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Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06004What's New in Python 2.7.4
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02006
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06007*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02008
9Core and Builtins
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11
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +030012- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
13 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
14 Patch by Sven Marnach.
15
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +020016- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
17
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -040018- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
19
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -040020- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
21 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
22
23- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
24 special method with a different name.
25
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -040026- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
27
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +010028- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
29 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
30 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
31
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +020032- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
33 created with PyFile_FromString().
34
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -040035- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
36 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
37
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +020038- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
39 by Suman Saha.
40
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -040041- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
42 the module name that was not interned.
43
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -070044- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
45 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
46
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050047- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -050048 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
49 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050050
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +020051- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
52
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -060053- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
54 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
55
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +010056- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
57 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
58
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +000059- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
60 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
61 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
62 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
63
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -060064Library
65-------
66
Terry Jan Reedyd9d276b2012-05-27 21:28:42 -040067- Issue12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
68 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
69
Terry Jan Reedyeaa7e782012-05-26 20:33:32 -040070- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
71 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
72
Terry Jan Reedy42f7b7e2012-05-26 16:55:43 -040073- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
74 Patch by Roger Serwy.
75
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +080076- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
77 not go in illegal range and returns None.
78
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +020079- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
80 larger than 2**32 bytes.
81
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -060082- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
83
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -070084- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
85 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
86
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +080087- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
88 Header in Cookie.py.
89
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +080090- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
91 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
92
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +030093- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
94 ports stricter.
95
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +080096- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
97 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
98
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +030099- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
100 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
101 Xavier de Gaye.
102
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400103- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
104 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
105
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200106- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
107
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700108- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
109 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
110 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
111 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
112 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
113
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800114- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
115 Authentation in urllib2.
116
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700117- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
118 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
119
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200120- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
121 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
122
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200123- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
124
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800125- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
126 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
127
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200128- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
129 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
130
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200131- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
132 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
133
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400134- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
135 were missing, instead of raising an error.
136
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800137- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
138 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600139
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200140- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
141 module's active list after a fork().
142
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600143- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
144 a bare '/'.
145
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100146- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
147
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100148- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
149 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
150
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400151- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
152 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
153 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400154
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200155- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
156 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
157 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
158
Andrew Svetlov8af87292012-03-31 14:34:16 +0300159- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
160 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
161 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
162 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
Andrew Svetlovc37db102012-03-29 19:54:58 +0300163
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100164- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
165 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
166 was not meant to connect.
167
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400168- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
169 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
170
Andrew Svetlov7c010ee2012-03-21 13:35:08 +0200171- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
172 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
173
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100174- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
175 attribute.
176
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700177- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
178
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700179- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
180
Martin v. Löwisf163efd2012-03-13 14:46:22 -0700181- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
182
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100183- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
184 Windows when the child process has already exited.
185
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600186- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
187 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
188 fixed.
189
190- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
191 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
192 O(1) rather than O(n).
193
194- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
195
196- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
197 scripts found in the Tools directory.
198
199- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
200 on Windows.
201
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200202Tests
203-----
204
205- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
206 a test failure in test_ssl.
207
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200208Build
209-----
210
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +0200211- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
212 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
213
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +0200214- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
215
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +0200216- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
217
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200218- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
219
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300220Documentation
221-------------
222
223- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
224
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600225
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700226What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
227===============================================
228
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -0500229*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700230
231Library
232-------
233
234- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
235 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
236 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
237 modifications by the expat project.
238
239
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600240What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
241===============================================
242
243*Release date: 2012-02-23*
244
245Core and Builtins
246-----------------
247
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +0100248- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
249 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
250
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -0500251- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
252 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
253 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
254 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
255
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +0100256- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
257 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
258
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -0500259- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
260 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
261
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +0100262- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
263 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
264 noticing.
265
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +0100266- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
267 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
268
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +0100269- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
270 already accepts them).
271
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +0200272- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
273 setobject.c.
274
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -0400275- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
276
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +0300277- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
278 Patch by Suman Saha.
279
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800280- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
281 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
282
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +1100283- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
284 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
285 embedded situations.
286
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -0400287- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
288 PySequence_DelItem.
289
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +0200290- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
291 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
292
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +0200293- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
294 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
295
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100296- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
297 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
298 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +0100299 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
300 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
301 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100302
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +0300303- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
304 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
305
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -0500306- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
307 and identifier types before compiling.
308
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400309- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
310 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -0500311
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +0200312- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
313 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
314 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
315 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
316 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
317
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +0100318- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
319 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +0200320
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +0200321- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
322 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
323
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +0200324- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200325 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
326 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
327
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +0200328- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
329 delimiter in URLs.
330
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400331- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
332 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +0100333
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200334Library
335-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200336
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +0200337- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
338 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
339
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +0200340- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
341
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +0100342- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
343 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
344
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -0800345- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
346
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +0100347- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
348
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200349- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +0200350 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200351
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +0100352- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
353 Patch by Suman Saha.
354
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -0600355- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
356 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
357
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +0100358- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
359 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
360
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +0200361- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
362
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +0200363- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
364
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +0200365- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
366 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
367 Kohtala.
368
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +0100369- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +0100370 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
371 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
372 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
373 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
374 is the case in 3.x.
375
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +0100376- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
377 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
378 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
379 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
380 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
381 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
382 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
383 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
384 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
385 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
386 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
387 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
388
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +0800389- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
390
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +0800391- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
392 relevant, instead send method.
393
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +0200394- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
395 raise a ProgrammingError now.
396
Ned Deily2c8bf042012-02-06 00:55:50 +0100397- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
398
Terry Jan Reedyadb87e22012-02-05 15:10:55 -0500399- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
400 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
401
Ned Deily61c95342012-02-04 18:35:23 +0100402- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
403 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
404
Ned Deilyfbc56fd2012-02-03 02:39:49 +0100405- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
406
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +0200407- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
408
Terry Jan Reedyb98000a2012-01-31 02:09:25 -0500409- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
410 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
411
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +0100412- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
413 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
414
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +0100415- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
416 IV attack countermeasure.
417
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +0800418- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
419
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +0200420- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
421 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
422
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100423- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
424 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
425
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +0100426- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
427 in the directory name.
428
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +0800429- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
430 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
431
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100432- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
433 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
434
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +0800435- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
436
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +0100437- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
438
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +0100439- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
440
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100441- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
442 Cédric Krier.
443
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +0100444- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
445 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
446
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +0100447- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
448 redirection or an error.
449
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -0800450- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
451 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
452 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
453
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +0100454- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
455 other than 900k.
456
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -0800457- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
458 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
459
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +0200460- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
461
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100462- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
463 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
464 Harring.
465
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100466- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
467 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
468
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +0100469- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
470
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100471- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
472 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
473 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
474 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
475 Patch by sbt.
476
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +0200477- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
478
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +0200479- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
480 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
481 Kenigsberg.
482
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -0800483- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
484 sequences.
485
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +0200486- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
487 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
488
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +0100489- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
490 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
491
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200492- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
493 locale.setlocale().
494
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +0200495- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
496 are read correctly.
497
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +0100498- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
499
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +0100500- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
501
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200502- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
503 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
504
505- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +0800506 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
507
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200508- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -0700509 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
510
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +0200511- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
512
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +0100513- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
514 multiple encodings.
515
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +0200516- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
517 before all tasks have completed.
518
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200519- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
520 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +0200521 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
522 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200523
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +0200524- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
525
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800526- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
527 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
528
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +0800529- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
530 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
531
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +0200532- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
533 now available on Windows.
534
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +0200535- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
536 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
537
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -0700538- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
539 contents cannot be read.
540
541- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
542 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
543
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +0200544- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
545 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
546
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +0200547- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
548 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
549 Craig Citro.
550
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +0200551- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
552 Thomas Jarosch.
553
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +0200554- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
555 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
556
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200557- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
558 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
559 present.
560
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +0200561- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
562 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200563
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +0200564- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
565 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
566 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
567 information was lost.
568
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +0200569- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
570 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
571
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +0200572- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
573 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
574
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +0200575- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
576 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
577
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +0200578- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
579 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
580
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +0200581- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
582 interpreter shutdown.
583
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +0200584- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
585 Pipe.
586
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +0200587- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
588 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
589
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +0200590- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
591 is compiled on Linux 3.
592
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +0200593- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
594
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +0200595- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
596
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +0200597- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
598 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
599
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -0400600- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
601 accepting unicode strings.
602
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +0800603- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
604 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
605
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +0200606- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
607
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +0200608- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
609 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
610
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +0200611- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
612 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
613
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +0200614- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
615
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -0700616- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
617 collections when it is done.
618
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +0200619- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
620 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
621
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +0200622- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
623 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
624
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +0200625- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
626
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +0200627- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
628 locales.
629
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +0200630- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +0200631
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +0200632- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
633
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +0200634- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
635
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200636- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
637 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
638 Linux 3.0.
639
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -0400640- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
641 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
642
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +0200643- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
644 Andreas Stührk.
645
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +0200646- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
647
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +0200648- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
649 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
650
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +0200651- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
652 if the process has only one pipe.
653
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +0200654- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
655 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
656
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +0200657- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
658 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
659
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -0700660- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
661 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
662 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
663 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
664 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
665 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
666 still possible to globally override the default by setting
667 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
668 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
669 was built.
670
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +0200671- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
672 it won't grow without bound.
673
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +0200674- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
675 Kitada.
676
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -0400677- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
678 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
679
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +0200680- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
681 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
682 written by Ezio Melotti.
683
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500684- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
685 functions.
686
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -0400687- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
688
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -0500689- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
690 instead of os.stat.
691
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +0100692- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
693 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
694
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -0700695- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
696
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400697- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
698 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
699 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
700 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
701 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
702 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -0700703
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +0200704- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
705 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
706 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
707
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400708Extension Modules
709-----------------
710
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +0100711- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
712 Possible crash.
713
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +0100714- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
715 json.loads().
716
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +0100717- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
718 Vilmos Nebehaj.
719
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +0200720- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
721 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
722
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +0200723- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
724 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
725 writer got cleared by the GC.
726
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -0500727- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
728
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -0500729- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
730 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
731
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +0200732- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
733 file descriptor was actually received.
734
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +0200735- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
736 object triggers the garbage collector.
737
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +0200738- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
739 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
740
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +0200741- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
742 a string.
743
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +0200744- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
745 some functions like file.write().
746
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400747- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
748 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
749 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
750
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700751Build
752-----
753
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +0100754- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
755
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +0100756- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
757
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +0100758- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
759
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700760- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
761 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
762 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
763 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
764
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400765Tools/Demos
766-----------
767
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +0200768- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
769 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
770
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -0800771- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
772 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
773 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
774 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
775
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400776- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
777 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
778
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +0100779- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
780 traceback if Python is optimized.
781
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200782Tests
783-----
784
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +0200785- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
786 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
787
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -0700788- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
789 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
790
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -0400791- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
792
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +0200793- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
794
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +0200795- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
796 Python.
797
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -0700798- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
799 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
800
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +0200801- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
802 failure in name resolution.
803
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +0100804- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
805 in test_telnetlib.py.
806
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +0100807- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
808
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +0200809- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
810 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
811 Web site.
812
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +0200813- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
814 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
815 is now skipped instead.
816
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -0700817- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
818 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
819 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
820
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -0700821- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
822 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
823 run outside of a build directory.
824
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700825- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
826 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
827
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -0700828- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
829 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
830
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200831- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
832 iso2022_kr).
833
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200834Documentation
835-------------
836
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +0200837- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
838 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +0200839
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +0200840- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
841
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -0500842- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
843
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -0600844- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
845 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
846
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -0600847- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
848 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
849
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +1000850- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
851 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
852
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200853- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
854
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200855
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000856What's New in Python 2.7.2?
857===========================
858
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -0500859*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500860
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -0500861Library
862-------
863
864- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
865
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -0500866Extension Modules
867-----------------
868
869- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
870
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500871
872What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
873===============================================
874
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -0500875*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000876
877Core and Builtins
878-----------------
879
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -0700880- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
881 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
882 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
883 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
884
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -0500885- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
886 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
887 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -0500888
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +0200889- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
890 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
891
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +0200892- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
893 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
894 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
895
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +0200896- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
897 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
898
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200899- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
900 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
901 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +0200902 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200903
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +0200904- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
905 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
906 by Charles-François Natali.
907
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +0300908- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
909 accepted too.
910
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +0300911- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
912 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
913 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
914
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +0200915- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
916 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
917 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
918
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +0000919- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
920 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
921 though the result was within the range of an int.
922
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +0100923- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
924 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
925
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +0000926- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
927 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
928
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +0000929- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
930 class.
931
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000932- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
933 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
934 Patch by Matt Bandy.
935
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +0000936- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
937
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +0000938- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
939 can now handle dates after 2038.
