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Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00001+++++++++++
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
4
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +03005What's New in Python 3.2.3?
6===========================
7
8*Release date: XX-XXX-2011*
9
10Core and Builtins
11-----------------
12
Antoine Pitrou2be60af2012-01-24 17:44:06 +010013- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
14 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
15
Antoine Pitrou6c40eb72012-01-18 20:16:09 +010016- Fix the builtin module initialization code to store the init function for
17 future reinitialization.
18
Gregory P. Smith9564e4c2012-01-21 14:50:11 -080019- Issue #8052: The posix subprocess module would take a long time closing
20 all possible file descriptors in the child process rather than just open
21 file descriptors. It now closes only the open fds if possible for the
22 default close_fds=True behavior.
23
Meador Inge33880602012-01-15 19:15:36 -060024- Issue #13629: Renumber the tokens in token.h so that they match the indexes
25 into _PyParser_TokenNames.
26
Antoine Pitrou2e872082011-12-15 14:15:31 +010027- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
28 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
29 noticing.
30
Alexandre Vassalotti3bfc65a2011-12-13 13:08:09 -050031- Issue #13505: Pickle bytes objects in a way that is compatible with
32 Python 2 when using protocols <= 2.
33
Barry Warsaw9f571352011-12-05 16:45:02 -050034- Issue #11147: Fix an unused argument in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER. (Fix
35 given by Campbell Barton).
36
Antoine Pitrou11942a52011-11-28 19:08:36 +010037- Issue #7111: Python can now be run without a stdin, stdout or stderr
38 stream. It was already the case with Python 2. However, the corresponding
39 sys module entries are now set to None (instead of an unusable file object).
40
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc58e87612011-11-22 21:51:55 +010041- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
42 an invalid integer value.
43
Petri Lehtinen8d40f162011-11-19 22:03:10 +020044- Issue #13338: Handle all enumerations in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER
45 to allow compiling extension modules with -Wswitch-enum on gcc.
46 Initial patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
47
Antoine Pitrou5418ee02011-11-15 01:42:21 +010048- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
49 already accepts them).
50
Antoine Pitrou0d776b12011-11-06 00:34:26 +010051- Issue #13342: input() used to ignore sys.stdin's and sys.stdout's unicode
52 error handler in interactive mode (when calling into PyOS_Readline()).
53
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97c1bef2011-11-04 22:17:45 +010054- Issue #13343: Fix a SystemError when a lambda expression uses a global
55 variable in the default value of a keyword-only argument:
56 (lambda *, arg=GLOBAL_NAME: None)
57
Petri Lehtinencd06a142011-10-30 20:59:10 +020058- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
59 setobject.c.
60
Antoine Pitrou8db076c2011-10-30 19:13:55 +010061- Issue #10363: Deallocate global locks in Py_Finalize().
62
Petri Lehtinena94200e2011-10-24 21:12:58 +030063- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
64 Patch by Suman Saha.
65
Nick Coghlande31b192011-10-23 22:04:16 +100066- Issue #1294232: In a few cases involving metaclass inheritance, the
67 interpreter would sometimes invoke the wrong metaclass when building a new
68 class object. These cases now behave correctly. Patch by Daniel Urban.
69
Senthil Kumaranfdd45752011-10-21 00:29:47 +080070- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
71 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
72
Antoine Pitrou551ba202011-10-18 16:40:50 +020073- Issue #13188: When called without an explicit traceback argument,
74 generator.throw() now gets the traceback from the passed exception's
75 ``__traceback__`` attribute. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
76
Mark Hammond6c58b282011-10-17 11:05:57 +110077- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
78 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
79 embedded situations.
80
Antoine Pitrou586bfe42011-10-07 16:16:31 +020081- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
82 as "The pipe is being closed") is now mapped to POSIX errno EPIPE
83 (previously EINVAL).
84
Antoine Pitroueeb7eea2011-10-06 18:57:27 +020085- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge
86 tuples or lists.
87
Victor Stinner53ffdc52011-09-23 18:54:40 +020088- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a
89 module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g.
90 "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead.
91
Barry Warsaw916048d2011-09-20 14:45:44 -040092- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path. Thanks to Suman Saha for
93 finding the bug and providing a patch.
94
Mark Dickinsonb2f6bc72011-09-24 08:56:09 +010095- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
96 list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These bugs
97 caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsonc0420fd2011-09-19 19:18:37 +010098
Antoine Pitroua7622852011-09-01 21:37:43 +020099- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
100 mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).
101
Ezio Melotti93e7afc2011-08-22 14:08:38 +0300102- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
103 characters even in narrow Unicode builds.
104
Antoine Pitroua370fcf2011-08-20 14:15:03 +0200105- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
106 an exception.
107
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +0300108- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
109 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
110
Charles-François Natali134a8ba2011-08-18 18:49:39 +0200111Library
112-------
113
Antoine Pitrou5311c1d2012-01-24 08:59:28 +0100114- Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
115 target's type (file or directory). The detection was buggy and made the
116 call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
117
Senthil Kumaran3800ea92012-01-21 11:52:48 +0800118- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
119
Antoine Pitrou1b468af2012-01-18 22:30:21 +0100120- Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs
121 registry.
122
Nadeem Vawda892b0b92012-01-18 09:25:58 +0200123- Issue #13781: Fix GzipFile bug that caused an exception to be raised when
124 opening for writing using a fileobj returned by os.fdopen().
125
Jesus Cea8874fd62012-01-18 03:58:42 +0100126- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
127 in the directory name.
128
Antoine Pitrou03757ec2012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100129- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
130 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
131
Senthil Kumaranc5c5a142012-01-14 19:09:04 +0800132- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
133 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
134
Senthil Kumaranbcfe56d2012-01-14 18:26:27 +0800135- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
136 tests.
137
Ross Lagerwall66e2fb62012-01-08 08:29:40 +0200138- Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
139 The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
140 the executor had been shut down.
141
Charles-François Natalided03482012-01-07 18:24:56 +0100142- Issue #13502: threading: Fix a race condition in Event.wait() that made it
143 return False when the event was set and cleared right after.
144
Lars Gustäbeldee45e22012-01-05 18:48:06 +0100145- Issue #12926: Fix a bug in tarfile's link extraction.
146
Senthil Kumaran6497aa32012-01-04 13:46:59 +0800147- Issue #13696: Fix the 302 Relative URL Redirection problem.
148
Antoine Pitrou8f85f902012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100149- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
150 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
151
Senthil Kumaran83194f52011-12-23 11:11:21 +0800152- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
153
Ross Lagerwall031bf952011-12-22 09:07:30 +0200154- Issue #11006: Don't issue low level warning in subprocess when pipe2() fails.
