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Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001+++++++++++
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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00007What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-XXX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +000015- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
16 passed to bytes or bytearray.
17
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +000018- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
19
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +000020- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
21 changed.
22
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +000023- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
24 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
25 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
26
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +000027- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
28
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +000029- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
30
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +000031- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
32
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +000033- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, compiler
34 optimizations are disabled when --with-pydebug is used.
35
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +000036- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
37 is unknown
38
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +000039- Issue #1583863: An str subclass can now override the __str__ method
40
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +000041- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
42 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
43
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +000044- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
45 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
46 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
47 comparisons with complex.
48
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +000049- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
50 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
51 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
52 module.
53
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +000054- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
55
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +000056- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
57 a fatal error in low memory condition.
58
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +000059- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
60 the BOM check fails.
61
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +000062- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
63
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +000064- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule
65 in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
66
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +000067- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
68 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
69 strings.
70
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +000071- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
72 0 padding.
73
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +000074- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
75 complex.__format__. Now it matches other numeric types.
76
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +000077- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
78 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string
79 and PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original
80 deprecations.
81
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +000082- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
83 `PyObject_GetBuffer` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
84
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +000085- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
86 slice with very large step value.
87
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +000088- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
89 tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
90 structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
91 suite_mask, and product_type.
92
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +000093- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
94 could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
95 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
96 string instead.
97
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +000098- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
99 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
100 a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
101 is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
102 executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
103 constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
104 Malcolm.
105
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +0000106- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
107 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
108 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
109
Mark Dickinson45b63652010-01-16 18:10:25 +0000110- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
111 alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
112 occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
113 that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
Mark Dickinsonc4f18682010-01-17 14:39:12 +0000114 strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
115 some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
116 flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +0000117
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +0000118- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
119 consistent with other special methods.
120
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +0000121- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
122 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
123
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +0000124- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
125 AttributeError.
126
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +0000127- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
128 negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
129 described in C99 Annex F.
130
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +0000131- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
132 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
133 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
134 particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
135
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +0000136- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
137 executables on OSX.
138
139 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
140 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
141 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
142
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +0000143- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
144 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
145
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +0000146- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
147 with invalid values.
148
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +0000149- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
150 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
151
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +0000152- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
153 on MacOSX 10.6.
154
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +0000155- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
156
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +0000157- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
158 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
159
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +0000160- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
161 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
162 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
163 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
164 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
165
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +0000166- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
167 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
168
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +0000169- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
170 surrogates.
171
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +0000172- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
173
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +0000174- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
175
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +0000176- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
177 disabled since Python 3.0.
178
179- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
180 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
181 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
182
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +0000183- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
184
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +0000185- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
186 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
187 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
188
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000189- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +0000190 support.
191
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000192- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
193 crash in GAE.
194
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +0000195- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
196 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
197 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
198
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000199- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000200 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000201
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +0000202- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
203 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
204 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
205 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
206
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000207- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
208 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
209
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000210- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
211 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
212
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000213- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
214
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000215- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
216
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000217- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
218
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000219- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
220
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000221- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
222 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
223
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000224- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
225
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000226- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
227
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000228- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
229 occurred in the argument chain.
230
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000231- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
232 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
233
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000234- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
235
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000236- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
237 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
238 documentation.
239
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000240- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
241
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000242- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
243 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
244 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
245
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000246- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000247 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
248 surrogates.
249
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000250- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
251
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000252- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
253 argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
254
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000255- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
256 These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
257
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +0000258- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes
259 instances from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses
260 from being pickled properly.
261
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +0000262- Code objects now support weak references.
263
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000264C-API
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266
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +0000267- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
268 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
269 is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
270
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +0000271- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added,
272 analogous to PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
273
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +0000274- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
275 has '\0' at the end.
276
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000277- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
278 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
279 PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
280 DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
281 code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
282 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
283
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +0000284- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
285
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000286- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
287 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
288
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000289- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000290 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
291
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000292- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
293 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
294 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
295 using PyDescr_COMMON.
296
297- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000298
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000299- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
300
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000301- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
302 PyCode_Addr2Line().
303
304- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
305 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
306
307- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
308 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
309
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000310- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
311 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
312 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
313 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
314
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000315Library
316-------
317
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +0000318- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
319 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
320
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +0000321- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
322 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
323
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +0000324- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
325 the current working directory.
326
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +0000327- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
328 using backslashreplace error handler
329
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +0000330- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
331 surrogates.
