Move 3.3 items of Misc/NEWS to Misc/HISTORY
In fact, items were already present by Misc/NEWS format was improved.
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index 4280764..78006cd 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@
- Issue #16046: Fix loading sourceless legacy .pyo files.
-- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when __trunc__ returns an object
- whose __int__ gives a non-integer. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when `__trunc__()` returns an object whose
+ `__int__()` gives a non-integer. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
+- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's `UseForeignDTD()`
method doesn't require an argument again.
@@ -36,26 +36,26 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap().
+- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in `PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap()`.
- Issue #15926: Fix crash after multiple reinitializations of the interpreter.
- Issue #15895: Fix FILE pointer leak in one error branch of
- PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags() when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit
- is false an and set_main_loader() fails.
+ `PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit is
+ false an and set_main_loader() fails.
- Fixes for a few crash and memory leak regressions found by Coverity.
Library
-------
-- Issue #15882: Change _decimal to accept any coefficient tuple when
- constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility
- with decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal
- (in accordance with the specification).
+- Issue #15882: Change `_decimal` to accept any coefficient tuple when
+ constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility with
+ decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal (in accordance
+ with the specification).
-- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in email.util where the parsedate() and
- parsedate_tz() functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
+- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in `email.util` where the `parsedate()` and
+ `parsedate_tz()` functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
not be parsed.
Extension Modules
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
- Issue #15977: Fix memory leak in Modules/_ssl.c when the function
_set_npn_protocols() is called multiple times, thanks to Daniel Sommermann.
-- Issue #15969: faulthandler module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
+- Issue #15969: `faulthandler` module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
dump_traceback_later() and cancel_dump_tracebacks_later() to
cancel_dump_traceback_later().
@@ -83,35 +83,37 @@
-----------------
- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
- sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
- chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
- types.
+ sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator chains
+ ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container types.
-- Issue #15784: Modify OSError.__str__() to better distinguish between
- errno error numbers and Windows error numbers.
+- Issue #15784: Modify `OSError`.__str__() to better distinguish between errno
+ error numbers and Windows error numbers.
- Issue #15781: Fix two small race conditions in import's module locking.
Library
-------
-- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples
- as argument lists anymore.
+- Issue #17158: Add 'symbols' to help() welcome message; clarify
+ 'modules spam' messages.
-- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in imp.load_module().
+- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples as
+ argument lists anymore.
-- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
- be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
+- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in `imp.load_module()`.
-- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the Decimal.quantize()
+- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when ``/dev/urandom`` cannot be
+ opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
+
+- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the `Decimal.quantize()`
method.
-- Issue #15785: Modify window.get_wch() API of the curses module: return
- a character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of
- always returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special
- keys like keypad keys.
+- Issue #15785: Modify `window.get_wch()` API of the curses module: return a
+ character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of always
+ returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special keys like
+ keypad keys.
-- Issue #14223: Fix window.addch() of the curses module for special characters
+- Issue #14223: Fix `window.addch()` of the curses module for special characters
like curses.ACS_HLINE: the Python function addch(int) and addch(bytes) is now
calling the C function waddch()/mvwaddch() (as it was done in Python 3.2),
instead of wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch(). The Python function addch(str) is still
@@ -127,10 +129,10 @@
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted
- the hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte
- item formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they
- will be correctly enforced in 3.3.1
+- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted the
+ hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte item
+ formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they will be
+ correctly enforced in 3.3.1.
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1?
@@ -144,131 +146,123 @@
- Issue #15573: memoryview comparisons are now performed by value with full
support for any valid struct module format definition.
-- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for __import__ doesn't exist,
+- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for `__import__()` doesn't exist,
don't raise an error, but if an exception is raised as part of an import do
let that propagate.
-- Issue #15778: ensure that str(ImportError(msg)) returns a str
- even when msg isn't a str.
+- Issue #15778: Ensure that ``str(ImportError(msg))`` returns a str even when
+ msg isn't a str.
-- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly
- copied to the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib
- reintroduced this problem because these was no regression test. A test
- has been added as part of this patch)
+- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly copied to
+ the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib reintroduced this
+ problem because these was no regression test. A test has been added as part of
+ this patch)
-- Issue #15761: Fix crash when PYTHONEXECUTABLE is set on Mac OS X.
+- Issue #15761: Fix crash when ``PYTHONEXECUTABLE`` is set on Mac OS X.
-- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule.
- Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule. Patch by
+ Robin Schreiber.
-- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
+- Issue #15604: Update uses of `PyObject_IsTrue()` to check for and handle
errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14846: importlib.FileFinder now handles the case where the
- directory being searched is removed after a previous import attempt
+- Issue #14846: `importlib.FileFinder` now handles the case where the directory
+ being searched is removed after a previous import attempt.
Library
-------
-- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
- compiled using the clang compiler
+- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is compiled
+ using the clang compiler.
-- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and
- will be removed in Python 4.0.
+- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and will be
+ removed in Python 4.0.
- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
-- Issue #15249: BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
+- Issue #15776: Allow pyvenv to work in existing directory with --clean.
+
+- Issue #15249: email's BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
requested) even if the body contains undecodable bytes.
- Issue #15777: Fix a refleak in _posixsubprocess.
-- Issue ##665194: Update email.utils.localtime to use datetime.astimezone and
+- Issue ##665194: Update `email.utils.localtime` to use datetime.astimezone and
correctly handle historic changes in UTC offsets.
- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
-- Issue #12643: code.InteractiveConsole now respects sys.excepthook when
- displaying exceptions (Patch by Aaron Iles)
+- Issue #12643: `code.InteractiveConsole` now respects `sys.excepthook` when
+ displaying exceptions. Patch by Aaron Iles.
-- Issue #13579: string.Formatter now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
+- Issue #13579: `string.Formatter` now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
-- Issue #15793: Stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd().
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15595: Fix subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)
- for certain locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #15595: Fix ``subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)`` for certain
+ locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
-- Issue #15715: importlib.__import__() will silence an ImportError when the use
- of fromlist leads to a failed import.
+- Issue #15715: `importlib.__import__()` will silence an ImportError when the
+ use of fromlist leads to a failed import.
-- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on MacOSX
- by sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
- TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for MacOSX.
+- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on Mac OS X by
+ sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
+ TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for Mac OS X.
- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
-- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
- multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
- idiom.
+- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using `multiprocessing`
+ on Windows without the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` idiom.
-- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line
- (3.3.0b2 regression).
+IDLE
+----
-C API
------
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
+- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line (3.3.0b2
+ regression).
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
+- Touched up the Python 2 to 3 porting guide.
+
+- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the `json` module's standard compliance.
Patch by Chris Rebert.
- Create a 'Concurrent Execution' section in the docs, and split up the
'Optional Operating System Services' section to use a more user-centric
- classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and
- text processing). Operating system limitatons can be reflected with
- the Sphinx ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of
- Contents.
+ classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and text
+ processing). Operating system limitations can be reflected with the Sphinx
+ ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of Contents.
-- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition
- and the many language enhancements since they were original written
+- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition and
+ the many language enhancements since they were original written.
- The "path importer" misnomer has been replaced with Eric Snow's
- more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in
- the import system reference docs
+ more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in the
+ import system reference docs.
-- Issue #15640: Document importlib.abc.Finder as deprecated.
+- Issue #15640: Document `importlib.abc.Finder` as deprecated.
-- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
+- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
Daniel Ellis.
Tests
-----
- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
- UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
- tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
+ UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected tests in
+ test_posix.py to account for this.
-- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using
- two external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type
- of test.
+- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using two
+ external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type of test.
-- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in urllib tests. Patch by
+- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in `urllib` tests. Patch by
Jeff Knupp.
-- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
- input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
+- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the `json` module's handling of invalid input
+ data. Patch by Kushal Das.
Build
-----
@@ -277,11 +271,11 @@
- Pick up 32-bit launcher from PGO directory on 64-bit PGO build.
-- Drop PC\python_nt.h as it's not used. Add input dependency on custom
+- Drop ``PC\python_nt.h`` as it's not used. Add input dependency on custom
build step.
-- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal
- amd64 configuration.
+- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal amd64
+ configuration.
- Add missing PGI/PGO configurations for pywlauncher.
@@ -296,15 +290,15 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of "yield from" when StopIteration is
+- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of ``yield from`` when StopIteration is
raised by a custom iterator.
