2389 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2390
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00002391- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
2392 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
2393
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00002394- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2395
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00002396- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2397
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00002398- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2399 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2400
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00002401- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2402 gettext.
2403
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00002404- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2405 gname field.
2406
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00002407- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2408 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2409
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00002410- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
2411 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
2412
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00002413- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
2414 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
2415 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
2416 with a timeout.
2417
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002418- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2419
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002420- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2421
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00002422- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2423
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00002424- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2425
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00002426- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
2427 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
2428
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00002429- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
2430 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
2431 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
2432 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
2433 by Andrew Bennetts.
2434
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00002435- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
2436 values: d['x'] = d.
2437
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00002438- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00002439
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00002440- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2441 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2442
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00002443- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
2444 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
2445 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
2446 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
2447 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
2448 to zero.
2449
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002450- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002451 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002452 value.
2453
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00002454- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
2455 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
2456 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
2457 original error is re-raised.
2458
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00002459- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
2460 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
2461 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
2462
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00002463- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
2464 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
2465
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00002466- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
2467 ConfigParser.write.
2468
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00002469- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
2470 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
2471
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00002472- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
2473 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
2474 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
2475
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00002476- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
2477 falling into recursion.
2478
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00002479- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
2480 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
2481
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00002482- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
2483 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
2484
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002485- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00002486 error handling when accepting a new connection.
2487
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00002488- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
2489 errors.
2490
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00002491- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
2492
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00002493- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
2494 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
2495
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00002496- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
2497 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
2498
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002499- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
2500 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
2501
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00002502- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
2503 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
2504 overridden to provide ordered views.
2505
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00002506- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
2507 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
2508 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
2509
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00002510- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
2511 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
2512 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
2513
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00002514- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
2515 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
2516 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
2517 patch by Jason V. Miller.
2518
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00002519- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
2520 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
2521
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00002522- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
2523 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
2524
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00002525- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
2526 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
2527 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
2528
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00002529- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
2530 current node.
2531
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00002532- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
2533
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00002534- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
2535 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
2536
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00002537- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
2538 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
2539 behavior was wrong.
2540
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00002541- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
2542
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00002543- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
2544 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
2545
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00002546- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
2547 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
2548 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
2549
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002550- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
2551
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002552- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
2553 the command line.
2554
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00002555- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
2556 interactive browser.
2557
2558- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
2559 regular expressions.
2560
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00002561- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
2562 data generated with the profile module.
2563
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00002564- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
2565 entries, consider the first one.
2566
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00002567- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
2568 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
2569
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00002570- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
2571 in the top-level debugged frame.
2572
2573- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
2574 in doctests.
2575
2576- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
2577 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
2578
2579- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
2580 been reassigned.
2581
2582- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
2583 a breakpoint command.
2584
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00002585- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
2586 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
2587
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00002588- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
2589 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
2590
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00002591- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
2592
2593- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
2594 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
2595
2596- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
2597 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
2598
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00002599- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2600
2601- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2602
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00002603- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2604 across devices.
2605
2606- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2607
2608- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2609
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00002610- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
2611 string when Unicode was previously output.
2612
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00002613- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2614 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
2615
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00002616- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
2617 utf-16 incremental encoders.
2618
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00002619- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
2620
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00002621- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
2622 parameters.
2623
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00002624- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
2625 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
2626 XML-RPC request.
2627
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00002628- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
2629
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00002630- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
2631 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
2632 options).
2633
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00002634- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
2635
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00002636- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
2637 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
2638 (Jan Hosang).
2639
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00002640- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
2641
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00002642- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
2643 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
2644 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
2645
2646- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
2647 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
2648 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
2649
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00002650- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
2651 strings in add_option calls.
2652
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00002653- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
2654
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00002655- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002656
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00002657- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
2658
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002659- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
2660 for tracing methods.
2661
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002662Extension Modules
2663-----------------
2664
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00002665- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
2666 with expat version 2.0.1.
2667
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002668- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002669 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002670
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00002671- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
2672 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2673
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00002674- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
2675 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
2676
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002677- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
2678 interpreter by default.
2679
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00002680- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
2681 to prevent crashes.
2682
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00002683- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
2684 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
2685 2**31 elements.
2686
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00002687- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
2688
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00002689- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
2690 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
2691
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00002692- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
2693 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
2694
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00002695- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
2696
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00002697- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
2698
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00002699- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
2700
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00002701- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
2702 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
2703 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
2704 returns the same information as the id command.
2705
2706 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
2707
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00002708- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
2709 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
2710 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
2711 char is unsigned.
2712
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00002713- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
2714
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002715
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002716Tools/Demos
2717-----------
2718
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00002719- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2720
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002721- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
2722 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
2723 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
2724
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002725Build
2726-----
2727
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00002728- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2729
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00002730- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
2731 Akira Kitada.
2732
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00002733- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2734
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00002735- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2736
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00002737- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
2738 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
2739
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00002740- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
2741 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
2742
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00002743- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2744 Sablé.
2745
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00002746- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
2747 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
2748 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00002749
2750- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
2751 Sébastien Sablé.
2752
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002753- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
2754
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002755- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
2756 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00002757
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002758- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
2759 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
2760 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00002761
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002762- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2763 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2764 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2765
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00002766- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
2767 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002768
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002769Tests
2770-----
2771
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00002772- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2773 in test_os)
2774
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00002775- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2776
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002777- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2778 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2779
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002780- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002781
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00002782- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
2783
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00002784- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2785
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002786- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2787
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00002788- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2789
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00002790- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2791 Michele Orrù.
2792
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002793- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
2794
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00002795- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2796
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002797Documentation
2798-------------
2799
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00002800- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
2801 to Doc/license.rst.
2802
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00002803- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
2804 with os.kill.
2805
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002806- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
2807 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00002808
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002809- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002810
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002811
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002812What's New in Python 2.7?
2813=========================
2814
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00002815*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002816
2817Core and Builtins
2818-----------------
2819
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00002820- Prevent assignment to set literals.
2821
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002822Library
2823-------
2824
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00002825- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
2826 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
2827
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00002828- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
2829
2830Extension Modules
2831-----------------
2832
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00002833- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2834 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002835
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00002836- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
2837 on an OpenSSL structure.
2838
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00002839
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002840What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
2841=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002842
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00002843*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002844
2845Core and Builtins
2846-----------------
2847
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00002848- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2849
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00002850- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
2851 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
2852 See tracker issue for details.
2853
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00002854- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
2855 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
2856 (higher than 0x10000).
2857
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00002858- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
2859 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00002860
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00002861Build
2862-----
2863
2864- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2865
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002866Library
2867-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002868
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002869- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00002870 raises an exception.
2871
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00002872- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
2873 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
2874 and after calling foreign functions.
2875
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00002876- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
2877 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2878
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002879- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
2880 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
2881
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00002882- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002883
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002884- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
2885 now honored in unittest debug methods.
2886
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00002887Documentation
2888-------------
2889
2890- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2891 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2892
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002893Misc
2894----
2895
2896- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
2897
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002898
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00002899What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
2900=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002901
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00002902*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002903
2904Core and Builtins
2905-----------------
2906
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00002907- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
2908 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
2909 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
2910 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
2911 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
2912 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
2913 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
2914
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002915- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00002916 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
2917 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
2918 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
2919 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002920
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00002921- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2922 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
2923 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
2924 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
2925 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
2926 in sets or dicts.
2927
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00002928- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
2929 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
2930 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
2931
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00002932- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
2933 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
2934
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002935- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
2936 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00002937
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002938- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
2939 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00002940
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002941- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00002942 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
2943
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002944C-API
2945-----
2946
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002947- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
2948 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
2949 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002950 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2951
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002952Library
2953-------
2954
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00002955- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
2956 reported as a skip rather than an error.
2957
2958- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
2959 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
2960 reports.
2961
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00002962- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
2963
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00002964- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
2965 accepted by the codecs module.
2966
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00002967- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2968
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00002969- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
2970 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
2971
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00002972- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2973 mistake.
2974
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00002975- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
2976 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
2977
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00002978- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2979 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2980
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00002981- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
2982 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00002983
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00002984- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
2985
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00002986- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
2987
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00002988- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2989 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2990 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00002991
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002992- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002993 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002994
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00002995- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2996 of files without one.
2997
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002998- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00002999 comparing to a non-mapping.
3000
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003001- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00003002
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003003- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
3004 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00003005
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00003006- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
3007
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003008- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
3009 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
3010 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00003011
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00003012Extension Modules
3013-----------------
3014
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00003015- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
3016 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
3017 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
3018
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00003019- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
3020 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
3021
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00003022- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003023 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003024
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003025Tests
3026-----
3027
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00003028- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
3029 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
3030
3031- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00003032 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
3033
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00003034- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
3035
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003036- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
3037 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
3038 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003039
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00003040Build
3041-----
3042
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00003043- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
3044 releases.
3045
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003046- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00003047 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003048
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00003049Tools/Demos
3050-----------
3051
3052- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
3053
3054
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003055What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
3056================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003057
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00003058*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003059
3060Core and Builtins
3061-----------------
3062
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003063- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00003064
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003065- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
3066 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
3067 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
3068 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
3069 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00003070
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003071- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
3072 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00003073
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00003074- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
3075
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00003076- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003077 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00003078 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
3079 Charles-François Natali.
3080
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00003081- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3082 passed to bytearray.
3083
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003084- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00003085
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003086- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00003087
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003088- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
3089 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
3090 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00003091
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003092Library
3093-------
3094
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003095- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
3096 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00003097
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003098- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
3099 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00003100
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003101- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00003102
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003103- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
3104 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
3105 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
3106 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00003107
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003108- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
3109 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00003110
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00003111- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
3112
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003113- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
3114 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00003115
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003116- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
3117 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00003118
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003119- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
3120 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
3121 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
3122 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
3123 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00003124
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00003125- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003126 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
3127 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00003128
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00003129- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
3130
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00003131- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
3132 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
3133
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003134- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
3135 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00003136
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003137- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
3138 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00003139
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003140- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00003141 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
3142 "Include".
