Summary of changes between 2.0b2 and 2.0c1
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-What's New in Python 2.0b2?
+What's New in Python 2.0c1?
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Below is a list of all relevant changes since release 1.6. Older
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+What's new in 2.0 release candidate 1 (since beta 2)?
+=====================================================
+
+All the changes since the last beta release are bug fixes or changes
+to build support for specific platforms.
+
+Core language, builtins, and interpreter
+
+- A bug that caused crashes when __coerce__ was used with augmented
+ assignment, e.g. +=, was fixed.
+
+- Raise ZeroDivisionError when raising zero to a negative number,
+ e.g. 0.0 ** -2.0. Note that math.pow is unrelated to the builtin
+ power operator and the result of math.pow(0.0, -2.0) will vary by
+ platform. On Linux, it raises a ValueError.
+
+- A bug in Unicode string interpolation was fixed that occasionally
+ caused errors with formats including "%%". For example, the
+ following expression "%% %s" % u"abc" no longer raises a TypeError.
+
+- Compilation of deeply nested expressions raises MemoryError instead
+ of SyntaxError, e.g. eval("[" * 50 + "]" * 50).
+
+- In 2.0b2 on Windows, the interpreter wrote .pyc files in text mode,
+ rendering them useless. They are now written in binary mode again.
+
+Standard library
+
+- Keyword arguments are now accepted for most pattern and match object
+ methods in SRE, the standard regular expression engine.
+
+- In SRE, fix error with negative lookahead and lookbehind that
+ manifested itself as a runtime error in patterns like "?<!abc)(def)".
+
+- Tkinter now supports Unicode strings and will set a Python exception
+ when an error occurs handling a specific Unicode string.
+
+- Fix memory management errors in Merge() and Tkapp_Call() routines.
+
+- Several changes were made to cStringIO to make it compatible with
+ the file-like object interface and with StringIO. If operations are
+ performed on a closed object, an exception is raised. The truncate
+ method now accepts a position argument and readline accepts a size
+ argument.
+
+- There were many changes made to the linuxaudiodev module and its
+ test suite; as a result, a short, unexpected audio sample should now
+ play when the regression test is run.
+
+ Note that this module is named poorly, because it should work
+ correctly on any platform that supports the Open Sound System
+ (OSS).
+
+ The module now raises exceptions when errors occur instead of
+ crashing. It also defines the AFMT_A_LAW format (logarithmic A-law
+ audio) and defines a getptr() method that calls the
+ SNDCTL_DSP_GETxPTR ioctl defined in the OSS Programmer's Guide.
+
+- The library_version attribute, introduced in an earlier beta, was
+ removed because it can not be supported with early versions of the C
+ readline library, which provides no way to determine the version at
+ compile-time.
+
+- The binascii module is now enabled on Win64.
+
+Internals
+
+- Fix several buffer overflow vulnerabilities in calculate_path(),
+ which is called when the interpreter starts up to determine where
+ the standard library is installed. These vulnerabilities affect all
+ previous versions of Python and can be exploited by setting very
+ long values for PYTHONHOME or argv[0]. The risk is greatest for a
+ setuid Python script, although use of the wrapper in
+ Misc/setuid-prog.c will eliminate the vulnerability.
+
+- Fixed garbage collection bugs in instance creation that were
+ triggered when errors occurred during initialization. The solution,
+ applied in cPickle and in PyInstance_New(), is to call
+ PyObject_GC_Init() after the initialization of the object's
+ container attributes is complete.
+
+- pyexpat adds definitions of PyModule_AddStringConstant and
+ PyModule_AddObject if the Python version is less than 2.0, which
+ provides compatibility with PyXML on Python 1.5.2.
+
+- If the platform has a bogus definition for LONG_BIT (the number of
+ bits in a long), an error will be reported at compile time.
+
+- Fix bugs in _PyTuple_Resize() which caused hard-to-interpret garbage
+ collection crashes and possibly other, unreported crashes.
+
+- Fixed a memory leak in _PyUnicode_Fini().
+
+Build issues
+
+- configure now accepts a --with-suffix option that specifies the
+ executable. This is useful for builds on Cygwin and Mac OS X, for
+ example.
+
+- The mmap.PAGESIZE constant is now initialized using sysconf when
+ possible, which eliminates a dependency on -lucb for Reliant UNIX.
+
+- The md5 file should now compile on all platforms.
+
+- The select module now compiles on platforms that do not define
+ POLLRDNORM and related constants.
+
+- Darwin (Mac OS X): Initial support for static builds on this
+ platform.
+
+- BeOS: Many changes were made to support compilation on BeOS 4.5 and
+ 5.0.
+
+- Cygwin: Support for shared libraries, Tkinter, and sockets.
+
+- SunOS 4.1.4_JL: Fix test for directory existence in configure.
+
+Tools and other miscellany
+
+- Removed debugging prints from main used with freeze.
+
+- IDLE auto-indent internals no longer crashes when it encounters
+ Unicode characters in the range 128 to 255.
What's new in 2.0 beta 2 (since beta 1)?
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