940
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +0000941- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
942 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
943 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
944
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +0200945- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
946 Patch by Torsten Becker.
947
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +0000948- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
949
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +0000950- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
951 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
952 0.0, not -0.0.
953
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +0000954- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
955 empty, instead of OverflowError.
956
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000957Library
958-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000959
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -0700960- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
961 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
962
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -0500963- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
964 closed StringIO instance.
965
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +0200966- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
967 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
968
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +0200969- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
970
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +0200971- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
972 if the file is closed.
973
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +0200974- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
975 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
976
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +0200977- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
978 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
979 final argument is True.
980
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +0200981- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
982 to be able to unload the module.
983
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +0200984- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
985 with Tk 8.5.
986
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +0200987- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
988 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
989
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +0200990- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +0200991 set in shell.
992
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +0200993- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
994 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
995
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +0200996- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
997 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
998 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
999 still within buffered data, and writing again).
1000
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02001001- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
1002 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
1003
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02001004- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
1005
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +02001006- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
1007
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02001008- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
1009 by Kasun Herath.
1010
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04001011- Issue 11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
1012 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1013 previous value of the mtime.
1014
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02001015- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1016 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1017 for the case.
1018
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03001019- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
1020
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02001021- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1022 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1023
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08001024- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
1025 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
1026
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03001027- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1028 strings are too long.
1029
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08001030- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1031
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02001032- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1033 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1034 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1035
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07001036- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1037 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1038
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02001039- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
1040 to avoid XSS attacks.
1041
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08001042- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
1043 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1044
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07001045- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1046
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08001047- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1048 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1049
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03001050- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1051 _json is not available.
1052
1053- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08001054 url contains #fragment.
1055
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04001056- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1057 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1058
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05001059- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1060 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1061
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001062- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
1063 a closed file.
1064
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07001065- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
1066 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
1067 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
1068
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02001069- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1070 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1071 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1072
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001073- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03001074
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02001075- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1076
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07001077- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07001078 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001079
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001080- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1081 arguments.
1082
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02001083- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1084
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01001085- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1086 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1087
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01001088- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1089 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1090 documentation.
1091
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02001092- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
1093
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07001094- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1095 that start with a leading underscore.
1096
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00001097- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
1098 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
1099
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01001100- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1101 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1102
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001103- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1104 setup and teardown.
1105
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04001106- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1107 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1108 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1109
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001110- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
1111 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04001112
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00001113- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
1114 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1115
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08001116- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1117 initialization fails.
1118
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01001119- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1120 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1121 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1122
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00001123- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1124 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1125 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1126
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00001127- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1128 on accept(), send() and recv().
1129
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00001130- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1131 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1132
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00001133- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1134 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1135
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00001136- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1137 argparse.
1138
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00001139- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1140 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1141 32-bit Windows.
1142
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00001143- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
1144 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
1145
1146- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1147
1148- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1149
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00001150- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
1151 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
1152
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00001153- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
1154 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
1155
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00001156- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
1157 Patch by Stan Mihai.
1158
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +00001159- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1160 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1161 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1162
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +00001163- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1164 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1165 64-/32-bit installer variant.
1166
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +00001167- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1168 commands.
1169
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001170- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1171
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00001172- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1173 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1174
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00001175- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1176 a symbol named FSTAT.
1177
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +00001178- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1179 Cocoa AquaTk.
1180
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00001181- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
1182 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
1183 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1184
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00001185- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1186
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001187- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
1188 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
1189 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
1190 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
1191 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
1192 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
1193
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00001194- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
1195 node twice.
1196
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00001197- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1198 on an existing file.
1199
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00001200- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1201 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1202
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00001203- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
1204 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
1205 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1206
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00001207- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
1208 DeprecationWarning.
1209
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00001210- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
1211
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001212- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00001213 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
1214 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
1215 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
1216
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001217- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00001218
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001219- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00001220 browsers actually parse cookies.
1221
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00001222- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
1223 email.header.Header.encode.
1224
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00001225- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1226 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1227 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1228
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00001229- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1230
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00001231- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00001232 about input.
1233
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00001234- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
1235
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00001236- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
1237 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1238
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00001239- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1240
1241- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00001242 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1243
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001244- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1245 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1246
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00001247- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1248 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001249
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00001250- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1251 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1252
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00001253- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1254
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00001255- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1256 causes debug mode to fail.
1257
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +00001258- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1259
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +00001260- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
1261 platforms).
1262
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00001263- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1264 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1265 current process.
1266
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00001267- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1268
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00001269- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1270
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00001271- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1272 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1273 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1274
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00001275- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1276 argparse.FileType.
1277
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01001278- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1279
1280- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1281
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01001282- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1283 their children.
1284
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02001285- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1286
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02001287- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1288
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001289Extension Modules
1290-----------------
1291
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05001292- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
1293 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
1294 attributes. (See #12099)
1295
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03001296- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
1297
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03001298- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1299 objects using the C accelerations.
1300
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03001301- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1302 objects using the C accelerations.
1303
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05001304- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1305 to an instance of the class.
1306
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001307- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1308
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001309Build
1310-----
1311
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07001312- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1313 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1314 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1315
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08001316- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1317
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00001318- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1319
1320- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1321
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00001322- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1323
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00001324- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1325 package had previously been installed.
1326
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00001327- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
1328 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
1329
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00001330- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1331 the system-provided Python.
1332
1333- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
1334 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
1335 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
1336 support enabled).
1337
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00001338- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
1339
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00001340- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1341 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1342
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001343- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1344 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1345
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00001346- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1347 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1348 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1349 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1350
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001351- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1352 using GCC 4.0.
1353
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -07001354IDLE
1355----
1356
1357- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1358 file in a package.
1359
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001360Tests
1361-----
1362
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07001363- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
1364
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03001365- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1366
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03001367- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1368
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02001369- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1370
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02001371- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1372 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1373
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07001374- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
1375 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
1376
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04001377- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1378 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1379
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00001380- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1381 by Ross Lagerwall.
1382
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00001383- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
1384 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
1385 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
1386
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00001387- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1388 encountering them.
1389
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001390- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1391 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1392
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001393
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001394What's New in Python 2.7.1?
1395===========================
1396
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00001397*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001398
1399Library
1400-------
1401
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00001402- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1403
1404- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1405
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00001406- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
1407 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
1408 iterator was undefined.
1409
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00001410- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
1411 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
1412
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00001413- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1414
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00001415- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
1416
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001417- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1418
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00001419- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1420
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001421- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1422 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1423
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00001424- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1425 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1426 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1427
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00001428- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
1429 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1430
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00001431- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1432 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1433
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00001434- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
1435
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00001436- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
1437 is called without data.
1438
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00001439- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1440 end of the file.
1441
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00001442- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1443
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001444Build
1445-----
1446
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00001447- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
1448
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001449- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
1450
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00001451Tests
1452-----
1453
1454- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
1455
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00001456Documentation
1457-------------
1458
1459- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1460
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001461
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001462What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
1463===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001464
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001465*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001466
1467Core and Builtins
1468-----------------
1469
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00001470- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1471 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1472
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001473- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
1474 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00001475
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001476- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
1477 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00001478
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00001479- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1480 resolution.
1481
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00001482- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
1483 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
1484
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00001485- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
1486 warning.
1487
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00001488- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1489 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1490
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00001491- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
1492 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
1493 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
1494 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
1495
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00001496- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
1497
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00001498- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1499 thread-local storage key.
1500
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001501- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
1502 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
1503 the same behaviour than the print statement.
1504
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00001505- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
1506 a memoryview object.
1507
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00001508- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
1509
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00001510- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1511
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001512- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
1513 of an array.
1514
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00001515- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
1516
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00001517- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
1518 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
1519
1520 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1521 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1522
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00001523- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
1524 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001525
1526Library
1527-------
1528
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001529- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001530
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00001531- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
1532 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
1533
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001534- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1535 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001536
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001537- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1538
1539- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1540
1541- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1542 not in build_clib.
1543
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00001544- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1545 Arfrever.
1546
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00001547- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1548
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00001549- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1550 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1551
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00001552- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
1553 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1554
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001555- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
1556 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00001557
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001558- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
1559
1560- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
1561 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
1562 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00001563
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00001564- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
1565 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1566
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00001567- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1568 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1569
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00001570- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
1571 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1572
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00001573- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
1574
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00001575- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
1576 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
1577
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00001578- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1579 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1580 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1581
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00001582- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
1583 initialization.
1584
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00001585- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
1586 ntpath.relpath().
1587
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001588- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00001589 debugging in doctests.
1590
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001591- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1592 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1593
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00001594- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
1595 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
1596
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00001597- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1598
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00001599- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
1600
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00001601- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
1602 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
1603
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00001604- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
1605 gettext.
1606
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00001607- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
1608 gname field.
1609
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00001610- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
1611 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
1612
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00001613- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
1614 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
1615
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00001616- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
1617 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
1618 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
1619 with a timeout.
1620
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00001621- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
1622
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00001623- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
1624
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00001625- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
1626
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00001627- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
1628
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00001629- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
1630 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
1631
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00001632- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
1633 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
1634 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
1635 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
1636 by Andrew Bennetts.
1637
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00001638- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
1639 values: d['x'] = d.
1640
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00001641- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00001642
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00001643- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
1644 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
1645
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00001646- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
1647 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
1648 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
1649 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
1650 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
1651 to zero.
1652
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001653- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001654 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001655 value.
1656
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00001657- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
1658 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
1659 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
1660 original error is re-raised.
1661
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00001662- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
1663 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
1664 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
1665
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00001666- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
1667 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
1668
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00001669- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1670 ConfigParser.write.
1671
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00001672- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
1673 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
1674
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00001675- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
1676 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
1677 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
1678
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00001679- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1680 falling into recursion.
1681
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00001682- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1683 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1684
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00001685- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
1686 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
1687
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001688- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00001689 error handling when accepting a new connection.
1690
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00001691- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
1692 errors.
1693
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001694- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1695
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00001696- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
1697 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
1698
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00001699- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1700 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1701
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001702- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
1703 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
1704
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00001705- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
1706 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
1707 overridden to provide ordered views.
1708
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00001709- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
1710 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
1711 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
1712
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00001713- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
1714 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
1715 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
1716
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00001717- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
1718 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
1719 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
1720 patch by Jason V. Miller.
1721
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00001722- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
1723 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
1724
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00001725- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
1726 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
1727
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00001728- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
1729 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
1730 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
1731
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00001732- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
1733 current node.
1734
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00001735- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1736
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00001737- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1738 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
1739
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00001740- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
1741 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
1742 behavior was wrong.
1743
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00001744- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
1745
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00001746- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
1747 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
1748
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00001749- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
1750 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
1751 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
1752
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001753- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
1754
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001755- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
1756 the command line.
1757
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00001758- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
1759 interactive browser.
1760
1761- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
1762 regular expressions.
1763
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00001764- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
1765 data generated with the profile module.
1766
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00001767- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
1768 entries, consider the first one.
1769
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00001770- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
1771 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
1772
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00001773- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
1774 in the top-level debugged frame.
1775
1776- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
1777 in doctests.
1778
1779- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
1780 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
1781
1782- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
1783 been reassigned.
1784
1785- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
1786 a breakpoint command.
1787
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00001788- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
1789 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
1790
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00001791- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
1792 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
1793
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00001794- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
1795
1796- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
1797 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
1798
1799- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
1800 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
1801
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00001802- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
1803
1804- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
1805
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00001806- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
1807 across devices.
1808
1809- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
1810
1811- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
1812
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00001813- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
1814 string when Unicode was previously output.
1815
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00001816- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
1817 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
1818
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00001819- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
1820 utf-16 incremental encoders.
1821
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00001822- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
1823
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00001824- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
1825 parameters.
1826
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00001827- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
1828 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
1829 XML-RPC request.
1830
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00001831- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
1832
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00001833- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
1834 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
1835 options).
1836
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00001837- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
1838
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00001839- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
1840 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
1841 (Jan Hosang).
1842
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00001843- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
1844
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00001845- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
1846 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
1847 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
1848
1849- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
1850 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
1851 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
1852
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00001853- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
1854 strings in add_option calls.
1855
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00001856- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
1857
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00001858- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001859
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00001860- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
1861
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001862- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
1863 for tracing methods.
1864
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001865Extension Modules
1866-----------------
1867
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00001868- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
1869 with expat version 2.0.1.
1870
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001871- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001872 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001873
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00001874- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
1875 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1876
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00001877- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
1878 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
1879
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001880- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
1881 interpreter by default.
1882
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00001883- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
1884 to prevent crashes.
1885
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00001886- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
1887 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
1888 2**31 elements.