3143
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003144- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
3145 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00003146
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003147- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
3148 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00003149
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003150- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
3151 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00003152
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003153- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
3154 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
3155 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00003156
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003157- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
3158 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00003159
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003160- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00003161
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003162- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
3163 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00003164
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003165- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00003166
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003167- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
3168 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
3169 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
3170 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00003171
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00003172- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
3173 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
3174
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003175- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
3176 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00003177
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00003178- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3179
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003180- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
3181 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00003182
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003183- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
3184 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00003185
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003186- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
3187 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
3188 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00003189
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003190- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
3191 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003192 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
3193 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
3194
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003195- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
3196 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
3197 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00003198
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00003199- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
3200
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003201- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
3202 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00003203
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003204- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00003205
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003206- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
3207 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00003208
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003209- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
3210 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00003211
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00003212- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
3213
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00003214- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
3215 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
3216
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003217- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00003218 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
3219
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00003220- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003221 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
3222 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00003223
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00003224- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003225 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
3226 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00003227
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00003228- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
3229
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003230- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
3231 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003232
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00003233Extension Modules
3234-----------------
3235
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003236- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00003237
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00003238- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
3239
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00003240- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
3241
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003242- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
3243 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00003244
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003245Tests
3246-----
3247
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003248- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
3249 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
3250 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00003251
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003252- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
3253 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00003254
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00003255- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
3256 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
3257
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003258- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
3259 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00003260
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003261- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
3262 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003263
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00003264Build
3265-----
3266
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003267- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00003268 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
3269 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
3270 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
3271
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00003272- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
3273
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003274- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
3275 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00003276
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003277- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00003278
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00003279Misc
3280----
3281
3282- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
3283
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003284
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003285What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
3286================================
3287
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00003288*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003289
3290Core and Builtins
3291-----------------
3292
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00003293- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3294
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00003295- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3296 changed.
3297
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003298- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00003299 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
3300 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
3301
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00003302- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3303
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003304- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00003305
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00003306- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3307
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003308- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
3309 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
3310 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
3311 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00003312 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003313 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00003314
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00003315- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
3316 references.
3317
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003318- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3319 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00003320
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00003321- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00003322
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00003323- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
3324 arguments to a function correct.
3325
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00003326- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
3327
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00003328- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003329 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
3330 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00003331 module.
3332
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00003333- Code objects now support weak references.
3334
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003335Library
3336-------
3337
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00003338- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
3339
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00003340- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003341 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
3342 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00003343
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00003344- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
3345
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003346- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
3347 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00003348
3349 >>> Decimal(1.1)
3350 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
3351
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00003352- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
3353
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003354- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
3355 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003356
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003357- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
3358 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003359
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003360- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
3361 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00003362
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003363- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
3364 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
3365 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
3366 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00003367
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003368- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
3369 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
3370 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
3371 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00003372
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003373- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003374 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
3375 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
3376 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003377
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003378- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
3379 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00003380
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00003381- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
3382 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003383 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00003384
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003385- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
3386 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
3387 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
3388 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00003389
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00003390- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
3391
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00003392- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
3393
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00003394- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
3395 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
3396
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00003397- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
3398
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003399- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003400 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
3401 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003402
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00003403- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
3404 deprecated.
3405
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003406- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
3407 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00003408
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003409- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
3410 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00003411
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003412- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
3413 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
3414 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00003415
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003416- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
3417 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00003418
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00003419- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
3420 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
3421 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00003422
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00003423- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
3424
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00003425- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
3426
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003427- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
3428 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
3429 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00003430
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00003431- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
3432 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
3433
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003434- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00003435
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003436- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
3437 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00003438
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003439- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
3440 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003441 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00003442
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00003443- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003444 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
3445 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
3446 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00003447
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003448- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00003449 cElementTree module is updated too.
3450
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00003451- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
3452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003453- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00003454 classes.
3455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003456- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
3457 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
3458 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
3459 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003460
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00003461- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
3462 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
3463
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00003464- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
3465
3466- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
3467 during test runs.
3468
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00003469- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00003470 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
3471
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003472Extension Modules
3473-----------------
3474
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00003475- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
3476
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00003477- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
3478
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00003479- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003480 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
3481 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00003482
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00003483- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
3484
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00003485- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
3486
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00003487- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
3488 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
3489 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
3490 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
3491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003492- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
3493 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
3494 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003495 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
3496 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
3497 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
3498 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003499
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003500- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
3501 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00003502
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00003503Tools/Demos
3504-----------
3505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003506- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
3507 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
3508 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003509
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00003510- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
3511
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003512Build
3513-----
3514
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003515- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
3516 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00003517
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003518- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
3519 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
3520 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00003521
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00003522- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
3523
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003524- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
3525
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00003526- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
3527 assembly file.
3528
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003529C-API
3530-----
3531
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003532- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003533 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3534 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003535
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003536- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
3537 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
3538 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
3539 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003540
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003541Tests
3542-----
3543
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003544- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
3545 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00003546
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003547- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
3548
3549- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
3550
3551- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
3552
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00003553- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
3554
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00003555- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
3556
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00003557- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
3558 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
3559
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00003560- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
3561 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00003562
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003563- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
3564 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003565
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003566
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003567What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
3568=================================
3569
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00003570*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003571
3572Core and Builtins
3573-----------------
3574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003575- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3576 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00003577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003578- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3579 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00003580
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003581- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003582 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003583
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00003584- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003585 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
3586 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003588- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3589 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00003590
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003591- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00003592 Parser/myreadline.c.
3593
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003594- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003595 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003596
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003597- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
3598 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00003599
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003600Library
3601-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00003602
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00003603- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
3604 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
3605 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
3606
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00003607- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
3608 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003609
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00003610- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
3611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003612- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00003613 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00003614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003615- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00003616 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
3617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003618- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
3619 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00003620
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003621- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003622 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003623
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003624- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00003625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003626- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
3627 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00003628
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003629- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00003630
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003631- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
3632 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00003633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003634- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
3635 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00003636
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003637- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
3638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003639- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
3640 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
3641 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
3642 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00003643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003644- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
3645 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003646
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003647- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
3648 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
3649 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003650
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003651- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003652 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00003653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003654- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00003655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003656- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00003657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003658- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00003659
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003660- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
3661 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00003662
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003663- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003664 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003665
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003666- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00003667
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00003668- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
3669
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003670Extension Modules
3671-----------------
3672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003673- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00003674 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
3675
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003676- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
3677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003678- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00003679 handling.
3680
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003681- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
3682 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003684- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00003685 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
3686 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
3687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003688- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
3689 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00003690
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003691Tests
3692-----
3693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003694- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
3695 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
3696 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00003697
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00003698- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
3699 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
3700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003701- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
3702 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00003703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003704- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00003705 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00003706
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003707- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00003708 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
3709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003710- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
3711 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
3712 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
3713 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003714
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003715Build
3716-----
3717
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00003718- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003719
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003720
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003721What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
3722=================================
3723
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00003724*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003725
3726Core and Builtins
3727-----------------
3728
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003729- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
3730 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003731 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
3732 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003733
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003734- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003735 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00003736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003737- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
3738 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00003739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003740- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00003741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003742- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3743 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00003744
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003745- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
3746 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
3747 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3748 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00003749
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003750- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
3751 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
3752 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
3753 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00003754
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00003755- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
3756 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
3757 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3758
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003759- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3760 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00003761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003762 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
3763 strings,
3764 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
3765 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
3766 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
3767 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
3768
3769- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
3770 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00003771
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00003772- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
3773
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00003774- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
3775
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00003776- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
3777
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003778Library
3779-------
3780
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00003781- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
3782 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
3783
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00003784- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3785 interpreter shutdown.
3786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003787- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
3788 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
3789 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
3790 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00003791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003792- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00003793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003794- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00003795
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003796- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00003797
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003798- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003799 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003800 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
3801 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
3802
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00003803- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3804
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003805- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003806 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3807 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003808 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003810- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
3811 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
3812 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
3813 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
3814 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
3815 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00003816
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00003817- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003819- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
3820 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00003821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003822- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
3823 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00003824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003825- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
3826 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
3827 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
3828 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00003829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003830- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00003831 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
3832 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
3833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003834- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00003835 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003837- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3838 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00003839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003840- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
3841 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00003842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003843- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3844 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00003845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003846- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
3847 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00003848
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003849- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003850 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
3851 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003852
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00003853Extension Modules
3854-----------------
3855
3856- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3857 (CVE_2009_3560).
3858
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003859Build
3860-----
3861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003862- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3863 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3864 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00003865
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00003866- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
3867
3868- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
3869 MacOSX.
3870
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003871- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
3872 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3873
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003874Tools/Demos
3875-----------
3876
3877- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003878 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003879 sandbox.
3880
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003881Tests
3882-----
3883
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02003884- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003885 instead of a hard coded port.
3886
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003887Documentation
3888-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003890- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
3891 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003893- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003894 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
3895
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003896
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003897What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
3898=================================
3899
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00003900*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003901
3902Core and Builtins
3903-----------------
3904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003905- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
3906 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00003907
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00003908- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3909 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3910
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003911- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003912 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
3913 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
3914 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
3915 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
3916 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003917
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00003918- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3919 AttributeError.
3920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003921- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3922 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00003923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003924- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00003925
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00003926- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
3927 used to drop the time part of the result.
3928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003929- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3930 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3931 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3932 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00003933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003934- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
3935 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
3936 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00003937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003938- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003939 executables on OSX.
3940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003941 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3942 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3943 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003945- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
3946 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00003947
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00003948- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
3949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003950- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3951 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00003952
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003953
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003954Library
3955-------
3956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003957- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
3958 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3959 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00003960
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003961- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3962 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
3963 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00003964
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003965- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003966 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
3967 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003968 Xicluna.
3969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003970- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3971 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00003972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003973- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
3974 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00003975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003976- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3977 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
3978 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00003979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003980- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00003981 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003983- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
3984 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00003985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003986- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00003987 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
3988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003989- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
3990 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00003991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003992- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
3993 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00003994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003995- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3996 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3997 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00003998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003999- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4000 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00004001
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00004002- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4003 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4004 the same as passing no argument.
