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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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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 Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +000015- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
16
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +000017- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule
18 in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
19
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +000020- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
21 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
22 strings.
23
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +000024- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
25 0 padding.
26
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +000027- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
28 complex.__format__. Now it matches other numeric types.
29
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +000030- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
31 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string
32 and PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original
33 deprecations.
34
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +000035- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
36 `PyObject_GetBuffer` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
37
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +000038- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
39 slice with very large step value.
40
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +000041- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
42 tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
43 structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
44 suite_mask, and product_type.
45
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +000046- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
47 could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
48 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
49 string instead.
50
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +000051- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
52 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
53 a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
54 is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
55 executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
56 constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
57 Malcolm.
58
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +000059- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
60 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
61 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
62
Mark Dickinson45b63652010-01-16 18:10:25 +000063- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
64 alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
65 occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
66 that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
Mark Dickinsonc4f18682010-01-17 14:39:12 +000067 strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
68 some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
69 flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +000070
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +000071- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
72 consistent with other special methods.
73
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +000074- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
75 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
76
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +000077- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
78 AttributeError.
79
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +000080- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
81 negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
82 described in C99 Annex F.
83
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +000084- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
85 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
86 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
87 particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
88
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +000089- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
90 executables on OSX.
91
92 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
93 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
94 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
95
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +000096- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
97 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
98
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +000099- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
100 with invalid values.
101
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +0000102- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
103 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
104
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +0000105- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
106 on MacOSX 10.6.
107
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +0000108- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
109
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +0000110- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
111 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
112
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +0000113- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
114 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
115 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
116 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
117 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
118
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +0000119- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
120 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
121
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +0000122- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
123 surrogates.
124
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +0000125- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
126
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +0000127- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
128
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +0000129- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
130 disabled since Python 3.0.
131
132- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
133 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
134 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
135
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +0000136- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
137
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +0000138- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
139 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
140 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
141
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000142- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +0000143 support.
144
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000145- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
146 crash in GAE.
147
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +0000148- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
149 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
150 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
151
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000152- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000153 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000154
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +0000155- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
156 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
157 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
158 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
159
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000160- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
161 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
162
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000163- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
164 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
165
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000166- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
167
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000168- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
169
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000170- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
171
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000172- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
173
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000174- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
175 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
176
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000177- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
178
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000179- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
180
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000181- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
182 occurred in the argument chain.
183
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000184- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
185 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
186
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000187- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
188
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000189- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
190 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
191 documentation.
192
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000193- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
194
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000195- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
196 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
197 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
198
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000199- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000200 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
201 surrogates.
202
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000203- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
204
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000205- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
206 argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
207
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000208- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
209 These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
210
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +0000211- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes
212 instances from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses
213 from being pickled properly.
214
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000215C-API
216-----
217
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +0000218- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added,
219 analogous to PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
220
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +0000221- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
222 has '\0' at the end.
223
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000224- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
225 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
226 PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
227 DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
228 code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
229 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
230
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +0000231- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
232
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000233- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
234 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
235
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000236- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000237 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
238
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000239- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
240 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
241 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
242 using PyDescr_COMMON.
243
244- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000245
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000246- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
247
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000248- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
249 PyCode_Addr2Line().
250
251- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
252 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
253
254- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
255 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
256
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000257- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
258 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
259 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
260 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
261
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000262Library
263-------
264
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +0000265- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
266
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +0000267- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
268 writing.
269
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +0000270- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
271
272- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
273
274- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
275
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +0000276- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
277
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000278- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
Ezio Melotti8b1458b2010-02-24 16:55:43 +0000279 with the cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000280
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +0000281- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
282
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +0000283- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
284 to be ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
285
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +0000286- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
287 Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
288
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +0000289- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
290
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +0000291- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
292 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
293
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +0000294- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
295 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
296
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +0000297- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
298 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
299 and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
300 convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
301 were converted.
302
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +0000303- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
304 interpreter shutdown.
