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What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
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*Release date: XX-XXX-XXX*
Core and Builtins
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- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
passed to bytes or bytearray.
- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
changed.
- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, compiler
optimizations are disabled when --with-pydebug is used.
- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
is unknown
- Issue #1583863: An str subclass can now override the __str__ method
- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
comparisons with complex.
- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
(SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
module.
- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
a fatal error in low memory condition.
- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
the BOM check fails.
- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule
in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
strings.
- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
0 padding.
- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
complex.__format__. Now it matches other numeric types.
- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string
and PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original
deprecations.
- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
`PyObject_GetBuffer` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
slice with very large step value.
- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
suite_mask, and product_type.
- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
string instead.
- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
Malcolm.
- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
consistent with other special methods.
- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
`rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
AttributeError.
- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
described in C99 Annex F.
- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
executables on OSX.
These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
with invalid values.
- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
on MacOSX 10.6.
- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
raised during the formation of an output tuple.
- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
surrogates.
- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
disabled since Python 3.0.
- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
will be entirely removed in 3.3.
- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
support.
- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
crash in GAE.
- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
occurred in the argument chain.
- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
documentation.
- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
surrogates.
- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes
instances from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses
from being pickled properly.
- Code objects now support weak references.
C-API
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- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added,
analogous to PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
has '\0' at the end.
- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
using PyDescr_COMMON.
- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
PyCode_Addr2Line().
- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
object at a specified file, function, and line number.
- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Library
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- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
`threading.Semaphore` objects. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
the current working directory.
- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
using backslashreplace error handler
- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
surrogates.
- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
- Issue #7316: the acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait
loop.
- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Python 2.x and 3.0
- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
present before it cleans them.
- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
to cover recent locale changes and additions.
- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
>>> Decimal(1.1)
Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
instances directly.
- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal).
- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore
some methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available.
Initial patch by Bertrand Janin.
- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
running from the build directory (POSIX only).
- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
now silenced.
- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
(utf8) encoding.
- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
detected.
- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
the locale.
- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features.
The default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier
Python versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored
by default in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
cElementTree module is updated too.
- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
program name
- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and
the replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
class.
- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
writing.
- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
with the cycle garbage collector.
- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
to be ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
were converted.
- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
interpreter shutdown.
- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
in XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
encoding. Patch by Jerry Chen.
- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
specify the compression type.
- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
:class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can
be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
`readline()` give wrong results. Patch by Nir Aides.
- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
replace it.
- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
the release file is empty.
- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
module.
- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`.
Patch by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files.
Patch by Brian Curtin.
- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
by Arfrever.
- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
Victor Stinner.
- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
in regular expressions.
- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
the same as passing no argument.
- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
default.
- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
in imaplib.
- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
TLS with authentication credentials.
- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
msvc9compiler.
- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
built-in exception printing.
- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
Robert Collins.
- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
`storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
Brian Quinlan.
- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
raises ReadError on empty files.
- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
be 2.
- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
of __str__.
- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
case of an error.
- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
__main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
local connections.
- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
class to be used without having to subclass.
- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
they were slower by 10x to 15x).
- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
`_thread.start_new_thread()`).
- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
which are part of a reference cycle.
- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
OSes such as Solaris.
- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
header as required by RFC 1952.
- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
Distutils.
- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
an uppercase.
- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
several threads at once.
- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
larger than emax.
- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
GNU readline library version 6.0.
- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
builtin tokenizer.
- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
is too large to fit in the current precision.
- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
does now always result in NULL.
- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
with base class positional arguments.
- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
instances.
- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
in long(Decimal('nan')).
- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
with no type specifier.
- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
should be raised, not AttributeError.
- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
AttributeError before).
- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
ScrolledText.
- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
the xview* and yview* methods.
- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
"wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
DO/DONT correctly.
- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
Senthil Kumaran
- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
syntax error.
- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
sys.path.
- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will
be searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
- Issue #6544: fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
handling.
- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
matched characters with category 'No'.
- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
buffers.
- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
(CVE_2009_3560).
- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Build
-----
- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
give false warnings.
- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
when building a shared library.
- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
Exclude 2to3 tests from compileall.
- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
--with-system-ffi flag is used.
- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
Python.
- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
found.
- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
icc or suncc.
- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
directories.
- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
extensions are installed.
- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
compiler might use the wrong library.
- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
Documentation
------------
- A small wsgi server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
-J and -X options.
- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
ImportError.
- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
for Windows.
- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tests
-----
- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
Unicode normalization cases.
- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
from the local cache.
- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
effectively raised.
- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using
the --verbose flag.
- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
filesystem encoding.
- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.
- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
hard coded port.
- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
user running the tests.
- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
catch the case of an option with no handler.
- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
to empty global variables.
- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
between concurrent executions on the same system.
- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
calling methods on the object.
- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
:func:`_thread._count()`.
- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
__all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
and a new section in the summary report at the end.
- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
object bytecode.
- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Tools/Demos
-----------
- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the
sandbox.
What's New in Python 3.1?
=========================
*Release date: 27-June-2009*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
large arguments.
- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
Library
-------
- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
io.UnsupportedOperation.
- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
(On Unix)
- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
=============================================
*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
(more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Library
-------
- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
binary files.
- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
TimedRotatingFileHandler.
- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
are always None now.
- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
new `fix_imports` optional argument.
- Removed the ipaddr module.
- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
parameters.
Windows
-------
- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
C-API
-----
- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
--with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
Build
-----
- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
=============================================
*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
of the command line.
- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
that would raise SystemError.
- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
function with __func__.
- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
and imaginary literals.
- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
(1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
didn't match that of float('-nan').
Library
-------
- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
argument to the 'help' function.
- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
arguments for strings with a space in them.
- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
the directory already exists.
- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
IO objects.
- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
deepcopy()ing.
- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
empty.
- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
corrects a pydoc regression.
- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
Installation
------------
- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
now be known as python3.
- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
library instead of as extension modules.
Build
-----
- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
Clinton Roy.
Tests
-----
- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
================================
*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
a PendingDeprecation warning.
- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
the same way.
- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
12.34 no longer raise an exception.
- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
some builtin types.
- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
floats.
- The str function switches to exponential notation at
1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
long time.)
- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
avoids misleading output in some cases.
There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
reason or another.
The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
correctly rounded on these platforms.
See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
this change does not apply.
- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
methods available on the str class.
- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
its clarity and its speed.
- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
to avoid compiler warnings.
- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
Installation
------------
- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
Library
-------
- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
specific Python version.
- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
whitespace.
- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
the right type checkings anymore.
- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
return directories.
- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
looking for files given by a relative filename.
- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
extracting a file to the root directory.
- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
and original patch by Jake McGuire.
- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
Contributed by Google.
- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
initialized before.
- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
names which should not be exported.
- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
instances.
- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
new arguments introduced in 2.5.
- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
pwd.
- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
using Berkley-DB.
Tests
-----
- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
can be adjusted to use it over time.
- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
incorrectly on __exit__.
C-API
-----
- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
=================================
*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
integers.
- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
are now between 50% and 150% faster.
- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
--enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
the internal format.
- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
short file names.
Library
-------
- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
mailbox.MH.get_message().
- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
the -T argument.
- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
(typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
partial bzip2 compressed data.
- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
specifier to Decimal.__format__
- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
'>' alignment characters.
- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
value, and report it as -1 instead.
- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
_PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
have been removed from the struct module.
What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
================================
*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
contained non ascii character on windows.
- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
source has already been decoded into str.
- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
returns a non-number type.
- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
Previously it returned a float.
- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
from a string.
- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
optional module state data.
- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
type to (void *).
- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
__next__ method.
- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
amount of loop unrolling.
- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Martin von Löwis at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
Python's overall memory).
- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
items, rather than the size in bytes.
- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
did not get collected.
- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
fail.
- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
failures on OS X.
- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
exceptions.
- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
"offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
(on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
Python 2.x.
- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
larger than 1.
- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
Library
-------
- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
sys.dont_write_bytecode.
- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Distutils.
- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
Michael Haubenwallner.
- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
opening an empty or very small file.
- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
behavior is similar when used with -O.
- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
attribute.
- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
descriptor errors
- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
`LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
subcommand.
- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
test_get_outputs in Distutils.
- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
for old-style extensions.
- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Cournapeau.
- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
anymore.
- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
sysconfig.get_config_vars.
- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
a value in SafeConfigParser.
- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
threads.
- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
that it was failing to do localization.
- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Brandl.
- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
character.
- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
Tim Golden.
- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
window flashing.
- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Original patch by Akira Kitada.
- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
import guess_extension`` was used.
- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
overrun.
- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
bdist_rpm command.
- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
in Distutils tests.
- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
IronPython.
- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
The file was resized to wrong size.
- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
encoding.
- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
ctime of the files involved.
- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
deadlock.
- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
Vajda.
- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
Ross Light.
- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
--enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
items being passed through ord().
- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
"src.new").
- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
and compress().
- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
allowed non-integer arguments.
- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
examples.
- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
producing a ValueError on some platforms.
- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
allow adding directories to a zipfile.
- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
--without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
be disabled, and not compiled.
- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
traditional 2.x file object.
- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
parameter was set.
- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
- Add the importlib package.
- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
_check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
multiprocessing.
- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
without defaults.
- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
in sharedctypes.py.
- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
__getattr__.
- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
counting.
- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
function without defining argtypes.
- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Jacques Frechet.
- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
<http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
to the decimal module.
- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
cast as floats.
- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
the function is not a generator.
- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
works as expected in the interactive environment.
- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
Gabriel Genellina.
- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
boundary.
- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
Alexander Belopolsky.
- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
Alexander Belopolsky.
- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
Alexander Belopolsky.
- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
a non-ASCII letter.
- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
libs.
- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
Content-Disposition headers.
- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
doesn't configure logging.
- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
exception.
- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
statements.
- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
not a malformed option.
- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
the corresponding tests now pass.
- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
it was calling the wrong open() function.
- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
Content-Disposition headers.
- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
and getservbyport().
- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
Tools/Demos
-----------
- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
and make it 2.6-compatible.
- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Build
-----
- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
C-API
-----
- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
implementations or external openssl library).
- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
(with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
OpenBSD.
- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
buffer.
- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
Tests
-----
- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
from test support, which does the conversion.
- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
Docs
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