4005
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004006- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
4007 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00004008
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004009- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00004010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004011- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00004012
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004013- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
4014 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00004015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004016- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
4017 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004019- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
4020 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004021
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00004022C-API
4023-----
4024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004025- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
4026 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00004027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004028- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
4029 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
4030 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
4031 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
4032 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
4033 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
4034 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004036- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00004037
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00004038Build
4039-----
4040
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00004041- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
4042
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00004043- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004044 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00004045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004046- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
4047 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
4048 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00004049
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00004050- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
4051 found.
4052
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00004053- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00004054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004055- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
4056 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00004057
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004058Tests
4059-----
4060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004061- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00004062 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
4063
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004064- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00004065
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004066- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
4067 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
4068
4069
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004070What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
4071================================
4072
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00004073*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004074
4075Core and Builtins
4076-----------------
4077
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004078- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
4079 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00004080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004081- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
4082 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
4083 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00004084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004085- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
4086 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00004087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004088- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
4089 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
4090 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00004091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004092- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00004093
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004094- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00004095
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004096- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
4097 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00004098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004099- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
4100 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
4101 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
4102 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
4103 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
4104 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004106- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
4107 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
4108 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
4109 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
4110 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
4111 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
4112 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004114 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
4115 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
4116 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
4117 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
4118 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
4119 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
4120 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
4121 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
4122 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
4123 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004124
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004125- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
4126 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
4127 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
4128 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
4129 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
4130 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
4131 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
4132 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00004133
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00004134- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
4135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004136- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
4137 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00004138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004139- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
4140 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00004141
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004142- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
4143 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00004144
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00004145- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
4146
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004147- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
4148 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
4149 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00004150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004151- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
4152 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00004153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004154- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
4155 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004157- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
4158 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00004159
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004160- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
4161 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
4162 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00004163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004164- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
4165 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00004166
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00004167- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
4168 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
4169 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
4170 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
4171
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00004172- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
4173 assignment.
4174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004175- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
4176 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00004177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004178- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
4179 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00004180
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004181- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
4182 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00004183
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00004184- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00004185 take keyword arguments.
4186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004187- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
4188 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00004189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004190- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
4191 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00004192
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00004193- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
4194
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00004195- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
4196 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
4197
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00004198- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
4199
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004200- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00004201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004202- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00004203 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
4204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004205- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
4206 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00004207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004208- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00004209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004210- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00004211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004212- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00004213 occurred in the argument chain.
4214
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00004215- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
4216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004217- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
4218 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00004219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004220- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00004221 separator and end should be unicode also.
4222
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004223- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
4224 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00004225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004226- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
4227 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
4228 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00004229
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00004230- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
4231
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00004232- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
4233 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
4234
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00004235- Removed the ipaddr module.
4236
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00004237- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
4238 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
4239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004240- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00004241
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00004242- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
4243 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
4244
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00004245- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
4246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004247- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
4248 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00004249
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00004250- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004251 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00004252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004253- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
4254 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00004255
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00004256- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004257 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00004258
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00004259- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
4260 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
4261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004262- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
4263 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
4264 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00004265
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00004266- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
4267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004268- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
4269 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00004270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004271- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00004272
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00004273- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00004274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004275 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
4276 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
4277 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00004278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004279- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
4280 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
4281 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
4282 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
4283 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
4284 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
4285 complex.__format__ in the same way.
4286
4287- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
4288 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
4289 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00004290
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00004291- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004292 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00004293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004294- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
4295 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00004296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004297- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
4298 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00004299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004300- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
4301 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00004302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004303- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
4304 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00004305
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00004306- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
4307 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
4308
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00004309- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
4310
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004311- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
4312 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00004313
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004314- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
4315 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004317- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
4318 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004320- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
4321 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004322
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004323- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
4324 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00004325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004326- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004327 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00004328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004329- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
4330 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00004331
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00004332- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
4333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004334- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00004335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004336- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
4337 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00004338
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004339- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00004340
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00004341- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
4342 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
4343
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00004344- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
4345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004346- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
4347 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00004348
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00004349- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004350 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
4351 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
4352 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00004353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004354- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
4355 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
4356 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00004357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004358- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
4359 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
4360 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
4361 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
4362 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00004363
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00004364- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
4365 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
4366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004367- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
4368 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
4369 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00004370
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004371- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
4372 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00004373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004374- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00004375 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
4376
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004377- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
4378 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00004379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004380- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
4381 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00004382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004383- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
4384 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00004385
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00004386- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
4387 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
4388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004389- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
4390 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00004391
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00004392- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
4393
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004394- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00004395 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
4396 zip(), and bytearray().
4397
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00004398- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
4399 functions.
4400
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00004401- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
4402 OSError.
4403
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00004404- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
4405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004406- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
4407 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
4408 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00004409
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00004410- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
4411 __next__ method.
4412
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00004413- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
4414
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00004415- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
4416
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004417- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
4418 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
4419 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00004420 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004421 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
4422
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00004423- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
4424
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004425- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
4426 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
4427 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
4428 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
4429 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00004430
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004431- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00004432
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00004433- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
4434 file with `str' filename on Windows.
4435
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00004436- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
4437 did not get collected.
4438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004439- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
4440 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00004441
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00004442- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
4443 directory on POSIX systems.
4444
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00004445- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
4446 systems.
4447
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004448- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004449 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004450
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00004451- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
4452 fail.
4453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004454- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
4455 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
4456 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00004457
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00004458- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
4459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004460- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
4461 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00004462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004463- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
4464 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00004465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004466- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00004467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004468- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
4469 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
4470 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
4471 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00004472
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00004473- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
4474 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
4475 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
4476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004477- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
4478 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00004479
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00004480- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
4481 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
4482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004483- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
4484 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
4485 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
4486 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00004487
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00004488- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
4489 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
4490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004491- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00004492
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00004493- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
4494
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00004495- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
4496
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00004497- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
4498 exec statement.
4499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004500- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
4501 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00004502
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00004503- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
4504 __future__ import didn't work.
4505
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004506- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00004507 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004509- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
4510 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
4511 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
4512 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00004513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004514- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
4515 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
4516 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
4517 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00004518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004519- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
4520 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00004521
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00004522- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
4523
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00004524- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
4525
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00004526- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
4527
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004528- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
4529 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00004530
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00004531- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
4532 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00004533
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00004534- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
4535 returned them on 64bit platforms.
4536
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00004537- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
4538 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
4539 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
4540 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
4541
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00004542- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
4543 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
4544
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004545- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
4546 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
4547 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
4548 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00004549
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004550Library
4551-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004552
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00004553- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00004554
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00004555- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4556
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004557- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4558 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00004559
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004560- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004561 TLS with authentication credentials.
4562
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004563- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4564 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00004565
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00004566- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4567 msvc9compiler.
4568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004569- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
4570 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4571 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00004572
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00004573- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4574 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4575 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004577- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4578 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00004579
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004580- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4581
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004582- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004583 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004584 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004586- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
4587 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4588 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00004589
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004590- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
4591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004592- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
4593 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00004594
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00004595- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4596 raises ReadError on empty files.
4597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004598- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00004599
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00004600- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
4601 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00004602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004603- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4604 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00004605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004606- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
4607 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00004608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004609- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00004610
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004611- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4612 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00004613
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004614- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4615 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00004616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004617- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4618 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4619 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00004620 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
4621 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004623- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4624 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4625 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00004626
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004627- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004628 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004629 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4630
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004631- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4632 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
4633 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00004634
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00004635- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4636 which are part of a reference cycle.
4637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004638- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
4639 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00004640
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004641- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00004642 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
4643 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
4644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004645- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4646 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4647 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4648 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00004649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004650- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4651 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4652 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4653 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00004654
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00004655- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4656 header as required by RFC 1952.
4657
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00004658- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4659 Distutils.
4660
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00004661- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4662 an uppercase.
4663
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004664- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
4665 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00004666
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00004667- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
4668 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
4669
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004670- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00004671 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
4672
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00004673- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
4674 protocol 2.
4675
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004676- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4677
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00004678- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4679 larger than emax.
4680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004681- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4682 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00004683
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00004684- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004686- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00004687
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00004688- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
4689
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004690- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00004691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004692- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00004693
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004694- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4695 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004697- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4698 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00004699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004700- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4701 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00004702
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004703- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00004704 Distutils.
4705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004706- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00004707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004708- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
4709 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00004710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004711- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
4712 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00004713
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00004714- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
4715
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00004716- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
4717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004718- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4719 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00004720
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004721- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
4722 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00004723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004724- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
4725 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00004726
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00004727- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4728
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00004729- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4730
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004731- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004732 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
4733 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004735- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00004736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004737- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4738 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4739 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00004740
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004741- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4742 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00004743
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004744- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00004745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004746- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4747 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4748 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4749 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00004750
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00004751- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
4752 as documented.
4753
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00004754- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
4755 names in the webbrowser module.
4756
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00004757- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4758
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00004759- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4760 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4761
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00004762- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
4763
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00004764- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
4765
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00004766- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
4767
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00004768- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
4769
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00004770- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4771
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00004772- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4773 ScrolledText.
4774
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00004775- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004777- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4778 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00004779
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00004780- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
4781 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4782 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4783 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4784
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00004785- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
4786 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
4787
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004788- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004789 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4790 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004792- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4793 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4794 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00004795
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00004796- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4797 opening an empty or very small file.
4798
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004799- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
4800 containing incomplete data.
4801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004802- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
4803 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00004804
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00004805- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4806
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004807- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4808 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4809 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00004810
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004811- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00004812
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004813- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
4814 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
4815 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
4816 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00004817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004818- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00004819
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004820- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4821
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00004822- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
4823 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4824
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004825- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00004826
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004827- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00004828 attribute.
4829
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00004830- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4831
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00004832- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4833 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4834
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00004835- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004837- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004838 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004839 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004840
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004841- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00004842 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4843
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00004844- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004846- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
4847 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00004848 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
4849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004850- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00004851 argument.
4852
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004853- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
4854 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00004855
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004856- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00004857
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00004858- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
4859
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00004860- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4861
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00004862- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4863 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4864
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004865- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
4866 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00004867
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00004868- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
4869 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
4870 ``io`` module.