155
Michael Foord3ba95f82011-12-22 01:13:37 +0000156- Issue #11829: Fix code execution holes in inspect.getattr_static for
157 metaclasses with metaclasses. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
158
Antoine Pitrou86a8a9a2011-12-21 09:57:40 +0100159- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
160
Victor Stinnerd2084162011-12-19 13:42:24 +0100161- Issue #11813: Fix inspect.getattr_static for modules. Patch by Andreas
Michael Foorda51623b2011-12-18 22:01:40 +0000162 Stührk.
163
Antoine Pitrou2bc801c2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100164- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
165 Cédric Krier.
166
Charles-François Natali6d5f9e72011-12-18 18:35:09 +0100167- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
168 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
169
Charles-François Natalicf53ae22011-12-18 16:05:07 +0100170- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
171 redirection or an error.
172
Antoine Pitrouc345ce12011-12-16 12:28:32 +0100173- Issue #10350: Read and save errno before calling a function which might
174 overwrite it. Original patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
175
Meador Ingeb7288a72011-12-14 22:37:48 -0600176- Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
177 to load a module twice.
178
Ned Deily061c0282011-12-14 15:06:50 -0800179- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
180 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
181 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
182
Victor Stinner720f34a2011-12-09 20:19:24 +0100183- Issue #5905: time.strftime() is now using the locale encoding, instead of
184 UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.
185
Ned Deily2f0ad742011-12-07 01:08:35 -0800186- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
187 Patch by Tal Einat.
188
Lars Gustäbeled1ac582011-12-06 12:56:38 +0100189- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
190 other than 900k.
191
Petri Lehtinen9aa20af2011-12-02 21:24:14 +0200192- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
193
Éric Araujoa74f8ef2011-11-29 16:58:53 +0100194- Issue #13487: Make inspect.getmodule robust against changes done to
195 sys.modules while it is iterating over it.
196
Meador Inge22b9b372011-11-28 09:27:32 -0600197- Issue #12618: Fix a bug that prevented py_compile from creating byte
198 compiled files in the current directory. Initial patch by Sjoerd de Vries.
199
Antoine Pitroud7c8fbf2011-11-26 21:59:36 +0100200- Issue #13444: When stdout has been closed explicitly, we should not attempt
201 to flush it at shutdown and print an error.
202
Antoine Pitrou4558bad2011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100203- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
204 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
205 Harring.
206
Antoine Pitrou116d6b92011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100207- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
208 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
209
Victor Stinner60b385e2011-11-22 22:01:28 +0100210- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
211
Antoine Pitrou58fcf9f2011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100212- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
213 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
214 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
215 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
216 Patch by sbt.
217
Ezio Melotti15cb4892011-11-18 18:01:49 +0200218- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
219
Ezio Melotti8008f2a2011-11-18 17:34:26 +0200220- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
221 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
222 Kenigsberg.
223
Ezio Melottic2fe5772011-11-14 18:53:33 +0200224- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
225 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
226
Antoine Pitrou3714c1e2011-11-12 01:22:11 +0100227- Issue #13193: Fix distutils.filelist.FileList under Windows. The
228 "recursive-include" directive now recognizes both legal path separators.
229
Brian Curtin675f6b82011-11-11 09:37:25 -0600230- Issue #13384: Remove unnecessary __future__ import in Lib/random.py
231
Antoine Pitroua3651132011-11-10 00:37:09 +0100232- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
233 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
234
Petri Lehtinen8c482ee2011-11-05 09:44:59 +0200235- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
236 are read correctly.
237
Petri Lehtinen3c85fe02011-11-04 21:35:07 +0200238- Issue #3067: locale.setlocale() now raises TypeError if the second
Petri Lehtinen395ca722011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200239 argument is an invalid iterable. Its documentation and docstring
240 were also updated. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
Petri Lehtinen3c85fe02011-11-04 21:35:07 +0200241
Florent Xicluna12b66b52011-11-04 10:16:28 +0100242- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
243
Ross Lagerwalldcfde5a2011-11-04 07:09:14 +0200244- Issue #13339: Fix compile error in posixmodule.c due to missing semicolon.
245 Thanks to Robert Xiao.
246
Petri Lehtinenfd6b5822011-11-06 09:24:19 +0200247- Issue #10570: curses.putp() and curses.tparm() are now expecting a byte
Victor Stinnerb3bc7e72011-11-03 20:35:40 +0100248 string, instead of a Unicode string.
Victor Stinner26621332011-11-02 23:45:29 +0100249
Florent Xicluna91d51932011-11-01 23:31:09 +0100250- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
251
Ezio Melotti7de56f62011-11-01 14:12:22 +0200252- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
253 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
254
255- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumarance260142011-11-01 01:35:17 +0800256 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
257
Ezio Melotti7de56f62011-11-01 14:12:22 +0200258- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily7aff4512011-10-30 20:01:35 -0700259 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
260
Florent Xicluna93dfee12011-10-30 20:22:25 +0100261- Issue #13293: Better error message when trying to marshal bytes using
262 xmlrpc.client.
263
Florent Xicluna3fa29f72011-10-30 20:18:50 +0100264- Issue #13291: NameError in xmlrpc package.
265
Florent Xicluna5d1155c2011-10-28 14:45:05 +0200266- Issue #13258: Use callable() built-in in the standard library.
267
Ezio Melottif50ffa92011-10-28 13:21:09 +0300268- Issue #13273: fix a bug that prevented HTMLParser to properly detect some
269 tags when strict=False.
270
Charles-François Natalif8859e12011-10-24 18:45:29 +0200271- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
272 before all tasks have completed.
273
Florent Xiclunac45fb252011-10-24 13:14:55 +0200274- Issue #13255: wrong docstrings in array module.
275
Florent Xicluna711f87c2011-10-20 23:03:43 +0200276- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
277
Senthil Kumaranfdd45752011-10-21 00:29:47 +0800278- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
279 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
280
Ezio Melotti6bfecd12011-10-18 13:20:07 +0300281- Issue #12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
282 in order to display the prompt correctly.
283
Senthil Kumaran29fa9d42011-10-20 01:46:00 +0800284- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
285 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
286
Nadeem Vawdabcb86c52011-10-17 19:34:22 +0200287- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
288 now available on Windows.
289
Lars Gustäbelac3d1372011-10-14 12:46:40 +0200290- Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of GNU tar specific base-256 number
291 fields in tarfile.