305
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +0000306- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
307 in XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
308 allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
309 PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
310
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +0000311- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
312 entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
313 encoding. Patch by Jerry Chen.
314
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +0000315- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
316 specify the compression type.
317
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +0000318- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
319 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
320 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
321 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
322
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +0000323- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
324 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
325 file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
326 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
327
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +0000328- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
329 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
330 an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can
331 be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
332 It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
333 `readline()` give wrong results. Patch by Nir Aides.
334
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +0000335- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
336 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
337 the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
338 replace it.
339
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +0000340- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
341
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +0000342- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +0000343
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +0000344- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
345
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +0000346- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
347 the release file is empty.
348
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +0000349- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
350 module.
351
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +0000352- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
353 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
354 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
355
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +0000356- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`.
357 Patch by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
358
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +0000359- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
360 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
361
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +0000362- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
363 argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
364
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +0000365- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files.
366 Patch by Brian Curtin.
367
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +0000368- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
369
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +0000370- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
371 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
372 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
373
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +0000374- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
375 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
376 by Arfrever.
377
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +0000378- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
379 the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
380
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +0000381- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
382 Victor Stinner.
383
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +0000384- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
385 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
386 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
387
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +0000388- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
389 and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
390 speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
391
392- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +0000393 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
394
395- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
396
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +0000397- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
398 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
399
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000400- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
401 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
402 in regular expressions.
403
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +0000404- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
405 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
406 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
407
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +0000408- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
409 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
410
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +0000411- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
412 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
413 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
414
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +0000415- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
416 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
417 the same as passing no argument.
418
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +0000419- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
420 default.
421
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +0000422- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
423 in imaplib.
424
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +0000425- Add a reverse() method to collections.deque().
426
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +0000427- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
428
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +0000429- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
430 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
431
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +0000432- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
433 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
434
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000435- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
436 TLS with authentication credentials.
437
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +0000438- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
439 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
440
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +0000441- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
442 msvc9compiler.
443
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +0000444- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
445 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
446 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
447
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +0000448- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
449 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
450 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
451
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +0000452- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
453 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
454 built-in exception printing.
455
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +0000456- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
457 Robert Collins.
458
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000459- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
460
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +0000461- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
462 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
463 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
464
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +0000465- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
466 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
467 Brian Quinlan.
468
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +0000469- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
470
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +0000471- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
472
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +0000473- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
474 raises ReadError on empty files.
475
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +0000476- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
477 be 2.
478
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +0000479- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
480 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +0000481
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +0000482- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
483 case of an error.
484
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +0000485- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
486 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
487
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +0000488- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
489 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
490
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +0000491- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
492
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +0000493- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
494 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
495
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +0000496- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
497 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
498 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
499 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
500 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
501
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +0000502- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
503 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
504 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
505 local connections.
506
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +0000507- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
508 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
509 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
510
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +0000511- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
512 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
513 class to be used without having to subclass.
514
515- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
516 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
517
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +0000518- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
519 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
520 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
521 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
522
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +0000523- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
524 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
525 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
526
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +0000527- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
528 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
529
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +0000530- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
531 which are part of a reference cycle.
532
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +0000533- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
534 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
535
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +0000536- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
537 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
538 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
539
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +0000540- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
541 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
542 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
543 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
544 OSes such as Solaris.
545
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +0000546- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
547 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
548 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
549 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
550
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +0000551- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
552 header as required by RFC 1952.
553
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +0000554- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
555 Distutils.
556
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +0000557- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
558 an uppercase.
559
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +0000560- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
561 several threads at once.
562
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000563- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
564
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +0000565- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
566 larger than emax.
567
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000568- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
569 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
570
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +0000571- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
572 GNU readline library version 6.0.
573
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000574- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +0000575
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000576- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
577 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000578
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +0000579- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
580 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
581
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +0000582- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
583 builtin tokenizer.
584
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +0000585- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
586 is too large to fit in the current precision.