1889
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00001890- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
1891
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00001892- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
1893 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
1894
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00001895- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
1896 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
1897
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00001898- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
1899
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00001900- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
1901
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00001902- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
1903
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00001904- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
1905 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
1906 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
1907 returns the same information as the id command.
1908
1909 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
1910
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00001911- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
1912 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
1913 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
1914 char is unsigned.
1915
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00001916- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
1917
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001918
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001919Tools/Demos
1920-----------
1921
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00001922- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
1923
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001924- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
1925 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
1926 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
1927
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001928Build
1929-----
1930
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00001931- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
1932
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00001933- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
1934 Akira Kitada.
1935
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00001936- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
1937
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00001938- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
1939
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00001940- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
1941 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
1942
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00001943- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
1944 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
1945
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00001946- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
1947 Sablé.
1948
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00001949- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
1950 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
1951 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00001952
1953- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
1954 Sébastien Sablé.
1955
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001956- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
1957
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001958- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
1959 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00001960
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001961- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
1962 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
1963 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00001964
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001965- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
1966 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
1967 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
1968
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00001969- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
1970 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001971
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001972Tests
1973-----
1974
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00001975- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
1976 in test_os)
1977
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00001978- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
1979
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001980- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
1981 case when running profile or trace, for example.
1982
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001983- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001984
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00001985- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
1986
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00001987- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
1988
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001989- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
1990
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00001991- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
1992
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00001993- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
1994 Michele Orrù.
1995
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001996- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
1997
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00001998- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
1999
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002000Documentation
2001-------------
2002
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00002003- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
2004 to Doc/license.rst.
2005
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00002006- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
2007 with os.kill.
2008
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002009- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
2010 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00002011
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002012- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002013
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002014
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002015What's New in Python 2.7?
2016=========================
2017
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00002018*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002019
2020Core and Builtins
2021-----------------
2022
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00002023- Prevent assignment to set literals.
2024
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002025Library
2026-------
2027
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00002028- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
2029 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
2030
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00002031- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
2032
2033Extension Modules
2034-----------------
2035
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00002036- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2037 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002038
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00002039- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
2040 on an OpenSSL structure.
2041
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00002042
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002043What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
2044=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002045
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00002046*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002047
2048Core and Builtins
2049-----------------
2050
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00002051- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2052
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00002053- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
2054 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
2055 See tracker issue for details.
2056
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00002057- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
2058 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
2059 (higher than 0x10000).
2060
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00002061- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
2062 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00002063
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00002064Build
2065-----
2066
2067- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2068
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002069Library
2070-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002071
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002072- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00002073 raises an exception.
2074
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00002075- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
2076 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
2077 and after calling foreign functions.
2078
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00002079- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
2080 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2081
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002082- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
2083 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
2084
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00002085- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002086
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002087- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
2088 now honored in unittest debug methods.
2089
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00002090Documentation
2091-------------
2092
2093- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2094 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2095
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002096Misc
2097----
2098
2099- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
2100
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002101
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00002102What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
2103=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002104
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00002105*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002106
2107Core and Builtins
2108-----------------
2109
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00002110- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
2111 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
2112 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
2113 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
2114 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
2115 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
2116 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
2117
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002118- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00002119 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
2120 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
2121 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
2122 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002123
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00002124- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2125 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
2126 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
2127 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
2128 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
2129 in sets or dicts.
2130
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00002131- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
2132 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
2133 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
2134
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00002135- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
2136 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
2137
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002138- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
2139 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00002140
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002141- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
2142 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00002143
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002144- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00002145 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
2146
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002147C-API
2148-----
2149
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002150- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
2151 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
2152 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002153 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2154
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002155Library
2156-------
2157
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00002158- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
2159 reported as a skip rather than an error.
2160
2161- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
2162 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
2163 reports.
2164
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00002165- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
2166
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00002167- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
2168 accepted by the codecs module.
2169
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00002170- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2171
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00002172- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
2173 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
2174
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00002175- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2176 mistake.
2177
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00002178- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
2179 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
2180
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00002181- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2182 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2183
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00002184- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
2185 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00002186
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00002187- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
2188
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00002189- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
2190
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00002191- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2192 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2193 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00002194
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002195- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002196 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002197
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00002198- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2199 of files without one.
2200
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002201- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00002202 comparing to a non-mapping.
2203
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002204- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00002205
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002206- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
2207 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00002208
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00002209- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2210
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002211- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
2212 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
2213 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00002214
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002215Extension Modules
2216-----------------
2217
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00002218- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
2219 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
2220 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
2221
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00002222- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
2223 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
2224
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002225- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002226 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002227
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002228Tests
2229-----
2230
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00002231- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
2232 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
2233
2234- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00002235 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
2236
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00002237- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
2238
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002239- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
2240 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
2241 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002242
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00002243Build
2244-----
2245
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00002246- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
2247 releases.
2248
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002249- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00002250 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002251
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00002252Tools/Demos
2253-----------
2254
2255- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
2256
2257
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002258What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
2259================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002260
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00002261*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002262
2263Core and Builtins
2264-----------------
2265
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002266- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00002267
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002268- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
2269 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
2270 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
2271 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
2272 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00002273
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002274- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
2275 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00002276
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00002277- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
2278
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002279- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002280 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002281 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
2282 Charles-François Natali.
2283
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00002284- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2285 passed to bytearray.
2286
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002287- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00002288
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002289- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00002290
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002291- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
2292 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
2293 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00002294
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002295Library
2296-------
2297
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002298- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2299 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00002300
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002301- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2302 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00002303
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002304- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002305
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002306- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2307 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2308 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2309 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002310
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002311- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
2312 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00002313
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00002314- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2315
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002316- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
2317 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00002318
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002319- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
2320 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00002321
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002322- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2323 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2324 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2325 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2326 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00002327
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002328- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002329 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
2330 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002331
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00002332- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
2333
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00002334- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2335 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2336
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002337- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2338 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00002339
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002340- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
2341 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00002342
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002343- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00002344 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
2345 "Include".
2346
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002347- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2348 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00002349
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002350- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2351 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00002352
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002353- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
2354 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00002355
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002356- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
2357 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
2358 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00002359
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002360- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
2361 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00002362
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002363- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00002364
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002365- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
2366 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00002367
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002368- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00002369
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002370- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2371 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2372 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2373 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00002374
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00002375- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2376 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2377
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002378- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2379 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00002380
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00002381- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2382
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002383- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
2384 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00002385
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002386- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
2387 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00002388
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002389- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2390 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2391 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00002392
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002393- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2394 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002395 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2396 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2397
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002398- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2399 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2400 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00002401
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00002402- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
2403
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002404- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
2405 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00002406
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002407- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00002408
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002409- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
2410 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00002411
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002412- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2413 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00002414
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00002415- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
2416
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00002417- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2418 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2419
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002420- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00002421 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2422
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002423- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002424 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
2425 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002426
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002427- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002428 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
2429 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002430
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00002431- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
2432
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002433- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
2434 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002435
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002436Extension Modules
2437-----------------
2438
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002439- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00002440
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00002441- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
2442
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002443- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
2444
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002445- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
2446 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00002447
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002448Tests
2449-----
2450
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002451- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
2452 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
2453 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00002454
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002455- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
2456 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00002457
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00002458- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
2459 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
2460
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002461- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
2462 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00002463
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002464- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
2465 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002466
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002467Build
2468-----
2469
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002470- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00002471 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
2472 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
2473 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
2474
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002475- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
2476
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002477- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
2478 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00002479
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002480- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00002481
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00002482Misc
2483----
2484
2485- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
2486
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002487
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002488What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
2489================================
2490
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00002491*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002492
2493Core and Builtins
2494-----------------
2495
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00002496- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2497
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00002498- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2499 changed.
2500
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002501- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00002502 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
2503 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
2504
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00002505- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2506
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002507- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00002508
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00002509- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2510
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002511- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2512 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2513 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2514 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00002515 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002516 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00002517
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00002518- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
2519 references.
2520
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002521- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2522 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00002523
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00002524- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00002525
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00002526- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
2527 arguments to a function correct.
2528
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00002529- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
2530
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002531- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002532 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
2533 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002534 module.
2535
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00002536- Code objects now support weak references.
2537
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002538Library
2539-------
2540
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00002541- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
2542
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002543- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002544 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
2545 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002546
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00002547- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
2548
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002549- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
2550 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00002551
2552 >>> Decimal(1.1)
2553 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
2554
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00002555- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
2556
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002557- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
2558 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002559
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002560- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
2561 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002562
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002563- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
2564 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00002565
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002566- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
2567 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
2568 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
2569 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00002570
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002571- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
2572 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
2573 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
2574 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00002575
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002576- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002577 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
2578 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
2579 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002580
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002581- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
2582 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00002583
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00002584- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
2585 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002586 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00002587
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002588- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
2589 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
2590 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
2591 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00002592
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00002593- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
2594
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00002595- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
2596
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00002597- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
2598 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
2599
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00002600- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
2601
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002602- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002603 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
2604 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002605
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00002606- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
2607 deprecated.
2608
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002609- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
2610 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00002611
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002612- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
2613 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00002614
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002615- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
2616 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
2617 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00002618
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002619- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
2620 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00002621
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00002622- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
2623 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
2624 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00002625
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00002626- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
2627
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00002628- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
2629
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002630- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
2631 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
2632 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00002633
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00002634- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
2635 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
2636
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002637- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00002638
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002639- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
2640 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00002641
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002642- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
2643 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002644 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00002645
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00002646- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002647 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
2648 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
2649 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00002650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002651- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00002652 cElementTree module is updated too.
2653
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00002654- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
2655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002656- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00002657 classes.
2658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002659- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
2660 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
2661 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
2662 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002663
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00002664- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
2665 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
2666
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00002667- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
2668
2669- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
2670 during test runs.
2671
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00002672- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00002673 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
2674
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002675Extension Modules
2676-----------------
2677
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00002678- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
2679
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00002680- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
2681
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00002682- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002683 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
2684 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00002685
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00002686- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
2687
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00002688- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
2689
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00002690- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
2691 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
2692 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
2693 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
2694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002695- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
2696 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
2697 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002698 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
2699 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
2700 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
2701 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002702
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002703- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
2704 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00002705
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00002706Tools/Demos
2707-----------
2708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002709- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
2710 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
2711 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002712
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00002713- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
2714
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002715Build
2716-----
2717
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002718- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
2719 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00002720
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002721- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
2722 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
2723 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00002724
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00002725- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
2726
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002727- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
2728
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00002729- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
2730 assembly file.
2731
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002732C-API
2733-----
2734
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002735- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002736 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2737 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002738
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002739- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
2740 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
2741 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
2742 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002743
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002744Tests
2745-----
2746
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002747- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
2748 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00002749
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002750- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
2751
2752- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
2753
2754- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
2755
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00002756- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
2757
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00002758- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2759
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00002760- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
2761 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
2762
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00002763- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
2764 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00002765
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002766- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
2767 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002768
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002769
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002770What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
2771=================================
2772
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00002773*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002774
2775Core and Builtins
2776-----------------
2777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002778- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2779 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00002780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002781- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2782 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00002783
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002784- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002785 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002786
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00002787- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002788 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
2789 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002790
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002791- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2792 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00002793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002794- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00002795 Parser/myreadline.c.
2796
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002797- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002798 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002800- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
2801 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00002802
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002803Library
2804-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002805
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00002806- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2807 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2808 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2809
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00002810- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
2811 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002812
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00002813- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
2814
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002815- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00002816 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00002817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002818- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00002819 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
2820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002821- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
2822 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00002823
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002824- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002825 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002826
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002827- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00002828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002829- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
2830 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00002831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002832- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00002833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002834- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
2835 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00002836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002837- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
2838 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00002839
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002840- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
2841
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002842- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
2843 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
2844 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
2845 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00002846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002847- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
2848 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002849
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002850- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
2851 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
2852 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002853
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002854- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002855 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00002856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002857- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00002858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002859- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00002860
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002861- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00002862
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002863- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
2864 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00002865
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002866- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002867 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002869- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00002870
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00002871- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
2872
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002873Extension Modules
2874-----------------
2875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002876- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00002877 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
2878
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002879- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
2880
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002881- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00002882 handling.