-- Issue #13119: sys.stdout and sys.stderr are now using "\r\n" newline on
+- Issue #13119: `sys.stdout` and `sys.stderr` are now using "\r\n" newline on
Windows, as Python 2.
- Issue #15534: Fix the fast-search function for non-ASCII Unicode strings.
-- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for __import__ to have the proper default
+- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for `__import__()` to have the proper default
value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are not
supported.
@@ -317,17 +311,17 @@
byte code files) equal between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
- Issue #1692335: Move initial exception args assignment to
- "BaseException.__new__" to help pickling of naive subclasses.
+ `BaseException.__new__()` to help pickling of naive subclasses.
-- Issue #12834: Fix PyBuffer_ToContiguous() for non-contiguous arrays.
+- Issue #12834: Fix `PyBuffer_ToContiguous()` for non-contiguous arrays.
-- Issue #15456: Fix code __sizeof__ after #12399 change. Patch by Serhiy
+- Issue #15456: Fix code `__sizeof__()` after #12399 change. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
- Issue #15404: Refleak in PyMethodObject repr.
-- Issue #15394: An issue in PyModule_Create that caused references to be leaked
- on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
+- Issue #15394: An issue in `PyModule_Create()` that caused references to be
+ leaked on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be non-deterministic
has been fixed.
@@ -335,7 +329,7 @@
- Issue #15202: Consistently use the name "follow_symlinks" for new parameters
in os and shutil functions.
-- Issue #15314: __main__.__loader__ is now set correctly during interpreter
+- Issue #15314: ``__main__.__loader__`` is now set correctly during interpreter
startup.
- Issue #15111: When a module imported using 'from import' has an ImportError
@@ -350,57 +344,62 @@
- Issue #15110: Fix the tracebacks generated by "import xxx" to not show the
importlib stack frames.
+- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
+
- Issue #15020: The program name used to search for Python's path is now
"python3" under Unix, not "python".
-- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m swith,
+- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
+ Patch by Felipe Cruz.
+
+- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
-- Issue #15229: An OSError subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
+- Issue #15229: An `OSError` subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes when
calling str() on them.
-- Issue 15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
+- Issue #15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
Mac OS X, like other POSIX builds.
Library
-------
-- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects. Patch by
+- Issue #14590: configparser now correctly strips inline comments when delimiter
+ occurs earlier without preceding space.
+
+- Issue #15424: Add a `__sizeof__()` implementation for array objects. Patch by
Ludwig Hähne.
- Issue #15576: Allow extension modules to act as a package's __init__ module.
-- Issue #15502: Have importlib.invalidate_caches() work on sys.meta_path instead
- of sys.path_importer_cache.
+- Issue #15502: Have `importlib.invalidate_caches()` work on `sys.meta_path`
+ instead of `sys.path_importer_cache`.
- Issue #15163: Pydoc shouldn't list __loader__ as module data.
- Issue #15471: Do not use mutable objects as defaults for
- importlib.__import__().
+ `importlib.__import__()`.
- Issue #15559: To avoid a problematic failure mode when passed to the bytes
- constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement __index__
- (they still implement __int__ as appropriate)
+ constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement `__index__()`
+ (they still implement `__int__()` as appropriate).
- Issue #15546: Fix handling of pathological input data in the peek() and
read1() methods of the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.
-- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
- ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, `os.sched_getaffinity()` and
+ `os.sched_setaffinity()` now use regular sets of integers to represent the
+ CPUs a process is restricted to.
-- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, os.sched_getaffinity and
- os.sched_setaffinity now use regular sets of integers to represent the CPUs a
- process is restricted to.
-
-- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo() emulation
- code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
+- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the `socket.getnameinfo()` /
+ `socket.getaddrinfo()` emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
- Issue #15519: Properly expose WindowsRegistryFinder in importlib (and use the
- correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
+ correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
- Issue #15502: Bring the importlib ABCs into line with the current state of the
- import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
+ import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
- Issue #15499: Launching a webbrowser in Unix used to sleep for a few seconds.
Original patch by Anton Barkovsky.
@@ -408,37 +407,36 @@
- Issue #15463: The faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths.
-- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
+- Issue #6056: Make `multiprocessing` use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
- Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an absolute path.
-- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
+- Issue #15413: `os.times()` had disappeared under Windows.
-- Issue #15413: os.times() had disappeared under Windows.
-
-- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
+- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused `sys.getsizeof()` to
return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed. Initial
patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
- lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilogue.
+- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, `email.Generator` now correctly
+ mangles lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or
+ epilogue.
- Issue #15094: Incorrectly placed #endif in _tkinter.c. Patch by Serhiy
Storchaka.
-- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
+- Issue #13922: `argparse` no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
the first one.
-- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
+- Issue #12353: `argparse` now correctly handles null argument values.
- Issue #10017, issue #14998: Fix TypeError using pprint on dictionaries with
user-defined types as keys or other unorderable keys.
-- Issue #15397: inspect.getmodulename() is now based directly on importlib via a
- new importlib.machinery.all_suffixes() API.
+- Issue #15397: `inspect.getmodulename()` is now based directly on importlib via
+ a new `importlib.machinery.all_suffixes()` API.
-- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
+- Issue #14635: `telnetlib` will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
- Issue #15180: Clarify posixpath.join() error message when mixing str & bytes.
@@ -455,7 +453,7 @@
- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
module will be called in a deterministic order.
-- Issue #15238: shutil.copystat now copies Linux "extended attributes".
+- Issue #15238: `shutil.copystat()` now copies Linux "extended attributes".
- Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described in
the documentation.
@@ -465,42 +463,42 @@
- Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of nested
namespace packages.
-- Issue #15056: imp.cache_from_source() and source_from_cache() raise
- NotImplementedError when sys.implementation.cache_tag is set to None.
+- Issue #15056: `imp.cache_from_source()` and `imp.source_from_cache()` raise
+ NotImplementedError when `sys.implementation.cache_tag` is set to None.
-- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by imp.find_module().
+- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by `imp.find_module()`.
-- Issue #5931: wsgiref environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
+- Issue #5931: `wsgiref` environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
implementation specific term like CPython, Jython instead of generic "Python".
- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter and
BufferedRWPair, from the io module.
-- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of argparse.ArgumentParser.
+- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of `argparse.ArgumentParser`.
- Issue #14814: Implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour for
ipaddress objects.
-- Issue #14814: ipaddress network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
+- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError.
- Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding declaration.
-- Issue #14814: ipaddress now provides more informative error messages when
+- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` now provides more informative error messages when
constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
provisional API status).
-- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor pointing
- to a directory.
+- Issue #15247: `io.FileIO` now raises an error when given a file descriptor
+ pointing to a directory.
- Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.
-- Issue #15166: Implement imp.get_tag() using sys.implementation.cache_tag.
+- Issue #15166: Implement `imp.get_tag()` using `sys.implementation.cache_tag`.
-- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when importlib.__init__ can't find
+- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when `importlib.__init__()` can't find
_frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.
-- Issue #15030: importlib.abc.PyPycLoader now supports the new source size
+- Issue #15030: `importlib.abc.PyPycLoader` now supports the new source size
header field in .pyc files.
- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
@@ -513,7 +511,7 @@
renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
mailbox.
-- Issue 10924: Fixed crypt.mksalt() to use a RNG that is suitable for
+- Issue #10924: Fixed `crypt.mksalt()` to use a RNG that is suitable for
cryptographic purpose.
- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration tailoring for
@@ -524,10 +522,10 @@
C API
-----
-- Issue #15610: PyImport_ImportModuleEx() now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
+- Issue #15610: `PyImport_ImportModuleEx()` now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
-- Issues #15169, #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
- imp.source_from_cache() used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
+- Issue #15169, issue #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
+ `imp.source_from_cache()` used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
used the Python code instead. Leads to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not
try to infer the source path from the bytecode path as
PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does.
@@ -535,14 +533,17 @@
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
- offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
-
-- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
- of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
+- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of
+ type `ctypes.c_uint32` and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
+ ended with ``\``. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
Tools/Demos
-----------
@@ -562,8 +563,10 @@
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch
- by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
+
+- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch by
+ Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.
@@ -578,25 +581,29 @@
"changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
import itself.
-- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
- execfile().
+- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to `exec()` or
+ `execfile()`.
-- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
+- Issue #15250: Document that `filecmp.dircmp()` compares files shallowly. Patch
contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #15442: Expose the default list of directories ignored by
+ `filecmp.dircmp()` as a module attribute, and expand the list to more modern
+ values.