4871
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00004872- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4873
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00004874- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004875 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4876
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00004877- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4878
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004879- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
4880 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4881 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00004882
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00004883- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
4884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004885- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
4886 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00004887
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00004888- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4889
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00004890- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4891 whitespace.
4892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004893- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
4894 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00004895
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00004896- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4897 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4898
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004899- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
4900 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00004901
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004902- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
4903 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00004904
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00004905- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4906 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4907 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4908
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00004909- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
4910 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004912- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
4913 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
4914 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00004915
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00004916- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4917 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004919- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00004920 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004922- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00004923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004924- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
4925 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00004926
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004927- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00004928 subcommand.
4929
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00004930- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4931 deepcopy()ing.
4932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004933- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00004934
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00004935- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004937- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00004938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004939- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00004940 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4941
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00004942- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4943 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
4944
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004945- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004946 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004948- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
4949 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00004950
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004951- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
4952 trying to print a traceback.
4953
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00004954- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004956- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
4957 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00004958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004959- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
4960 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4961 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00004962 Cournapeau.
4963
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004964- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004965 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00004966
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004967- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
4968 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00004969
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00004970- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4971
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00004972- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4973 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4974
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004975- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00004976 extracting a file to the root directory.
4977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004978- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00004979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004980- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4981 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
4982 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00004983
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00004984- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4985 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4986
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00004987- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4988 Contributed by Google.
4989
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00004990- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004992- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00004993
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00004994- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4995
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004996- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
4997 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00004998 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4999
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005000- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00005001 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5002 initialized before.
5003
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00005004- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5005 names which should not be exported.
5006
5007- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005008 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00005009
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00005010- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
5011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005012- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
5013 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00005014
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00005015- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5016
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00005017- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005018 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00005019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005020- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
5021 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
5022 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00005023
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00005024- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
5025
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005026- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
5027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005028- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
5029 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
5030 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
5031 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
5032 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00005033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005034- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00005035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005036- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
5037 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00005038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005039- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00005040
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005041- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005042 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00005043
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005044- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
5045 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00005046
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005047- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
5048 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00005049
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005050- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
5051 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00005052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005053- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
5054 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00005055
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005056- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00005057
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00005058- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00005059
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005060- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00005061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005062- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00005063
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005064- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00005065 mailbox.MH.get_message().
5066
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005067- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
5068 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00005069
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005070- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
5071 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
5072 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00005073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005074- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
5075 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005076
5077- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00005078 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005079
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005080- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
5081 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00005082 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
5083 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
5084
5085- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
5086 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005087
5088- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00005089 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005090
5091- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00005092 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00005093
5094- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
5095 called immediately before and after a test run.
5096
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005097- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00005098 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
5099 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
5100 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005102- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00005103
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00005104- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
5105 printing out values.
5106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005107- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00005108
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00005109- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
5110 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
5111 threads.
5112
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00005113- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
5114
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00005115- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
5116
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005117- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00005118 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
5119 that it was failing to do localization.
5120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005121- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00005122 Brandl.
5123
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005124- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
5125 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00005126
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00005127- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
5128 with the threading module.
5129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005130- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00005131
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00005132- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
5133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005134- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
5135 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00005136
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005137- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005138 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
5139 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00005140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005141- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
5142 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00005143
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00005144- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
5145 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
5146 output compared to previous Python versions.
5147
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00005148- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
5149
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005150- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005151 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
5152 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005154- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
5155 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
5156 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
5157 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005159- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
5160 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
5161 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
5162 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00005163
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00005164- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
5165 even if an exception occurs.
5166
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00005167- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
5168 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
5169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005170- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
5171 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00005172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005173- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
5174 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00005175
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005176- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00005177 character.
5178
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005179- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
5180 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00005181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005182- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00005183
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00005184- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005185 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
5186 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00005187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005188- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
5189 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
5190 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00005191
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00005192- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
5193
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005194- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00005195 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
5196
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00005197- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
5198
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00005199- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
5200
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005201- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00005202
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00005203- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
5204
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00005205- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
5206
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00005207- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
5208 ready received.
5209
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00005210- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
5211 import guess_extension`` was used.
5212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005213- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
5214 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00005215
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00005216- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
5217 overrun.
5218
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00005219- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
5220 bdist_rpm command.
5221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005222- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00005223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005224- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00005225
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00005226- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
5227 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
5228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005229- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
5230 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00005231
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00005232- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
5233 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005235- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
5236 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00005237
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00005238- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
5239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005240- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
5241 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00005242
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005243- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00005244 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
5245
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00005246- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
5247 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
5248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005249- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00005250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005251- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
5252 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00005253
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00005254- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
5255 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
5256
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00005257- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
5258 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
5259
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00005260- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005261 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00005262 ctime of the files involved.
5263
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00005264- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
5265 deadlock.
5266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005267- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
5268 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
5269 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00005270
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00005271- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
5272
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005273- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
5274 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005276- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
5277 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00005278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005279- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
5280 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
5281 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00005282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005283- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
5284 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
5285 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
5286 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00005287
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005288- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00005289 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
5290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005291- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
5292 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00005293
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00005294- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
5295 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
5296
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005297- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00005298 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
5299
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00005300- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
5301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005302- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
5303 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00005304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005305- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
5306 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00005307
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00005308- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
5309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005310- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00005311 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
5312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005313- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
5314 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00005315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005316- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
5317 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00005318
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00005319- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
5320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005321- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00005322
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005323- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
5324 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00005325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005326- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
5327 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00005328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005329- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00005330 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
5331
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005332- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
5333 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00005334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005335- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
5336 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00005337
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005338- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005339 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
5340 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00005341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005342- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
5343 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
5344 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
5345 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00005346
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005347- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
5348 parameter was set.
5349
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00005350- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
5351 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00005352 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00005353
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005354- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005355 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
5356 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005357
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00005358- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
5359 in sharedctypes.py.
5360
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00005361- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
5362 __getattr__.
5363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005364- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
5365 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00005366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005367- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00005368 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
5369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005370- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00005371
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00005372- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
5373
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005374- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005375 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
5376 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005377 Jacques Frechet.
5378
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00005379- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
5380
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005381- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02005382 Windows. Initial solution by Guy Dalberto.
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00005383
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005384- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005385 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
5386 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005387
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005388- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
5389 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00005390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005391- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
5392 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00005393
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00005394- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
5395 the function is not a generator.
5396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005397- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
5398 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00005399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005400- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
5401 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00005402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005403- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
5404 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005406- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
5407 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005408
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00005409- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
5410
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00005411- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
5412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005413- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
5414 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00005415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005416- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
5417 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00005418
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00005419- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
5420 Gabriel Genellina.
5421
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00005422- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
5423
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00005424- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
5425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005426- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00005427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005428- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
5429 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
5430 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00005431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005432- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
5433 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005434 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
5435
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005436- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
5437 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
5438 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005440- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
5441 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
5442 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
5443 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
5444 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005445
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005446- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
5447 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005448
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005449- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02005450 when given a Unicode string.
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005451
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00005452- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
5453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005454- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
5455 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
5456 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00005457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005458- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
5459 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00005460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005461- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00005462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005463- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00005464 statements.
5465
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00005466- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
5467 not a malformed option.
5468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005469- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
5470 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00005471
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00005472- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5473 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5474 Content-Disposition headers.
5475
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00005476- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005477 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
5478 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
5479 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
5480 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00005481
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00005482- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
5483 exception.
5484
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005485- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
5486 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00005487
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00005488- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
5489
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00005490- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
5491
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00005492- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
5493 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
5494
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00005495- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
5496 and then remove it.
5497
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00005498- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
5499
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00005500- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
5501 debugging.
5502
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00005503- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
5504 inspect.getargvalues.
5505
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00005506- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
5507
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00005508- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
5509 to claiming it is Mature.
5510
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00005511- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
5512 when protocol 0 is used.
5513
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00005514- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
5515 to be consistent with Apple tools.
5516
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005517- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005518 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005519
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00005520- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
5521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005522- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00005523 module.
5524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005525- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
5526 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00005527
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005528- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005529
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005530- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005531
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005532- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005533 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005534
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005535- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005536 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
5537 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005538
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00005539- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
5540 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
5541
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005542- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
5543 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00005544
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00005545- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5546 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5547 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5548
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00005549- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
5550
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005551Tools/Demos
5552-----------
5553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005554- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00005555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005556- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005557
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005558Build
5559-----
5560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005561- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5562 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5563 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00005564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005565- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
5566 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
5567 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005569- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00005570
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00005571- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5572
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005573- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005574 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00005575
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005576- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005577 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00005578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005579- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
5580 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00005581
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00005582- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
5583
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00005584- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
5585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005586- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
5587 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00005588
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005589- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00005590 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005591
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00005592- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
5593
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00005594- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
5595
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00005596- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
5597
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00005598- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
5599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005600- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00005601
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00005602- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
5603
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00005604- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
5605
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00005606- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
5607
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00005608- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
5609
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00005610- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
5611
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00005612- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
5613
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00005614- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
5615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005616- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005617
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00005618- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
5619
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005620Documentation
5621-------------
5622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005623- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5624 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005626- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
5627 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00005628
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005629C-API
5630-----
5631
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00005632- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
5633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005634- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
5635 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00005636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005637- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
5638 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00005639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005640- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
5641 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00005642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005643- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
5644 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00005645
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00005646- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
5647 PyCode_Addr2Line().
5648
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00005649- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
5650 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
5651
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00005652- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
5653 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
5654
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00005655- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
5656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005657- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
5658 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00005659
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00005660- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
5661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005662- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
5663 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00005664
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005665- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
5666 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005668- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00005669 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005670
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005671Extension Modules
5672-----------------
5673
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00005674- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5675
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00005676- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005678- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00005679
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005680- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005681 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005682
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005683- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
5684 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00005685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005686- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
5687 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00005688
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00005689- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
5690 module.