2883
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002884- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
2885 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002887- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00002888 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
2889 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
2890
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002891- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
2892 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00002893
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002894Tests
2895-----
2896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002897- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
2898 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
2899 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00002900
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00002901- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
2902 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
2903
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002904- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
2905 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00002906
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002907- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00002908 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00002909
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002910- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00002911 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
2912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002913- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
2914 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
2915 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
2916 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002917
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002918Build
2919-----
2920
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00002921- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002922
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002923
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002924What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
2925=================================
2926
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00002927*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002928
2929Core and Builtins
2930-----------------
2931
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002932- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
2933 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002934 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
2935 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002936
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002937- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002938 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00002939
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002940- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
2941 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00002942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002943- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00002944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002945- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
2946 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00002947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002948- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
2949 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
2950 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
2951 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00002952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002953- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
2954 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
2955 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
2956 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00002957
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00002958- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
2959 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
2960 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002962- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
2963 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00002964
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002965 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
2966 strings,
2967 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
2968 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
2969 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
2970 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
2971
2972- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
2973 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00002974
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00002975- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
2976
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00002977- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
2978
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00002979- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
2980
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002981Library
2982-------
2983
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00002984- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
2985 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
2986
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00002987- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
2988 interpreter shutdown.
2989
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002990- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
2991 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
2992 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
2993 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00002994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002995- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00002996
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002997- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00002998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002999- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00003000
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003001- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003002 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003003 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
3004 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
3005
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00003006- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3007
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003008- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003009 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3010 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003011 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3012
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003013- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
3014 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
3015 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
3016 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
3017 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
3018 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00003019
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00003020- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003022- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
3023 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00003024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003025- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
3026 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00003027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003028- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
3029 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
3030 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
3031 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00003032
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003033- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00003034 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
3035 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
3036
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003037- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00003038 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003040- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3041 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00003042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003043- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
3044 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00003045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003046- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3047 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00003048
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003049- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
3050 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00003051
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003052- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003053 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
3054 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003055
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00003056Extension Modules
3057-----------------
3058
3059- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3060 (CVE_2009_3560).
3061
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003062Build
3063-----
3064
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003065- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3066 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3067 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00003068
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00003069- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
3070
3071- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
3072 MacOSX.
3073
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003074- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
3075 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3076
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003077Tools/Demos
3078-----------
3079
3080- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003081 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003082 sandbox.
3083
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003084Tests
3085-----
3086
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003087- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003088 instead of a hard coded port.
3089
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003090Documentation
3091-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003092
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003093- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
3094 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003095
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003096- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003097 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
3098
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003099
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003100What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
3101=================================
3102
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00003103*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003104
3105Core and Builtins
3106-----------------
3107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003108- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
3109 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00003110
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00003111- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3112 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3113
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003114- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003115 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
3116 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
3117 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
3118 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
3119 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003120
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00003121- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3122 AttributeError.
3123
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003124- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3125 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00003126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003127- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00003128
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00003129- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
3130 used to drop the time part of the result.
3131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003132- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3133 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3134 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3135 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00003136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003137- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
3138 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
3139 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00003140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003141- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003142 executables on OSX.
3143
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003144 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3145 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3146 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003147
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003148- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
3149 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00003150
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00003151- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
3152
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003153- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3154 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00003155
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003156
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003157Library
3158-------
3159
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003160- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
3161 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3162 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00003163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003164- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3165 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
3166 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00003167
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003168- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003169 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
3170 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003171 Xicluna.
3172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003173- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3174 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00003175
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003176- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
3177 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00003178
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003179- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3180 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
3181 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00003182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003183- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00003184 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3185
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003186- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
3187 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00003188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003189- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00003190 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
3191
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003192- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
3193 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00003194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003195- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
3196 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00003197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003198- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3199 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3200 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00003201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003202- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3203 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00003204
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00003205- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3206 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3207 the same as passing no argument.
3208
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003209- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
3210 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00003211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003212- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00003213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003214- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00003215
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003216- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
3217 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003218
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003219- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
3220 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003222- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
3223 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003224
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003225C-API
3226-----
3227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003228- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
3229 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00003230
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003231- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
3232 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
3233 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
3234 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
3235 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
3236 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
3237 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003239- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003240
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00003241Build
3242-----
3243
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00003244- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3245
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003246- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003247 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003249- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
3250 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
3251 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00003252
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00003253- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3254 found.
3255
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00003256- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003257
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003258- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
3259 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00003260
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003261Tests
3262-----
3263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003264- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00003265 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003267- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00003268
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003269- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
3270 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3271
3272
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003273What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
3274================================
3275
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00003276*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003277
3278Core and Builtins
3279-----------------
3280
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003281- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
3282 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003283
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003284- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
3285 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
3286 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003288- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
3289 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00003290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003291- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
3292 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
3293 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00003294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003295- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003297- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003299- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3300 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00003301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003302- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
3303 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
3304 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
3305 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
3306 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
3307 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003308
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003309- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
3310 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
3311 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
3312 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
3313 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
3314 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
3315 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003317 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
3318 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
3319 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
3320 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
3321 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
3322 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
3323 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
3324 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
3325 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
3326 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003328- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
3329 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
3330 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
3331 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
3332 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
3333 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
3334 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
3335 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00003336
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00003337- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3338
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003339- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
3340 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00003341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003342- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
3343 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00003344
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003345- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
3346 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00003347
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00003348- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003350- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
3351 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3352 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00003353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003354- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
3355 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00003356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003357- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3358 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003359
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003360- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
3361 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00003362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003363- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3364 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3365 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00003366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003367- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
3368 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00003369
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00003370- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3371 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3372 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3373 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3374
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00003375- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
3376 assignment.
3377
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003378- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
3379 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00003380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003381- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3382 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00003383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003384- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
3385 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00003386
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00003387- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00003388 take keyword arguments.
3389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003390- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
3391 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00003392
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003393- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
3394 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00003395
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00003396- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
3397
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00003398- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
3399 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
3400
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00003401- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003403- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00003404
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003405- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00003406 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
3407
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003408- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
3409 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00003410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003411- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00003412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003413- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00003414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003415- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00003416 occurred in the argument chain.
3417
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00003418- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003420- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3421 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00003422
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003423- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00003424 separator and end should be unicode also.
3425
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003426- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
3427 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00003428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003429- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3430 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3431 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00003432
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00003433- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3434
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00003435- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
3436 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
3437
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00003438- Removed the ipaddr module.
3439
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00003440- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
3441 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
3442
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003443- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00003444
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00003445- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
3446 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
3447
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00003448- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
3449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003450- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
3451 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00003452
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003453- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003454 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003456- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
3457 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00003458
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00003459- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003460 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00003461
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00003462- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
3463 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
3464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003465- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
3466 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
3467 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00003468
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00003469- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
3470
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003471- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
3472 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00003473
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003474- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00003475
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003476- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003478 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
3479 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
3480 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00003481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003482- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
3483 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
3484 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
3485 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
3486 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
3487 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
3488 complex.__format__ in the same way.
3489
3490- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
3491 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
3492 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00003493
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003494- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003495 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003496
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003497- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
3498 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00003499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003500- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
3501 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00003502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003503- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
3504 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00003505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003506- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
3507 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00003508
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00003509- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
3510 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
3511
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00003512- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
3513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003514- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
3515 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00003516
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003517- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
3518 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003520- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
3521 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003522
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003523- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
3524 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003526- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
3527 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00003528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003529- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003530 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00003531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003532- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
3533 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00003534
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00003535- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
3536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003537- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00003538
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003539- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
3540 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00003541
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003542- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00003543
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00003544- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
3545 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
3546
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00003547- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
3548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003549- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
3550 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00003551
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003552- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003553 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
3554 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
3555 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003556
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003557- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
3558 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
3559 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00003560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003561- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
3562 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
3563 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
3564 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
3565 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00003566
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00003567- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
3568 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
3569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003570- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
3571 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
3572 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00003573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003574- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
3575 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00003576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003577- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00003578 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
3579
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003580- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
3581 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00003582
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003583- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
3584 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00003585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003586- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
3587 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00003588
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00003589- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
3590 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
3591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003592- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
3593 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00003594
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00003595- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
3596
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003597- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00003598 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
3599 zip(), and bytearray().
3600
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00003601- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
3602 functions.
3603
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00003604- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
3605 OSError.
3606
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00003607- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
3608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003609- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
3610 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
3611 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00003612
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00003613- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
3614 __next__ method.
3615
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00003616- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
3617
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00003618- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
3619
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003620- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
3621 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
3622 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00003623 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003624 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
3625
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00003626- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
3627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003628- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
3629 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
3630 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
3631 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
3632 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00003633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003634- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00003635
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00003636- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
3637 file with `str' filename on Windows.
3638
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00003639- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
3640 did not get collected.
3641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003642- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
3643 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00003644
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00003645- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
3646 directory on POSIX systems.
3647
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00003648- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
3649 systems.
3650
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003651- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003652 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003653
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00003654- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
3655 fail.
3656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003657- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
3658 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
3659 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00003660
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00003661- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
3662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003663- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
3664 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00003665
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003666- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
3667 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00003668
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003669- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00003670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003671- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
3672 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
3673 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
3674 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00003675
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00003676- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
3677 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
3678 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
3679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003680- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
3681 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00003682
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00003683- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
3684 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
3685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003686- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
3687 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
3688 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
3689 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00003690
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00003691- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
3692 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
3693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003694- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00003695
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00003696- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
3697
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00003698- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
3699
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00003700- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
3701 exec statement.
3702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003703- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
3704 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00003705
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00003706- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
3707 __future__ import didn't work.
3708
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003709- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00003710 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003712- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
3713 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
3714 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
3715 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00003716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003717- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
3718 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
3719 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
3720 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00003721
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003722- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
3723 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00003724
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00003725- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
3726
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00003727- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
3728
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00003729- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
3730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003731- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
3732 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00003733
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00003734- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
3735 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00003736
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00003737- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
3738 returned them on 64bit platforms.
3739
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00003740- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
3741 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
3742 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
3743 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
3744
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00003745- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
3746 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
3747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003748- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3749 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3750 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3751 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00003752
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003753Library
3754-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003755
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00003756- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00003757
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00003758- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003760- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3761 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00003762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003763- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003764 TLS with authentication credentials.
3765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003766- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3767 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00003768
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00003769- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3770 msvc9compiler.
3771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003772- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
3773 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3774 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00003775
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00003776- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3777 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3778 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003780- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3781 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00003782
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003783- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3784
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003785- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003786 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003787 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003789- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
3790 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3791 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00003792
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003793- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
3794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003795- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
3796 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00003797
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00003798- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3799 raises ReadError on empty files.
3800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003801- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00003802
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00003803- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
3804 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00003805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003806- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
3807 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00003808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003809- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
3810 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00003811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003812- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00003813
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003814- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
3815 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00003816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003817- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
3818 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00003819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003820- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
3821 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
3822 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00003823 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
3824 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
3825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003826- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
3827 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
3828 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00003829
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003830- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003831 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003832 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
3833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003834- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
3835 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
3836 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00003837
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00003838- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
3839 which are part of a reference cycle.
3840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003841- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
3842 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00003843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003844- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00003845 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
3846 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
3847
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003848- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
3849 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
3850 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
3851 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00003852
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003853- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
3854 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
3855 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
3856 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00003857
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00003858- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
3859 header as required by RFC 1952.
3860
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00003861- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
3862 Distutils.
3863
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00003864- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
3865 an uppercase.
3866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003867- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
3868 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00003869
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00003870- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
3871 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
3872
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003873- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00003874 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
3875
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00003876- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
3877 protocol 2.
3878
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00003879- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
3880
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00003881- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
3882 larger than emax.
3883
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003884- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
3885 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00003886
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00003887- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
3888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003889- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00003890
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00003891- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
3892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003893- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00003894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003895- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00003896
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00003897- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
3898 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003900- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
3901 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00003902
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003903- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
3904 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00003905
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003906- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00003907 Distutils.
3908
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003909- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00003910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003911- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
3912 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00003913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003914- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
3915 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00003916
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00003917- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
3918
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00003919- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
3920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003921- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
3922 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00003923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003924- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
3925 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00003926
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003927- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
3928 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00003929
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00003930- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
3931
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00003932- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3933
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003934- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003935 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
3936 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003938- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00003939
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003940- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
3941 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
3942 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00003943
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003944- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
3945 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00003946
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003947- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00003948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003949- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
3950 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
3951 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
3952 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00003953
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00003954- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
3955 as documented.
3956
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00003957- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
3958 names in the webbrowser module.
3959
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00003960- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
3961
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00003962- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
3963 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
3964
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00003965- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
3966
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00003967- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
3968
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00003969- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
3970
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00003971- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
3972
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00003973- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
3974
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00003975- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
3976 ScrolledText.
3977
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00003978- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
3979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003980- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
3981 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00003982
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00003983- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
3984 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
3985 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
3986 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
3987
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00003988- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
3989 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
3990
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003991- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003992 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
3993 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003995- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
3996 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
3997 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00003998
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00003999- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4000 opening an empty or very small file.
4001
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004002- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
4003 containing incomplete data.