+
Tests
-----
-- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support. Patch by
- Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15467: Move helpers for `__sizeof__()` tests into test_support. Patch
+ by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running tests
in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-- Issue #15168: Move importlib.test to test.test_importlib.
+- Issue #15168: Move `importlib.test` to `test.test_importlib`.
- Issue #15091: Reactivate a test on UNIX which was failing thanks to a
- forgotten importlib.invalidate_caches() call.
+ forgotten `importlib.invalidate_caches()` call.
- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests.
@@ -629,6 +636,8 @@
- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
+- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
+
- Issue #15431: Add _freeze_importlib project to regenerate importlib.h on
Windows. Patch by Kristján Valur Jónsson.
@@ -664,14 +673,9 @@
- Issue #11626: Add _SizeT functions to stable ABI.
-- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
- Issue #15142: Fix reference leak when deallocating instances of types
created using PyType_FromSpec().
-- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
- guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
@@ -699,9 +703,6 @@
Library
-------
-- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
- Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
for tkinter SimpleDialog.
@@ -720,14 +721,8 @@
- Issue #15514: Correct __sizeof__ support for cpu_set.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
- behind.
-
- Issue #15177: Added dir_fd parameter to os.fwalk().
-- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
- of os.listdir().
-
- Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C to prevent further
timing analysis and to support all buffer protocol aware objects as well as
ASCII only str instances safely.
@@ -827,10 +822,6 @@
- Issue #15006: Allow equality comparison between naive and aware
time or datetime objects.
-- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
- non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
- the importlib importers do not define).
-
- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
@@ -898,9 +889,6 @@
- Issue #14969: Better handling of exception chaining in contextlib.ExitStack
-- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
- options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)
@@ -913,6 +901,11 @@
C-API
-----
+- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
+- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
+ guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
- Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.
@@ -921,9 +914,25 @@
- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
+ Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
+ options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
+ of os.listdir().
+
+- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
+ non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
+ the importlib importers do not define).
+
- Issue #15081: Document PyState_FindModule.
Patch by Robin Schreiber.
@@ -932,6 +941,9 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
+ behind.
+
- Issue #14769: test_capi now has SkipitemTest, which cleverly checks
for "parity" between PyArg_ParseTuple() and the Python/getargs.c static
function skipitem() for all possible "format units".
@@ -1020,34 +1032,18 @@
- Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
in old-style string formatting.
-- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
- unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument. It converts any Python
- value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
-
Library
-------
- Issue #14690: Use monotonic clock instead of system clock in the sched,
subprocess and trace modules.
-- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
- byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
-
-- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
-
- Issue #14443: Tell rpmbuild to use the correct version of Python in
bdist_rpm. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-- Issue #14929: Stop Idle 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
- grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #12515: email now registers a defect if it gets to EOF while parsing
a MIME part without seeing the closing MIME boundary.
-- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
- Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
- has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #1672568: email now always decodes base64 payloads, adding padding and
ignoring non-base64-alphabet characters if needed, and registering defects
for any such problems.
@@ -1081,9 +1077,6 @@
- Issue #14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before
running to cope with possibility of gc running just after fork.
-- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
- fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
-
- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
not go in illegal range and returns None.
@@ -1210,6 +1203,21 @@
- Issue #14127 and #10148: shutil.copystat now preserves exact mtime and atime
on filesystems providing nanosecond resolution.
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
+ byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
+
+- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
+
+- Issue #14929: Stop IDLE 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
+ grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
+ Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
+ has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
+
Tools/Demos
-----------
@@ -1228,9 +1236,19 @@
- Issue #13210: Windows build now uses VS2010, ported from VS2008.
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
+ unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument. It converts any Python
+ value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
+
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
+ fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
+
- Issue #14588: The language reference now accurately documents the Python 3
class definition process. Patch by Nick Coghlan.
@@ -1279,9 +1297,6 @@
- Issue #14339: Speed improvements to bin, oct and hex functions. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
- Patch by Stefan Behnel.
-
- Issue #14385: It is now possible to use a custom type for the __builtins__
namespace, instead of a dict. It can be used for sandboxing for example.
Raise also a NameError instead of ImportError if __build_class__ name if not
@@ -1431,12 +1446,6 @@
- Don't Py_DECREF NULL variable in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder.
-- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
- Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
-
-- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
- Patch by Popa Claudiu.
-
- Issue #3033: Add displayof parameter to tkinter font. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
- Issue #14482: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
@@ -1472,6 +1481,15 @@
- Issue #14355: Regrtest now supports the standard unittest test loading, and
will use it if a test file contains no `test_main` method.
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
+ Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
+
+- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
+ Patch by Popa Claudiu.
+
Tools / Demos
-------------
@@ -1481,6 +1499,12 @@
- Issue #13165: stringbench is now available in the Tools/stringbench folder.
It used to live in its own SVN project.
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
+ Patch by Stefan Behnel.
+
What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 2?
===================================
@@ -1532,16 +1556,9 @@
- Issue #5136: deprecate old, unused functions from tkinter.
-- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
- when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
- has to use the built-in default key bindings.
- There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
-
- Issue #14416: syslog now defines the LOG_ODELAY and LOG_AUTHPRIV constants
if they are defined in <syslog.h>.
-- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
-
- Issue #14295: Add unittest.mock
- Issue #7652: Add --with-system-libmpdec option to configure for linking
@@ -1567,9 +1584,6 @@
up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
between 10x and 100x, depending on the application.
-- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
- (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
-
- Issue #14269: SMTPD now conforms to the RFC and requires a HELO command
before MAIL, RCPT, or DATA.
@@ -1601,8 +1615,6 @@
denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
modifications by the expat project.
-- Issue #14200: Idle shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
-
- Issue #12818: format address no longer needlessly \ escapes ()s in names when
the name ends up being quoted.
@@ -1618,8 +1630,6 @@
- Issue #989712: Support using Tk without a mainloop.
-- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
-
- Issue #3835: Refuse to use unthreaded Tcl in threaded Python.
- Issue #2843: Add new Tk API to Tkinter.
@@ -1848,10 +1858,6 @@
on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings. Patch by
Charles-François Natali.
-- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
- different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
- size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
-
- PEP 3155 / issue #13448: Qualified name for classes and functions.
- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
@@ -1942,10 +1948,6 @@
- PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.
-- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
- and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
- the current locale encoding.
-
- Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).
- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
@@ -2028,7 +2030,7 @@
deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
-- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
+- Issue #9611, Issue #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
- Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
a new HAVE_MBCS define.
@@ -2191,17 +2193,11 @@
PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
NULL).
-- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
-
- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
-- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
- UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
- Patch written by Ray Allen.
-
- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
@@ -2211,9 +2207,6 @@
- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith now accept None as slice index.
Patch by Torsten Becker.
-- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
- narrow build.
-
- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
@@ -2255,15 +2248,9 @@
are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than
O(n).
-- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
- Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
-
- Issue #11841: Fix comparison bug with 'rc' versions in packaging.version.
Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
-- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
- scripts found in the Tools directory.
-
- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
on Windows. Also fixed in packaging.
@@ -2319,9 +2306,6 @@
authenticating (since the result may change, according to RFC 4643).
Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
- more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
-
- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
@@ -2338,10 +2322,6 @@
- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments when
strict=False.
-- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
- which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
- backwards compatibility.
-
- When '' is a path (e.g. in sys.path), make sure __file__ uses the current
working directory instead of '' in importlib.
@@ -2363,11 +2343,6 @@
- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
raise a ProgrammingError now.
-- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
-
-- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
- Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #13734: Add os.fwalk(), a directory walking function yielding file
descriptors.
@@ -2377,16 +2352,8 @@
- Issue #11805: package_data in setup.cfg should allow more than one value.
-- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
- module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
-- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
-
- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
-- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
- Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #8828: Add new function os.replace(), for cross-platform renaming
with overwriting.
@@ -2407,12 +2374,6 @@
OSError if localtime() failed. time.clock() now raises a RuntimeError if the
processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented
-- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
- minor versions not matching.
-
-- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
- on a system without internet access.
-
- Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
target's type (file or directory). The detection was buggy and made the
call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
@@ -2439,9 +2400,6 @@
- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
-- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
- tests.
-
- Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
the executor had been shut down.
@@ -2524,10 +2482,6 @@
- Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
to load a module twice.
-- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
- display a message popup and continue rather than crash. Original patch by
- Roger Serwy.