5691
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00005692- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5693
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005694- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00005695 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005697- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5698 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5699 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00005700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005701- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
5702 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
5703 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00005704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005705- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
5706 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
5707 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005709 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
5710 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005712 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
5713 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
5714 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
5715 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
5716 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
5717 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
5718 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005719
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005720 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
5721 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
5722 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00005723
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00005724- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005726- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
5727 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00005728
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005729- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
5730 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00005731 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005732
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00005733- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00005734
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00005735- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
5736
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00005737- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
5738
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00005739- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
5740
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00005741- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
5742
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00005743- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
5744 OpenBSD.
5745
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00005746- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
5747
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005748- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
5749
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00005750- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
5751
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005752Tests
5753-----
5754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005755- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5756 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5757 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00005758
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005759- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5760 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00005761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005762- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5763 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00005764
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00005765- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5766
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00005767- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5768 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5769
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005770- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005771 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5772 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5773 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005775- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5776 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00005777
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00005778- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5779 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5780
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00005781- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
5782 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
5783 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00005784
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00005785- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5786
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00005787- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
5788 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
5789
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005790- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
5791 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005792 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
5793 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005794
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00005795- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
5796 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005798- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
5799 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
5800 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
5801 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
5802 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00005803
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00005804- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5805
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00005806- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5807
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00005808- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
5809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005810- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
5811 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
5812 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00005813
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005814- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5815
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00005816- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5817 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5818 incorrectly on __exit__.
5819
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00005820- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5821
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00005822Misc
5823----
5824
5825- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
5826
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005827
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005828What's New in Python 2.6 final
5829==============================
5830
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00005831*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005832
5833Core and Builtins
5834-----------------
5835
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00005836- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
5837 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
5838
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00005839- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
5840 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
5841
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00005842- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
5843
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005844Library
5845-------
5846
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00005847- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
5848 true singleton object.
5849
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00005850- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
5851 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
5852 into a float.
5853
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00005854- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
5855
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00005856- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
5857 sizes.
5858
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00005859- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
5860
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00005861- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
5862 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
5863
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005864Build
5865-----
5866
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00005867- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
5868 installer.
5869
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005870- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
5871
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005872
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005873What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
5874=============================================
5875
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00005876*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005877
5878Core and Builtins
5879-----------------
5880
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005881Extension Modules
5882-----------------
5883
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00005884- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
5885 segfault as a result.
5886
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005887- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
5888 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005889
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005890Tools/Demos
5891-----------
5892
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00005893- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005894 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
5895 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
5896 are caught and silenced.
5897
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00005898Build
5899-----
5900
5901- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
5902 C runtime in the Windows installer.
5903
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005904
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005905What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
5906=============================================
5907
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00005908*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005909
5910Core and Builtins
5911-----------------
5912
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00005913- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
5914
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00005915- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
5916 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
5917 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
5918 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
5919 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
5920 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
5921 64bit values.
5922
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00005923- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
5924 error.
5925
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00005926- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
5927 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
5928 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
5929 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
5930
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00005931- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
5932 a unicode argument.
5933
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005934- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
5935
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005936- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005937 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005938 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
5939
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005940- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00005941 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
5942 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
5943 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
5944 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
5945 type object.
5946
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00005947- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
5948
5949- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
5950
5951- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
5952
5953- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
5954
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00005955- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
5956 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
5957
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00005958- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
5959 ``__delslice__``.
5960
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00005961- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
5962 library targets in the Makefile.
5963
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00005964- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
5965 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
5966 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
5967
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00005968C-API
5969-----
5970
5971- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
5972
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005973Library
5974-------
5975
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00005976- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
5977 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
5978
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00005979- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
5980
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00005981- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
5982
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005983- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
5984 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
5985 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
5986
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005987- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
5988
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005989- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00005990 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
5991
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00005992- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
5993
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00005994- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
5995
5996- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00005997
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00005998- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
5999 its symbolic link.
6000
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00006001- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
6002
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006003- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00006004 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
6005 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
6006
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00006007- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
6008 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
6009
6010- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00006011
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00006012- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
6013 path to the Python binary.
6014
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006015- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00006016 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
6017 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
6018 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
6019
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00006020- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
6021
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006022- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
6023
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00006024- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
6025
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00006026- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
6027
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00006028- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
6029 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00006030
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00006031- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
6032 non-integer floating point number.
6033
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00006034- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00006035 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
6036
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00006037Extension Modules
6038-----------------
6039
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00006040- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6041 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6042
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00006043- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
6044 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
6045 without limit.
6046
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00006047- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
6048 exploitation of poor argument checking.
6049
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00006050- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
6051
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00006052- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
6053 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
6054
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00006055- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
6056 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
6057 threads/processes.
6058
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00006059Tests
6060-----
6061
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00006062- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
6063 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
6064 that expected warning messages are being reported.
6065
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00006066- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
6067
6068- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00006069
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00006070Build
6071-----
6072
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00006073- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
6074
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00006075- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
6076 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
6077
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00006078- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
6079
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00006080- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00006081 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00006082
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006083
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006084What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
6085================================
6086
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00006087*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006088
6089Core and Builtins
6090-----------------
6091
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00006092- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
6093 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
6094 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
6095 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
6096 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
6097 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
6098 default.
6099
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00006100- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
6101 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
6102
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00006103- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
6104 value again.
6105
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00006106- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
6107 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
6108 and introducing s*.
6109
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00006110- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
6111 object was stored in the freelist.
6112
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00006113- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
6114 ValueError consistently across platforms.
6115
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00006116- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
6117 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
6118 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
6119
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00006120- Apply security patches from Apple.
6121
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00006122- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
6123 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
6124
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00006125- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
6126 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
6127
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00006128- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
6129 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
6130 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
6131
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00006132- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
6133 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
6134 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
6135 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
6136 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
6137 failed have been fixed.
6138
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006139Library
6140-------
6141
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00006142- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
6143
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00006144- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
6145 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
6146
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00006147- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
6148 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
6149 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
6150
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00006151- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
6152 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
6153 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
6154 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
6155 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
6156 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
6157
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00006158- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
6159 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
6160
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00006161- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
6162
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00006163- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
6164
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00006165- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
6166
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00006167- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
6168 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
6169
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00006170- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00006171 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
6172
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006173- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00006174 in a redirect.
6175
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00006176- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00006177 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00006178
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00006179- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
6180 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
6181
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00006182- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
6183 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
6184 regular expression.
6185
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00006186- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
6187 thread-safe.
6188
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00006189- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
6190 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
6191 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
6192
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00006193- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
6194
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00006195- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
6196 menu entries were not deleted.
6197
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00006198- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
6199 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
6200
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00006201- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
6202 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
6203
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00006204- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
6205 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
6206 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
6207
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00006208- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
6209 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
6210 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
6211
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00006212- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
6213 the reload() built-in has been removed.
6214
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00006215- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00006216 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00006217 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
6218 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
6219 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
6220 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
6221 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00006222
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00006223- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
6224 raised an AttributeError.
6225
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00006226- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00006227 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
6228 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00006229
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00006230- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
6231 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
6232
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006233- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00006234
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006235- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00006236 on a closed shelf.
6237
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00006238- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
6239
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006240- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
6241
6242- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
6243 invalid arguments.
6244
6245- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
6246 with None arguments.
6247
6248- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
6249 configuration files.
6250
6251- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
6252
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00006253- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
6254 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
6255 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
6256
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00006257- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
6258 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
6259 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
6260
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00006261Build
6262-----
6263
6264- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
6265
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00006266Documentation
6267-------------
6268
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00006269- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
6270 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
6271
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00006272- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
6273 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
6274 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
6275 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
6276
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006277
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00006278What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
6279================================
6280
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006281*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
6282
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00006283Core and Builtins
6284-----------------
6285
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00006286- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
6287 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
6288 an integer using operator.index().
6289
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00006290- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
6291 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
6292
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00006293- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
6294 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
6295
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00006296- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
6297 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
6298 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
6299
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00006300- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
6301 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
6302 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
6303 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
6304 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
6305 level.
6306
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00006307- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
6308 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
6309 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
6310 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
6311 all imports from that module to fail.
6312
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00006313- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
6314 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
6315 new-style classes.
6316
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00006317- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
6318 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
6319 another file in sys.stdout.
6320
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00006321- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
6322 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
6323 another thread's dictionary.
6324
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00006325- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
6326 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
6327 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
6328 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
6329 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
6330 10, -1).
6331
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00006332- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
6333 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
6334 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00006335
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00006336- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
6337 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
6338 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00006339
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006340Library
6341-------
6342
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00006343- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
6344 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
6345 error when they failed.
6346
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00006347- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
6348
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00006349- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
6350
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00006351- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
6352
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00006353- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
6354
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006355- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
6356 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
6357
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006358- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006359
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00006360- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
6361 a valid dlerror() message.
6362
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00006363- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
6364 incomplete structure was created.
6365
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00006366- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
6367
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00006368- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
6369
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006370- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00006371
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006372- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
6373 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006374 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006375 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
6376 merged into trunk.
6377
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00006378- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
6379
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006380- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
6381
6382- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
6383
6384- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
6385 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006386 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006387
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006388- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006389 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00006390
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00006391- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
6392 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
6393
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006394- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
6395 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
6396
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00006397- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
6398 interrupted by a signal.
6399
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006400- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00006401 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
6402 Prevents a deadlock.
6403
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00006404- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
6405 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
6406 default https port (443).
6407
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00006408- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
6409 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
6410 if the new process uses the threading module.
6411
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00006412Tests
6413-----
6414
6415- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
6416 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
6417 have been added to test_warnings.
6418
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00006419Build
6420-----
6421
6422- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
6423
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006424
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006425Documentation
6426-------------
6427
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00006428- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00006429 Python 3.0.
6430
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00006431- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
6432
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006433- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6434 Python 3.0.
6435
6436- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6437 Python 3.0.
6438
6439
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006440What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
6441================================
6442
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00006443*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006444
6445Core and Builtins
6446-----------------
6447
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00006448- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
6449 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
6450 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
6451 bus error.
6452
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00006453- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
6454 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
6455
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00006456- Add future_builtins.ascii().
6457
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00006458- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00006459 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00006460
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00006461- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
6462
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00006463- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
6464
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00006465- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
6466
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00006467- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
6468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006469- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
6470 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
6471 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
6472 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00006473
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00006474- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
6475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006476- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
6477 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00006478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006479- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
6480 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00006481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006482- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
6483 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
6484 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00006485
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00006486- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
6487 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
6488 can't be triggered from Python code.