4004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004005- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
4006 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00004007
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00004008- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4009
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004010- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4011 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4012 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00004013
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004014- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00004015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004016- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
4017 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
4018 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
4019 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00004020
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004021- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00004022
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004023- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4024
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00004025- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
4026 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4027
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004028- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00004029
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004030- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00004031 attribute.
4032
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00004033- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4034
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00004035- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4036 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4037
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00004038- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004040- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004041 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004042 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004043
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004044- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00004045 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4046
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00004047- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4048
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004049- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
4050 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00004051 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
4052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004053- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00004054 argument.
4055
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004056- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
4057 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00004058
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004059- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00004060
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00004061- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
4062
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00004063- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4064
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00004065- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4066 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004068- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
4069 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00004070
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00004071- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
4072 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
4073 ``io`` module.
4074
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00004075- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4076
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00004077- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004078 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4079
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00004080- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004082- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
4083 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4084 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00004085
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00004086- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
4087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004088- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
4089 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00004090
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00004091- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4092
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00004093- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4094 whitespace.
4095
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004096- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
4097 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00004098
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00004099- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4100 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004102- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
4103 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00004104
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004105- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
4106 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00004107
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00004108- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4109 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4110 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4111
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00004112- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
4113 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004115- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
4116 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
4117 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00004118
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00004119- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4120 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004122- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00004123 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4124
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004125- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00004126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004127- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
4128 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00004129
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004130- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00004131 subcommand.
4132
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00004133- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4134 deepcopy()ing.
4135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004136- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00004137
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00004138- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004140- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00004141
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004142- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00004143 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4144
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00004145- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4146 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
4147
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004148- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004149 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004151- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
4152 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00004153
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004154- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
4155 trying to print a traceback.
4156
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00004157- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004159- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
4160 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00004161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004162- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
4163 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4164 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00004165 Cournapeau.
4166
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004167- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004168 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00004169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004170- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
4171 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00004172
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00004173- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4174
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00004175- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4176 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004178- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00004179 extracting a file to the root directory.
4180
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004181- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00004182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004183- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4184 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
4185 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00004186
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00004187- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4188 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4189
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00004190- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4191 Contributed by Google.
4192
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00004193- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004195- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00004196
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00004197- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004199- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
4200 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00004201 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004203- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00004204 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4205 initialized before.
4206
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00004207- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4208 names which should not be exported.
4209
4210- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004211 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00004212
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00004213- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004215- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
4216 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00004217
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00004218- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4219
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004220- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004221 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004222
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004223- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
4224 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
4225 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00004226
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00004227- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4228
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004229- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
4230
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004231- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
4232 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
4233 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
4234 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
4235 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00004236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004237- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00004238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004239- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
4240 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00004241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004242- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00004243
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004244- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004245 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00004246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004247- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
4248 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00004249
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004250- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
4251 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00004252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004253- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
4254 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00004255
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004256- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
4257 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00004258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004259- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00004260
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004261- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00004262
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004263- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00004264
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004265- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00004266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004267- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00004268 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4269
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004270- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
4271 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00004272
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004273- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
4274 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
4275 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00004276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004277- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
4278 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004279
4280- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00004281 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004283- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
4284 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004285 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
4286 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
4287
4288- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
4289 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004290
4291- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004292 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004293
4294- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004295 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004296
4297- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
4298 called immediately before and after a test run.
4299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004300- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00004301 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
4302 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
4303 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004305- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00004306
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00004307- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
4308 printing out values.
4309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004310- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00004311
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00004312- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4313 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4314 threads.
4315
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00004316- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4317
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00004318- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
4319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004320- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00004321 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4322 that it was failing to do localization.
4323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004324- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00004325 Brandl.
4326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004327- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
4328 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00004329
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00004330- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
4331 with the threading module.
4332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004333- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00004334
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00004335- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4336
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004337- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
4338 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00004339
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004340- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004341 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
4342 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00004343
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004344- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
4345 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00004346
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00004347- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
4348 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
4349 output compared to previous Python versions.
4350
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00004351- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
4352
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004353- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004354 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
4355 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004357- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
4358 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
4359 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
4360 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004362- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
4363 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
4364 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
4365 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00004366
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00004367- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
4368 even if an exception occurs.
4369
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00004370- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
4371 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
4372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004373- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
4374 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00004375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004376- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
4377 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00004378
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004379- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00004380 character.
4381
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004382- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
4383 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00004384
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004385- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00004386
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004387- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004388 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
4389 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004391- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
4392 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
4393 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00004394
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00004395- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004397- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00004398 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4399
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00004400- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4401
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00004402- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004404- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00004405
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00004406- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4407
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00004408- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4409
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00004410- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
4411 ready received.
4412
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00004413- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4414 import guess_extension`` was used.
4415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004416- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
4417 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00004418
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00004419- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4420 overrun.
4421
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004422- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
4423 bdist_rpm command.
4424
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004425- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004426
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004427- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00004428
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004429- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
4430 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
4431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004432- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
4433 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00004434
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00004435- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
4436 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004438- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
4439 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00004440
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00004441- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
4442
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004443- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
4444 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00004445
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004446- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00004447 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
4448
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00004449- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
4450 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
4451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004452- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00004453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004454- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
4455 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00004456
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00004457- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
4458 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
4459
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00004460- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
4461 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
4462
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004463- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004464 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004465 ctime of the files involved.
4466
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00004467- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
4468 deadlock.
4469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004470- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
4471 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
4472 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00004473
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00004474- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
4475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004476- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
4477 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004479- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
4480 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00004481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004482- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
4483 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
4484 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00004485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004486- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
4487 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
4488 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
4489 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00004490
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004491- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00004492 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
4493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004494- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
4495 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00004496
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00004497- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
4498 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
4499
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004500- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00004501 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
4502
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00004503- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
4504
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004505- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
4506 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00004507
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004508- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
4509 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00004510
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00004511- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
4512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004513- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00004514 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
4515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004516- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
4517 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00004518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004519- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
4520 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00004521
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00004522- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
4523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004524- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00004525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004526- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
4527 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00004528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004529- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
4530 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00004531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004532- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00004533 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
4534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004535- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
4536 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00004537
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004538- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
4539 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00004540
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004541- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004542 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
4543 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00004544
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004545- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
4546 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
4547 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
4548 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00004549
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004550- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
4551 parameter was set.
4552
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004553- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
4554 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00004555 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004556
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004557- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004558 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
4559 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004560
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00004561- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
4562 in sharedctypes.py.
4563
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00004564- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
4565 __getattr__.
4566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004567- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
4568 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00004569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004570- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00004571 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
4572
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004573- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00004574
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00004575- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
4576
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004577- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004578 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
4579 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004580 Jacques Frechet.
4581
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00004582- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
4583
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004584- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00004585 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
4586
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004587- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004588 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
4589 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004590
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004591- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
4592 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00004593
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004594- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
4595 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00004596
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00004597- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
4598 the function is not a generator.
4599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004600- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
4601 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00004602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004603- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
4604 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00004605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004606- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
4607 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004609- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
4610 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004611
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00004612- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
4613
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00004614- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
4615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004616- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
4617 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00004618
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004619- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
4620 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00004621
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00004622- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
4623 Gabriel Genellina.
4624
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00004625- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
4626
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00004627- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
4628
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004629- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00004630
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004631- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
4632 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
4633 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00004634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004635- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
4636 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004637 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
4638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004639- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
4640 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
4641 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004643- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
4644 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
4645 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
4646 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
4647 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004649- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
4650 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004651
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00004652- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
4653 when given an unicode string.
4654
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00004655- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
4656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004657- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
4658 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
4659 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00004660
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004661- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
4662 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00004663
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004664- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00004665
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004666- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00004667 statements.
4668
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00004669- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
4670 not a malformed option.
4671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004672- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
4673 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00004674
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00004675- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
4676 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
4677 Content-Disposition headers.
4678
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00004679- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004680 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
4681 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
4682 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
4683 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00004684
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00004685- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
4686 exception.
4687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004688- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
4689 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00004690
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00004691- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
4692
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00004693- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
4694
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00004695- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
4696 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
4697
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00004698- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
4699 and then remove it.
4700
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00004701- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
4702
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00004703- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
4704 debugging.
4705
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00004706- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
4707 inspect.getargvalues.
4708
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00004709- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
4710
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00004711- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
4712 to claiming it is Mature.
4713
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00004714- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
4715 when protocol 0 is used.
4716
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00004717- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
4718 to be consistent with Apple tools.
4719
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004720- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004721 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004722
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00004723- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
4724
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004725- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00004726 module.
4727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004728- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
4729 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00004730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004731- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004733- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004734
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004735- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004736 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004737
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004738- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004739 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
4740 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004741
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00004742- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
4743 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
4744
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004745- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
4746 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00004747
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00004748- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4749 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4750 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4751
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00004752- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
4753
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004754Tools/Demos
4755-----------
4756
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004757- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00004758
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004759- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004760
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004761Build
4762-----
4763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004764- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4765 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4766 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00004767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004768- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
4769 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
4770 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004772- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00004773
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00004774- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4775
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004776- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004777 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00004778
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004779- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004780 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00004781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004782- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
4783 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00004784
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00004785- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
4786
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00004787- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
4788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004789- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
4790 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00004791
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004792- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004793 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004794
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00004795- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
4796
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00004797- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
4798
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00004799- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
4800
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00004801- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
4802
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004803- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00004804
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00004805- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
4806
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00004807- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
4808
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00004809- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
4810
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00004811- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
4812
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00004813- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
4814
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00004815- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
4816
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00004817- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
4818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004819- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004820
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00004821- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
4822
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004823Documentation
4824-------------
4825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004826- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4827 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004829- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
4830 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00004831
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004832C-API
4833-----
4834
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00004835- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
4836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004837- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4838 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00004839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004840- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
4841 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00004842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004843- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
4844 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00004845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004846- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
4847 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00004848
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00004849- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4850 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4851
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00004852- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4853 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4854
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00004855- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4856 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4857
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00004858- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
4859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004860- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
4861 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00004862
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00004863- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
4864
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004865- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
4866 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00004867
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004868- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
4869 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004871- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00004872 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004873
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004874Extension Modules
4875-----------------
4876
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00004877- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
4878
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00004879- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
4880
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004881- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00004882
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004883- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004884 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004886- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
4887 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00004888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004889- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
4890 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00004891
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00004892- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
4893 module.
4894
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00004895- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
4896
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004897- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00004898 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004900- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
4901 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
4902 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00004903
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004904- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
4905 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
4906 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00004907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004908- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
4909 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
4910 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004912 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
4913 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004915 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
4916 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
4917 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
4918 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
4919 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
4920 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
4921 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004923 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
4924 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
4925 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00004926
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00004927- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
4928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004929- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
4930 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00004931
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004932- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
4933 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004934 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004935
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00004936- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00004937
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00004938- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
4939
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00004940- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
4941
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00004942- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
4943
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00004944- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
4945
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00004946- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
4947 OpenBSD.
4948
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00004949- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
4950
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004951- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
4952
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00004953- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
4954
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004955Tests
4956-----
4957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004958- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
4959 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
4960 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00004961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004962- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
4963 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00004964
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004965- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
4966 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00004967
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00004968- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
4969
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00004970- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
4971 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
4972
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004973- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004974 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
4975 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
4976 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004978- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
4979 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00004980
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00004981- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
4982 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
4983
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00004984- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
4985 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
4986 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00004987
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00004988- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
4989
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00004990- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
4991 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
4992
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004993- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
4994 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004995 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
4996 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004997
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00004998- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
4999 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005001- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
5002 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
5003 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
5004 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
5005 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00005006
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00005007- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5008
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00005009- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5010
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00005011- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
5012
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005013- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
5014 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
5015 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00005016
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005017- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5018
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00005019- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5020 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5021 incorrectly on __exit__.
5022
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00005023- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5024
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00005025Misc
5026----
5027
5028- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
5029
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005030
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005031What's New in Python 2.6 final
5032==============================
5033
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00005034*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005035
5036Core and Builtins
5037-----------------
5038
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00005039- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
5040 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
5041
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00005042- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
5043 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
5044
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00005045- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
5046
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005047Library
5048-------
5049
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00005050- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
5051 true singleton object.
5052
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00005053- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
5054 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
5055 into a float.
5056
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00005057- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
5058
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00005059- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
5060 sizes.
5061
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00005062- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
5063
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00005064- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
5065 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
5066
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005067Build
5068-----
5069
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00005070- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
5071 installer.
5072
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005073- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
5074
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005075
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005076What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
5077=============================================
5078
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00005079*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005080
5081Core and Builtins
5082-----------------
5083
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005084Extension Modules
5085-----------------
5086
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00005087- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
5088 segfault as a result.
5089
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005090- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
5091 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005092
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005093Tools/Demos
5094-----------
5095
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00005096- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005097 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
5098 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
5099 are caught and silenced.