-
- Issue #13449 sched.scheduler.run() method has a new "blocking" parameter which
when set to False makes run() execute the scheduled events due to expire
soonest (if any) and then return. Patch by Giampaolo Rodolà.
@@ -2544,12 +2498,9 @@
'importlib.abc.PyPycLoader', 'nntplib.NNTP.xgtitle', 'nntplib.NNTP.xpath',
and private attributes of 'smtpd.SMTPChannel'.
-- Issue #5905, #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
+- Issue #5905, Issue #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
encoding, instead of UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.
-- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
- Patch by Tal Einat.
-
- Issue #13464: Add a readinto() method to http.client.HTTPResponse. Patch
by Jon Kuhn.
@@ -2661,9 +2612,6 @@
- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
- (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
- Fix the xmlrpc.client user agent to return something similar to
urllib.request user agent: "Python-xmlrpc/3.3".
@@ -2766,10 +2714,6 @@
- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
extension could be unreported.
-- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
- with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
- (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
-
- Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
@@ -2798,8 +2742,6 @@
- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
-- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
-
- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
@@ -2869,9 +2811,6 @@
- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
-- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
- in os.kill().
-
- Issue #13121: add support for inplace math operators to collections.Counter.
- Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter.
@@ -2903,7 +2842,7 @@
Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
classes (_Event, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible
- to inherit from these classes without having to import the private
+ to inherit from these classes, without having to import the private
underscored names like multiprocessing did.
- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
@@ -2917,14 +2856,8 @@
- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
-- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
- when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
-
- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
- Connection:close header.
-
-- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
- with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
+ ``Connection: close`` header.
- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
@@ -3179,7 +3112,7 @@
- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
if the file is closed.
-- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixIn
+- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Warkentin.
- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
@@ -3224,9 +3157,6 @@
passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
Patch by Kasun Herath.
-- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
- with Tk 8.5.
-
- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
is set in shell.
@@ -3246,10 +3176,6 @@
- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
Patch by John O'Connor.
-- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
- With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
- IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
-
- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
by Yuval Greenfield.
@@ -3486,12 +3412,12 @@
- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
-- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
- Patch by Ben Hayden.
-
- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
concurrent.futures.
+- Issue #5845: Automatically read readline configuration to enable completion
+ in interactive mode.
+
- Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
object originally came from.
@@ -3526,7 +3452,7 @@
- Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.
-- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
+- Issue #11563: ``Connection: close`` header is sent by requests using URLOpener
class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
@@ -3541,8 +3467,6 @@
- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
setup and teardown.
-- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
-
- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
@@ -3575,9 +3499,6 @@
- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
-- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
- Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
-
- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
@@ -3700,11 +3621,6 @@
- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
-- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
-
-- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
- their children.
-
- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
@@ -3757,10 +3673,61 @@
- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
-
IDLE
----
+- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
+ when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
+ has to use the built-in default key bindings.
+ There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
+
+- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
+
+- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
+ (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
+
+- Issue #14200: IDLE shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
+
+- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
+
+- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
+ Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
+ module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
+
+- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
+ Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
+ display a message popup and continue rather than crash. Original patch by
+ Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
+ Patch by Tal Einat.
+
+- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
+ (Patch by Roger Serwy)
+
+- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
+ with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
+ (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
+
+- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
+
+- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
+ in os.kill().
+
+- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
+ when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
+
+- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
+ with Tk 8.5.
+
+- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
+ With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
+ IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
+
- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
file in a package.
@@ -3790,6 +3757,10 @@
Extension Modules
-----------------
+- Issue #16847: Fixed improper use of _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency() in
+ non-pydebug builds. Several extension modules now compile cleanly when
+ assert()s are enabled in standard builds (-DDEBUG flag).
+
- Issue #13840: The error message produced by ctypes.create_string_buffer
when given a Unicode string has been fixed.
@@ -3852,6 +3823,33 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
+ Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
+
+- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
+ scripts found in the Tools directory.
+
+- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
+
+- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
+
+- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
+ minor versions not matching.
+
+- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
+ on a system without internet access.
+
+- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
+ tests.
+
+- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
+ Patch by Ben Hayden.
+
+- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
+
+- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
+ Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
+
- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test
- Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.
@@ -4030,7 +4028,7 @@
- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
Arlen
-- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
+- Issue #11490: test_subprocess.test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
@@ -4054,6 +4052,23 @@
C-API
-----
+- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
+ different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
+ size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
+
+- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
+ and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
+ the current locale encoding.
+
+- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
+
+- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
+ UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
+ Patch written by Ray Allen.
+
+- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
+ narrow build.
+
- Add PyObject_GenericGetDict and PyObject_GeneriSetDict. They are generic
implementations for the getter and setter of a ``__dict__`` descriptor of C
types.
@@ -4079,6 +4094,24 @@
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
+ more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
+
+- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
+ which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
+ backwards compatibility.
+
+- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
+ with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
+
+- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
+
+- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
+ their children.
+
+- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument. Done with
+ great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.
+
- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
@@ -9652,7 +9685,7 @@
- Issue #1210: Fixed imaplib and its documentation.
-- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
+- 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``.
@@ -9796,13 +9829,13 @@
cyclic garbage collection.
- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
- PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
+ PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
- Issue #3611: An exception __context__ could be cleared in a complex pattern
involving a __del__ method re-raising an exception.
-- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
+- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
@@ -9880,7 +9913,7 @@
- The deprecation warnings for the camelCase threading API names were removed.
-- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
+- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
SEM_VALUE_MAX.
Extension Modules
@@ -21593,7 +21626,7 @@
- Improved BeOS support.
-- Support dynamic loading of shared libraries on NetBSD platforms that
+- Support dynamic loading of shared libraries on NetBSD platforms that
use ELF (i.e., MIPS and Alpha systems).
Configuration/build changes
@@ -21810,7 +21843,7 @@
higher-level classes in code.py.
- turtle.py is a new module for simple turtle graphics. I'm still
-working on it; let me know if you use this to teach Python to children
+working on it; let me know if you use this to teach Python to children
or other novices without prior programming experience.
Obsoleted library modules
@@ -21942,7 +21975,7 @@
Changes to tools
----------------
-- New, improved version of Barry Warsaw's Misc/python-mode.el (editing
+- New, improved version of Barry Warsaw's Misc/python-mode.el (editing
support for Emacs).
- tabnanny.py: added a -q ('quiet') option to tabnanny, which causes
@@ -22217,7 +22250,7 @@
-----------------
- Install zlib.dll in the DLLs directory instead of in the win32
-system directory, to avoid conflicts with other applications that have
+system directory, to avoid conflicts with other applications that have
their own zlib.dll.
Test Suite
@@ -22297,7 +22330,7 @@
so that a symlink to a symlink can work.
- Added a hack so that when you type 'quit' or 'exit' at the
-interpreter, you get a friendly explanation of how to press Ctrl-D (or
+interpreter, you get a friendly explanation of how to press Ctrl-D (or
Ctrl-Z) to exit.
- New and improved Misc/python-mode.el (Python mode for Emacs).
@@ -22470,13 +22503,13 @@
range. Also, randint(a, b) is now redefined as randrange(a, b+1),
adding extra range and type checking to its arguments!
-- Add some semi-thread-safety to random.gauss() (it used to be able to
+- Add some semi-thread-safety to random.gauss() (it used to be able to
crash when invoked from separate threads; now the worst it can do is
give a duplicate result occasionally).
- Some restructuring and generalization done to cmd.py.
-- Major upgrade to ConfigParser.py; converted to using 're', added new
+- Major upgrade to ConfigParser.py; converted to using 're', added new
exceptions, support underscore in section header and option name. No
longer add 'name' option to every section; instead, add '__name__'.
@@ -22673,7 +22706,7 @@
-----------------
- The registry key used is now "1.5" instead of "1.5.x" -- so future
-versions of 1.5 and Mark Hammond's win32all installer don't need to be
+versions of 1.5 and Mark Hammond's win32all installer don't need to be
resynchronized.
Windows Tools
@@ -22740,7 +22773,7 @@
dynamically add one or many entries to the table of built-in modules.
- New macro Py_InitModule3(name, methods, doc) which calls
-Py_InitModule4() with appropriate arguments. (The -4 variant requires
+Py_InitModule4() with appropriate arguments. (The -4 variant requires
you to pass an obscure version number constant which is always the same.)
- New APIs PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() to write to
@@ -22812,7 +22845,7 @@
Syntax change
-------------
-- The raise statement can now be used without arguments, to re-raise
+- The raise statement can now be used without arguments, to re-raise
a previously set exception. This should be used after catching an
exception with an except clause only, either in the except clause or
later in the same function.