292
Raymond Hettinger4b779b32011-10-15 23:50:42 -0700293- Issue #13177: Functools lru_cache() no longer calls the original function
294 inside an exception handler. This makes tracebacks easier to read because
295 chained exceptions are avoided.
296
Victor Stinner82ac9bc2011-10-14 03:03:35 +0200297- Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,
298 instead of the locale encoding.
299
Victor Stinnerc1f32ca2011-10-14 02:36:13 +0200300- Issue #10653: On Windows, use strftime() instead of wcsftime() because
301 wcsftime() doesn't format time zone correctly.
302
Éric Araujo8af607b2011-10-09 06:32:38 +0200303- Issue #11171: Fix distutils.sysconfig.get_makefile_filename when Python was
304 configured with different prefix and exec-prefix.
Éric Araujofea2d042011-10-08 01:56:52 +0200305
Éric Araujo47a45212011-10-08 00:34:13 +0200306- Issue #11254: Teach distutils to compile .pyc and .pyo files in
307 PEP 3147-compliant __pycache__ directories.
308
Barry Warsaw78f89d82011-10-07 14:44:49 -0400309- Issue #11250: Back port fix from 3.3 branch, so that 2to3 can handle files
310 with line feeds. This was ported from the sandbox to the 3.3 branch, but
311 didn't make it into 3.2.
312
Ned Deily7b847a42011-10-06 14:31:14 -0700313- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
314 contents cannot be read.
315
Antoine Pitrou1665d2c2011-10-04 13:35:28 +0200316- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
317 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
318
Antoine Pitrou1e44fec2011-10-04 12:26:20 +0200319- Issue #13087: BufferedReader.seek() now always raises UnsupportedOperation
320 if the underlying raw stream is unseekable, even if the seek could be
321 satisfied using the internal buffer. Patch by John O'Connor.
322
Antoine Pitrouffd41d92011-10-04 09:23:04 +0200323- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
324 metaclass is registered with copyreg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and Craig
325 Citro.
326
R David Murray791744b2011-10-01 16:19:51 -0400327- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace to text nodes.
328
Antoine Pitroud8c347a2011-10-01 19:20:25 +0200329- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
330 extension could be unreported.
331
Ned Deily79746422011-09-14 14:49:14 -0700332- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
333 with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
334 (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
335
Éric Araujo13e8c8e2011-09-10 01:51:40 +0200336- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
337 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
338 present.
339
Victor Stinnera1bea6e2011-09-05 23:44:56 +0200340- Issue #9561: distutils now reads and writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
341 instead of the locale encoding.
342
Ezio Melottid9e0b062011-09-05 17:11:06 +0300343- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
344 more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.
345
Benjamin Petersonf6f3a352011-09-03 09:26:20 -0400346- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
347
Victor Stinner979482a2011-09-02 01:00:40 +0200348- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
349
Antoine Pitrou55549ec2011-08-30 00:27:10 +0200350- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
351 the C pickle implementation.
352
Antoine Pitrou82be19f2011-08-29 23:09:33 +0200353- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
354 (more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
355
Charles-François Nataliaa26b272011-08-28 17:51:43 +0200356- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
357 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
358
Antoine Pitroubcb39d42011-08-23 19:46:22 +0200359- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
360 Pipe.
361
Jesus Ceabc566b02011-09-19 17:08:18 +0200362- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
363
Antoine Pitroue05565e2011-08-20 14:39:23 +0200364- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
365 could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
366
Charles-François Natali134a8ba2011-08-18 18:49:39 +0200367- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
368 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +0300369
Łukasz Langaa5a9a9c2011-10-18 21:17:39 +0200370- Issue #10860: http.client now correctly handles an empty port after port
371 delimiter in URLs.
372
Petri Lehtinenbc74ee02011-11-05 21:04:24 +0200373Build
374-----
375
376- Issue #13326: Clean __pycache__ directories correctly on OpenBSD.
377
Victor Stinnerd2084162011-12-19 13:42:24 +0100378Tools/Demos
379-----------
380
381- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
382 traceback if Python is optimized.
383
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +0200384Tests
385-----
386
Meador Ingeb0ae0ac2012-01-14 11:50:33 -0600387- Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.
388
Meador Ingef37c1982012-01-14 09:32:41 -0600389- Issue #13725: Fix regrtest to recognize the documented -d flag.
390 Patch by Erno Tukia.
391
Ned Deily316f5732011-10-31 16:16:35 -0700392- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
393 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
394
Barry Warsaw46ae0ef2011-10-28 16:52:17 -0400395- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
396
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +0200397- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
398
Barry Warsaw78f89d82011-10-07 14:44:49 -0400399- Re-enable lib2to3's test_parser.py tests, though with an expected failure
400 (see issue 13125).
401
Jesus Ceaaaa89912011-09-10 04:37:07 +0200402Extension Modules
403-----------------
Victor Stinner53ffdc52011-09-23 18:54:40 +0200404
Charles-François Natali366999a2012-01-02 15:47:29 +0100405- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
406 Vilmos Nebehaj.
407
Nadeem Vawdad41a98b2011-10-13 13:34:16 +0200408- Issue #13159: FileIO and BZ2File now use a linear-time buffer growth
409 strategy instead of a quadratic-time one.
410
Charles-François Natali42c28cd2011-10-05 19:53:43 +0200411- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
412 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
413 writer got cleared by the GC.
414
Meador Inge1efb33a2011-10-03 21:44:22 -0500415- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
416
Charles-François Natali5a4a1092011-09-29 19:46:37 +0200417- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
418 Thomas Jarosch.
419
Meador Ingeb86ecf42011-09-27 20:45:30 -0500420- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
421 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
422
Jesus Cea4507e642011-09-21 03:53:25 +0200423- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
424 file descriptor was actually received.
425
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbbe46d62011-09-12 21:03:36 +0200426- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
427 object triggers the garbage collector.
428
Jesus Ceaaaa89912011-09-10 04:37:07 +0200429- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
430 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +0200431
Florent Xicluna023611f2011-10-23 22:40:37 +0200432Documentation
433-------------
434
Meador Ingea3443d92012-01-19 22:06:31 -0600435- Issue #12949: Document the kwonlyargcount argument for the PyCode_New
436 C API function.
437
Meador Inge972cfb92012-01-19 00:22:22 -0600438- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
439 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
440
Meador Inge777bebb2011-12-03 12:29:54 -0600441- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
442 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
443
Nick Coghlanc29248f2011-11-08 20:49:23 +1000444- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
445 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
446
Florent Xicluna023611f2011-10-23 22:40:37 +0200447- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for socketserver examples.