587
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000588- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000589 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000590
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +0000591- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
592 does now always result in NULL.
593
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +0000594- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
595 with base class positional arguments.
596
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +0000597- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
598
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +0000599- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
600
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +0000601- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
602
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +0000603- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
604
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +0000605- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
606 instances.
607
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +0000608- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
609 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
610 in long(Decimal('nan')).
611
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +0000612- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
613 with no type specifier.
614
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +0000615- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
616
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +0000617- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
618 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
619 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
620 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
621
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +0000622- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
623 should be raised, not AttributeError.
624
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +0000625- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
626 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
627
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +0000628- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
629 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
630 AttributeError before).
631
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +0000632- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
633
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +0000634- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
635
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +0000636- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
637
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +0000638- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
639 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
640
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +0000641- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
642
643- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
644
645- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
646
647- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
648 ScrolledText.
649
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +0000650- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
651
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +0000652- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
653 the xview* and yview* methods.
654
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +0000655- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
656 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
657 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
658 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
659
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +0000660- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
661 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
662
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +0000663- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
664
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +0000665- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
666 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
667 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
668
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +0000669- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
670 DO/DONT correctly.
671
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +0000672- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
673 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
674 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +0000675
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +0000676- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
677 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
678 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
679 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
680
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +0000681- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
682 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
683 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
684
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +0000685- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
686 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
687 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
688
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +0000689- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +0000690
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +0000691- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
692 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
693
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +0000694- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
695 syntax error.
696
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +0000697- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
698 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
699
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +0000700- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
701
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +0000702- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
703
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +0000704- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
705
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000706- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
707 sys.path.
708
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +0000709- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
710
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +0000711- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will
712 be searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
713
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +0000714- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
715 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
716
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +0000717- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
718 os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
719
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +0000720- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
721
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000722Extension Modules
723-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000724
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +0000725- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
726 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
727
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +0000728- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
729
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +0000730- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
731
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +0000732- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000733
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +0000734- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
735 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000736
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +0000737- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
738
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +0000739- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
740
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +0000741- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
742 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
743 matched characters with category 'No'.
744
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000745- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000746 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
747 buffers.
748
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000749- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
750
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +0000751- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
752 (CVE_2009_3560).
753
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +0000754- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
755 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
756 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
757
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +0000758- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
759 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
760
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000761Build
762-----
763
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +0000764- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +0000765
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +0000766- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
767 private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
768 PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
769
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +0000770- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
771
772- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
773 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
774
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +0000775- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
776 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
777 Python.
778
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +0000779- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
780 found.
781
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +0000782- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +0000783
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +0000784- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
785 icc or suncc.
786
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +0000787- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
788 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
789 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
790
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +0000791- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
792
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +0000793- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
794
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +0000795- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
796 directories.
797
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000798- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
799 extensions are installed.
800
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +0000801- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the compiler might
802 use the wrong library.
803
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +0000804Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000805------------
806
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +0000807- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
808 -J and -X options.
809
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +0000810- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
811 ImportError.
812
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000813- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
814 for Windows.
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +0000815
816- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
817 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000818
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000819Tests
820-----
821
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +0000822- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
823 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
824
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +0000825- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
826 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
827 The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
828 Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
829
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +0000830- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
831 test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
832 wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.
833
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +0000834- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use test_support.bind_port
835 instead of a hard coded port.
836
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +0000837- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
838 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
839
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +0000840- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
841
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +0000842- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +0000843 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
844
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +0000845- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
846 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
847 user running the tests.
848
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +0000849- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
850 catch the case of an option with no handler.
851
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +0000852- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
853 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
854
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +0000855- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
856 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
857 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
858 to empty global variables.
859
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +0000860- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
861
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +0000862- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
863 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
864
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +0000865- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
866 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
867 between concurrent executions on the same system.
868
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +0000869- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
870 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
871 calling methods on the object.
872
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +0000873- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
874 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
875 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
876 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
877 :func:`_thread._count()`.