@@ -22871,7 +22904,7 @@
Demo/tkinter/guido/paint.py -- Dave Mitchell
Demo/sockets/unixserver.py -- Piet van Oostrum
-
+
- Much better freeze support. The freeze script can now freeze
hierarchical module names (with a corresponding change to import.c),
@@ -23010,7 +23043,7 @@
- New command supported by the ftplib module: rmd(); also fixed some
minor bugs.
-- The profile module now uses a different timer function by default --
+- The profile module now uses a different timer function by default --
time.clock() is generally better than os.times(). This makes it work
better on Windows NT, too.
@@ -23049,14 +23082,14 @@
- In the multifile module, support the optional second parameter to
seek() when possible.
-- Several fixes to the gopherlib module by Lars Marius Garshol. Also,
+- Several fixes to the gopherlib module by Lars Marius Garshol. Also,
urlparse now correctly handles Gopher URLs with query strings.
- Fixed a tiny bug in format_exception() in the traceback module.
Also rewrite tb_lineno() to be compatible with JPython (and not
disturb the current exception!); by Jim Hugunin.
-- The httplib module is more robust when servers send a short response
+- The httplib module is more robust when servers send a short response
-- courtesy Tim O'Malley.
Tkinter and friends
@@ -23071,7 +23104,7 @@
no longer use the default root.
- The interfaces for the bind*() and unbind() widget methods have been
-redesigned; the bind*() methods now return the name of the Tcl command
+redesigned; the bind*() methods now return the name of the Tcl command
created for the callback, and this can be passed as a optional
argument to unbind() in order to delete the command (normally, such
commands are automatically unbound when the widget is destroyed, but
@@ -23107,7 +23140,7 @@
dictionary to allow recursive container types to detect recursion in
their repr(), str() and print implementations.
-- New function PyObject_Not(x) calculates (not x) according to Python's
+- New function PyObject_Not(x) calculates (not x) according to Python's
standard rules (basically, it negates the outcome PyObject_IsTrue(x).
- New function _PyModule_Clear(), which clears a module's dictionary
@@ -23268,7 +23301,7 @@
instances with copy.py. The cPickle.c changes and some pickle.py
changes are courtesy Jim Fulton.
-- Locale support in he "re" (Perl regular expressions) module. Use
+- Locale support in he "re" (Perl regular expressions) module. Use
the flag re.L (or re.LOCALE) to enable locale-specific matching
rules for \w and \b. The in-line syntax for this flag is (?L).
@@ -23334,7 +23367,7 @@
- Some improvements to the _tkinter build line suggested by Case Roole.
-- A full suite of platform specific files for NetBSD 1.x, submitted by
+- A full suite of platform specific files for NetBSD 1.x, submitted by
Anders Andersen.
- New Solaris specific header STROPTS.py.
@@ -23404,7 +23437,7 @@
if there are lots of duplicates, and otherwise at least as good.
- Added "uue" as an alias for "uuencode" to mimetools.py. (Hm, the
-uudecode bug where it complaints about trailing garbage is still there
+uudecode bug where it complaints about trailing garbage is still there
:-( ).
- pickle.py requires integers in text mode to be in decimal notation
@@ -24180,7 +24213,7 @@
The Python/C API for frames is changed (you shouldn't be using this
anyway).
-- Significant speedup by inlining some common opcodes for common operand
+- Significant speedup by inlining some common opcodes for common operand
types (e.g. i+i, i-i, and list[i]). Fredrik Lundh.
- Small speedup by reordering the method tables of some common
@@ -24206,34 +24239,34 @@
printing the documentation now kills fewer trees -- the margins have
been reduced.
-- I have started documenting the Python/C API. Unfortunately this project
-hasn't been completed yet. It will be complete before the final release of
-Python 1.5, though. At the moment, it's better to read the LaTeX source
+- I have started documenting the Python/C API. Unfortunately this project
+hasn't been completed yet. It will be complete before the final release of
+Python 1.5, though. At the moment, it's better to read the LaTeX source
than to attempt to run it through LaTeX and print the resulting dvi file.
-- The posix module (and hence os.py) now has doc strings! Thanks to Neil
-Schemenauer. I received a few other contributions of doc strings. In most
+- The posix module (and hence os.py) now has doc strings! Thanks to Neil
+Schemenauer. I received a few other contributions of doc strings. In most
other places, doc strings are still wishful thinking...
Language changes
----------------
-- Private variables with leading double underscore are now a permanent
-feature of the language. (These were experimental in release 1.4. I have
-favorable experience using them; I can't label them "experimental"
+- Private variables with leading double underscore are now a permanent
+feature of the language. (These were experimental in release 1.4. I have
+favorable experience using them; I can't label them "experimental"
forever.)
-- There's new string literal syntax for "raw strings". Prefixing a string
-literal with the letter r (or R) disables all escape processing in the
-string; for example, r'\n' is a two-character string consisting of a
-backslash followed by the letter n. This combines with all forms of string
-quotes; it is actually useful for triple quoted doc strings which might
-contain references to \n or \t. An embedded quote prefixed with a
-backslash does not terminate the string, but the backslash is still
-included in the string; for example, r'\'' is a two-character string
-consisting of a backslash and a quote. (Raw strings are also
-affectionately known as Robin strings, after their inventor, Robin
+- There's new string literal syntax for "raw strings". Prefixing a string
+literal with the letter r (or R) disables all escape processing in the
+string; for example, r'\n' is a two-character string consisting of a
+backslash followed by the letter n. This combines with all forms of string
+quotes; it is actually useful for triple quoted doc strings which might
+contain references to \n or \t. An embedded quote prefixed with a
+backslash does not terminate the string, but the backslash is still
+included in the string; for example, r'\'' is a two-character string
+consisting of a backslash and a quote. (Raw strings are also
+affectionately known as Robin strings, after their inventor, Robin
Friedrich.)
- There's a simple assert statement, and a new exception
@@ -24262,10 +24295,10 @@
- The obsolete exception ConflictError (presumably used by the long
obsolete access statement) has been deleted.
-- There's a new function sys.exc_info() which returns the tuple
+- There's a new function sys.exc_info() which returns the tuple
(sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value, sys.exc_traceback) in a thread-safe way.
-- There's a new variable sys.executable, pointing to the executable file
+- There's a new variable sys.executable, pointing to the executable file
for the Python interpreter.
- The sort() methods for lists no longer uses the C library qsort(); I
@@ -24291,11 +24324,11 @@
returning from a function that caught an exception.
- There's a new "buffer" interface. Certain objects (e.g. strings and
-arrays) now support the "buffer" protocol. Buffer objects are acceptable
-whenever formerly a string was required for a write operation; mutable
+arrays) now support the "buffer" protocol. Buffer objects are acceptable
+whenever formerly a string was required for a write operation; mutable
buffer objects can be the target of a read operation using the call
-f.readinto(buffer). A cool feature is that regular expression matching now
-also work on array objects. Contribution by Jack Jansen. (Needs
+f.readinto(buffer). A cool feature is that regular expression matching now
+also work on array objects. Contribution by Jack Jansen. (Needs
documentation.)
- String interning: dictionary lookups are faster when the lookup
@@ -24587,7 +24620,7 @@
of message sequence specifiers without invoking a subprocess. Also
added a createmessage() method by Lars Wirzenius.
-- The StringIO.StringIO class now supports readline(nbytes). (Lars
+- The StringIO.StringIO class now supports readline(nbytes). (Lars
Wirzenius.) (Of course, you should be using cStringIO for performance.)
- UserDict.py supports the new dictionary methods as well.
@@ -24635,8 +24668,8 @@
- Various small fixes to the nntplib.py module that I can't bother to
document in detail.
-- Sjoerd Mullender's mimify.py module now supports base64 encoding and
-includes functions to handle the funny encoding you sometimes see in mail
+- Sjoerd Mullender's mimify.py module now supports base64 encoding and
+includes functions to handle the funny encoding you sometimes see in mail
headers. It is now documented.
- mailbox.py: Added BabylMailbox. Improved the way the mailbox is
@@ -24987,23 +25020,23 @@
NT (the old VC++ 4.2 Makefile is also still supported, but will
eventually be withdrawn due to its bulkiness).
-- See the note on the new module search path in the "Miscellaneous" section
+- See the note on the new module search path in the "Miscellaneous" section
above.