448
449
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500450What's New in Python 3.2.2?
451===========================
452
Georg Brandlb0993bc2011-09-03 11:17:55 +0200453*Release date: 03-Sep-2011*
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200454
455Core and Builtins
456-----------------
457
Victor Stinner4cf66042011-08-20 14:01:05 +0200458- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
459 is compiled on Linux 3.
460
Benjamin Peterson40582112011-08-31 22:13:03 -0400461- Accept bytes for the AST string type. This is temporary until a proper fix in
462 3.3.
463
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200464Library
465-------
Victor Stinnera1bea6e2011-09-05 23:44:56 +0200466
Éric Araujobcf99ac2011-09-05 17:44:07 +0200467- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
468 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200469
Lars Gustäbel2e7ddd32011-09-05 16:58:14 +0200470- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
471 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
472 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
473 information was lost.
474
Éric Araujod5a98112011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200475- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
476 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
477
Nadeem Vawda97d67922011-08-28 11:26:46 +0200478- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
479 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
480
Georg Brandl89b7af12011-09-03 09:08:49 +0200481Extension Modules
482-----------------
483
484- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
485 some functions like file.write().
486
Nadeem Vawda97d67922011-08-28 11:26:46 +0200487
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200488
Georg Brandlb3f0ce42011-08-13 11:34:58 +0200489What's New in Python 3.2.2 release candidate 1?
490===============================================
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500491
Georg Brandlb3f0ce42011-08-13 11:34:58 +0200492*Release date: 14-Aug-2011*
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500493
494Core and Builtins
495-----------------
496
Benjamin Petersonf413b802011-08-12 22:17:18 -0500497- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
498 outside the BMP.
499
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200500- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
501 Andreas Stührk.
502
503- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
504 embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
505
Benjamin Peterson2193d2b2011-07-22 10:50:23 -0500506- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
507 compiling them.
508
Eric V. Smith12ebefc2011-07-18 14:03:41 -0400509- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
510 format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
511 Julian Berman.
512
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400513- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
514 non-exception class.
Benjamin Peterson5afa03a2011-07-15 14:09:26 -0500515
Georg Brandle3bb2cf2011-09-04 08:10:25 +0200516- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
Antoine Pitrou84f1b172011-07-12 21:57:15 +0200517 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
518 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
519 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
520 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
521
Benjamin Petersonac913412011-07-03 16:25:11 -0500522- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
523 generator.
524
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500525- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
Benjamin Peterson9cf960c2011-07-03 13:49:59 -0500526 caller's frame as they return for the last time.
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500527
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500528Library
529-------
530
Georg Brandl3abb3722011-08-13 11:48:12 +0200531- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
532 the file cannot be opened.
533
Antoine Pitrouf6c7a852011-08-11 21:04:02 +0200534- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
535 (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.
536
Senthil Kumaran9dc4cad2011-08-11 09:24:37 +0800537- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
538
Ned Deilye5cad232011-08-02 18:47:13 -0700539- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
540 in os.kill().
541
Senthil Kumaran2a157d22011-08-03 18:37:22 +0800542- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
543 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
544
Éric Araujoab7c1b32011-07-31 04:06:12 +0200545- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
546 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
547
Charles-François Natalidef35432011-07-29 18:59:24 +0200548- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
549 symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
550
Éric Araujoe64e51b2011-07-29 17:03:55 +0200551- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
552 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
553
Charles-François Natali27c4e882011-07-27 19:40:02 +0200554- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
555
Raymond Hettinger3a081f52011-07-29 00:02:04 -0700556- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
557 collections when it is done.
558
Ross Lagerwalld98646e2011-07-27 07:16:31 +0200559- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
560 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
561
Ned Deilyf25e3d52011-07-26 18:17:33 -0700562- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
563 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
564
Senthil Kumaran1299a8f2011-07-27 08:05:58 +0800565- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
566 Connection:close header.
567
Antoine Pitroucf9d3c02011-07-24 02:27:04 +0200568- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
569
Antoine Pitrouab85ff32011-07-23 22:03:45 +0200570- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
571 module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
572
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200573- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
574 a read1() method), and add an undocumented *write_through* parameter to
575 mandate unbuffered writes.
576
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200577- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
578
Nadeem Vawdace7e51e2011-07-23 15:16:23 +0200579- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
580
Antoine Pitrouc57ed912011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200581- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
582 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
583 Linux 3.0.
584
R David Murray46346762011-07-18 21:38:54 -0400585- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
586 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
587
Antoine Pitrou0b447952011-07-16 23:52:02 +0200588- Close the call queue in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor when
589 shutdown() is called, without waiting for the garbage collector to kick in.
590
Charles-François Natali1f0ccfa2011-07-14 19:57:35 +0200591- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
592
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200593- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures with an endianness
594 different than that of the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
Victor Stinner66361212011-07-13 21:43:18 +0200595
Antoine Pitroucb4ae812011-07-13 21:07:49 +0200596- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
597 TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
598
Victor Stinner2cfb6f32011-07-05 14:00:56 +0200599- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
600 if the process has only one pipe.
601
Victor Stinner91e08772011-07-05 14:30:41 +0200602- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200603 Python modules using a encoding different than UTF-8 (reading the coding
604 cookie of the module).
Victor Stinner91e08772011-07-05 14:30:41 +0200605
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200606- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python module in binary mode,
Victor Stinnere975af62011-07-04 02:08:50 +0200607 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
608
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200609- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python module in binary mode,
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200610 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200611 than UTF-8 (modules using the coding cookie).
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200612
Victor Stinnerbbdc08e2011-07-04 01:25:55 +0200613- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
614 of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
615
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400616Extension Modules
617-----------------
618
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02dd5392011-09-02 20:39:40 +0200619- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
620 a string.
621
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfaecc382011-08-30 22:02:51 +0200622- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
623
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400624- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
625 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
626 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
627
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500628C-API
629-----
630
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200631Build
632-----
633
634- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
635
636- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
637
638- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
639
Éric Araujo9e1af032011-07-26 18:25:14 +0200640Tools/Demos
641-----------
642
643- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
644 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200645
Ned Deily41435352011-07-03 21:56:48 -0700646Tests
647-----
648
Éric Araujo548c0542011-07-31 17:58:46 +0200649- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
650 Python.
651
Antoine Pitroub9c73e82011-07-29 23:53:38 +0200652- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
653 with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
654 using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
655 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
656
Antoine Pitrou216a3bc2011-07-23 22:33:39 +0200657- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
658 running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
659 (or ``-G``) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
660 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
661
Ned Deily2ea6fcc2011-07-19 16:15:27 -0700662- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
663 (Patch by Robert Xiao)
664
Antoine Pitrou707f2282011-07-15 22:29:44 +0200665- Try harder to reap dangling threads in test.support.reap_threads().