878
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +0000879- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
880 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
881
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +0000882- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
883 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
884
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +0000885- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
886 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
887 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +0000888
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +0000889- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
890
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +0000891- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
892 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
893 object bytecode.
894
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000895- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
896 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
897
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +0000898Tools/Demos
899-----------
900
901- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
902 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the
903 sandbox.
904
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000905
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000906What's New in Python 3.1?
907=========================
908
909*Release date: 27-June-2009*
910
911Core and Builtins
912-----------------
913
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +0000914- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
915 large arguments.
916
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +0000917- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
918 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
919
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000920Library
921-------
922
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +0000923- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
924
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +0000925- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +0000926
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +0000927- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
928
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +0000929- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
930 io.UnsupportedOperation.
931
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +0000932- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +0000933 (On Unix)
934
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +0000935- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
936 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
937
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +0000938Extension Modules
939-----------------
940
941- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
942
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000943
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +0000944What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
945=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000946
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +0000947*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000948
949Core and Builtins
950-----------------
951
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +0000952- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
953
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +0000954- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
955 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
956
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +0000957- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
958 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
959
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +0000960- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +0000961 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +0000962
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000963Library
964-------
965
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +0000966- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +0000967 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +0000968 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
969
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +0000970- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
971
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +0000972- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
973 binary files.
974
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +0000975- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
976 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
977
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +0000978- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
979 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
980 are always None now.
981
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +0000982- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
983 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
984 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
985 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
986
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +0000987- Removed the ipaddr module.
988
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +0000989- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
990 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
991 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
992
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +0000993- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
994
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +0000995- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
996
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +0000997- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
998 parameters.
999
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001000Windows
1001-------
1002
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00001003- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
1004
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001005- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
1006
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00001007C-API
1008-----
1009
1010- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
1011 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
1012 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
1013
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001014
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001015Build
1016-----
1017
1018- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
1019 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
1020
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00001021- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1022 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1023
1024
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001025
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00001026What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
1027=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001028
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00001029*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001030
1031Core and Builtins
1032-----------------
1033
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00001034- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
1035 of the command line.
1036
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00001037- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
1038
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00001039- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
1040 that would raise SystemError.
1041
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00001042- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
1043 function with __func__.
1044
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00001045- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
1046 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00001047
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00001048- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
1049 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
1050 and imaginary literals.
1051
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00001052- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1053
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00001054- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
1055
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00001056- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
1057 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
1058 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
1059 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
1060 didn't match that of float('-nan').
1061
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001062Library
1063-------
1064
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00001065- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
1066
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00001067- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
1068
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00001069- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
1070 argument to the 'help' function.
1071
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00001072- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
1073 arguments for strings with a space in them.
1074
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00001075- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
1076 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
1077
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00001078- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1079 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1080
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00001081- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
1082 the directory already exists.
1083
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00001084- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1085 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1086 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1087
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00001088- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
1089 IO objects.
1090
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00001091- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
1092 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
1093
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00001094- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
1095 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
1096 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
1097
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00001098- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1099 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1100
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00001101- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1102 deepcopy()ing.
1103
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00001104- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1105
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00001106- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1107
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00001108- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1109
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00001110- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
1111 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
1112 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
1113 empty.
1114
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00001115- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1116 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
1117 corrects a pydoc regression.
1118
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00001119- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
1120 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
1121
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00001122Installation
1123------------
1124
1125- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
1126 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001127
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00001128- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
1129
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001130Extension Modules
1131-----------------
1132
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00001133- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00001134
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00001135- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1136
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001137- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
1138
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00001139- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
1140 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00001141
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00001142Build
1143-----
1144
1145- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1146 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1147 Clinton Roy.
1148
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00001149Tests
1150-----
1151
1152- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
1153 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
1154 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
1155 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
1156
1157
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001158What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
1159================================
1160
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00001161*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001162
1163Core and Builtins
1164-----------------
1165
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00001166- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
1167 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
1168
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001169- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
1170 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
1171 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
1172
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00001173- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
1174 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
1175 a PendingDeprecation warning.