332
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +0000333- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
334 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
335
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +0000336- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
337
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +0000338- Issue #7316: the acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
339 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
340 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait
341 loop.
342
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +0000343- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
344 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
345 Python 2.x and 3.0
346
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +0000347- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
348 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
349 designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
350
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +0000351- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
352 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
353 7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
354
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +0000355- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
356 present before it cleans them.
357
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +0000358- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
359 to cover recent locale changes and additions.
360
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +0000361- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
362 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
363 and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
364
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +0000365- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
366
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +0000367- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
368 directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
369
370 >>> Decimal(1.1)
371 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
372
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +0000373- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
374 instances directly.
375
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +0000376- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
377 signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
378 involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
379 are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
380
381- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
382 instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
383 operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
384 the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal).
385
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +0000386- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
387
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +0000388- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
389 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
390 is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
391 patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
392
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +0000393- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
394 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
395 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
396 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
397
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +0000398- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
399 a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
400 True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
401 int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
402
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +0000403- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore
404 some methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available.
405 Initial patch by Bertrand Janin.
406
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +0000407- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
408 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
409
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +0000410- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
411 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
412 now silenced.
413
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +0000414- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
415 when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
416
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +0000417- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
418 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
419 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +0000420
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +0000421- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
422 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
423 (utf8) encoding.
424
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +0000425- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
426
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +0000427- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
428
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +0000429- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
430
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +0000431- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
432 detected.
433
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +0000434- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
435
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +0000436- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
437 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
438
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +0000439- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
440
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +0000441- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
442 the locale.
443
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +0000444- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
445 by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
446 done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
447
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +0000448- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features.
449 The default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier
450 Python versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored
451 by default in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
452
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +0000453- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
454 cElementTree module is updated too.
455
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +0000456- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
457 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
458 program name
459
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +0000460- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
461
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +0000462- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and
463 the replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
464
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +0000465- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
466 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
467
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +0000468- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
469 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +0000470
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +0000471- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
472 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
473
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +0000474- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
475 class.
476
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +0000477- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
478 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
479
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +0000480- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
481
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +0000482- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
483 writing.
484
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +0000485- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
486
487- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
488
489- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
490
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +0000491- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
492
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000493- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
Ezio Melotti8b1458b2010-02-24 16:55:43 +0000494 with the cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000495
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +0000496- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
497
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +0000498- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
499 to be ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
500
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +0000501- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
502 Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
503
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +0000504- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
505
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +0000506- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
507 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
508
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +0000509- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
510 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
511
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +0000512- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
513 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
514 and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
515 convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
516 were converted.
517
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +0000518- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
519 interpreter shutdown.
520
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +0000521- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
522 in XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
523 allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
524 PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
525
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +0000526- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
527 entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
528 encoding. Patch by Jerry Chen.
529
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +0000530- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
531 specify the compression type.
532
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +0000533- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
534 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
535 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
536 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
537
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +0000538- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
539 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
540 file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
541 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
542
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +0000543- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
544 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
545 an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can
546 be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
547 It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
548 `readline()` give wrong results. Patch by Nir Aides.
549
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +0000550- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
551 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
552 the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
553 replace it.
554
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +0000555- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
556
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +0000557- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +0000558
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +0000559- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
560
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +0000561- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
562 the release file is empty.
563
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +0000564- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
565 module.
566
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +0000567- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
568 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
569 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
570
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +0000571- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`.
572 Patch by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
573
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +0000574- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
575 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
576
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +0000577- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
578 argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
579
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +0000580- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files.
581 Patch by Brian Curtin.
582
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +0000583- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
584
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +0000585- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
586 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
587 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
588
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +0000589- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
590 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
591 by Arfrever.
592
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +0000593- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
594 the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
595
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +0000596- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
597 Victor Stinner.
598
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +0000599- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
600 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
601 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
602
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +0000603- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
604 and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
605 speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
606
607- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +0000608 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
609
610- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
611
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +0000612- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
613 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
614
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000615- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
616 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
617 in regular expressions.
618
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +0000619- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
620 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
621 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
622
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +0000623- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
624 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
625
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +0000626- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
627 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
628 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
629
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +0000630- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
631 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
632 the same as passing no argument.
633
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +0000634- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
635 default.
636
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +0000637- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
638 in imaplib.