666
Antoine Pitrouc081c0c2011-07-15 22:12:24 +0200667- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
668
Ned Deily58e33502011-07-13 15:07:04 -0700669- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
670 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
671
Antoine Pitrou95531ea2011-07-08 19:43:51 +0200672- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
673 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
674 Web site.
675
Antoine Pitroub9ac25d2011-07-08 18:47:06 +0200676- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
677 reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
678 rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
679
Ned Deilye2d51902011-07-04 19:06:20 -0700680- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
681 tests.
682
683- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
Ned Deily8215f5d2011-07-04 17:48:01 -0700684 testcase failure in test_ssl.
685
Victor Stinnere40b3aa2011-07-04 17:35:10 +0200686- Issue #12469: Run "wakeup" signal tests in subprocess to run the test in a
687 fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal handling of the
688 parent process.
689
Ned Deily41435352011-07-03 21:56:48 -0700690- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
691 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
692 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
693
694
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200695What's New in Python 3.2.1?
696===========================
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200697
Georg Brandlcd0dc162011-07-09 08:56:21 +0200698*Release date: 10-Jul-2011*
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200699
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200700Library
701-------
702
Victor Stinnerb1b25f02011-07-04 02:43:09 +0200703- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
704 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
705
Antoine Pitrou3aba4982011-07-08 19:19:57 +0200706Tests
707-----
708
Antoine Pitrou9163c472011-07-09 02:31:24 +0200709- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
710 failure in name resolution.
711
Jesus Ceabc91b462011-11-08 16:24:43 +0100712- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
713 in test_telnetlib.py.
714
Jesus Ceac241df82011-11-08 16:20:46 +0100715- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
716
Antoine Pitrou3aba4982011-07-08 19:19:57 +0200717- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
718 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
719 is now skipped instead.
720
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200721
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200722What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 2?
723===============================================
724
Georg Brandld4fa7ed2011-07-03 09:41:27 +0200725*Release date: 03-Jul-2011*
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200726
727Core and Builtins
728-----------------
729
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200730- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream, with
731 other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
Vinay Sajip5bdae3b2011-07-02 16:42:47 +0100732
Brian Curtind25aef52011-06-13 15:16:04 -0500733- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
734 links when called from any directory.
735
Victor Stinner19c52332011-05-30 23:50:04 +0200736- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner4f711012011-05-30 23:46:00 +0200737 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
738 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
739
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200740- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on Mac OS X
741 and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a "maximum recursion
742 depth" RuntimeError exception (patch by Ronald Oussoren).
Ned Deily9a7c5242011-05-28 00:19:56 -0700743
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200744Library
745-------
746
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400747- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200748 conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent headers.
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400749
Charles-François Natali778db492011-07-02 14:35:49 +0200750- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
751 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
752
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200753- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
754 UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200755 also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode to
756 avoid encoding issues.
757
758- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file anymore
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200759 to avoid encoding issues.
760
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200761- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available, to
Éric Araujoaa95ccd2011-07-29 03:28:40 +0200762 read the Python module from the right encoding.
Victor Stinnere6c910e2011-06-30 15:55:43 +0200763
Victor Stinnerdc9b1ea2011-06-30 15:40:22 +0200764- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
765 encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
766
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700767- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
768 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
769 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
770 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
771 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
772 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
773 still possible to globally override the default by setting
774 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
775 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
776 was built.
777
Victor Stinnerf1512a22011-06-21 17:18:38 +0200778- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
779 variables, start with an empty environment.
780
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200781- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header passed
782 to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail if given
783 binary unknown-8bit input.
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400784
R David Murrayc88bce12011-06-17 22:24:05 -0400785- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
786 times without error.
787
R David Murray05ff9902011-06-17 12:54:56 -0400788- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
789
Victor Stinnera4c45d72011-06-17 14:01:18 +0200790- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
791 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
792 written by Ezio Melotti.
793
Benjamin Peterson9620cc02011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500794- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
795 functions.
796
Benjamin Peterson9aa68e42011-06-10 12:29:40 -0500797- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
798
R David Murray4fbb9db2011-06-09 15:50:51 -0400799- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
800
R David Murray0f663d02011-06-09 15:05:57 -0400801- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
802
Vinay Sajip8168d102011-06-09 16:50:49 +0100803- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
804 a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
805
Brian Curtin9c669cc2011-06-08 18:17:18 -0500806- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
807 instead of os.stat.
808
Raymond Hettinger3d890572011-06-02 23:40:24 -0700809- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
810
Victor Stinner87b9bc32011-06-01 00:57:47 +0200811- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
812 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
813 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
814
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200815- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists. Patch by
816 Mher Movsisyan.
Ned Deilyb8e59f72011-05-28 02:19:19 -0700817
Victor Stinnera80987f2011-05-25 22:47:16 +0200818- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
819
Victor Stinnerb79f28c2011-05-25 22:09:03 +0200820- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
821 if the file is closed.
822
Victor Stinner1273b7c2011-05-24 23:37:07 +0200823- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
824 correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
825
Victor Stinner6bcbef72011-05-24 22:17:55 +0200826- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
827 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
828 final argument is True.
829
Charles-François Natali7b54e752011-05-24 18:23:15 +0200830- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
831
Benjamin Petersonf5fcd332011-05-23 16:22:42 -0500832- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
833 besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
834
Victor Stinner4925cde2011-05-20 00:16:09 +0200835- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
836 to be able to unload the module.
837
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200838- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
839 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
840
Benjamin Peterson0aa71f72011-05-31 19:06:17 -0500841Extension Modules
842-----------------
Ronald Oussoren02a67ac2011-05-17 12:44:54 +0200843
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200844- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
845 Kitada.
846
Benjamin Peterson0aa71f72011-05-31 19:06:17 -0500847- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
848
Ned Deily6e5fd042011-05-28 05:59:55 -0700849Build
850-----
851
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700852- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200853 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these functions
854 (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X (UF_HIDDEN and
855 UF_COMPRESSED).
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700856
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200857- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds, ensure
858 "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32" files in the
859 framework bin directory like the installer does.