5100
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00005101Build
5102-----
5103
5104- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
5105 C runtime in the Windows installer.
5106
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005107
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005108What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
5109=============================================
5110
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00005111*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005112
5113Core and Builtins
5114-----------------
5115
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00005116- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
5117
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00005118- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
5119 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
5120 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
5121 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
5122 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
5123 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
5124 64bit values.
5125
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00005126- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
5127 error.
5128
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00005129- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
5130 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
5131 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
5132 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
5133
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00005134- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
5135 a unicode argument.
5136
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005137- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
5138
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005139- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005140 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005141 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
5142
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005143- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00005144 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
5145 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
5146 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
5147 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
5148 type object.
5149
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00005150- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
5151
5152- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
5153
5154- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
5155
5156- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
5157
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00005158- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
5159 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
5160
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00005161- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
5162 ``__delslice__``.
5163
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00005164- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
5165 library targets in the Makefile.
5166
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00005167- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
5168 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
5169 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
5170
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00005171C-API
5172-----
5173
5174- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
5175
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005176Library
5177-------
5178
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00005179- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
5180 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
5181
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00005182- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
5183
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00005184- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
5185
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005186- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
5187 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
5188 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
5189
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005190- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
5191
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005192- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00005193 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
5194
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00005195- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
5196
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00005197- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
5198
5199- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00005200
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00005201- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
5202 its symbolic link.
5203
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005204- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
5205
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005206- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00005207 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
5208 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
5209
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00005210- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
5211 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
5212
5213- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00005214
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00005215- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
5216 path to the Python binary.
5217
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005218- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00005219 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
5220 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
5221 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
5222
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00005223- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
5224
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005225- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
5226
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00005227- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
5228
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00005229- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
5230
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005231- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
5232 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00005233
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00005234- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
5235 non-integer floating point number.
5236
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005237- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00005238 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
5239
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005240Extension Modules
5241-----------------
5242
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00005243- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5244 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5245
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00005246- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
5247 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
5248 without limit.
5249
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005250- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
5251 exploitation of poor argument checking.
5252
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00005253- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
5254
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00005255- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
5256 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
5257
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00005258- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
5259 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
5260 threads/processes.
5261
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005262Tests
5263-----
5264
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005265- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
5266 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
5267 that expected warning messages are being reported.
5268
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005269- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
5270
5271- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005272
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005273Build
5274-----
5275
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00005276- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
5277
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00005278- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
5279 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
5280
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00005281- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
5282
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005283- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005284 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005285
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005286
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005287What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
5288================================
5289
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00005290*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005291
5292Core and Builtins
5293-----------------
5294
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00005295- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
5296 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
5297 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
5298 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
5299 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
5300 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
5301 default.
5302
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00005303- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
5304 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
5305
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00005306- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
5307 value again.
5308
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00005309- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
5310 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
5311 and introducing s*.
5312
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00005313- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
5314 object was stored in the freelist.
5315
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00005316- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
5317 ValueError consistently across platforms.
5318
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00005319- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
5320 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
5321 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
5322
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00005323- Apply security patches from Apple.
5324
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00005325- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
5326 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
5327
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00005328- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
5329 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
5330
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00005331- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
5332 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
5333 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
5334
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00005335- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
5336 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
5337 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
5338 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
5339 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
5340 failed have been fixed.
5341
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005342Library
5343-------
5344
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00005345- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
5346
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00005347- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
5348 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
5349
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00005350- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
5351 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
5352 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
5353
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00005354- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
5355 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
5356 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
5357 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
5358 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
5359 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
5360
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00005361- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
5362 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
5363
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00005364- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
5365
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00005366- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
5367
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00005368- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
5369
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00005370- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
5371 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
5372
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00005373- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00005374 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
5375
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005376- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00005377 in a redirect.
5378
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005379- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00005380 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005381
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00005382- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
5383 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
5384
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00005385- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
5386 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
5387 regular expression.
5388
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00005389- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
5390 thread-safe.
5391
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00005392- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
5393 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
5394 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
5395
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00005396- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
5397
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00005398- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
5399 menu entries were not deleted.
5400
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00005401- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
5402 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
5403
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00005404- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
5405 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
5406
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00005407- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
5408 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
5409 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
5410
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00005411- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
5412 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
5413 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
5414
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00005415- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
5416 the reload() built-in has been removed.
5417
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005418- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00005419 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00005420 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
5421 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
5422 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
5423 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
5424 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005425
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00005426- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
5427 raised an AttributeError.
5428
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005429- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00005430 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
5431 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005432
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00005433- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
5434 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
5435
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005436- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00005437
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005438- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00005439 on a closed shelf.
5440
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00005441- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
5442
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005443- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
5444
5445- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
5446 invalid arguments.
5447
5448- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
5449 with None arguments.
5450
5451- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
5452 configuration files.
5453
5454- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
5455
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00005456- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
5457 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
5458 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
5459
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00005460- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
5461 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
5462 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
5463
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00005464Build
5465-----
5466
5467- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
5468
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005469Documentation
5470-------------
5471
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00005472- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
5473 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
5474
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005475- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
5476 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
5477 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
5478 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
5479
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005480
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005481What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
5482================================
5483
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005484*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
5485
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005486Core and Builtins
5487-----------------
5488
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00005489- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
5490 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
5491 an integer using operator.index().
5492
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00005493- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
5494 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
5495
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00005496- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
5497 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
5498
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00005499- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
5500 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
5501 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
5502
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00005503- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
5504 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
5505 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
5506 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
5507 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
5508 level.
5509
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00005510- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
5511 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
5512 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
5513 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
5514 all imports from that module to fail.
5515
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00005516- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
5517 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
5518 new-style classes.
5519
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00005520- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
5521 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
5522 another file in sys.stdout.
5523
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00005524- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
5525 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
5526 another thread's dictionary.
5527
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00005528- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
5529 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
5530 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
5531 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
5532 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
5533 10, -1).
5534
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005535- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
5536 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
5537 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00005538
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005539- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
5540 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
5541 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00005542
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005543Library
5544-------
5545
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00005546- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
5547 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
5548 error when they failed.
5549
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00005550- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
5551
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00005552- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
5553
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00005554- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
5555
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00005556- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
5557
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005558- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
5559 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
5560
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005561- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005562
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00005563- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
5564 a valid dlerror() message.
5565
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00005566- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
5567 incomplete structure was created.
5568
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00005569- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
5570
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00005571- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
5572
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005573- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00005574
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005575- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
5576 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005577 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005578 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
5579 merged into trunk.
5580
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00005581- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
5582
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005583- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
5584
5585- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
5586
5587- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
5588 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005589 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005590
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005591- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005592 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00005593
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00005594- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
5595 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
5596
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005597- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
5598 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
5599
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00005600- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
5601 interrupted by a signal.
5602
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005603- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00005604 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
5605 Prevents a deadlock.
5606
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00005607- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
5608 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
5609 default https port (443).
5610
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00005611- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
5612 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
5613 if the new process uses the threading module.
5614
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00005615Tests
5616-----
5617
5618- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
5619 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
5620 have been added to test_warnings.
5621
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00005622Build
5623-----
5624
5625- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
5626
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005627
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005628Documentation
5629-------------
5630
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00005631- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00005632 Python 3.0.
5633
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00005634- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
5635
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005636- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5637 Python 3.0.
5638
5639- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5640 Python 3.0.
5641
5642
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005643What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
5644================================
5645
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00005646*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005647
5648Core and Builtins
5649-----------------
5650
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00005651- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
5652 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
5653 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
5654 bus error.
5655
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00005656- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
5657 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
5658
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00005659- Add future_builtins.ascii().
5660
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00005661- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00005662 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00005663
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00005664- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
5665
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00005666- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
5667
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00005668- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
5669
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00005670- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
5671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005672- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
5673 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
5674 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
5675 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00005676
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00005677- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
5678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005679- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
5680 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00005681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005682- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
5683 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00005684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005685- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
5686 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
5687 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00005688
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00005689- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
5690 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
5691 can't be triggered from Python code.
5692
5693
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005694Extension Modules
5695-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00005696- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005697
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00005698- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
5699
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00005700- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00005701
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00005702- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
5703 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
5704
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00005705- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
5706 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
5707
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00005708- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
5709 weakref.proxy.
5710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005711- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
5712 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00005713
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005714- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00005715
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00005716- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005717 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
5718 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00005719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005720- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
5721 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
5722 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00005723
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00005724- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
5725 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
5726 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
5727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005728- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00005729
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00005730- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00005731
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005732Library
5733-------
5734
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00005735- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
5736 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
5737
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00005738- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
5739
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00005740- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
5741 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
5742 sense).
5743
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00005744- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
5745
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00005746- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
5747 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
5748 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
5749 the patch.
5750
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005751- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
5752 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
5753 the patch).
5754
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00005755- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
5756 os.uname exists.
5757
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00005758- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5759
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00005760- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5761
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00005762- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
5763 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
5764 pointer-like object.
5765
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00005766- Added the ast module.
5767
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005768- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00005769
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00005770- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
5771 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
5772
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00005773- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
5774 to errno.
5775
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005776- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00005777
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005778- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00005779 msilib.Record objects.
5780
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00005781- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
5782 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
5783
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00005784- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
5785 in Python 3.0.
5786
5787- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
5788 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00005789
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00005790- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
5791 False boolean value now.
5792
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00005793- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
5794 transfers.
5795
5796- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
5797 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00005798
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00005799- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
5800 when the TarFile is closed.
5801
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00005802- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
5803 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
5804 an exception.
5805
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00005806- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
5807 otherwise be produced.
5808
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00005809- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
5810 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
5811
5812- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
5813 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
5814
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00005815- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
5816 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
5817 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
5818
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00005819- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
5820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005821- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00005822 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
5823 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
5824 'm' or 'c'.
5825
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00005826- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005828- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
5829 removal in Python 3.0.
5830
5831- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5832 3.0.
5833
5834- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5835 3.0.
5836
5837- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5838 3.0.
5839
5840- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00005841 Python 3.0.
5842
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00005843- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
5844 Python 3.0.
5845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005846- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5847 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00005848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005849- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5850 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00005851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005852- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5853 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00005854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005855- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5856 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00005857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005858- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00005859 Python 3.0.
5860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005861- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5862 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00005863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005864- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5865 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00005866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005867- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5868 3.0.
5869
5870- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
5871 removal in Python 3.0.
5872
5873- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5874 3.0.
5875
5876- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5877 3.0.
5878
5879- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
5880 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005882- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
5883 removal in Python 3.0.
5884
5885- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00005886 Python 3.0.
5887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005888- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5889 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00005890
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00005891- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5892 Python 3.0.
5893
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00005894- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5895 Python 3.0.
5896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005897- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00005898
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00005899- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5900
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00005901- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5902
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00005903- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
5904
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00005905- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005907- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
5908 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
5909 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00005910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005911- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
5912 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00005913
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00005914- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005916- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5917 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00005918
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00005919- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5920
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00005921- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5922
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00005923- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5924
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00005925- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5926
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00005927- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005929- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
5930 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00005931
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00005932- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5933
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00005934- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5935
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00005936- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
5937 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
5938 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
5939 OverflowError.
5940
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00005941- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005943- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5944 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00005945
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00005946- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5947
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00005948- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5949
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00005950- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5951
5952- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00005953
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005954- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5955
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00005956- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
5957
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00005958- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
5959
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00005960- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00005961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005962- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
5963 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00005964
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005965- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005966 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
5967 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
5968 of Python.
5969
5970- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
5971 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
5972
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00005973- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
5974 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00005975
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005976Build
5977-----
5978
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00005979- 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 +00005980
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00005981- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
5982
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00005983- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
5984
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005985- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
5986 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005987 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005988
5989 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
5990
5991 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
5992
5993 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
5994
5995 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
5996
5997 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
5998
5999 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
6000
6001
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006002C API
6003-----
6004
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00006005- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
6006
6007- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006008
6009- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
6010 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
6011 PyString names.
6012
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00006013
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006014What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006015=================================
6016
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00006017*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006018
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006019Core and builtins
6020-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006021
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00006022- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
6023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006024- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
6025 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00006026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006027- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
6028 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00006029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006030- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00006031
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006032Extension Modules
6033-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006035- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
6036 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00006037
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00006038- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
6039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006040- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
6041 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006043- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
6044 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006046- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
6047 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00006048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006049- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
6050 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
6051 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
6052 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
6053 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
6054 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
6055 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
6056 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00006057
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006058Library
6059-------
6060
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00006061- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6062
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006063- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
6064 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00006065
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00006066- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
6067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006068- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
6069 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00006070
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00006071- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
6072 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
6073 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
6074
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006075- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006076 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006077
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00006078- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00006079 reference to themselves.