639
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +0000640- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +0000641
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +0000642- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
643
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +0000644- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
645 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
646
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +0000647- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
648 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
649
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000650- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
651 TLS with authentication credentials.
652
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +0000653- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
654 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
655
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +0000656- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
657 msvc9compiler.
658
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +0000659- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
660 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
661 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
662
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +0000663- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
664 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
665 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
666
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +0000667- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
668 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
669 built-in exception printing.
670
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +0000671- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
672 Robert Collins.
673
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000674- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
675
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +0000676- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
677 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
678 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
679
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +0000680- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
681 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
682 Brian Quinlan.
683
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +0000684- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
685
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +0000686- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
687
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +0000688- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
689 raises ReadError on empty files.
690
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +0000691- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
692 be 2.
693
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +0000694- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
695 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +0000696
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +0000697- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
698 case of an error.
699
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +0000700- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
701 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
702
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +0000703- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
704 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
705
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +0000706- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
707
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +0000708- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
709 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
710
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +0000711- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
712 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
713 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
714 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
715 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
716
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +0000717- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
718 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
719 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
720 local connections.
721
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +0000722- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
723 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
724 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
725
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +0000726- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
727 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
728 class to be used without having to subclass.
729
730- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
731 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
732
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +0000733- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
734 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
735 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
736 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
737
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +0000738- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
739 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
740 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
741
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +0000742- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
743 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
744
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +0000745- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
746 which are part of a reference cycle.
747
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +0000748- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
749 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
750
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +0000751- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
752 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
753 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
754
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +0000755- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
756 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
757 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
758 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
759 OSes such as Solaris.
760
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +0000761- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
762 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
763 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
764 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
765
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +0000766- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
767 header as required by RFC 1952.
768
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +0000769- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
770 Distutils.
771
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +0000772- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
773 an uppercase.
774
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +0000775- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
776 several threads at once.
777
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000778- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
779
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +0000780- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
781 larger than emax.
782
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000783- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
784 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
785
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +0000786- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
787 GNU readline library version 6.0.
788
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000789- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +0000790
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000791- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
792 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000793
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +0000794- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
795 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
796
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +0000797- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
798 builtin tokenizer.
799
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +0000800- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
801 is too large to fit in the current precision.
802
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000803- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000804 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000805
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +0000806- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
807 does now always result in NULL.
808
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +0000809- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
810 with base class positional arguments.
811
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +0000812- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
813
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +0000814- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
815
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +0000816- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
817
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +0000818- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
819
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +0000820- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
821 instances.
822
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +0000823- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
824 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
825 in long(Decimal('nan')).
826
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +0000827- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
828 with no type specifier.
829
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +0000830- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
831
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +0000832- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
833 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
834 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
835 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
836
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +0000837- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
838 should be raised, not AttributeError.
839
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +0000840- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
841 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
842
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +0000843- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
844 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
845 AttributeError before).
846
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +0000847- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
848
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +0000849- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
850
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +0000851- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
852
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +0000853- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
854 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
855
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +0000856- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
857
858- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
859
860- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
861
862- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
863 ScrolledText.
864
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +0000865- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
866
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +0000867- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
868 the xview* and yview* methods.
869
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +0000870- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
871 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
872 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
873 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
874
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +0000875- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
876 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
877
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +0000878- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
879
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +0000880- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
881 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
882 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
883
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +0000884- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
885 DO/DONT correctly.
886
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +0000887- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
888 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
889 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +0000890
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +0000891- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
892 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
893 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
894 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
895
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +0000896- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
897 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
898 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
899
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +0000900- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
901 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
902 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
903
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +0000904- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +0000905
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +0000906- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
907 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
908
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +0000909- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
910 syntax error.
911
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +0000912- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
913 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
914
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +0000915- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
916
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +0000917- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
918
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +0000919- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
920
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000921- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
922 sys.path.
923
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +0000924- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
925
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +0000926- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will
927 be searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
928
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +0000929- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
930 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
931
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +0000932- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
933 os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
934
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +0000935- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
936
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +0000937- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
938
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +0000939- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
940 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
941
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000942Extension Modules
943-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000944
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +0000945- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
946
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +0000947- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
948 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
949 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
950 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
951
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +0000952- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
953
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +0000954- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
955
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +0000956- Issue #6544: fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
957 handling.
958
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +0000959- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
960 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
961
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +0000962- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
963
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +0000964- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
965
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +0000966- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000967
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +0000968- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
969 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000970
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +0000971- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
972
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +0000973- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
974
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +0000975- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
976 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
977 matched characters with category 'No'.