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200860
Jason R. Coombs76748b72011-07-26 11:18:40 -0400861
Victor Stinneree497972011-05-31 00:01:24 +0200862Tests
863-----
864
Antoine Pitrou71cbafb2011-06-30 20:02:54 +0200865- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
866
Victor Stinnera7c33e52011-06-29 13:00:54 +0200867- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
868 the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
869 error twice anymore if there is only one error.
870
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200871- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that test_build_ext
872 of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when run outside of a build
873 directory.
Ned Deily58f27b22011-06-28 00:42:50 -0700874
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200875- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags(). Patch
876 by Garrett Cooper.
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700877
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200878- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9 on Mac
879 OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
Ned Deily11f00f32011-06-27 23:12:20 -0700880
Victor Stinneree497972011-05-31 00:01:24 +0200881- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
882 iso2022_kr).
883
Victor Stinner4445ec82011-05-20 00:18:58 +0200884
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200885What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 1?
886===============================================
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000887
Georg Brandl5673e272011-05-15 17:52:42 +0200888*Release date: 15-May-2011*
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000889
890Core and Builtins
891-----------------
892
Victor Stinner2ec6b172011-05-15 10:21:59 +0200893- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
894 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
895
Gregory P. Smithc9557af2011-05-11 22:18:23 -0700896- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
897 wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
898 leaving zombie processes around.
899
Victor Stinner4755ab02011-05-10 00:19:53 +0200900- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
901 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
902
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200903Library
904-------
905
Ronald Oussoren5ee05672011-05-17 14:48:40 +0200906- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
907 with Tk 8.5.
908
Victor Stinner9cd66262011-05-16 16:32:33 +0200909- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Ronald Oussoren447fcfb2011-05-15 16:50:28 +0200910 is set in shell.
911
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200912- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
913
914- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
915 their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
916 larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
917 an incorrect result.
918
919- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
920 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
921
922- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
923 on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
924 writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
925 data, and writing again).
926
927- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
928 With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
929 IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
930
931- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
932 escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
933
934- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
935 non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
936 binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
937 encoding of the script.
938
939- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
940 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
941
942- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
943
944Build
945-----
946
947- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
948
949Tools/Demos
950-----------
951
952- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
953 add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
954
955Tests
956-----
957
Victor Stinner3349bca2011-05-18 00:16:14 +0200958- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
959 written by Charles-François Natali.
960
Victor Stinner9cd66262011-05-16 16:32:33 +0200961- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
962 Andreas Stührk.
963
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200964- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
965
966- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
967
968
969What's New in Python 3.2.1 beta 1?
970==================================
971
972*Release date: 08-May-2011*
973
974Core and Builtins
975-----------------
976
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200977- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200978 interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when they
979 try to take the GIL.
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200980
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200981- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
982 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
983 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner13aaef52011-05-01 23:46:48 +0200984 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200985
Victor Stinner3cbf14b2011-04-27 00:24:21 +0200986- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
987 subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
988 the ISO-8859-15 codec.
989
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200990- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200991 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch by
992 Charles-François Natali.
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200993
Ezio Melottiba42fd52011-04-26 06:09:45 +0300994- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
995 accepted too.
996
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300997- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200998 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP chars
999 (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +03001000
Ezio Melotti982ef4e2011-04-15 08:15:40 +03001001- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
1002 compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
1003
Victor Stinner52c950f2011-04-09 15:55:44 +02001004- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
1005 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
1006 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1007
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +01001008- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
1009 Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001010 returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if stdout
1011 mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less, depending
1012 on heap usage).
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +01001013
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001014- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to a
1015 possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
Antoine Pitrou819be342011-03-17 23:36:13 +01001016
Raymond Hettinger29dcaad2011-03-15 14:50:16 -07001017- Issue #11510: Fixed optimizer bug which turned "a,b={1,1}" into "a,b=(1,1)".
1018
Gregory P. Smith28edfee2011-03-15 16:02:10 -04001019- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
1020 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
1021 file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
1022
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001023- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when there
1024 are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
Antoine Pitrou7983d332011-03-09 12:34:41 +01001025
Victor Stinner2b574a22011-03-01 22:48:49 +00001026- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
1027 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
1028 Patch written by Ray Allen.
1029
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001030- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with a
1031 buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
Antoine Pitrou915605c2011-02-24 20:53:48 +00001032
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +00001033- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
1034 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
1035
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001036- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index. Patch
1037 by Torsten Becker.
Jesus Ceaac451502011-04-20 17:09:23 +02001038
Victor Stinner659eb842011-02-23 12:14:22 +00001039- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
1040 narrow build.
1041
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +00001042- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
1043
Eli Benderskye0c8635d82011-03-04 05:10:57 +00001044- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
1045 empty, instead of OverflowError.
1046
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +00001047Library
1048-------
Antoine Pitroubc7f20c2010-12-17 17:44:45 +00001049
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001050- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch by
1051 Kasun Herath.
Antoine Pitrouc1d52062011-05-07 19:39:37 +02001052
Giampaolo Rodola'24befa82011-05-07 19:09:34 +02001053- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
1054
Ezio Melotti1c3fd582011-05-08 19:58:08 +03001055- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murraycaed7fe2011-05-06 22:07:19 -04001056 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1057 previous value of the mtime.
1058
Ronald Oussoren6355c162011-05-06 17:11:07 +02001059- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
1060 file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
1061
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001062- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any dNSName
1063 entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName. Patch by
1064 Nicolas Bareil.
Antoine Pitrou1c86b442011-05-06 15:19:49 +02001065
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001066- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support more
1067 than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch by Ysj
1068 Ray.
Nick Coghlan0ded3e32011-05-05 23:49:25 +10001069
Victor Stinnercafa2ef2011-05-02 16:11:28 +02001070- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
1071
Raymond Hettinger003be522011-05-03 11:01:32 -07001072- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
1073
Victor Stinnera6cd0cf2011-05-02 01:05:37 +02001074- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1075 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1076
Łukasz Langa90759a22011-04-30 09:36:35 +02001077- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
1078 names.
1079
1080- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
1081
Ezio Melotti935a5882011-04-27 10:17:34 +03001082- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1083 strings are too long.
1084
Senthil Kumaran72387f92011-04-26 21:09:49 +08001085- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1086
Victor Stinner6c9b35b2011-04-18 16:25:56 +02001087- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1088 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1089 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1090
R David Murray01581ee2011-04-18 10:04:34 -04001091- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
1092
Vinay Sajipe723e962011-04-15 22:27:17 +01001093- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
1094
Raymond Hettinger019a97c2011-04-19 10:21:27 -07001095- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1096 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1097
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +03001098- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
Senthil Kumaran397eb442011-04-15 18:20:24 +08001099 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1100
Raymond Hettinger1c746c22011-04-15 13:16:46 -07001101- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1102
Senthil Kumaran2d2ea1b2011-04-14 13:16:30 +08001103- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1104 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1105
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +03001106- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1107 _json is not available.