6489
6490
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006491Extension Modules
6492-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00006493- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006494
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00006495- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
6496
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00006497- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00006498
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00006499- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
6500 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
6501
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00006502- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
6503 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
6504
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00006505- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
6506 weakref.proxy.
6507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006508- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
6509 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00006510
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006511- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00006512
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00006513- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006514 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
6515 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00006516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006517- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
6518 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
6519 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00006520
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00006521- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
6522 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
6523 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
6524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006525- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00006526
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00006527- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00006528
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006529Library
6530-------
6531
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00006532- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
6533 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
6534
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00006535- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
6536
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00006537- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
6538 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
6539 sense).
6540
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00006541- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
6542
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00006543- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
6544 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
6545 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
6546 the patch.
6547
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006548- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
6549 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
6550 the patch).
6551
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00006552- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
6553 os.uname exists.
6554
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00006555- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6556
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00006557- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6558
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00006559- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
6560 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
6561 pointer-like object.
6562
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00006563- Added the ast module.
6564
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006565- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00006566
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00006567- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
6568 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
6569
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00006570- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
6571 to errno.
6572
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006573- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00006574
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006575- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00006576 msilib.Record objects.
6577
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00006578- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
6579 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
6580
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00006581- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
6582 in Python 3.0.
6583
6584- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
6585 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00006586
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00006587- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
6588 False boolean value now.
6589
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00006590- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
6591 transfers.
6592
6593- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
6594 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00006595
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00006596- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
6597 when the TarFile is closed.
6598
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00006599- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
6600 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
6601 an exception.
6602
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00006603- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
6604 otherwise be produced.
6605
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00006606- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
6607 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
6608
6609- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
6610 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
6611
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00006612- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
6613 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
6614 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
6615
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00006616- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
6617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006618- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00006619 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
6620 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
6621 'm' or 'c'.
6622
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00006623- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006625- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
6626 removal in Python 3.0.
6627
6628- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6629 3.0.
6630
6631- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6632 3.0.
6633
6634- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6635 3.0.
6636
6637- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00006638 Python 3.0.
6639
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00006640- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
6641 Python 3.0.
6642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006643- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6644 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00006645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006646- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6647 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00006648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006649- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6650 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00006651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006652- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6653 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00006654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006655- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00006656 Python 3.0.
6657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006658- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6659 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00006660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006661- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6662 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00006663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006664- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6665 3.0.
6666
6667- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
6668 removal in Python 3.0.
6669
6670- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6671 3.0.
6672
6673- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6674 3.0.
6675
6676- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
6677 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006679- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
6680 removal in Python 3.0.
6681
6682- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00006683 Python 3.0.
6684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006685- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6686 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00006687
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00006688- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6689 Python 3.0.
6690
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00006691- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6692 Python 3.0.
6693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006694- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00006695
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00006696- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6697
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00006698- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6699
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00006700- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
6701
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00006702- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006704- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
6705 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
6706 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00006707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006708- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
6709 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00006710
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00006711- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006713- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6714 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00006715
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00006716- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6717
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00006718- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6719
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00006720- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6721
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00006722- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6723
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00006724- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006726- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
6727 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00006728
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00006729- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6730
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00006731- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6732
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00006733- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
6734 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
6735 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
6736 OverflowError.
6737
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00006738- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6739
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006740- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6741 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00006742
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00006743- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6744
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00006745- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6746
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00006747- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6748
6749- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00006750
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006751- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6752
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00006753- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
6754
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00006755- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
6756
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00006757- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00006758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006759- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
6760 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00006761
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006762- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006763 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
6764 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
6765 of Python.
6766
6767- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
6768 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
6769
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00006770- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
6771 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00006772
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006773Build
6774-----
6775
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00006776- 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 +00006777
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00006778- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
6779
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00006780- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
6781
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006782- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
6783 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006784 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006785
6786 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
6787
6788 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
6789
6790 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
6791
6792 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
6793
6794 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
6795
6796 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
6797
6798
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006799C API
6800-----
6801
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00006802- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
6803
6804- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006805
6806- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
6807 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
6808 PyString names.
6809
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00006810
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006811What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006812=================================
6813
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00006814*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006815
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006816Core and builtins
6817-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006818
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00006819- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
6820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006821- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
6822 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00006823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006824- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
6825 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00006826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006827- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00006828
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006829Extension Modules
6830-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006832- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
6833 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00006834
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00006835- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
6836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006837- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
6838 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006840- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
6841 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006843- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
6844 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00006845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006846- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
6847 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
6848 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
6849 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
6850 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
6851 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
6852 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
6853 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00006854
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006855Library
6856-------
6857
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00006858- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6859
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006860- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
6861 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00006862
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00006863- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
6864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006865- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
6866 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00006867
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00006868- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
6869 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
6870 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
6871
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006872- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006873 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006874
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00006875- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00006876 reference to themselves.
6877
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00006878- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
6879 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
6880 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00006881
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00006882- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
6883 1900-01-01.
6884
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00006885- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
6886 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
6887
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00006888- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
6889 now implemented in C for better performance.
6890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006891- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
6892 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
6893 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00006894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006895- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00006896 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
6897 build documentation for more information.
6898
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00006899- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
6900 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
6901 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
6902 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
6903
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00006904- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6905 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
6906 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
6907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006908- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
6909 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
6910 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
6911 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00006912
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006913Tests
6914-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006916- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
6917 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
6918 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
6919 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
6920 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
6921 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
6922 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
6923 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
6924 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
6925 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
6926 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
6927 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
6928 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
6929 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
6930 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
6931 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
6932 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
6933 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
6934 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
6935 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
6936
6937 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
6938 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
6939 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
6940 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
6941 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
6942 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
6943 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
6944 access to the underlying socket used.
6945
6946 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
6947 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
6948 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006949
6950 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006951 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006952 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
6953 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
6954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006955 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
6956 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006957
6958Build
6959-----
6960
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00006961- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
6962
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00006963- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
6964 gcc is used as compiler.
6965
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006966- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006967 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006968
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006969C API
6970-----
6971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006972- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
6973 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
6974 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
6975 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006976
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00006977- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00006978
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006979
6980What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
6981=================================
6982
6983*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
6984
6985Core and builtins
6986-----------------
6987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006988- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
6989 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
6990 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00006991
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00006992- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
6993 cannot be executed.
6994
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00006995- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
6996 reference on the outer class name.
6997
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006998- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006999 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00007000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007001- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
7002 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00007003
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00007004- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007005
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00007006- Added backport of bytearray type.
7007
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00007008- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
7009
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00007010- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007011 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
7012 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
7013 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
7014 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
7015 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00007016
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00007017- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
7018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007019- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
7020 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00007021
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00007022- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007023
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00007024- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
7025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007026- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
7027 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00007028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007029- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
7030 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00007031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007032- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00007033 exception instances.
7034
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00007035- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007036 doesn't derive from BaseException.
7037
7038- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
7039 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00007040
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00007041- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
7042 memory usage in some circumstances.
7043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007044- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
7045 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
7046 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00007047
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00007048- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
7049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007050- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00007051 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
7052 longer passed.
7053
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00007054- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
7055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007056- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
7057 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
7058 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00007059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007060- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
7061 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007062
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00007063- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
7064
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00007065Extension Modules
7066-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00007067
7068- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
7069
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007070Library
7071-------
7072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007073- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
7074 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007076- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
7077 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
7078 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007080- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
7081 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007083- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
7084 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
7085 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00007086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007087- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
7088 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00007089
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00007090- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
7091
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00007092- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
7093 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
7094 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
7095
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00007096- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
7097
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00007098- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
7099 advertised in the docs.
7100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007101- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00007102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007103- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00007104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007105- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
7106 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00007107
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00007108- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
7109 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
7110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007111- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
7112 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00007113 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
7114 information as well.
7115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007116- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
7117 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00007118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007119- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
7120 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00007121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007122- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
7123 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
7124 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00007125
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00007126- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
7127 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
7128 strftime.
7129
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00007130- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007131 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
7132 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00007133
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00007134- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
7135 correctly under win32
7136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007137- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00007138
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00007139- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007140 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
7141 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
7142 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00007143
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00007144- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
7145 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
7146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007147- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
7148 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00007149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007150- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
7151 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
7152 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00007153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007154- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00007155 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
7156
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00007157- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
7158 from 't' to '?'.
7159
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007160- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
7161 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007162 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
7163 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
7164 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007166- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
7167 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00007168
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00007169Tests
7170-----
7171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007172- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
7173 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00007174
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00007175- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
7176
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00007177- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
7178
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00007179- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
7180
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00007181- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
7182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007183- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
7184 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00007185
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00007186- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
7187
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007188- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00007189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007190- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
7191 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00007192
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00007193- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
7194
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00007195- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
7196
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00007197- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
7198 permission to create files in the root directory.
7199
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00007200Build
7201-----
7202
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00007203- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
7204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007205- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
7206 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00007207
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00007208- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007209
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007210C API
7211-----
7212
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007213- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007214 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
7215
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007216
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007217What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
7218=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007219
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00007220*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007221
7222Core and builtins
7223-----------------
7224
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00007225- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00007226 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00007227
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00007228- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
7229
7230- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00007231
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007232- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007233 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00007234
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00007235- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
7236 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
7237 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
7238 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
7239 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
7240 module is:
7241 from future_builtins import hex, oct
7242
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00007243- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
7244 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
7245 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
7246 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
7247 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
7248 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
7249
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00007250- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
7251 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
7252 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
7253 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
7254 PyObject_Format().
7255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007256- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
7257 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
7258 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00007259
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007260- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007261 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
7262 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00007263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007264- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
7265 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00007266
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007267- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
7268 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
7269 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00007270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007271- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
7272 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
7273 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00007274
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00007275- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
7276 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
7277
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007278- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007279 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00007280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007281- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
7282 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00007283 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
7284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007285- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
7286 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
7287 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00007288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007289- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
7290 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00007291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007292- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
7293 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00007294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007295- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
7296 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00007297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007298- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
7299 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00007300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007301- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
7302 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
7303 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00007304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007305- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
7306 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
7307 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
7308 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00007309
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00007310- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
7311 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
7312 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
7313
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007314- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00007315 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
7316 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
7317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007318- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00007319 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
7320 support.