- Support for Win32s (the 32-bit Windows API under Windows 3.1) is
basically withdrawn. If it still works for you, you're lucky.
-- There's a new extension module, msvcrt.c, which provides various
-low-level operations defined in the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library.
-These include locking(), setmode(), get_osfhandle(), set_osfhandle(), and
+- There's a new extension module, msvcrt.c, which provides various
+low-level operations defined in the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library.
+These include locking(), setmode(), get_osfhandle(), set_osfhandle(), and
console I/O functions like kbhit(), getch() and putch().
- The -u option not only sets the standard I/O streams to unbuffered
status, but also sets them in binary mode. (This can also be done
using msvcrt.setmode(), by the way.)
-- The, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix variables point to the directory
-where Python is installed, or to the top of the source tree, if it was run
+- The, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix variables point to the directory
+where Python is installed, or to the top of the source tree, if it was run
from there.
- The various os.path modules (posixpath, ntpath, macpath) now support
@@ -25011,7 +25044,7 @@
os.path.join(a, b, c) is the same as os.path.join(a, os.path.join(b,
c)).
-- The ntpath module (normally used as os.path) supports ~ to $HOME
+- The ntpath module (normally used as os.path) supports ~ to $HOME
expansion in expanduser().
- The freeze tool now works on Windows.
@@ -25309,47 +25342,47 @@
- New module whichdb recognizes dbm, gdbm and bsddb/dbhash files.
-- The Doc/Makefile targets have been reorganized somewhat to remove the
+- The Doc/Makefile targets have been reorganized somewhat to remove the
insistence on always generating PostScript.
- The texinfo to html filter (Doc/texi2html.py) has been improved somewhat.
-- "errors.h" has been renamed to "pyerrors.h" to resolve a long-standing
+- "errors.h" has been renamed to "pyerrors.h" to resolve a long-standing
name conflict on the Mac.
-- Linking a module compiled with a different setting for Py_TRACE_REFS now
+- Linking a module compiled with a different setting for Py_TRACE_REFS now
generates a linker error rather than a core dump.
-- The cgi module has a new convenience function print_exception(), which
-formats a python exception using HTML. It also fixes a bug in the
-compatibility code and adds a dubious feature which makes it possible to
+- The cgi module has a new convenience function print_exception(), which
+formats a python exception using HTML. It also fixes a bug in the
+compatibility code and adds a dubious feature which makes it possible to
have two query strings, one in the URL and one in the POST data.
-- A subtle change in the unpickling of class instances makes it possible
-to unpickle in restricted execution mode, where the __dict__ attribute is
+- A subtle change in the unpickling of class instances makes it possible
+to unpickle in restricted execution mode, where the __dict__ attribute is
not available (but setattr() is).
-- Documentation for os.path.splitext() (== posixpath.splitext()) has been
+- Documentation for os.path.splitext() (== posixpath.splitext()) has been
cleared up. It splits at the *last* dot.
- posixfile locking is now also correctly supported on AIX.
-- The tempfile module once again honors an initial setting of tmpdir. It
+- The tempfile module once again honors an initial setting of tmpdir. It
now works on Windows, too.
-- The traceback module has some new functions to extract, format and print
+- The traceback module has some new functions to extract, format and print
the active stack.
-- Some translation functions in the urllib module have been made a little
+- Some translation functions in the urllib module have been made a little
less sluggish.
-- The addtag_* methods for Canvas widgets in Tkinter as well as in the
-separate Canvas class have been fixed so they actually do something
+- The addtag_* methods for Canvas widgets in Tkinter as well as in the
+separate Canvas class have been fixed so they actually do something
meaningful.
- A tiny _test() function has been added to Tkinter.py.
-- A generic Makefile for dynamically loaded modules is provided in the Misc
+- A generic Makefile for dynamically loaded modules is provided in the Misc
subdirectory (Misc/gMakefile).
- A new version of python-mode.el for Emacs is provided. See
@@ -25357,25 +25390,25 @@
separate file pyimenu.el is no longer needed, imenu support is folded
into python-mode.el.
-- The configure script can finally correctly find the readline library in a
-non-standard location. The LDFLAGS variable is passed on the Makefiles
+- The configure script can finally correctly find the readline library in a
+non-standard location. The LDFLAGS variable is passed on the Makefiles
from the configure script.
-- Shared libraries are now installed as programs (i.e. with executable
+- Shared libraries are now installed as programs (i.e. with executable
permission). This is required on HP-UX and won't hurt on other systems.
-- The objc.c module is no longer part of the distribution. Objective-C
+- The objc.c module is no longer part of the distribution. Objective-C
support may become available as contributed software on the ftp site.
- The sybase module is no longer part of the distribution. A much
improved sybase module is available as contributed software from the
ftp site.
-- _tkinter is now compatible with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 patch1 on Windows and
-Mac (don't use unpatched Tcl/Tk!). The default line in the Setup.in file
+- _tkinter is now compatible with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 patch1 on Windows and
+Mac (don't use unpatched Tcl/Tk!). The default line in the Setup.in file
now links with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 rather than 7.4/4.0.
-- In Setup, you can now write "*shared*" instead of "*noconfig*", and you
+- In Setup, you can now write "*shared*" instead of "*noconfig*", and you
can use *.so and *.sl as shared libraries.
- Some more fidgeting for AIX shared libraries.
@@ -25384,81 +25417,81 @@
(Note -- a complete replacement by Niels Mo"ller, called gpmodule, is
available from the contrib directory on the ftp site.)
-- A warning is written to sys.stderr when a __del__ method raises an
+- A warning is written to sys.stderr when a __del__ method raises an
exception (formerly, such exceptions were completely ignored).
-- The configure script now defines HAVE_OLD_CPP if the C preprocessor is
+- The configure script now defines HAVE_OLD_CPP if the C preprocessor is
incapable of ANSI style token concatenation and stringification.
-- All source files (except a few platform specific modules) are once again
+- All source files (except a few platform specific modules) are once again
compatible with K&R C compilers as well as ANSI compilers. In particular,
-ANSI-isms have been removed or made conditional in complexobject.c,
+ANSI-isms have been removed or made conditional in complexobject.c,
getargs.c and operator.c.
-- The abstract object API has three new functions, PyObject_DelItem,
+- The abstract object API has three new functions, PyObject_DelItem,
PySequence_DelItem, and PySequence_DelSlice.
-- The operator module has new functions delitem and delslice, and the
-functions "or" and "and" are renamed to "or_" and "and_" (since "or" and
+- The operator module has new functions delitem and delslice, and the
+functions "or" and "and" are renamed to "or_" and "and_" (since "or" and
"and" are reserved words). ("__or__" and "__and__" are unchanged.)
-- The environment module is no longer supported; putenv() is now a function
+- The environment module is no longer supported; putenv() is now a function
in posixmodule (also under NT).
- Error in filter(<function>, "") has been fixed.
- Unrecognized keyword arguments raise TypeError, not KeyError.
-- Better portability, fewer bugs and memory leaks, fewer compiler warnings,
+- Better portability, fewer bugs and memory leaks, fewer compiler warnings,
some more documentation.
-- Bug in float power boundary case (0.0 to the negative integer power)
+- Bug in float power boundary case (0.0 to the negative integer power)
fixed.
-- The test of negative number to the float power has been moved from the
-built-in pow() functin to floatobject.c (so complex numbers can yield the
+- The test of negative number to the float power has been moved from the
+built-in pow() functin to floatobject.c (so complex numbers can yield the
correct result).
-- The bug introduced in beta2 where shared libraries loaded (using
+- The bug introduced in beta2 where shared libraries loaded (using
dlopen()) from the current directory would fail, has been fixed.
-- Modules imported as shared libraries now also have a __file__ attribute,
-giving the filename from which they were loaded. The only modules without
+- Modules imported as shared libraries now also have a __file__ attribute,
+giving the filename from which they were loaded. The only modules without
a __file__ attribute now are built-in modules.
-- On the Mac, dynamically loaded modules can end in either ".slb" or
-".<platform>.slb" where <platform> is either "CFM68K" or "ppc". The ".slb"
+- On the Mac, dynamically loaded modules can end in either ".slb" or
+".<platform>.slb" where <platform> is either "CFM68K" or "ppc". The ".slb"
extension should only be used for "fat" binaries.
-- C API addition: marshal.c now supports
+- C API addition: marshal.c now supports
PyMarshal_WriteObjectToString(object).