978
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000979- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000980 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
981 buffers.
982
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000983- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
984
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +0000985- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
986 (CVE_2009_3560).
987
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +0000988- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
989 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
990 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
991
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +0000992- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
993 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
994
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000995Build
996-----
997
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +0000998- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
999 give false warnings.
1000
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00001001- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
1002 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
1003 when building a shared library.
1004
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00001005- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
Martin v. Löwis4ad70df2010-03-16 16:19:47 +00001006 Exclude 2to3 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00001007
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00001008- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00001009
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00001010- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
1011 private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
1012 PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
1013
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00001014- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1015
1016- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
1017 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
1018
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00001019- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
1020 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
1021 Python.
1022
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00001023- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1024 found.
1025
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00001026- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00001027
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00001028- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
1029 icc or suncc.
1030
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00001031- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1032 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1033 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1034
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00001035- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1036
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00001037- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1038
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00001039- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
1040 directories.
1041
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00001042- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1043 extensions are installed.
1044
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001045- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1046 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00001047
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00001048- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1049
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00001050Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001051------------
1052
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00001053- A small wsgi server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
1054 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
1055
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00001056- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
1057 -J and -X options.
1058
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00001059- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
1060 ImportError.
1061
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001062- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1063 for Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00001064
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00001065- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
1066 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001067
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001068Tests
1069-----
1070
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00001071- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1072
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00001073- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1074
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00001075- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1076 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1077
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00001078- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1079 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00001080
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001081- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1082 from the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00001083
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00001084- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
1085 effectively raised.
1086
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00001087- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1088 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1089
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00001090- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using
1091 the --verbose flag.
1092
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00001093- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
1094 filesystem encoding.
1095
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00001096- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
1097 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1098
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00001099- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
1100 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
1101 The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
1102 Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
1103
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00001104- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
1105 test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
1106 wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.
1107
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001108- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
1109 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00001110
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00001111- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
1112 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1113
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00001114- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
1115
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00001116- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00001117 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1118
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00001119- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
1120 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
1121 user running the tests.
1122
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00001123- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1124 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1125
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00001126- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1127 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1128
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00001129- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
1130 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
1131 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
1132 to empty global variables.
1133
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00001134- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1135
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00001136- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1137 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1138
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00001139- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
1140 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
1141 between concurrent executions on the same system.
1142
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00001143- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
1144 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
1145 calling methods on the object.
1146
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00001147- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1148 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1149 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1150 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1151 :func:`_thread._count()`.
1152
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00001153- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1154 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1155
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00001156- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1157 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1158
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00001159- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1160 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1161 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00001162
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00001163- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1164
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00001165- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
1166 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
1167 object bytecode.
1168
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001169- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
1170 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
1171
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00001172Tools/Demos
1173-----------
1174
1175- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
1176 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the
1177 sandbox.
1178
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00001179
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001180What's New in Python 3.1?
1181=========================
1182
1183*Release date: 27-June-2009*
1184
1185Core and Builtins
1186-----------------
1187
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00001188- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
1189 large arguments.
1190
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00001191- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1192 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1193
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001194Library
1195-------
1196
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00001197- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
1198
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001199- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001200
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00001201- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
1202
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00001203- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
1204 io.UnsupportedOperation.
1205
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001206- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00001207 (On Unix)
1208
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00001209- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
1210 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
1211
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00001212Extension Modules
1213-----------------
1214
1215- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
1216
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001217
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00001218What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
1219=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001220
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00001221*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001222
1223Core and Builtins
1224-----------------
1225
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00001226- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
1227
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00001228- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
1229 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
1230
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00001231- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
1232 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
1233
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001234- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00001235 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001236
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001237Library
1238-------
1239
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001240- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001241 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001242 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
1243
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00001244- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1245
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00001246- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
1247 binary files.
1248
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001249- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
1250 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1251
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00001252- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
1253 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
1254 are always None now.
1255
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00001256- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
1257 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
1258 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
1259 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
1260
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00001261- Removed the ipaddr module.
1262
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00001263- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
1264 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
1265 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
1266
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00001267- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
1268
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00001269- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
1270
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00001271- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
1272 parameters.
1273
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001274Windows
1275-------
1276
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00001277- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
1278
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001279- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
1280
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00001281C-API
1282-----
1283
1284- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
1285 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
1286 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
1287
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001288
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001289Build
1290-----
1291
1292- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
1293 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
1294
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00001295- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1296 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1297
1298
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001299
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00001300What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
1301=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001302
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00001303*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001304
1305Core and Builtins
1306-----------------
1307
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00001308- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
1309 of the command line.