7321
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00007322- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
7323 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
7324
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00007325- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
7326
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007327- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00007328 added.
7329
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00007330- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
7331 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
7332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007333- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
7334 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00007335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007336- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
7337 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
7338 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00007339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007340- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
7341 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00007342
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00007343- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
7344 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00007345
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00007346- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
7347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007348- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
7349 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
7350 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00007351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007352- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
7353 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
7354 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00007355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007356- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00007357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007358- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
7359 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00007360
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007361- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007362 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
7363 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007365- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
7366 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
7367 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
7368 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00007369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007370- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00007371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007372- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
7373 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00007374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007375- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
7376 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00007377
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00007378- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00007379 SystemError.
7380
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00007381- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
7382 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
7383 __package__ attribute.
7384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007385- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
7386 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
7387 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00007388
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007389- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
7390
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007391- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00007392 attribute of an empty cell object.
7393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007394- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
7395 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00007396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007397- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
7398 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
7399 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
7400 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00007401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007402- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
7403 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
7404 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00007405
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00007406- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
7407
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00007408- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
7409
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00007410- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
7411
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007412- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007413 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
7414 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00007415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007416- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
7417 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
7418 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
7419 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
7420 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
7421 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00007422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007423- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
7424 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
7425 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
7426 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
7427 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00007428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007429- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
7430 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
7431 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00007432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007433- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
7434 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00007435
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007436- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007437 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
7438 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
7439 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
7440 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
7441 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007443- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
7444 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00007445
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00007446- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
7447 with %G.
7448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007449- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
7450 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00007451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007452- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00007453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007454- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00007455
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007456- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007457 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
7458 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007459
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00007460- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
7461 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
7462
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00007463- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
7464 calls.
7465
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007466- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007467 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
7468 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007469
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00007470- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
7471
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007472- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007473 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00007474
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007475- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00007476 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
7477
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00007478- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
7479
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00007480- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
7481 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
7482 remaining characters.
7483
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00007484- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
7485 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
7486
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00007487- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
7488
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007489- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
7490 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
7491 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
7492 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
7493 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00007494 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
7495 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007497- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
7498 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
7499 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
7500 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
7501 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00007502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007503- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
7504 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
7505 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00007506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007507- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
7508 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00007509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007510- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
7511 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
7512 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00007513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007514- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
7515 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00007516
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00007517- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
7518
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00007519- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
7520 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
7521
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007522- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007523 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
7524 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
7525 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007526
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00007527- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
7528 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
7529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007530- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
7531 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00007532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007533- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
7534 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
7535 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00007536
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007537- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007538 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
7539 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007540
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007541- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
7542 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007543 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
7544 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007546- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
7547 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00007548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007549- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
7550 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00007551
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00007552- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
7553 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
7554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007555- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
7556 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
7557 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00007558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007559- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
7560 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00007561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007562- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
7563 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00007564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007565- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
7566 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
7567 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00007568
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00007569- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
7570 frame's thread state.
7571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007572- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
7573 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00007574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007575- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
7576 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00007577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007578- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
7579 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00007580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007581- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
7582 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00007583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007584- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
7585 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00007586
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00007587- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
7588
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00007589- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
7590
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00007591- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
7592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007593- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
7594 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00007595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007596- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00007597
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00007598- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
7599 again, no longer the posix error code.
7600
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00007601- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
7602 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
7603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007604- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
7605 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00007606
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00007607- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
7608 embedded in the string to convert.
7609
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00007610- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
7611 recognized and rejected.
7612
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007613- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
7614
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007615- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
7616 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
7617 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00007618
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00007619- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
7620 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
7621
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007622- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007623 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
7624 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007626- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
7627 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
7628 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00007629
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00007630- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
7631
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00007632- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
7633
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00007634- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
7635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007636- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
7637 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
7638 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00007639
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007640- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
7641 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
7642 'exceptions'.
7643
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00007644- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
7645 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
7646
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00007647- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
7648 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
7649
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00007650- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
7651
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007652- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
7653
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00007654- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
7655 head is the original string if sep was not found.
7656
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007657- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007658 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
7659 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
7660 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007661
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007662- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00007663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007664- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
7665 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007666
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007667- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
7668 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00007669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007670- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00007671 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
7672 it actually exited.
7673
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007674
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007675Library
7676-------
7677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007678- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00007679
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00007680- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
7681
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00007682- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
7683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007684- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
7685 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00007686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007687- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00007688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007689- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
7690 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
7691 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00007692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007693- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
7694 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00007695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007696- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00007697 (ignore-case)
7698
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00007699- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
7700 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
7701 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
7702 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
7703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007704- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
7705 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00007706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007707- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
7708 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00007709
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00007710- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
7711 pickled.
7712
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00007713- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
7714 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
7715
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00007716- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
7717 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
7718 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
7719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007720- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
7721 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00007722
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007723- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
7724 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
7725 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00007726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007727- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
7728 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00007729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007730- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
7731 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00007732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007733- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
7734 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
7735 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
7736 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00007737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007738- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
7739 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007740 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
7741
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00007742- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
7743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007744- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
7745 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00007746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007747- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00007748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007749- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
7750 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007752- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
7753 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007755- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
7756 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007758- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
7759 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007761- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
7762 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
7763 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00007764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007765- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
7766 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00007767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007768- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
7769 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00007770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007771- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
7772 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00007773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007774- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
7775 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00007776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007777- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
7778 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00007779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007780- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
7781 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00007782
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00007783- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
7784 with extended local headers.
7785
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007786- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
7787 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00007788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007789- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00007790 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
7791 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
7792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007793- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
7794 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00007795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007796- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
7797 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00007798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007799- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
7800 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00007801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007802- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
7803 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00007804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007805- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
7806 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00007807
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007808- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007809 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007810 Textbox.gather().
7811
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007812- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
7813 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00007814 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
7815 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007816
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00007817- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
7818 that array types do not live longer than needed.
7819
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007820- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
7821 and when creating a recursive instance.
7822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007823- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
7824 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
7825 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00007826
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00007827- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
7828 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
7829 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
7830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007831- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
7832 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00007833
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007834- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00007835 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
7836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007837- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00007838 good for long regular expression matches.
7839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007840- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
7841 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00007842
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00007843- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
7844 the current context.
7845
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00007846- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
7847 zipfile module.
7848
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007849- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
7850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007851- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
7852 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00007853
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00007854- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
7855
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00007856- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
7857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007858- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
7859 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00007860
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00007861- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
7862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007863- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
7864 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00007865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007866- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
7867 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00007868
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00007869- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
7870
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00007871- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
7872 Tcl objects.
7873
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00007874- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
7875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007876- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
7877 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
7878 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
7879 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00007880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007881- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
7882 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00007883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007884- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
7885 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00007886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007887- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
7888 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00007889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007890- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
7891 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00007892
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00007893- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
7894 method used universal newlines.
7895
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00007896- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
7897 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
7898
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00007899- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
7900 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
7901
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00007902- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
7903 files are updated.
7904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007905- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
7906 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007907
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00007908- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
7909 configured with --with-system-ffi.
7910
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007911- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007912 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007913
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00007914- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
7915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007916- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
7917 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
7918 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00007919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007920- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
7921 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00007922
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00007923- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00007924
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00007925- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
7926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007927- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
7928 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00007929
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00007930- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
7931 to be orderable to properly represent them.
7932
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00007933- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
7934
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00007935- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
7936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007937- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
7938 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
7939 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007940
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00007941- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
7942 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
7943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007944- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
7945 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00007946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007947- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
7948 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00007949
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00007950- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
7951
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00007952- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
7953
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00007954- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
7955 syllables.
7956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007957- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
7958 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00007959
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00007960- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
7961
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00007962- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
7963 represent the result in a single character.
7964
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00007965- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
7966
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00007967- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
7968
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00007969- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
7970 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
7971 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
7972
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00007973- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
7974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007975- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
7976 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00007977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007978- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
7979 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
7980 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00007981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007982- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
7983 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
7984 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00007985
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007986- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007987 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
7988 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007990- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
7991 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00007992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007993- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
7994 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00007995
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00007996- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7997
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00007998- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008000- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
8001 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
8002 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00008003
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00008004- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8005
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00008006- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8007
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00008008- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
8009 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
8010
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00008011- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
8012
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00008013- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
8014
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00008015- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008017- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
8018 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00008019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008020- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
8021 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00008022
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00008023- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
8024 the directories).
8025
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00008026- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
8027 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
8028 injecting HTML into the error page.
8029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008030- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
8031 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00008032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008033- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
8034 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008035
8036- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
8037
8038- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
8039
8040- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
8041 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
8042 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
8043
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00008044- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
8045 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
8046 ".cpp" too.
8047
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00008048- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008049 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
8050 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
8051 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00008052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008053- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
8054 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00008055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008056- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
8057 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00008058
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00008059- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
8060 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
8061 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
8062 closes patch #723312.
8063
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008064- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
8065 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00008066 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00008067
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00008068- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
8069
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00008070- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
8071 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
8072
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00008073- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
8074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008075- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
8076 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00008077 directories.
8078
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00008079- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
8080 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
8081 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
8082 trying Mozilla variants.
8083
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00008084- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
8085
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00008086- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
8087 initialization failed.
8088
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00008089- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008090 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
8091 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00008092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008093- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
8094 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
8095 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00008096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008097- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
8098 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00008099 correctly now.
8100
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00008101- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
8102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008103- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
8104 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00008105
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00008106- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
8107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008108- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
8109 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
8110 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00008111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008112- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
8113 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
8114 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
8115 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00008116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008117- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
8118 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
8119 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00008120
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00008121- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
8122 whitespace while wrapping.
8123
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00008124- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008125 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
8126 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00008127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008128- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
8129 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
8130 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00008131
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00008132- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
8133 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
8134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008135- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
8136 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00008137
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00008138- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
8139 concatenation in robotparser.