1176
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00001177- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
1178 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
1179 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
1180 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
1181 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
1182 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
1183 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
1184 the same way.
1185
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00001186- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
1187
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00001188- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
1189 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
1190 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
1191
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00001192- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
1193 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
1194
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00001195- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00001196
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00001197- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
1198 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
1199 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
1200
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00001201- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
1202 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
1203 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
1204 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00001205
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001206- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00001207 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
1208
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00001209- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
1210 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
1211
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00001212- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
1213 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
1214
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00001215- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
1216
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00001217- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
1218 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
1219
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00001220- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1221
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00001222- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
1223 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
1224
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00001225- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00001226
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00001227- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
1228 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
1229 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
1230 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
1231
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00001232- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
1233 some builtin types.
1234
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001235- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
1236
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00001237- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
1238 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001239
1240- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1241 floats.
1242
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001243- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001244 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
1245 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
1246 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
1247 long time.)
1248
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001249- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
1250 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
1251 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
1252 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001253 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
1254 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
1255 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001256
1257 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
1258 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
1259 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
1260 reason or another.
1261
1262 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
1263 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
1264 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
1265 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
1266 correctly rounded on these platforms.
1267
1268 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
1269 this change does not apply.
1270
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00001271- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1272
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00001273- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
1274 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
1275 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
1276 methods available on the str class.
1277
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00001278- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
1279 its clarity and its speed.
1280
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00001281- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1282 to avoid compiler warnings.
1283
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00001284- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1285 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1286
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00001287Installation
1288------------
1289
1290- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
1291
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001292Library
1293-------
1294
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00001295- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
1296 specific Python version.
1297
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00001298- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1299 whitespace.
1300
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001301- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00001302 the right type checkings anymore.
1303
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00001304- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
1305 return directories.
1306
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00001307- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1308
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00001309- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1310 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1311
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00001312- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
1313 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
1314
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00001315- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
1316 extracting a file to the root directory.
1317
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00001318- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
1319
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00001320- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1321 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1322 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1323
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00001324- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
1325
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00001326- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1327 Contributed by Google.
1328
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00001329- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1330 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1331
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00001332- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
1333
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00001334- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1335
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00001336- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1337 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1338 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1339
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00001340- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1341 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1342 initialized before.
1343
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001344- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1345 names which should not be exported.
1346
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00001347- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
1348 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
1349
1350- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1351
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00001352- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
1353 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
1354 instances.
1355
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00001356- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
1357 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
1358 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
1359
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00001360- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
1361 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
1362
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00001363- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
1364 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
1365 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
1366 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
1367 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
1368
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00001369- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1370 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1371
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00001372- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1373 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1374 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1375
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001376Extension Modules
1377-----------------
1378
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00001379- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
1380 pwd.
1381
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00001382- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
1383 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
1384 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
1385 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
1386
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001387- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
1388 using Berkley-DB.
1389
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00001390Tests
1391-----
1392
1393- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1394 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1395 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1396 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1397 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1398
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00001399- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1400 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1401 incorrectly on __exit__.
1402
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00001403C-API
1404-----
1405
1406- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
1407
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001408
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001409What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
1410=================================
1411
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00001412*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001413
1414Core and Builtins
1415-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001416
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00001417- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1418 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001419
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00001420- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
1421
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00001422- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
1423 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
1424
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00001425- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1426 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1427
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00001428- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1429
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001430- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
1431 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
1432
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00001433- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
1434 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
1435 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
1436
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00001437- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
1438
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00001439- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
1440 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
1441
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00001442- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
1443 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
1444 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
1445 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
1446
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00001447- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
1448 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
1449 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
1450
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00001451- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
1452 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
1453 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
1454 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
1455 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
1456 the internal format.