6080
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00006081- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
6082 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
6083 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00006084
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00006085- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
6086 1900-01-01.
6087
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00006088- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
6089 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
6090
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00006091- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
6092 now implemented in C for better performance.
6093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006094- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
6095 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
6096 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00006097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006098- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00006099 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
6100 build documentation for more information.
6101
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00006102- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
6103 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
6104 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
6105 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
6106
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00006107- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6108 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
6109 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
6110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006111- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
6112 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
6113 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
6114 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00006115
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006116Tests
6117-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006119- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
6120 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
6121 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
6122 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
6123 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
6124 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
6125 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
6126 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
6127 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
6128 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
6129 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
6130 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
6131 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
6132 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
6133 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
6134 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
6135 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
6136 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
6137 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
6138 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
6139
6140 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
6141 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
6142 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
6143 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
6144 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
6145 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
6146 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
6147 access to the underlying socket used.
6148
6149 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
6150 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
6151 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006152
6153 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006154 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006155 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
6156 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
6157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006158 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
6159 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006160
6161Build
6162-----
6163
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00006164- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
6165
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00006166- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
6167 gcc is used as compiler.
6168
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006169- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006170 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006171
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006172C API
6173-----
6174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006175- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
6176 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
6177 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
6178 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006179
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00006180- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00006181
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006182
6183What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
6184=================================
6185
6186*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
6187
6188Core and builtins
6189-----------------
6190
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006191- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
6192 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
6193 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00006194
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00006195- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
6196 cannot be executed.
6197
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00006198- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
6199 reference on the outer class name.
6200
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006201- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006202 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006204- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
6205 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00006206
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006207- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006208
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006209- Added backport of bytearray type.
6210
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006211- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
6212
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006213- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006214 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
6215 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
6216 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
6217 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
6218 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006219
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00006220- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
6221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006222- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
6223 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00006224
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00006225- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006226
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00006227- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
6228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006229- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
6230 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00006231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006232- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
6233 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00006234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006235- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00006236 exception instances.
6237
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006238- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006239 doesn't derive from BaseException.
6240
6241- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
6242 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006243
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00006244- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
6245 memory usage in some circumstances.
6246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006247- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
6248 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
6249 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00006250
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00006251- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
6252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006253- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00006254 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
6255 longer passed.
6256
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00006257- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
6258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006259- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
6260 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
6261 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00006262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006263- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
6264 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006265
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00006266- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
6267
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006268Extension Modules
6269-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00006270
6271- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
6272
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006273Library
6274-------
6275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006276- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
6277 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006279- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
6280 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
6281 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006283- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
6284 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006286- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
6287 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
6288 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00006289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006290- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
6291 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006292
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006293- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
6294
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00006295- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
6296 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
6297 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
6298
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00006299- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
6300
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00006301- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
6302 advertised in the docs.
6303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006304- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00006305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006306- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00006307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006308- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
6309 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00006310
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006311- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
6312 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
6313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006314- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
6315 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006316 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
6317 information as well.
6318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006319- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
6320 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00006321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006322- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
6323 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00006324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006325- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
6326 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
6327 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00006328
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00006329- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
6330 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
6331 strftime.
6332
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006333- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006334 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
6335 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006336
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006337- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
6338 correctly under win32
6339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006340- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006341
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006342- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006343 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
6344 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
6345 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006346
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00006347- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
6348 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
6349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006350- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
6351 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00006352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006353- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
6354 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
6355 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00006356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006357- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00006358 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
6359
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00006360- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
6361 from 't' to '?'.
6362
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006363- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6364 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006365 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
6366 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
6367 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006369- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
6370 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00006371
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006372Tests
6373-----
6374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006375- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
6376 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00006377
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00006378- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
6379
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00006380- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
6381
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00006382- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
6383
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00006384- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
6385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006386- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
6387 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00006388
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00006389- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
6390
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006391- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00006392
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006393- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
6394 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00006395
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00006396- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
6397
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00006398- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
6399
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006400- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
6401 permission to create files in the root directory.
6402
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006403Build
6404-----
6405
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00006406- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
6407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006408- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
6409 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00006410
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006411- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006412
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006413C API
6414-----
6415
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006416- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006417 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
6418
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006419
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006420What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
6421=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006422
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00006423*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006424
6425Core and builtins
6426-----------------
6427
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00006428- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00006429 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00006430
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00006431- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
6432
6433- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00006434
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006435- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006436 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00006437
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00006438- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
6439 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
6440 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
6441 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
6442 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
6443 module is:
6444 from future_builtins import hex, oct
6445
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00006446- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
6447 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
6448 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
6449 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
6450 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
6451 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
6452
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00006453- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
6454 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
6455 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
6456 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
6457 PyObject_Format().
6458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006459- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
6460 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
6461 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00006462
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006463- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006464 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
6465 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00006466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006467- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
6468 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00006469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006470- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
6471 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
6472 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00006473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006474- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
6475 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
6476 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00006477
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00006478- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
6479 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
6480
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006481- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006482 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00006483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006484- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
6485 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00006486 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
6487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006488- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
6489 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
6490 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006492- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
6493 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00006494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006495- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
6496 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00006497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006498- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
6499 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00006500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006501- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
6502 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00006503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006504- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
6505 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
6506 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00006507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006508- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
6509 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
6510 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
6511 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00006512
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00006513- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
6514 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
6515 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
6516
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006517- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00006518 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
6519 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
6520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006521- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00006522 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
6523 support.
6524
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00006525- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
6526 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
6527
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00006528- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
6529
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006530- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00006531 added.
6532
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00006533- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
6534 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
6535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006536- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
6537 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00006538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006539- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
6540 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
6541 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00006542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006543- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
6544 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00006545
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00006546- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
6547 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00006548
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00006549- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
6550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006551- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
6552 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
6553 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00006554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006555- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
6556 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
6557 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00006558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006559- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00006560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006561- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
6562 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00006563
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006564- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006565 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
6566 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006568- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
6569 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
6570 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
6571 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00006572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006573- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00006574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006575- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
6576 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00006577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006578- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
6579 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00006580
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00006581- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00006582 SystemError.
6583
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00006584- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
6585 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
6586 __package__ attribute.
6587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006588- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
6589 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
6590 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00006591
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006592- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
6593
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006594- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00006595 attribute of an empty cell object.
6596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006597- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
6598 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00006599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006600- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
6601 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
6602 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
6603 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00006604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006605- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
6606 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
6607 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00006608
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00006609- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
6610
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00006611- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
6612
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00006613- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
6614
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006615- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006616 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
6617 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00006618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006619- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
6620 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
6621 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
6622 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
6623 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
6624 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00006625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006626- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
6627 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
6628 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
6629 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
6630 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00006631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006632- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
6633 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
6634 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00006635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006636- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
6637 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00006638
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006639- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006640 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
6641 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
6642 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
6643 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
6644 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006646- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
6647 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00006648
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00006649- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
6650 with %G.
6651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006652- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
6653 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00006654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006655- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00006656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006657- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00006658
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006659- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006660 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
6661 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006662
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00006663- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
6664 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
6665
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00006666- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
6667 calls.
6668
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006669- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006670 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
6671 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006672
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00006673- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
6674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006675- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006676 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00006677
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006678- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00006679 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
6680
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00006681- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
6682
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00006683- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
6684 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
6685 remaining characters.
6686
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00006687- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
6688 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
6689
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00006690- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
6691
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006692- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
6693 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
6694 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
6695 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
6696 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00006697 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
6698 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006700- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
6701 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
6702 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
6703 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
6704 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00006705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006706- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
6707 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
6708 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00006709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006710- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
6711 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00006712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006713- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
6714 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
6715 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00006716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006717- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
6718 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00006719
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00006720- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
6721
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00006722- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
6723 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
6724
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006725- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006726 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
6727 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
6728 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006729
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00006730- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
6731 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
6732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006733- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
6734 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00006735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006736- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
6737 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
6738 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00006739
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006740- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006741 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
6742 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006743
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006744- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
6745 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006746 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
6747 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006749- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
6750 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00006751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006752- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
6753 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00006754
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00006755- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
6756 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
6757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006758- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
6759 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
6760 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00006761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006762- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
6763 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00006764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006765- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
6766 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00006767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006768- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
6769 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
6770 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00006771
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00006772- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
6773 frame's thread state.
6774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006775- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
6776 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00006777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006778- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
6779 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00006780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006781- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
6782 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00006783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006784- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
6785 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00006786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006787- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
6788 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00006789
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00006790- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
6791
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00006792- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
6793
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00006794- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
6795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006796- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
6797 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00006798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006799- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00006800
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00006801- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
6802 again, no longer the posix error code.
6803
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00006804- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
6805 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
6806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006807- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
6808 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00006809
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00006810- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
6811 embedded in the string to convert.
6812
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00006813- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
6814 recognized and rejected.
6815
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006816- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
6817
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006818- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
6819 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
6820 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00006821
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00006822- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
6823 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
6824
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006825- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006826 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
6827 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006829- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
6830 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
6831 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00006832
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00006833- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
6834
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00006835- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
6836
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00006837- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
6838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006839- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
6840 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
6841 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00006842
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006843- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
6844 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
6845 'exceptions'.
6846
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00006847- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
6848 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
6849
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00006850- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
6851 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
6852
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00006853- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
6854
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006855- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
6856
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00006857- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
6858 head is the original string if sep was not found.
6859
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006860- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006861 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
6862 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
6863 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006864
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006865- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00006866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006867- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
6868 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006869
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006870- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
6871 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00006872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006873- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00006874 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
6875 it actually exited.
6876
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006877
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006878Library
6879-------
6880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006881- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00006882
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00006883- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
6884
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00006885- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
6886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006887- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
6888 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00006889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006890- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00006891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006892- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
6893 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
6894 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00006895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006896- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
6897 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00006898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006899- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00006900 (ignore-case)
6901
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00006902- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
6903 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
6904 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
6905 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
6906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006907- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
6908 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00006909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006910- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
6911 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00006912
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00006913- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
6914 pickled.
6915
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00006916- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
6917 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
6918
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00006919- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
6920 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
6921 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
6922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006923- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
6924 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00006925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006926- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
6927 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
6928 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00006929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006930- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
6931 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00006932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006933- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
6934 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00006935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006936- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
6937 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
6938 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
6939 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00006940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006941- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
6942 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006943 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
6944
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00006945- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
6946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006947- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
6948 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00006949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006950- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00006951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006952- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
6953 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006955- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
6956 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006958- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
6959 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006961- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
6962 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006964- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
6965 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
6966 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00006967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006968- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
6969 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00006970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006971- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
6972 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00006973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006974- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
6975 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00006976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006977- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
6978 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00006979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006980- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
6981 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00006982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006983- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
6984 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00006985
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00006986- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
6987 with extended local headers.
6988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006989- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
6990 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00006991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006992- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00006993 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
6994 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
6995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006996- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
6997 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00006998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006999- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
7000 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00007001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007002- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
7003 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00007004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007005- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
7006 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00007007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007008- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
7009 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00007010
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007011- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007012 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007013 Textbox.gather().
7014
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007015- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
7016 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00007017 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
7018 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007019
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00007020- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
7021 that array types do not live longer than needed.
7022
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007023- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
7024 and when creating a recursive instance.
7025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007026- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
7027 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
7028 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00007029
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00007030- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
7031 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
7032 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
7033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007034- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
7035 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00007036
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007037- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00007038 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
7039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007040- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00007041 good for long regular expression matches.
7042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007043- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
7044 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00007045
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00007046- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
7047 the current context.
7048
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00007049- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
7050 zipfile module.
7051
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007052- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
7053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007054- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
7055 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00007056
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00007057- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
7058
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00007059- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
7060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007061- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
7062 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00007063
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00007064- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
7065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007066- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
7067 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00007068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007069- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
7070 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00007071
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00007072- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
7073
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00007074- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
7075 Tcl objects.
7076
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00007077- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
7078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007079- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
7080 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
7081 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
7082 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00007083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007084- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
7085 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00007086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007087- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
7088 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00007089
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007090- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
7091 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00007092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007093- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
7094 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00007095
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00007096- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
7097 method used universal newlines.
7098
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00007099- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
7100 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
7101
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00007102- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
7103 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
7104
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00007105- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
7106 files are updated.
7107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007108- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
7109 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007110
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00007111- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
7112 configured with --with-system-ffi.
7113
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007114- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007115 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007116
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00007117- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
7118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007119- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
7120 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
7121 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00007122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007123- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
7124 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00007125
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00007126- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00007127
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00007128- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
7129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007130- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
7131 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00007132
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00007133- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
7134 to be orderable to properly represent them.