Alexander Belopolsky1a20c122011-04-12 23:03:39 -04001108
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +03001109- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +03001110
1111- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +08001112 url contains #fragment.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +03001113
R David Murray3dd02d62011-04-12 21:02:45 -04001114- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1115 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +08001116
brian.curtinf7eac1f2011-04-11 18:18:20 -05001117- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1118 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1119
Antoine Pitroubed9a5b2011-04-11 00:20:23 +02001120- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
1121
Raymond Hettinger49353d02011-04-11 12:40:58 -07001122- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
1123 difflib.unified_diff().
1124
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +02001125- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001126 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being shut
1127 down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +02001128
Ezio Melotti2e3607c2011-04-07 22:03:31 +03001129- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
1130
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001131- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001132 multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001133 bytes.
R David Murrayc5c14722011-04-06 08:13:02 -04001134
Ross Lagerwall4f61b022011-04-05 15:34:00 +02001135- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1136
Antoine Pitrou9c254862011-04-03 18:15:34 +02001137- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
1138 private keys.
1139
Victor Stinner27181ac2011-03-31 13:39:03 +02001140- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
1141 called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
1142
Antoine Pitrou7899acf2011-03-31 01:00:32 +02001143- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
1144
Benjamin Peterson6a2638b2011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001145- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1146 arguments.
1147
Martin v. Löwisf8d887e2011-03-27 21:05:51 +02001148- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1149
Mark Dickinson92b60d52011-03-27 16:25:40 +01001150- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1151 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1152
Mark Dickinsonccd22832011-03-27 15:46:32 +01001153- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1154 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1155 documentation.
1156
Martin v. Löwisa6e0b4f2011-03-27 10:14:57 +02001157- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
Martin v. Löwis9bad3a92011-03-27 10:12:07 +02001158
Ross Lagerwallb8a57692011-03-26 21:19:57 +02001159- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
1160 Patch by Ben Hayden.
1161
Antoine Pitrouc13d4542011-03-26 19:29:44 +01001162- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
1163 concurrent.futures.
1164
Raymond Hettingera0d1d962011-03-21 17:50:28 -07001165- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__
1166
Raymond Hettinger1103d052011-03-25 14:15:24 -07001167- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1168 that start with a leading underscore.
1169
Guido van Rossum20d2ab42011-03-29 12:58:29 -07001170- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
1171 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
1172
Victor Stinner628225c2011-03-21 02:38:51 +01001173- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
1174 httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
1175
Senthil Kumaran799c6692011-03-20 09:26:57 +08001176- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
1177 class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
1178 contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
1179
Antoine Pitrou877766d2011-03-19 17:00:37 +01001180- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
1181 unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
1182
Antoine Pitrou5e981412011-03-17 22:38:37 +01001183- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
1184 arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001185
1186- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1187 setup and teardown.
1188
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001189- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
1190
R David Murraya2150232011-03-16 21:11:23 -04001191- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
1192 the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
1193
R David Murrayde912762011-03-16 18:26:23 -04001194- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
1195 relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
1196
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -04001197- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001198 which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line of
1199 the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -04001200
Nick Coghlan454e11d2011-03-16 14:19:22 -04001201- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001202 parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1203
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001204- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
Benjamin Petersona78e4e62011-03-16 10:29:19 -05001205 execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001206
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -04001207- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001208 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures that
1209 multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -04001210
Antoine Pitrou2c50a092011-03-15 21:02:59 +01001211- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
1212 not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
1213 the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
1214
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001215- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
1216 encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
1217
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001218- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified IP
1219 addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussorenf2db4de2011-03-14 18:46:50 -04001220
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001221- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with the
1222 "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches the
1223 documentation and general logic.
briancurtin525c25d2011-03-14 16:03:54 -04001224
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001225- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus operations
1226 when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
Mark Dickinson37a79fb2011-03-12 11:12:52 +00001227
Ned Deilyd2853182011-03-09 02:36:51 -08001228- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1229 initialization fails.
1230
Antoine Pitrou16a0a0b2011-03-06 01:11:03 +01001231- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1232 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1233 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1234
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001235- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open certain
1236 files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by checking for EACCES,
1237 now it also checks for EROFS.
R. David Murray752b9502011-03-03 18:12:34 +00001238
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001239- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors on
1240 accept(), send() and recv().
Giampaolo Rodolà9c9105d2011-03-03 13:59:28 +00001241
Antoine Pitrou86cbfec2011-02-26 23:25:34 +00001242- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1243 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1244
Antoine Pitrou5d5381e2011-02-25 23:14:08 +00001245- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
1246 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
1247
Antoine Pitroud843c2d2011-02-25 21:34:39 +00001248- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1249 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1250
Lars Gustäbel9f6cbe02011-02-23 11:52:31 +00001251- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
1252 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
1253 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
1254
Brett Cannon45b96d32011-02-22 03:35:18 +00001255- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
1256
Antoine Pitrou97696cb2011-02-21 23:46:27 +00001257- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1258 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1259 32-bit Windows.
1260
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +00001261- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +00001262 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +00001263
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +00001264- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
1265 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1266
Steven Bethard006ba5c2011-03-26 18:29:48 +01001267- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1268
Steven Bethardd8f2d502011-03-26 19:50:06 +01001269- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1270
Steven Bethardd186f992011-03-26 21:49:00 +01001271- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1272 their children.
1273
Steven Bethard8a6a1982011-03-27 13:53:53 +02001274- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1275
Steven Bethard7cb20a82011-04-04 01:53:02 +02001276- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1277
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001278Build
1279-----
1280
Thomas Wouters6b103432011-03-06 11:51:24 -08001281- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1282
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001283- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation package had
1284 previously been installed.
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001285
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001286IDLE
1287----
1288
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001289- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py file in
1290 a package.
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001291
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001292Tools/Demos
1293-----------
1294
1295- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
1296
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001297Extension Modules
1298-----------------
1299
Ezio Melotti13672652011-05-11 01:02:56 +03001300- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1301 objects using the C accelerations.
1302
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001303- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1304 objects using the C accelerations.
Benjamin Peterson1a07f072011-03-26 18:17:05 -05001305
1306- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1307 to an instance of the class.