1310
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00001311- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
1312
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00001313- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
1314 that would raise SystemError.
1315
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00001316- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
1317 function with __func__.
1318
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00001319- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
1320 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00001321
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00001322- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
1323 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
1324 and imaginary literals.
1325
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00001326- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1327
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00001328- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
1329
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00001330- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
1331 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
1332 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
1333 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
1334 didn't match that of float('-nan').
1335
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001336Library
1337-------
1338
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00001339- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
1340
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00001341- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
1342
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00001343- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
1344 argument to the 'help' function.
1345
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00001346- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
1347 arguments for strings with a space in them.
1348
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00001349- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
1350 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
1351
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00001352- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1353 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1354
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00001355- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
1356 the directory already exists.
1357
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00001358- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1359 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1360 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1361
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00001362- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
1363 IO objects.
1364
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00001365- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
1366 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
1367
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00001368- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
1369 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
1370 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
1371
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00001372- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1373 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1374
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00001375- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1376 deepcopy()ing.
1377
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00001378- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1379
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00001380- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1381
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00001382- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1383
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00001384- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
1385 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
1386 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
1387 empty.
1388
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00001389- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1390 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
1391 corrects a pydoc regression.
1392
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00001393- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
1394 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
1395
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00001396Installation
1397------------
1398
1399- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
1400 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001401
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00001402- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
1403
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001404Extension Modules
1405-----------------
1406
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00001407- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00001408
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00001409- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1410
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001411- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
1412
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00001413- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
1414 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00001415
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00001416Build
1417-----
1418
1419- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1420 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1421 Clinton Roy.
1422
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00001423Tests
1424-----
1425
1426- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
1427 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
1428 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
1429 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
1430
1431
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001432What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
1433================================
1434
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00001435*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001436
1437Core and Builtins
1438-----------------
1439
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00001440- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
1441 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
1442
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001443- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
1444 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
1445 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
1446
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00001447- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
1448 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
1449 a PendingDeprecation warning.
1450
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00001451- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
1452 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
1453 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
1454 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
1455 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
1456 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
1457 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
1458 the same way.
1459
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00001460- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
1461
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00001462- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
1463 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
1464 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
1465
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00001466- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
1467 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
1468
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00001469- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00001470
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00001471- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
1472 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
1473 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
1474
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00001475- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
1476 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
1477 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
1478 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00001479
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001480- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00001481 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
1482
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00001483- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
1484 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
1485
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00001486- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
1487 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
1488
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00001489- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
1490
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00001491- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
1492 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
1493
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00001494- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1495
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00001496- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
1497 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
1498
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00001499- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00001500
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00001501- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
1502 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
1503 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
1504 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
1505
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00001506- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
1507 some builtin types.
1508
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001509- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
1510
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00001511- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
1512 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001513
1514- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1515 floats.
1516
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001517- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001518 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
1519 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
1520 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
1521 long time.)
1522
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001523- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
1524 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
1525 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
1526 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001527 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
1528 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
1529 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001530
1531 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
1532 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
1533 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
1534 reason or another.
1535
1536 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
1537 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
1538 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
1539 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
1540 correctly rounded on these platforms.
1541
1542 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
1543 this change does not apply.
1544
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00001545- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1546
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00001547- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
1548 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
1549 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
1550 methods available on the str class.
1551
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00001552- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
1553 its clarity and its speed.
1554
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00001555- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1556 to avoid compiler warnings.
1557
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00001558- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1559 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1560
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00001561Installation
1562------------
1563
1564- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
1565
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001566Library
1567-------
1568
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00001569- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
1570 specific Python version.
1571
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00001572- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1573 whitespace.
1574
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001575- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00001576 the right type checkings anymore.
1577
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00001578- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
1579 return directories.
1580
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00001581- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1582
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00001583- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1584 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1585
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00001586- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
1587 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
1588
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00001589- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
1590 extracting a file to the root directory.
1591
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00001592- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
1593
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00001594- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1595 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1596 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1597
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00001598- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
1599
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00001600- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1601 Contributed by Google.
1602
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00001603- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1604 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1605
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00001606- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
1607
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00001608- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1609
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00001610- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1611 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1612 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1613
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00001614- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1615 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1616 initialized before.
1617
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001618- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1619 names which should not be exported.
