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-What's New in Python 2.3 release candidate?
-===========================================
+What's New in Python 2.3 release candidate 1?
+=============================================
Core and builtins
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@@ -24,6 +24,25 @@
is raised now.
+- Several bugs in the symbol table phase of the compiler have been
+ fixed. Errors could be lost and compilation could fail without
+ reporting an error. SF patch #763201.
+
+- The interpreter is now more robust about importing the warnings
+ module. In an executable generated by freeze or similar programs,
+ earlier versions of 2.3 would fail if the warnings module could
+ not be found on the file system. Fixes SF bug #771097.
+
+- A warning about assignments to module attributes that shadow
+ builtins, present in earlier releases of 2.3, has been removed.
+
+- It is not possible to create subclasses of builtin types like str
+ and tuple that define an itemsize. Earlier releases of Python 2.3
+ allowed this by mistake, leading to crashes and other problems.
+
+- The thread_id is now initialized to 0 in a non-thread build. SF bug
+ #770247.
+
Extension modules
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@@ -37,9 +56,20 @@
- time.strptime now exclusively uses the Python implementation
contained within the _strptime module.
+- bsddb3 no longer crashes if an environment is closed before a
+ cursor. SF bug #763298.
+
+- The print slot of weakref proxy objects was removed, because it was
+ not consistent with the object's repr slot.
+
+- The mmap module only checks file size for regular files, not
+ character or block devices. SF patch #708374.
+
Library
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+- distutils now supports MSVC 7.1
+
- doctest now examines all docstrings by default. Previously, it would
skip over functions with private names (as indicated by the underscore
naming convention). The old default created too much of a risk that
@@ -49,16 +79,17 @@
is easily fixable by specifying the old behavior when calling testmod()
or Tester().
-- Closing a dumbdbm database more than once is now harmless (it used to
- raise a nuisance exception on the second close).
+- There were several fixes to the way dumbdbms are closed. It's vital
+ that a dumbdbm database be closed properly, else the on-disk data
+ and directory files can be left in mutually inconsistent states.
+ dumbdbm.py's _Database.__del__() method attempted to close the
+ database properly, but a shutdown race in _Database._commit() could
+ prevent this from working, so that a program trusting __del__() to
+ get the on-disk files in synch could be badly surprised. The race
+ has been repaired. A sync() method was also added so that shelve
+ can guarantee data is written to disk.
-- It's vital that a dumbdbm database be closed properly, else the
- on-disk data and directory files can be left in mutually inconsistent
- states. dumbdbm.py's _Database.__del__() method attempted to close
- the database properly, but a shutdown race in _Database._commit()
- could prevent this from working, so that a program trusting __del__()
- to get the on-disk files in synch could be badly surprised. The race
- has been repaired.
+ The close() method can now be called more than once without complaint.
- The classes in threading.py are now new-style classes. That they
weren't before was an oversight.
@@ -69,14 +100,27 @@
- SF bug 763637: fix exception in Tkinter with after_cancel
which could occur with Tk 8.4
+- SF bug 770601: CGIHTTPServer.py now passes the entire environment
+ to child processes.
+
+- SF bug 765238: Add filter to fnmatch's __all__.
+
Tools/Demos
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- SF bug 753592: webchecker/wsgui now handles user supplied directories.
+- See Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt for IDLE news.
+
Build
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+- The socket module compiles on IRIX 6.5.10.
+
+- An irix64 system is treated the same way as an irix6 system. SF
+ patch #764560.
+
+
C API
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