1457
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00001458- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
1459 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
1460 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
1461
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00001462- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
1463 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
1464
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00001465- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
1466 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
1467
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00001468- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
1469 short file names.
1470
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001471Library
1472-------
1473
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001474- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00001475 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1476
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00001477- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
1478 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
1479 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
1480
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00001481- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
1482 the -T argument.
1483
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00001484- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1485
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00001486- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
1487
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00001488- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
1489
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00001490- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1491 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1492
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00001493- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1494
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00001495- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1496
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00001497- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1498 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1499
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00001500- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
1501 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
1502
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00001503- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
1504 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1505 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1506
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00001507- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
1508
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00001509- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
1510 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
1511
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00001512- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
1513 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
1514
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00001515- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1516 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1517 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1518 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1519
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00001520- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1521 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1522
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00001523- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1524 '>' alignment characters.
1525
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00001526- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
1527 value, and report it as -1 instead.
1528
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00001529- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
1530 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1531
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001532Extension Modules
1533-----------------
1534
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001535- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
1536
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001537- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
1538 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00001539 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
1540 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
1541 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001542
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001543
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001544What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00001545================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001546
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001547*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001548
1549Core and Builtins
1550-----------------
1551
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00001552- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
1553
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00001554- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
1555
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00001556- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
1557 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
1558
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00001559- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
1560 contained non ascii character on windows.
1561
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00001562- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
1563 source has already been decoded into str.
1564
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00001565- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1566 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1567
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00001568- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
1569 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
1570
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00001571- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
1572 returns a non-number type.
1573
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00001574- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
1575
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00001576- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
1577 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00001578 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
1579 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00001580
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001581- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00001582 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
1583
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00001584- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
1585 Previously it returned a float.
1586
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00001587- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
1588 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
1589 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
1590 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
1591
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00001592- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
1593
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00001594- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
1595 from a string.
1596
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00001597- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
1598
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00001599- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
1600 optional module state data.
1601
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00001602- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
1603 type to (void *).
1604
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00001605- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
1606 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
1607 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
1608
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00001609- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1610 __next__ method.
1611
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00001612- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
1613 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
1614 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
1615
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00001616- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1617
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00001618- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1619
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00001620- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
1621 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
1622 amount of loop unrolling.
1623
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00001624- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1625 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1626 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
1627 Martin von Löwis at
1628 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1629
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001630- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00001631 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
1632 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
1633
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00001634- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
1635 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
1636 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
1637 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
1638
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00001639- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
1640 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
1641 Python's overall memory).
1642
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00001643- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
1644 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
1645 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
1646 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
1647 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
1648
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00001649- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
1650 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
1651 items, rather than the size in bytes.
1652
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00001653- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
1654
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00001655- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
1656 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
1657
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001658- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00001659 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001660
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00001661- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1662 did not get collected.
1663
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00001664- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
1665 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
1666
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00001667- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
1668 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
1669
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00001670- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1671 fail.
1672
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00001673- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
1674
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00001675- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
1676 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
1677
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00001678- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
1679 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
1680 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
1681
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00001682- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
1683
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00001684- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
1685 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
1686 failures on OS X.
1687
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00001688- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
1689 exceptions.
1690
1691- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00001692 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
1693
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00001694- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
1695 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
1696 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
1697 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
1698
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00001699- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
1700 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
1701 Python 2.x.
1702
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00001703- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
1704 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
1705
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00001706- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
1707 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
1708 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
1709 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00001710
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00001711- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
1712 larger than 1.
1713
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00001714- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1715
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00001716- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1717
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00001718- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1719 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1720 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1721 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1722
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001723Library
1724-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001725
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00001726- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1727 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1728
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00001729- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
1730 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1731
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001732- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00001733 Distutils.
1734
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00001735- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1736
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00001737- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
1738 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
1739 Michael Haubenwallner.
1740
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00001741- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1742
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00001743- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1744 opening an empty or very small file.
1745
1746- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00001747 behavior is similar when used with -O.