1620
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00001621- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
1622 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
1623
1624- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1625
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00001626- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
1627 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
1628 instances.
1629
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00001630- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
1631 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
1632 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
1633
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00001634- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
1635 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
1636
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00001637- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
1638 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
1639 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
1640 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
1641 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
1642
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00001643- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1644 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1645
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00001646- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1647 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1648 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1649
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001650Extension Modules
1651-----------------
1652
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00001653- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
1654 pwd.
1655
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00001656- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
1657 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
1658 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
1659 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
1660
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001661- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
1662 using Berkley-DB.
1663
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00001664Tests
1665-----
1666
1667- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1668 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1669 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1670 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1671 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1672
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00001673- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1674 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1675 incorrectly on __exit__.
1676
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00001677C-API
1678-----
1679
1680- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
1681
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001682
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001683What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
1684=================================
1685
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00001686*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001687
1688Core and Builtins
1689-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001690
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00001691- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1692 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001693
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00001694- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
1695
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00001696- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
1697 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
1698
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00001699- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1700 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1701
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00001702- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1703
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001704- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
1705 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
1706
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00001707- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
1708 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
1709 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
1710
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00001711- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
1712
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00001713- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
1714 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
1715
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00001716- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
1717 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
1718 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
1719 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
1720
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00001721- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
1722 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
1723 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
1724
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00001725- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
1726 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
1727 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
1728 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
1729 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
1730 the internal format.
1731
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00001732- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
1733 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
1734 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
1735
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00001736- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
1737 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
1738
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00001739- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
1740 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
1741
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00001742- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
1743 short file names.
1744
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001745Library
1746-------
1747
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001748- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00001749 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1750
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00001751- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
1752 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
1753 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
1754
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00001755- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
1756 the -T argument.
1757
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00001758- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1759
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00001760- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
1761
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00001762- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
1763
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00001764- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1765 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1766
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00001767- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1768
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00001769- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1770
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00001771- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1772 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1773
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00001774- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
1775 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
1776
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00001777- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
1778 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1779 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1780
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00001781- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
1782
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00001783- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
1784 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
1785
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00001786- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
1787 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
1788
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00001789- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1790 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1791 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1792 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1793
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00001794- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1795 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1796
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00001797- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1798 '>' alignment characters.
1799
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00001800- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
1801 value, and report it as -1 instead.
1802
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00001803- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
1804 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1805
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001806Extension Modules
1807-----------------
1808
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001809- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
1810
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001811- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
1812 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00001813 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
1814 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
1815 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001816
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001817
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001818What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00001819================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001820
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001821*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001822
1823Core and Builtins
1824-----------------
1825
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00001826- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
1827
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00001828- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
1829
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00001830- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
1831 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
1832
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00001833- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
1834 contained non ascii character on windows.
1835
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00001836- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
1837 source has already been decoded into str.
1838
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00001839- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1840 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1841
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00001842- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
1843 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
1844
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00001845- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
1846 returns a non-number type.
1847
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00001848- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
1849
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00001850- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
1851 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00001852 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
1853 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00001854
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001855- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00001856 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
1857
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00001858- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
1859 Previously it returned a float.
1860
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00001861- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
1862 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
1863 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
1864 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
1865
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00001866- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
1867
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00001868- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
1869 from a string.
1870
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00001871- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
1872
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00001873- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
1874 optional module state data.
1875
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00001876- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
1877 type to (void *).
1878
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00001879- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
1880 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
1881 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
1882
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00001883- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1884 __next__ method.
1885
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00001886- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
1887 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
1888 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
1889
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00001890- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1891
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00001892- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1893
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00001894- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
1895 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
1896 amount of loop unrolling.
1897
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00001898- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1899 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1900 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
1901 Martin von Löwis at
1902 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1903
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001904- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00001905 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
1906 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
1907
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00001908- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
1909 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
1910 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
1911 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
1912
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00001913- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
1914 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
1915 Python's overall memory).
1916
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00001917- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
1918 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
1919 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
1920 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
1921 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
1922
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00001923- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
1924 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
1925 items, rather than the size in bytes.
1926
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00001927- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
1928
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00001929- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
1930 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
1931
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001932- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00001933 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001934
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00001935- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1936 did not get collected.
1937
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00001938- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
1939 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
1940
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00001941- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
1942 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
1943
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00001944- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1945 fail.
1946
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00001947- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
1948
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00001949- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
1950 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
1951
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00001952- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
1953 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
1954 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
1955
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00001956- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
1957
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00001958- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
1959 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
1960 failures on OS X.