- C API addition: getargs.c now supports
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwdict, format, kwnames, ...)
to parse keyword arguments.
-- The PC versioning scheme (sys.winver) has changed once again. the
-version number is now "<digit>.<digit>.<digit>.<apiversion>", where the
-first three <digit>s are the Python version (e.g. "1.4.0" for Python 1.4,
-"1.4.1" for Python 1.4.1 -- the beta level is not included) and
+- The PC versioning scheme (sys.winver) has changed once again. the
+version number is now "<digit>.<digit>.<digit>.<apiversion>", where the
+first three <digit>s are the Python version (e.g. "1.4.0" for Python 1.4,
+"1.4.1" for Python 1.4.1 -- the beta level is not included) and
<apiversion> is the four-digit PYTHON_API_VERSION (currently 1005).
- h2py.py accepts whitespace before the # in CPP directives
-- On Solaris 2.5, it should now be possible to use either Posix threads or
-Solaris threads (XXX: how do you select which is used???). (Note: the
-Python pthreads interface doesn't fully support semaphores yet -- anyone
+- On Solaris 2.5, it should now be possible to use either Posix threads or
+Solaris threads (XXX: how do you select which is used???). (Note: the
+Python pthreads interface doesn't fully support semaphores yet -- anyone
care to fix this?)
-- Thread support should now work on AIX, using either DCE threads or
+- Thread support should now work on AIX, using either DCE threads or
pthreads.
- New file Demo/sockets/unicast.py
-- Working Mac port, with CFM68K support, with Tk 4.1 support (though not
+- Working Mac port, with CFM68K support, with Tk 4.1 support (though not
both) (XXX)
-- New project setup for PC port, now compatible with PythonWin, with
+- New project setup for PC port, now compatible with PythonWin, with
_tkinter and NumPy support (XXX)
- New module site.py (XXX)
@@ -25475,7 +25508,7 @@
- string.atoi c.s. now raise an exception for an empty input string.
-- At last, it is no longer necessary to define HAVE_CONFIG_H in order to
+- At last, it is no longer necessary to define HAVE_CONFIG_H in order to
have config.h included at various places.
- Unrecognized keyword arguments now raise TypeError rather than KeyError.
@@ -25483,25 +25516,25 @@
- The makesetup script recognizes files with extension .so or .sl as
(shared) libraries.
-- 'access' is no longer a reserved word, and all code related to its
-implementation is gone (or at least #ifdef'ed out). This should make
+- 'access' is no longer a reserved word, and all code related to its
+implementation is gone (or at least #ifdef'ed out). This should make
Python a little speedier too!
-- Performance enhancements suggested by Sjoerd Mullender. This includes
-the introduction of two new optional function pointers in type object,
-getattro and setattro, which are like getattr and setattr but take a
+- Performance enhancements suggested by Sjoerd Mullender. This includes
+the introduction of two new optional function pointers in type object,
+getattro and setattro, which are like getattr and setattr but take a
string object instead of a C string pointer.
-- New operations in string module: lstrip(s) and rstrip(s) strip whitespace
-only on the left or only on the right, A new optional third argument to
-split() specifies the maximum number of separators honored (so
-splitfields(s, sep, n) returns a list of at most n+1 elements). (Since
+- New operations in string module: lstrip(s) and rstrip(s) strip whitespace
+only on the left or only on the right, A new optional third argument to
+split() specifies the maximum number of separators honored (so
+splitfields(s, sep, n) returns a list of at most n+1 elements). (Since
1.3, splitfields(s, None) is totally equivalent to split(s).)
-string.capwords() has an optional second argument specifying the
+string.capwords() has an optional second argument specifying the
separator (which is passed to split()).
-- regsub.split() has the same addition as string.split(). regsub.splitx(s,
-sep, maxsep) implements the functionality that was regsub.split(s, 1) in
+- regsub.split() has the same addition as string.split(). regsub.splitx(s,
+sep, maxsep) implements the functionality that was regsub.split(s, 1) in
1.4beta2 (return a list containing the delimiters as well as the words).
- Final touch for AIX loading, rewritten Misc/AIX-NOTES.
@@ -25545,11 +25578,11 @@
meaningful value (a few things were botched in beta 1). Lib/dos_8x3
is now a standard part of the distribution (alas).
-- More improvements to the installation procedure. Typing "make install"
-now inserts the version number in the pathnames of almost everything
-installed, and creates the machine dependent modules (FCNTL.py etc.) if not
-supplied by the distribution. (XXX There's still a problem with the latter
-because the "regen" script requires that Python is installed. Some manual
+- More improvements to the installation procedure. Typing "make install"
+now inserts the version number in the pathnames of almost everything
+installed, and creates the machine dependent modules (FCNTL.py etc.) if not
+supplied by the distribution. (XXX There's still a problem with the latter
+because the "regen" script requires that Python is installed. Some manual
intervention may still be required.) (This has been fixed in 1.4beta3.)
- New modules: errno, operator (XXX).
@@ -25612,8 +25645,8 @@
- Added sys.platform and sys.exec_platform for Bill Janssen.
-- Installation has been completely overhauled. "make install" now installs
-everything, not just the python binary. Installation uses the install-sh
+- Installation has been completely overhauled. "make install" now installs
+everything, not just the python binary. Installation uses the install-sh
script (borrowed from X11) to install each file.
- New functions in the posix module: mkfifo, plock, remove (== unlink),
@@ -25623,59 +25656,59 @@
- Shared library support for FreeBSD.
-- The --with-readline option can now be used without a DIRECTORY argument,
-for systems where libreadline.* is in one of the standard places. It is
+- The --with-readline option can now be used without a DIRECTORY argument,
+for systems where libreadline.* is in one of the standard places. It is
also possible for it to be a shared library.
-- The extension tkinter has been renamed to _tkinter, to avoid confusion
-with Tkinter.py oncase insensitive file systems. It now supports Tk 4.1 as
+- The extension tkinter has been renamed to _tkinter, to avoid confusion
+with Tkinter.py oncase insensitive file systems. It now supports Tk 4.1 as
well as 4.0.
-- Author's change of address from CWI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to
+- Author's change of address from CWI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to
CNRI in Reston, VA, USA.
-- The math.hypot() function is now always available (if it isn't found in
+- The math.hypot() function is now always available (if it isn't found in
the C math library, Python provides its own implementation).
-- The latex documentation is now compatible with latex2e, thanks to David
+- The latex documentation is now compatible with latex2e, thanks to David
Ascher.
- The expression x**y is now equivalent to pow(x, y).
- The indexing expression x[a, b, c] is now equivalent to x[(a, b, c)].
-- Complex numbers are now supported. Imaginary constants are written with
-a 'j' or 'J' prefix, general complex numbers can be formed by adding a real
-part to an imaginary part, like 3+4j. Complex numbers are always stored in
-floating point form, so this is equivalent to 3.0+4.0j. It is also
-possible to create complex numbers with the new built-in function
-complex(re, [im]). For the footprint-conscious, complex number support can
+- Complex numbers are now supported. Imaginary constants are written with
+a 'j' or 'J' prefix, general complex numbers can be formed by adding a real
+part to an imaginary part, like 3+4j. Complex numbers are always stored in
+floating point form, so this is equivalent to 3.0+4.0j. It is also
+possible to create complex numbers with the new built-in function
+complex(re, [im]). For the footprint-conscious, complex number support can
be disabled by defining the symbol WITHOUT_COMPLEX.
- New built-in function list() is the long-awaited counterpart of tuple().
-- There's a new "cmath" module which provides the same functions as the
-"math" library but with complex arguments and results. (There are very
-good reasons why math.sqrt(-1) still raises an exception -- you have to use
+- There's a new "cmath" module which provides the same functions as the
+"math" library but with complex arguments and results. (There are very
+good reasons why math.sqrt(-1) still raises an exception -- you have to use
cmath.sqrt(-1) to get 1j for an answer.)
-- The Python.h header file (which is really the same as allobjects.h except
-it disables support for old style names) now includes several more files,
+- The Python.h header file (which is really the same as allobjects.h except
+it disables support for old style names) now includes several more files,
so you have to have fewer #include statements in the average extension.