1748
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00001749- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1750
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00001751- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
1752 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
1753 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
1754 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
1755
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001756- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
1757
1758- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1759
1760- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1761 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1762
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001763- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00001764
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001765- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00001766 attribute.
1767
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00001768- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1769
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00001770- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1771
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001772- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
1773 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
1774 descriptor errors
1775
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001776- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00001777 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1778
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001779- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00001780 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1781
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00001782- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1783 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1784
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00001785- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1786
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00001787- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1788
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00001789- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
1790 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1791 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1792
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00001793- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
1794 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1795
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00001796- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1797
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001798- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00001799 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1800
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00001801- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1802
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00001803- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
1804 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
1805
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001806- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00001807 subcommand.
1808
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00001809- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
1810 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1811
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00001812- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
1813 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
1814
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00001815- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
1816 for old-style extensions.
1817
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00001818- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1819
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00001820- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
1821 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1822 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
1823 Cournapeau.
1824
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00001825- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1826
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001827- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00001828 anymore.
1829
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001830- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00001831 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
1832
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00001833- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1834
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00001835- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1836
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00001837- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
1838
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00001839- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
1840 a value in SafeConfigParser.
1841
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00001842- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
1843
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001844- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00001845 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
1846
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00001847- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
1848 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
1849
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00001850- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
1851 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
1852
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001853- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00001854
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001855- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00001856
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00001857- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1858 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1859 threads.
1860
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00001861- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
1862 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1863 that it was failing to do localization.
1864
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00001865- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
1866 Brandl.
1867
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00001868- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1869 character.
1870
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00001871- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1872 Tim Golden.
1873
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00001874- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1875
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00001876- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1877 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1878 window flashing.
1879
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00001880- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1881 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1882 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1883
1884- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1885
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00001886- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1887 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1888
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00001889- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
1890
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00001891- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1892
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00001893- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1894
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00001895- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1896
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00001897- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1898
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00001899- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1900
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00001901- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1902 import guess_extension`` was used.
1903
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00001904- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1905 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1906
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00001907- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1908 overrun.
1909
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00001910- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1911 bdist_rpm command.
1912
1913- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1914
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001915- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1916
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00001917- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1918 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001919
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001920- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1921 IronPython.
1922
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00001923- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1924 The file was resized to wrong size.
1925
1926- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1927
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001928- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00001929 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1930
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001931- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00001932 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1933
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00001934- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1935 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1936
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00001937- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1938
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00001939- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1940 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
1941 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
1942
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00001943- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
1944 encoding.
1945
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00001946- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1947 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1948
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00001949- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1950 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1951
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00001952- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1953 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1954 ctime of the files involved.
1955
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00001956- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1957 deadlock.
1958
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00001959- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1960 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1961 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1962
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00001963- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1964
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00001965- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1966 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1967
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00001968- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1969 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
1970 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1971 Vajda.
1972
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00001973- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1974 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1975 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1976 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
1977
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00001978- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1979 Ross Light.
1980
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001981- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00001982 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1983
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00001984- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1985 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1986
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001987- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00001988 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1989
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00001990- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1991
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00001992- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
1993
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00001994- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
1995 items being passed through ord().
1996
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00001997- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1998 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1999 "src.new").
2000
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00002001- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2002
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00002003- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
2004 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
2005 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
2006
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002007- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00002008 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2009
2010- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
2011 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
2012
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00002013- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
2014 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
2015
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00002016- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2017
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00002018- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
2019 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00002020
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002021- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00002022 allowed non-integer arguments.
2023
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00002024- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
2025 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
2026 examples.
2027
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00002028- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
2029 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2030
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00002031- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
2032 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
2033
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00002034- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
2035 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
2036
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002037- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00002038 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
2039 be disabled, and not compiled.
2040
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00002041- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
2042 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
2043 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
2044 traditional 2.x file object.
2045
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002046- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2047 parameter was set.
2048
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00002049- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
2050 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
2051
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00002052- Add the importlib package.