1961
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00001962- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
1963 exceptions.
1964
1965- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00001966 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
1967
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00001968- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
1969 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
1970 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
1971 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
1972
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00001973- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
1974 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
1975 Python 2.x.
1976
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00001977- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
1978 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
1979
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00001980- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
1981 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
1982 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
1983 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00001984
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00001985- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
1986 larger than 1.
1987
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00001988- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1989
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00001990- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1991
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00001992- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1993 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1994 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1995 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1996
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001997Library
1998-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001999
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00002000- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2001 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2002
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00002003- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
2004 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2005
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002006- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00002007 Distutils.
2008
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00002009- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2010
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00002011- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
2012 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
2013 Michael Haubenwallner.
2014
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00002015- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2016
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00002017- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2018 opening an empty or very small file.
2019
2020- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00002021 behavior is similar when used with -O.
2022
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00002023- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2024
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00002025- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
2026 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
2027 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
2028 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
2029
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00002030- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
2031
2032- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2033
2034- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2035 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2036
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002037- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00002038
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002039- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00002040 attribute.
2041
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00002042- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2043
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00002044- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2045
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00002046- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
2047 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
2048 descriptor errors
2049
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002050- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00002051 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2052
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002053- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00002054 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2055
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00002056- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2057 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2058
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00002059- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2060
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00002061- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2062
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00002063- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
2064 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2065 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2066
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00002067- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
2068 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2069
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00002070- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2071
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002072- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00002073 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
2074
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00002075- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2076
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00002077- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
2078 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
2079
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002080- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00002081 subcommand.
2082
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00002083- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
2084 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
2085
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00002086- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
2087 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
2088
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00002089- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
2090 for old-style extensions.
2091
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00002092- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
2093
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00002094- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
2095 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
2096 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
2097 Cournapeau.
2098
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00002099- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
2100
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002101- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00002102 anymore.
2103
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002104- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00002105 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
2106
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00002107- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2108
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00002109- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2110
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00002111- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
2112
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00002113- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
2114 a value in SafeConfigParser.
2115
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00002116- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
2117
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002118- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00002119 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
2120
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00002121- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
2122 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
2123
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00002124- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
2125 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
2126
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002127- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00002128
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002129- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00002130
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00002131- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2132 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2133 threads.
2134
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00002135- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
2136 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2137 that it was failing to do localization.
2138
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00002139- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
2140 Brandl.
2141
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00002142- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
2143 character.
2144
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00002145- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
2146 Tim Golden.
2147
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00002148- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
2149
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00002150- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
2151 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
2152 window flashing.
2153
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00002154- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
2155 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
2156 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
2157
2158- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2159
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00002160- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
2161 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2162
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00002163- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
2164
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00002165- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2166
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00002167- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2168
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00002169- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
2170
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00002171- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2172
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00002173- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2174
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00002175- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2176 import guess_extension`` was used.
2177
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00002178- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
2179 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
2180
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00002181- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2182 overrun.
2183
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00002184- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2185 bdist_rpm command.
2186
2187- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
2188
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002189- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
2190
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00002191- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
2192 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002193
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002194- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2195 IronPython.
2196
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00002197- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
2198 The file was resized to wrong size.
2199
2200- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2201
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002202- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00002203 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
2204
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002205- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00002206 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2207
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00002208- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2209 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2210
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00002211- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
2212
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00002213- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2214 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
2215 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
2216
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00002217- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
2218 encoding.
2219
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00002220- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2221 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2222
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00002223- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2224 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2225
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00002226- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
2227 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
2228 ctime of the files involved.
2229
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00002230- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2231 deadlock.
2232
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00002233- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
2234 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
2235 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
2236
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00002237- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2238
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00002239- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
2240 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
2241
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00002242- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
2243 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
2244 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
2245 Vajda.
2246
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00002247- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
2248 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
2249 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
2250 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
2251
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00002252- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
2253 Ross Light.
2254
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002255- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00002256 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2257
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00002258- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2259 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2260
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002261- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00002262 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2263
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00002264- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2265
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00002266- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
2267
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00002268- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
2269 items being passed through ord().
2270
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00002271- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
2272 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
2273 "src.new").
2274
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00002275- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2276
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00002277- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
2278 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
2279 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
2280
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002281- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00002282 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2283
2284- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
2285 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
2286
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00002287- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
2288 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
2289
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00002290- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2291
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00002292- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
2293 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00002294
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002295- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00002296 allowed non-integer arguments.