8140
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00008141- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008142 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
8143 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00008144
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00008145- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
8146 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
8147
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00008148- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
8149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008150- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
8151 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
8152 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00008153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008154- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
8155 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
8156 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00008157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008158- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
8159 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00008160 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00008161
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00008162- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
8163 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
8164
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00008165- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
8166 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
8167
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00008168- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
8169 returned string up to the first NUL character.
8170
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00008171- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
8172
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00008173- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
8174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008175- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
8176 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
8177 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00008178
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00008179- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
8180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008181- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
8182 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
8183 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
8184 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
8185 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
8186 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00008187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008188- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
8189 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00008190
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00008191- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
8192 comprehensive test suite for the module.
8193
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00008194- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
8195 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
8196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008197- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
8198 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
8199 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00008200
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008201- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00008202 in HTMLParser.
8203
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00008204- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
8205 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
8206
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00008207- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
8208
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00008209- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
8210
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00008211- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
8212
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00008213- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00008214
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00008215- Added itertools.izip_longest().
8216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008217- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
8218 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00008219
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00008220- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
8221
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00008222- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
8223 doesn't exist.
8224
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00008225- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
8226
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00008227- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
8228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008229- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00008230
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008231- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
8232 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00008233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008234- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
8235 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00008236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008237- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
8238 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00008239
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00008240- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008241 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00008242
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00008243- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
8244 iso8859_16.
8245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008246- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
8247 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
8248 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
8249 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00008250
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008251- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
8252
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00008253- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
8254 directories.
8255
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00008256- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
8257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008258- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
8259 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00008260
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008261- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008262 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008263
8264- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008265 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008266
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008267- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008269- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
8270 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00008271
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00008272- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
8273
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00008274- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
8275 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
8276 parameterless foreign function calls work.
8277
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00008278- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
8279
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00008280- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
8281 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
8282 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
8283
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00008284- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
8285 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
8286
8287- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
8288 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
8289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008290- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
8291 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
8292 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00008293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008294- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
8295 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00008296
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00008297- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
8298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008299- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
8300 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00008301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008302- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
8303 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00008304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008305- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
8306 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00008307
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008308- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
8309 separated lists read from logging config files.
8310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008311- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
8312 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
8313 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008315- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
8316 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00008317
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00008318- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
8319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008320- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
8321 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00008322
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00008323- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
8324
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00008325- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
8326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008327- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
8328 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00008329
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00008330- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
8331 regular files.
8332
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00008333- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
8334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008335- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
8336 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00008337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008338- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
8339 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00008340
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00008341- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
8342 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
8343
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00008344- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
8345 file name mangling.
8346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008347- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
8348 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00008349
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00008350- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
8351
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008352- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00008353 HTTPConnection.request().
8354
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00008355- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
8356 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
8357 objects.
8358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008359- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
8360 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
8361 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00008362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008363- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
8364 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
8365 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00008366
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008367- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00008368
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008369- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00008370
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00008371- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
8372
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008373- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008374 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008375
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00008376- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
8377
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00008378- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
8379 GNU modes.
8380
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008381- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008382 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008383 opcode.
8384
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00008385- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
8386 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
8387 statement (bug #1586513).
8388
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008389- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
8390 correctly.
8391
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00008392- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
8393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008394- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
8395 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00008396
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00008397- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
8398 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
8399 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
8400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008401- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
8402 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
8403 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00008404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008405- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
8406 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00008407
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00008408- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
8409
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00008410- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
8411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008412- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
8413 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00008414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008415- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
8416 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00008417
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00008418- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
8419 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
8420
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00008421- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
8422 with a slash.
8423
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00008424- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
8425 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
8426
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00008427- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008428 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00008429
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00008430- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
8431 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
8432 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
8433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008434- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
8435 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00008436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008437- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
8438 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00008439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008440- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
8441 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00008442
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00008443- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
8444
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008445- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00008446 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008448- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
8449 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00008450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008451- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
8452 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008453
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00008454- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
8455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008456- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
8457 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00008458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008459- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
8460 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
8461 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008463- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
8464 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
8465 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00008466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008467- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
8468 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
8469 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
8470 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00008471
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008472- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008473 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
8474 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008475 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
8476 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
8477 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008479- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
8480 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008481
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008482Extension Modules
8483-----------------
8484
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008485- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00008486
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00008487- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
8488
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00008489- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
8490
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008491- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00008492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008493- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
8494 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00008495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008496- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
8497 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00008498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008499- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
8500 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00008501
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00008502- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
8503
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00008504- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
8505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008506- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
8507 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008508
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00008509- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
8510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008511- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
8512 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00008513
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00008514- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
8515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008516- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
8517 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00008518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008519- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00008520 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
8521 parameter.
8522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008523- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
8524 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
8525 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
8526 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00008527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008528- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
8529 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00008530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008531- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
8532 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00008533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008534- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
8535 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
8536 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00008537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008538- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
8539 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00008540
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00008541- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
8542
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00008543- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
8544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008545- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
8546 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
8547 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00008548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008549- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
8550 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00008551
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00008552- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
8553
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00008554- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
8555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008556- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
8557 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
8558 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
8559 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00008560
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00008561- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
8562 get_completion_type to readline.
8563
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00008564- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
8565 structure.
8566
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00008567- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8568
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00008569- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
8570
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00008571- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
8572 intended for RECNO databases.
8573
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008574- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008575 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
8576 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
8577 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
8578 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
8579 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
8580 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008581
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00008582- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
8583
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00008584- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
8585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008586- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
8587 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
8588 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
8589 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
8590 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00008591
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00008592- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
8593 error in spite of a succesful compression.
8594
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00008595- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
8596 of Py_ssize_t.
8597
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00008598- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
8599 fractional times. With unittest.
8600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008601- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
8602 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
8603 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00008604
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00008605- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
8606
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00008607- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
8608
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00008609- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
8610
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00008611- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
8612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008613- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008614 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00008615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008616- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
8617 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00008618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008619- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
8620 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00008621
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00008622- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
8623 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
8624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008625- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
8626 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
8627 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00008628
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00008629- Speed up function calls into the math module.
8630
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00008631- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
8632 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
8633 does.
8634
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00008635- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
8636
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00008637- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
8638
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00008639- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
8640
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00008641- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
8642
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00008643- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
8644 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
8645
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00008646- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
8647 datetime's strftime function.
8648
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00008649- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
8650
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00008651- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
8652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008653- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
8654 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00008655
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00008656- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
8657
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008658- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008659 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
8660 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008662- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
8663 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00008664
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008665- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008666 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
8667 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008668 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
8669 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00008670 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008671 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008672
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008673- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
8674 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
8675 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
8676 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
8677
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00008678- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
8679 were transposed.
8680
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00008681- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
8682 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00008683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008684- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
8685 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
8686 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008687
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008688- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
8689
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00008690- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
8691
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00008692- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
8693
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00008694- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008695
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00008696- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
8697 databases without a DBEnv.
8698
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00008699- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
8700
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008701Tests
8702-----
8703
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00008704- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00008705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008706- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
8707 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00008708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008709- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
8710 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
8711 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00008712
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00008713- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
8714 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00008715
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008716- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
8717 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00008718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008719- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
8720 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
8721 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00008722
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00008723- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
8724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008725- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
8726 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
8727 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00008728
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008729- Added some tests for modulefinder.
8730
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00008731- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
8732
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00008733- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
8734 number properly.
8735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008736- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
8737 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008738
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008739Tools
8740-----
8741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008742- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
8743 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
8744 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00008745 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00008746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008747- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
8748 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
8749 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00008750
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00008751- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
8752 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
8753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008754- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
8755 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008757- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
8758 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008759
8760- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008761 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
8762 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008763
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008764
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008765Documentation
8766-------------
8767
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008768- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
8769 include new optional delay argument.
8770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008771- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
8772 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
8773 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008774
8775- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
8776 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
8777
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00008778- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
8779 Python tutorial.
8780
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00008781- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
8782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008783- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
8784 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00008785
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00008786- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
8787 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
8788
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00008789- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
8790 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
8791
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00008792- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
8793
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00008794- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
8795 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
8796
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008797- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00008798 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
8799
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00008800- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
8801 docs.
8802
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00008803- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
8804
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00008805- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
8806 string pointed to by its parameter.
8807
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00008808- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
8809
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008810- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008811 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
8812 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
8813 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008814
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008815
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008816Tools/Demos
8817-----------
8818
8819- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008820
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008821- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008822 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
8823 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008824
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008825- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
8826 file not to get reported properly.
8827
8828
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008829Build
8830-----
8831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008832- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
8833 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
8834 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00008835
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008836- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
8837 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
8838
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00008839- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
8840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008841- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008843- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
8844 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
8845 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
8846 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008848- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
8849 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008850
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00008851- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
8852
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00008853- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
8854 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
8855 without this option!
8856
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00008857- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
8858
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008859- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008860 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
8861 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
8862 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008864- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
8865 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00008866
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00008867- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
8868
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00008869- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
8870
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008871- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
8872 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00008873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008874- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
8875 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00008876
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00008877- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
8878 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
8879 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
8880
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00008881- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
8882 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
8883
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00008884- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
8885
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00008886- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
8887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008888- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
8889 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00008890
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008891- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00008892 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
8893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008894- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
8895 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00008896
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00008897- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
8898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008899- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00008900
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00008901- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
8902
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00008903- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
8904
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00008905- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008907- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
8908 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
8909 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00008910
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008911
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008912C API
8913-----
8914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008915- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
8916 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
8917 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
8918 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00008919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008920- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
8921 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
8922 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008923
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008924- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008926- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
8927 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
8928 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008929
8930- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
8931
8932- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
8933 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
8934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008935- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
8936 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
8937 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
8938 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008940- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
8941 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008943- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
8944 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
8945 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008947- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
8948 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008949
8950- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
8951
8952- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
8953
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008954- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
8955
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008956- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
8957
8958- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
8959 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
8960
8961- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
8962 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
8963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008964- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
8965 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
8966 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008968- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
8969 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008971- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
8972 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00008973
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008974
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008975Windows
8976-------
8977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008978- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
8979 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
8980 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
8981 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00008982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008983- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
8984 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008985
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00008986- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
8987
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008988
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008989Mac
8990---
8991
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00008992- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8993
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00008994- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008996- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8997 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
8998 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00008999
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00009000----
9001
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