2053
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00002054- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2055 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2056
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00002057- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002058 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00002059
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00002060- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
2061 without defaults.
2062
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00002063- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
2064 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
2065 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
2066
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00002067- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2068 in sharedctypes.py.
2069
2070- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2071 __getattr__.
2072
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00002073- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
2074 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
2075 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
2076
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00002077- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
2078 counting.
2079
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00002080- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2081
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00002082- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
2083 function without defining argtypes.
2084
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00002085- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
2086 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2087 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
2088 Jacques Frechet.
2089
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00002090- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2091
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00002092- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
2093 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
2094
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002095- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
2096 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00002097 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
2098
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00002099- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
2100 to the decimal module.
2101
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002102- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
2103 cast as floats.
2104
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00002105- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
2106 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
2107
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002108- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002109 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
2110
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002111- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2112 the function is not a generator.
2113
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002114- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
2115 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00002116
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002117- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00002118 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
2119
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00002120- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2121
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00002122- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2123
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00002124- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
2125 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
2126
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00002127- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
2128 works as expected in the interactive environment.
2129
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00002130- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2131 Gabriel Genellina.
2132
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00002133- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
2134 boundary.
2135
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00002136- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
2137 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
2138 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2139
2140- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
2141 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
2142 Alexander Belopolsky.
2143
2144- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
2145 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
2146 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
2147 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
2148 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
2149 Alexander Belopolsky.
2150
2151- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
2152 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
2153 Alexander Belopolsky.
2154
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00002155- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
2156 a non-ASCII letter.
2157
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00002158- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2159
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00002160- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
2161 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
2162
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00002163- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
2164 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
2165 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
2166
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00002167- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
2168 libs.
2169
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002170- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
2171 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2172
2173- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2174 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2175 Content-Disposition headers.
2176
2177- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
2178 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
2179 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
2180 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
2181 doesn't configure logging.
2182
2183- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2184 exception.
2185
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00002186- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
2187 statements.
2188
2189- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2190 not a malformed option.
2191
2192- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
2193 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2194
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00002195- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
2196 the corresponding tests now pass.
2197
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00002198- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
2199 it was calling the wrong open() function.
2200
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00002201- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2202 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2203 Content-Disposition headers.
2204
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00002205- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
2206 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
2207
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00002208- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
2209 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
2210 and getservbyport().
2211
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00002212- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2213
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002214Tools/Demos
2215-----------
2216
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00002217- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
2218 and make it 2.6-compatible.
2219
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00002220- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
2221
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002222- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
2223
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002224
2225Build
2226-----
2227
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00002228- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2229
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00002230- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2231
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00002232- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
2233 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2234
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002235- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002236 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002237
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00002238- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2239
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00002240- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2241
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00002242- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2243
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00002244- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2245
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002246- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
2247
2248- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2249
2250- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2251
2252- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2253
2254- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2255
2256- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2257
2258- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2259
2260- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2261
2262- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
2263
2264- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2265
2266
2267C-API
2268-----
2269
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00002270- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
2271 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
2272
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00002273- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
2274 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
2275
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002276- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2277
2278- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
2279 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
2280
2281- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2282 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
2283
2284
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002285Extension Modules
2286-----------------
2287
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00002288- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2289 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
2290 implementations or external openssl library).
2291
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00002292- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
2293
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00002294- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2295
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00002296- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
2297 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
2298 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
2299
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002300- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2301
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00002302- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
2303 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
2304 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
2305
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002306- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2307
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00002308- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2309
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002310- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2311 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00002312
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00002313- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
2314 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
2315 buffer.
2316
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00002317
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00002318- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2319
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002320Tests
2321-----
2322
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00002323- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2324 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2325
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00002326- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2327 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
2328 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
2329 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
2330
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002331- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002332 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002333 from test support, which does the conversion.
2334
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002335- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2336
2337
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00002338Docs
2339----
2340
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00002341
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002342**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**