7135
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00007136- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
7137
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00007138- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
7139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007140- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
7141 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
7142 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007143
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00007144- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
7145 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
7146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007147- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
7148 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00007149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007150- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
7151 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00007152
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00007153- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
7154
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00007155- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
7156
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00007157- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
7158 syllables.
7159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007160- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
7161 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00007162
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00007163- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
7164
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00007165- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
7166 represent the result in a single character.
7167
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00007168- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
7169
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00007170- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
7171
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00007172- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
7173 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
7174 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
7175
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00007176- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
7177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007178- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
7179 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00007180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007181- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
7182 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
7183 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00007184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007185- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
7186 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
7187 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00007188
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007189- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007190 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
7191 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007193- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
7194 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00007195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007196- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
7197 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00007198
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00007199- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7200
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00007201- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007203- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
7204 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
7205 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00007206
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00007207- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7208
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00007209- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7210
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00007211- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
7212 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
7213
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00007214- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
7215
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00007216- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
7217
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00007218- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7219
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007220- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
7221 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00007222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007223- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
7224 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00007225
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00007226- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
7227 the directories).
7228
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00007229- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
7230 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
7231 injecting HTML into the error page.
7232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007233- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
7234 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00007235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007236- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
7237 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007238
7239- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
7240
7241- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
7242
7243- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
7244 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
7245 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
7246
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00007247- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
7248 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
7249 ".cpp" too.
7250
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007251- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007252 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
7253 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
7254 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007256- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
7257 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00007258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007259- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
7260 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00007261
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00007262- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
7263 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
7264 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
7265 closes patch #723312.
7266
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007267- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
7268 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00007269 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00007270
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00007271- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
7272
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00007273- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
7274 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
7275
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00007276- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
7277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007278- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
7279 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00007280 directories.
7281
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00007282- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
7283 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
7284 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
7285 trying Mozilla variants.
7286
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00007287- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
7288
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00007289- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
7290 initialization failed.
7291
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007292- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007293 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
7294 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007296- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
7297 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
7298 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00007299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007300- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
7301 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00007302 correctly now.
7303
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00007304- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
7305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007306- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
7307 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00007308
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00007309- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
7310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007311- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
7312 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
7313 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00007314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007315- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
7316 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
7317 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
7318 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00007319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007320- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
7321 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
7322 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00007323
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00007324- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
7325 whitespace while wrapping.
7326
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007327- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007328 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
7329 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007331- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
7332 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
7333 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00007334
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00007335- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
7336 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
7337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007338- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
7339 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00007340
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00007341- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
7342 concatenation in robotparser.
7343
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007344- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007345 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
7346 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007347
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00007348- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
7349 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
7350
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00007351- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
7352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007353- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
7354 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
7355 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00007356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007357- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
7358 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
7359 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00007360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007361- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
7362 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00007363 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00007364
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00007365- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
7366 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
7367
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00007368- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
7369 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
7370
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00007371- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
7372 returned string up to the first NUL character.
7373
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00007374- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
7375
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00007376- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
7377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007378- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
7379 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
7380 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00007381
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00007382- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
7383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007384- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
7385 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
7386 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
7387 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
7388 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
7389 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00007390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007391- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
7392 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00007393
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00007394- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
7395 comprehensive test suite for the module.
7396
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00007397- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
7398 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
7399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007400- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
7401 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
7402 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00007403
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007404- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00007405 in HTMLParser.
7406
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00007407- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
7408 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
7409
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00007410- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
7411
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00007412- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
7413
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00007414- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
7415
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00007416- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00007417
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00007418- Added itertools.izip_longest().
7419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007420- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
7421 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00007422
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00007423- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
7424
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00007425- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
7426 doesn't exist.
7427
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00007428- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
7429
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00007430- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
7431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007432- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00007433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007434- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
7435 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00007436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007437- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
7438 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00007439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007440- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
7441 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00007442
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007443- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007444 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007445
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00007446- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
7447 iso8859_16.
7448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007449- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
7450 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
7451 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
7452 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00007453
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007454- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
7455
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00007456- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
7457 directories.
7458
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00007459- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
7460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007461- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
7462 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00007463
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007464- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007465 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007466
7467- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007468 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007469
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007470- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007471
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007472- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
7473 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00007474
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00007475- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
7476
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00007477- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
7478 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
7479 parameterless foreign function calls work.
7480
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00007481- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
7482
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00007483- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
7484 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
7485 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
7486
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007487- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7488 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
7489
7490- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7491 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
7492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007493- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
7494 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
7495 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007497- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
7498 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00007499
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00007500- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
7501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007502- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
7503 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00007504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007505- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
7506 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00007507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007508- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
7509 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00007510
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007511- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
7512 separated lists read from logging config files.
7513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007514- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
7515 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
7516 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007518- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
7519 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00007520
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00007521- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
7522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007523- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
7524 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00007525
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00007526- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
7527
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00007528- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
7529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007530- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
7531 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00007532
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00007533- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
7534 regular files.
7535
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00007536- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
7537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007538- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
7539 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00007540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007541- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
7542 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00007543
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00007544- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
7545 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
7546
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00007547- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
7548 file name mangling.
7549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007550- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
7551 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00007552
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00007553- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
7554
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007555- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00007556 HTTPConnection.request().
7557
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00007558- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
7559 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
7560 objects.
7561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007562- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
7563 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
7564 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00007565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007566- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
7567 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
7568 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00007569
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007570- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00007571
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007572- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00007573
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00007574- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
7575
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007576- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007577 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007578
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00007579- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
7580
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00007581- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
7582 GNU modes.
7583
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007584- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007585 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007586 opcode.
7587
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00007588- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
7589 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
7590 statement (bug #1586513).
7591
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007592- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
7593 correctly.
7594
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00007595- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
7596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007597- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
7598 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00007599
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00007600- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
7601 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
7602 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
7603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007604- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
7605 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
7606 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00007607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007608- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
7609 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00007610
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00007611- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
7612
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00007613- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
7614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007615- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
7616 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00007617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007618- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
7619 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00007620
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00007621- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
7622 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
7623
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00007624- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
7625 with a slash.
7626
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00007627- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
7628 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
7629
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00007630- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007631 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00007632
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00007633- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
7634 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
7635 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
7636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007637- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
7638 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00007639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007640- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
7641 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00007642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007643- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
7644 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00007645
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007646- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
7647
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007648- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007649 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007651- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
7652 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00007653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007654- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
7655 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007656
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00007657- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
7658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007659- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
7660 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00007661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007662- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
7663 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
7664 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007666- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
7667 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
7668 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00007669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007670- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
7671 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
7672 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
7673 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00007674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007675- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007676 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
7677 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007678 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
7679 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
7680 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007682- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
7683 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007684
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007685Extension Modules
7686-----------------
7687
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007688- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00007689
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00007690- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
7691
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00007692- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
7693
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007694- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00007695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007696- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
7697 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00007698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007699- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
7700 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00007701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007702- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
7703 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00007704
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00007705- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
7706
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00007707- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
7708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007709- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
7710 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007711
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00007712- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
7713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007714- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
7715 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00007716
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00007717- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
7718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007719- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
7720 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00007721
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007722- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00007723 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
7724 parameter.
7725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007726- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
7727 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
7728 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
7729 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00007730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007731- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
7732 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00007733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007734- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
7735 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00007736
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007737- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
7738 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
7739 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007741- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
7742 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00007743
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00007744- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
7745
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00007746- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
7747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007748- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
7749 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
7750 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00007751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007752- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
7753 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00007754
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00007755- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
7756
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007757- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
7758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007759- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
7760 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
7761 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
7762 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00007763
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00007764- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
7765 get_completion_type to readline.
7766
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00007767- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
7768 structure.
7769
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00007770- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7771
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00007772- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
7773
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00007774- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
7775 intended for RECNO databases.
7776
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007777- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007778 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
7779 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
7780 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
7781 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
7782 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
7783 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007784
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00007785- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
7786
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00007787- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
7788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007789- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
7790 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
7791 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
7792 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
7793 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00007794
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00007795- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
7796 error in spite of a succesful compression.
7797
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00007798- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
7799 of Py_ssize_t.
7800
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00007801- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
7802 fractional times. With unittest.
7803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007804- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
7805 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
7806 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00007807
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00007808- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
7809
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00007810- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
7811
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00007812- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
7813
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00007814- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
7815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007816- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007817 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00007818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007819- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
7820 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00007821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007822- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
7823 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00007824
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00007825- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
7826 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
7827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007828- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
7829 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
7830 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00007831
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00007832- Speed up function calls into the math module.
7833
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00007834- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
7835 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
7836 does.
7837
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00007838- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
7839
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00007840- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
7841
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00007842- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
7843
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00007844- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
7845
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00007846- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
7847 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
7848
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00007849- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
7850 datetime's strftime function.
7851
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00007852- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
7853
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00007854- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
7855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007856- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
7857 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00007858
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00007859- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
7860
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007861- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007862 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
7863 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007865- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
7866 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00007867
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007868- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007869 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
7870 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007871 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
7872 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00007873 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007874 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007875
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007876- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
7877 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
7878 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
7879 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
7880
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00007881- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
7882 were transposed.
7883
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00007884- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
7885 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00007886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007887- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
7888 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
7889 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007890
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007891- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
7892
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00007893- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
7894
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00007895- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
7896
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00007897- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007898
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00007899- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
7900 databases without a DBEnv.
7901
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00007902- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
7903
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007904Tests
7905-----
7906
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00007907- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00007908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007909- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
7910 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00007911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007912- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
7913 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
7914 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00007915
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00007916- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
7917 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00007918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007919- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
7920 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00007921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007922- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
7923 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
7924 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00007925
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00007926- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
7927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007928- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
7929 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
7930 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00007931
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007932- Added some tests for modulefinder.
7933
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00007934- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
7935
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00007936- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
7937 number properly.
7938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007939- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
7940 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007941
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007942Tools
7943-----
7944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007945- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
7946 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
7947 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007948 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00007949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007950- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
7951 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
7952 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00007953
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007954- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
7955 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
7956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007957- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
7958 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007960- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
7961 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007962
7963- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007964 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
7965 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007966
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007967
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007968Documentation
7969-------------
7970
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007971- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
7972 include new optional delay argument.
7973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007974- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
7975 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
7976 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007977
7978- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
7979 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
7980
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00007981- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
7982 Python tutorial.
7983
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00007984- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
7985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007986- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
7987 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00007988
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00007989- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
7990 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
7991
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00007992- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
7993 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
7994
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00007995- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
7996
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00007997- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
7998 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
7999
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008000- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00008001 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
8002
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00008003- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
8004 docs.
8005
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00008006- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
8007
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00008008- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
8009 string pointed to by its parameter.
8010
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00008011- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
8012
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008013- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008014 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
8015 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
8016 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008017
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008018
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008019Tools/Demos
8020-----------
8021
8022- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008023
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008024- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008025 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
8026 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008027
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008028- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
8029 file not to get reported properly.
8030
8031
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008032Build
8033-----
8034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008035- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
8036 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
8037 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00008038
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008039- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
8040 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
8041
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00008042- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
8043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008044- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008046- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
8047 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
8048 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
8049 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008051- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
8052 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008053
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00008054- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
8055
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00008056- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
8057 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
8058 without this option!
8059
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00008060- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
8061
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008062- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008063 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
8064 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
8065 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008067- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
8068 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00008069
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00008070- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
8071
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00008072- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
8073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008074- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
8075 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00008076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008077- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
8078 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00008079
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00008080- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
8081 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
8082 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
8083
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00008084- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
8085 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
8086
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00008087- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
8088
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00008089- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
8090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008091- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
8092 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00008093
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008094- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00008095 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
8096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008097- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
8098 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00008099
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00008100- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
8101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008102- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00008103
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00008104- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
8105
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00008106- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
8107
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00008108- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008110- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
8111 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
8112 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00008113
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008114
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008115C API
8116-----
8117
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008118- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
8119 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
8120 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
8121 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00008122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008123- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
8124 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
8125 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008126
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008127- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008129- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
8130 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
8131 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008132
8133- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
8134
8135- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
8136 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
8137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008138- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
8139 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
8140 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
8141 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008143- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
8144 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008146- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
8147 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
8148 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008150- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
8151 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008152
8153- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
8154
8155- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
8156
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008157- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
8158
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008159- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
8160
8161- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
8162 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
8163
8164- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
8165 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
8166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008167- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
8168 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
8169 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008171- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
8172 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008174- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
8175 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00008176
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008177
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008178Windows
8179-------
8180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008181- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
8182 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
8183 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
8184 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00008185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008186- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
8187 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008188
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00008189- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
8190
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008191
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008192Mac
8193---
8194
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00008195- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8196
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00008197- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008199- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8200 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
8201 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00008202
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00008203----
8204
8205**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**