2297
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00002298- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
2299 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
2300 examples.
2301
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00002302- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
2303 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2304
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00002305- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
2306 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
2307
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00002308- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
2309 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
2310
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002311- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00002312 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
2313 be disabled, and not compiled.
2314
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00002315- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
2316 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
2317 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
2318 traditional 2.x file object.
2319
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002320- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2321 parameter was set.
2322
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00002323- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
2324 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
2325
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00002326- Add the importlib package.
2327
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00002328- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2329 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2330
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00002331- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002332 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00002333
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00002334- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
2335 without defaults.
2336
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00002337- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
2338 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
2339 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
2340
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00002341- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2342 in sharedctypes.py.
2343
2344- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2345 __getattr__.
2346
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00002347- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
2348 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
2349 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
2350
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00002351- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
2352 counting.
2353
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00002354- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2355
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00002356- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
2357 function without defining argtypes.
2358
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00002359- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
2360 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2361 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
2362 Jacques Frechet.
2363
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00002364- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2365
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00002366- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
2367 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
2368
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002369- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
2370 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00002371 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
2372
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00002373- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
2374 to the decimal module.
2375
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002376- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
2377 cast as floats.
2378
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00002379- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
2380 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
2381
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002382- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002383 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
2384
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002385- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2386 the function is not a generator.
2387
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002388- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
2389 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00002390
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002391- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00002392 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
2393
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00002394- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2395
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00002396- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2397
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00002398- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
2399 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
2400
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00002401- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
2402 works as expected in the interactive environment.
2403
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00002404- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2405 Gabriel Genellina.
2406
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00002407- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
2408 boundary.
2409
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00002410- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
2411 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
2412 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2413
2414- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
2415 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
2416 Alexander Belopolsky.
2417
2418- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
2419 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
2420 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
2421 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
2422 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
2423 Alexander Belopolsky.
2424
2425- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
2426 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
2427 Alexander Belopolsky.
2428
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00002429- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
2430 a non-ASCII letter.
2431
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00002432- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2433
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00002434- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
2435 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
2436
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00002437- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
2438 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
2439 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
2440
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00002441- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
2442 libs.
2443
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002444- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
2445 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2446
2447- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2448 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2449 Content-Disposition headers.
2450
2451- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
2452 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
2453 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
2454 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
2455 doesn't configure logging.
2456
2457- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2458 exception.
2459
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00002460- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
2461 statements.
2462
2463- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2464 not a malformed option.
2465
2466- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
2467 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2468
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00002469- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
2470 the corresponding tests now pass.
2471
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00002472- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
2473 it was calling the wrong open() function.
2474
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00002475- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2476 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2477 Content-Disposition headers.
2478
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00002479- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
2480 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
2481
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00002482- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
2483 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
2484 and getservbyport().
2485
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00002486- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2487
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002488Tools/Demos
2489-----------
2490
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00002491- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
2492 and make it 2.6-compatible.
2493
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00002494- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
2495
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002496- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
2497
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002498
2499Build
2500-----
2501
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00002502- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2503
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00002504- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2505
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00002506- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
2507 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2508
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002509- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002510 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002511
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00002512- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2513
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00002514- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2515
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00002516- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2517
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00002518- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2519
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002520- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
2521
2522- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2523
2524- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2525
2526- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2527
2528- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2529
2530- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2531
2532- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2533
2534- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2535
2536- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
2537
2538- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2539
2540
2541C-API
2542-----
2543
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00002544- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
2545 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
2546
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00002547- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
2548 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
2549
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002550- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2551
2552- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
2553 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
2554
2555- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2556 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
2557
2558
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002559Extension Modules
2560-----------------
2561
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00002562- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2563 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
2564 implementations or external openssl library).
2565
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00002566- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
2567
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00002568- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2569
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00002570- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
2571 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
2572 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
2573
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002574- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2575
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00002576- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
2577 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
2578 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
2579
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002580- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2581
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00002582- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2583
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002584- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2585 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00002586
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00002587- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
2588 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
2589 buffer.
2590
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00002591
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00002592- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2593
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002594Tests
2595-----
2596
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00002597- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2598 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2599
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00002600- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2601 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
2602 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
2603 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
2604
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002605- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002606 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002607 from test support, which does the conversion.
2608
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002609- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2610
2611
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00002612Docs
2613----
2614
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00002615
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002616**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**