-- The NDEBUG symbol is no longer used. Code that used to be dependent on
-the presence of NDEBUG is now present on the absence of DEBUG. TRACE_REFS
-and REF_DEBUG have been renamed to Py_TRACE_REFS and Py_REF_DEBUG,
-respectively. At long last, the source actually compiles and links without
+- The NDEBUG symbol is no longer used. Code that used to be dependent on
+the presence of NDEBUG is now present on the absence of DEBUG. TRACE_REFS
+and REF_DEBUG have been renamed to Py_TRACE_REFS and Py_REF_DEBUG,
+respectively. At long last, the source actually compiles and links without
errors when this symbol is defined.
-- Several symbols that didn't follow the new naming scheme have been
-renamed (usually by adding to rename2.h) to use a Py or _Py prefix. There
-are no external symbols left without a Py or _Py prefix, not even those
-defined by sources that were incorporated from elsewhere (regexpr.c,
+- Several symbols that didn't follow the new naming scheme have been
+renamed (usually by adding to rename2.h) to use a Py or _Py prefix. There
+are no external symbols left without a Py or _Py prefix, not even those
+defined by sources that were incorporated from elsewhere (regexpr.c,
md5c.c). (Macros are a different story...)
-- There are now typedefs for the structures defined in config.c and
+- There are now typedefs for the structures defined in config.c and
frozen.c.
- New PYTHON_API_VERSION value and .pyc file magic number.
@@ -25689,125 +25722,125 @@
- The binhex and binascii modules now actually work.
- The cgi module has been almost totally rewritten and documented.
-It now supports file upload and a new data type to handle forms more
+It now supports file upload and a new data type to handle forms more
flexibly.
- The formatter module (for use with htmllib) has been overhauled (again).
- The ftplib module now supports passive mode and has doc strings.
-- In (ideally) all places where binary files are read or written, the file
-is now correctly opened in binary mode ('rb' or 'wb') so the code will work
+- In (ideally) all places where binary files are read or written, the file
+is now correctly opened in binary mode ('rb' or 'wb') so the code will work
on Mac or PC.
-- Dummy versions of os.path.expandvars() and expanduser() are now provided
+- Dummy versions of os.path.expandvars() and expanduser() are now provided
on non-Unix platforms.
-- Module urllib now has two new functions url2pathname and pathname2url
-which turn local filenames into "file:..." URLs using the same rules as
-Netscape (why be different). it also supports urlretrieve() with a
-pathname parameter, and honors the proxy environment variables (http_proxy
+- Module urllib now has two new functions url2pathname and pathname2url
+which turn local filenames into "file:..." URLs using the same rules as
+Netscape (why be different). it also supports urlretrieve() with a
+pathname parameter, and honors the proxy environment variables (http_proxy
etc.). The URL parsing has been improved somewhat, too.
-- Micro improvements to urlparse. Added urlparse.urldefrag() which
+- Micro improvements to urlparse. Added urlparse.urldefrag() which
removes a trailing ``#fragment'' if any.
- The mailbox module now supports MH style message delimiters as well.
-- The mhlib module contains some new functionality: setcontext() to set the
-current folder and parsesequence() to parse a sequence as commonly passed
+- The mhlib module contains some new functionality: setcontext() to set the
+current folder and parsesequence() to parse a sequence as commonly passed
to MH commands (e.g. 1-10 or last:5).
-- New module mimify for conversion to and from MIME format of email
+- New module mimify for conversion to and from MIME format of email
messages.
-- Module ni now automatically installs itself when first imported -- this
-is against the normal rule that modules should define classes and functions
-but not invoke them, but appears more useful in the case that two
+- Module ni now automatically installs itself when first imported -- this
+is against the normal rule that modules should define classes and functions
+but not invoke them, but appears more useful in the case that two
different, independent modules want to use ni's features.
- Some small performance enhancements in module pickle.
-- Small interface change to the profile.run*() family of functions -- more
+- Small interface change to the profile.run*() family of functions -- more
sensible handling of return values.
-- The officially registered Mac creator for Python files is 'Pyth'. This
+- The officially registered Mac creator for Python files is 'Pyth'. This
replaces 'PYTH' which was used before but never registered.
- Added regsub.capwords(). (XXX)
-- Added string.capwords(), string.capitalize() and string.translate().
+- Added string.capwords(), string.capitalize() and string.translate().
(XXX)
-- Fixed an interface bug in the rexec module: it was impossible to pass a
-hooks instance to the RExec class. rexec now also supports the dynamic
-loading of modules from shared libraries. Some other interfaces have been
+- Fixed an interface bug in the rexec module: it was impossible to pass a
+hooks instance to the RExec class. rexec now also supports the dynamic
+loading of modules from shared libraries. Some other interfaces have been
added too.
-- Module rfc822 now caches the headers in a dictionary for more efficient
+- Module rfc822 now caches the headers in a dictionary for more efficient
lookup.
-- The sgmllib module now understands a limited number of SGML "shorthands"
+- The sgmllib module now understands a limited number of SGML "shorthands"
like <A/.../ for <A>...</A>. (It's not clear that this was a good idea...)
-- The tempfile module actually tries a number of different places to find a
-usable temporary directory. (This was prompted by certain Linux
-installations that appear to be missing a /usr/tmp directory.) [A bug in
-the implementation that would ignore a pre-existing tmpdir global has been
+- The tempfile module actually tries a number of different places to find a
+usable temporary directory. (This was prompted by certain Linux
+installations that appear to be missing a /usr/tmp directory.) [A bug in
+the implementation that would ignore a pre-existing tmpdir global has been
fixed in beta3.]
- Much improved and enhanved FileDialog module for Tkinter.
-- Many small changes to Tkinter, to bring it more in line with Tk 4.0 (as
+- Many small changes to Tkinter, to bring it more in line with Tk 4.0 (as
well as Tk 4.1).
-- New socket interfaces include ntohs(), ntohl(), htons(), htonl(), and
-s.dup(). Sockets now work correctly on Windows. On Windows, the built-in
-extension is called _socket and a wrapper module win/socket.py provides
-"makefile()" and "dup()" functionality. On Windows, the select module
+- New socket interfaces include ntohs(), ntohl(), htons(), htonl(), and
+s.dup(). Sockets now work correctly on Windows. On Windows, the built-in
+extension is called _socket and a wrapper module win/socket.py provides
+"makefile()" and "dup()" functionality. On Windows, the select module
works only with socket objects.
- Bugs in bsddb module fixed (e.g. missing default argument values).
- The curses extension now includes <ncurses.h> when available.
-- The gdbm module now supports opening databases in "fast" mode by
+- The gdbm module now supports opening databases in "fast" mode by
specifying 'f' as the second character or the mode string.
-- new variables sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix pass corresponding
+- new variables sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix pass corresponding
configuration options / Makefile variables to the Python programmer.
-- The ``new'' module now supports creating new user-defined classes as well
+- The ``new'' module now supports creating new user-defined classes as well
as instances thereof.
-- The soundex module now sports get_soundex() to get the soundex value for an
-arbitrary string (formerly it would only do soundex-based string
+- The soundex module now sports get_soundex() to get the soundex value for an
+arbitrary string (formerly it would only do soundex-based string
comparison) as well as doc strings.
-- New object type "cobject" to safely wrap void pointers for passing them
+- New object type "cobject" to safely wrap void pointers for passing them
between various extension modules.
- More efficient computation of float**smallint.
-- The mysterious bug whereby "x.x" (two occurrences of the same
-one-character name) typed from the commandline would sometimes fail
+- The mysterious bug whereby "x.x" (two occurrences of the same
+one-character name) typed from the commandline would sometimes fail
mysteriously.
-- The initialization of the readline function can now be invoked by a C
+- The initialization of the readline function can now be invoked by a C
extension through PyOS_ReadlineInit().
-- There's now an externally visible pointer PyImport_FrozenModules which
+- There's now an externally visible pointer PyImport_FrozenModules which
can be changed by an embedding application.
-- The argument parsing functions now support a new format character 'D' to
+- The argument parsing functions now support a new format character 'D' to
specify complex numbers.
- Various memory leaks plugged and bugs fixed.
-- Improved support for posix threads (now that real implementations are
+- Improved support for posix threads (now that real implementations are
beginning to apepar). Still no fully functioning semaphores.
-- Some various and sundry improvements and new entries in the Tools
+- Some various and sundry improvements and new entries in the Tools
directory.
@@ -27417,7 +27450,7 @@
The limit on the size of the *run-time* stack has completely been
removed -- this means that tuple or list displays can contain any
number of elements (formerly more than 50 would crash the
-interpreter).
+interpreter).
Changes to existing built-in functions and methods