1308
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +00001309Tests
1310-----
1311
R David Murray66a18fd2011-05-05 11:52:44 -04001312- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
1313 when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
1314
Antoine Pitrou72562d02011-04-25 21:22:04 +02001315- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
1316
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001317- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in
1318 test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
Antoine Pitrouf25a8de2011-04-16 21:02:01 +02001319
Antoine Pitrouee429342011-04-16 18:53:59 +02001320- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
1321
Ross Lagerwall226580e2011-04-09 20:05:04 +02001322- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1323 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1324
Antoine Pitroue44b1252011-03-23 23:02:31 +01001325- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
1326
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001327- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
1328
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001329- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
R David Murraya88da672011-03-16 17:32:27 -04001330
Michael Foord07926f02011-03-16 17:19:16 -04001331- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1332
Nick Coghlan7462fa62011-03-16 14:30:45 -04001333- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
1334 Arlen.
1335
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001336- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
1337 Evan Dandrea.
1338
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001339- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
1340
R David Murray384069c2011-03-13 22:26:53 -04001341- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1342 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1343
Antoine Pitroud3cccd22011-03-13 19:14:21 +01001344- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
1345 non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
1346
Victor Stinnerf0e293c2011-03-01 23:09:57 +00001347- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
1348 Pierre Quentel.
1349
Antoine Pitrou4914f9e2011-02-26 16:49:08 +00001350- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
1351 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1352
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +00001353- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
1354 to open door files.
1355
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +02001356Documentation
1357-------------
1358
1359- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
1360
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +00001361
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001362What's New in Python 3.2?
1363=========================
1364
1365*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
1366
1367Core and Builtins
1368-----------------
1369
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +00001370- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
1371
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001372Build
1373-----
1374
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +00001375- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
1376
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +00001377- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1378
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001379- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1380
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +00001381Documentation
1382-------------
1383
1384- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1385
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001386
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001387What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
1388=============================================
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001389
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001390*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001391
1392Core and Builtins
1393-----------------
1394
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +00001395- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
1396
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +00001397- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
1398
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001399- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
1400 ABI.
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +00001401
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +00001402- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
1403
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001404Library
1405-------
1406
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001407- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
1408 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +00001409
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001410- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
1411 compileall.compile_dir().
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +00001412
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +00001413- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
1414
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001415- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
1416 by Stan Mihai.
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +00001417
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001418Build
1419-----
1420
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001421- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
1422 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
1423 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
1424 framework under share/doc.
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +00001425
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001426- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
1427
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001428Tests
1429-----
1430
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001431- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
1432 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001433
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001434
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001435What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
1436=============================================
1437
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +00001438*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001439
1440Core and Builtins
1441-----------------
1442
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +00001443- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1444 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1445
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001446Library
1447-------
1448
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +00001449- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
1450 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
1451 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
1452 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
1453 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
1454
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +00001455- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
1456 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
1457 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
1458
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +00001459- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
1460
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +00001461- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1462 commands.
1463
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +00001464- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
1465 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
1466 obscured.
1467
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +00001468- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1469 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1470 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1471
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +00001472- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
1473
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +00001474- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
1475 conversion.
1476
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +00001477- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
1478 with a None body.
1479
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +00001480- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
1481 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
1482 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
1483
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +00001484- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1485
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +00001486- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
1487 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
1488
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +00001489- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
1490 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
1491
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +00001492- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
1493
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +00001494- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
1495
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +00001496- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001497 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
1498 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +00001499 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001500
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001501- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1502
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +00001503- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1504 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1505
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +00001506- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1507 a symbol named FSTAT.
1508
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +00001509- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
1510 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
1511 of HTTP 1.1.
1512
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +00001513- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
1514 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
1515 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
1516 both incoming and outgoing direction.
1517
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +00001518- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1519 argparse.FileType.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001520
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +00001521- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
1522 during request handling.
1523
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +00001524- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1525 argparse.
1526
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +00001527Build
1528-----
1529
1530- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1531 the system-provided Python.
1532
1533
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001534What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
1535============================================
1536
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +00001537*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
1538
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001539Core and Builtins
1540-----------------
1541
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001542- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001543 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001544
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +00001545- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1546 class.
1547
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001548- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001549 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
1550 by Matt Bandy.
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001551
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001552- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
1553 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
1554 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +00001555
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +00001556- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
1557
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +00001558- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1559 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1560 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1561
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +00001562- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +02001563 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +00001564
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +00001565- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1566 can now handle dates after 2038.
1567
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001568- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
1569 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
1570 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
1571
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +00001572- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
1573 encoding instead of UTF-8.
1574
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +00001575- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
1576
Benjamin Peterson62f8bcb2011-04-12 18:34:30 -05001577- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a
1578 SyntaxError.
1579
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001580Library
1581-------
1582
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001583- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
1584 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
1585 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +00001586
Ronald Oussoren6edd8c12011-05-17 13:03:54 +02001587- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1588 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1589
Ronald Oussoren78349b02011-05-06 10:57:22 +02001590- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1591 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1592 for the case.
1593
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001594- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1595 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1596 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +00001597
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001598- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
1599 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +00001600 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
1601 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001602
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001603- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +00001604
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001605- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
1606 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +00001607
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +00001608- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1609
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +00001610- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
1611 if available.
1612
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001613- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
1614 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +00001615
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001616- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001617 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
1618 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
1619 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
1620 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001621
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +00001622- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
1623 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
1624
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +00001625- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1626 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1627
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001628- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001629 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a BytesParser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001630 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001631
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001632- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding whitespace when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001633 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
1634 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
1635 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +00001636
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +00001637- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
1638 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
1639 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
1640 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
1641 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
1642 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +00001643
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +00001644- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1645 on an existing file.
1646
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +00001647- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1648 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1649
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +00001650- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
1651 compilation (if the input is a string).
1652
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001653- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +00001654 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001655
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +00001656- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
1657 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +00001658
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +00001659- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
1660 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
1661
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +00001662- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
1663 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
1664
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +00001665- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
1666 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
1667 2^32-1 bytes).
1668
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001669- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
1670 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +00001671
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001672- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
1673 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
1674 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +00001675
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +00001676- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
1677 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
1678
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +00001679- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
1680 few POSIX semaphores.
1681
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +00001682- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
1683 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
1684
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001685- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
1686 filenames.
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +00001687
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001688- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
1689 David Daniels.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +00001690
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001691- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
1692 define __missing__().
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +00001693
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001694- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
1695 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
1696 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001697
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001698- Issue #10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
1699 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's request_uri
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001700 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
1701 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +00001702
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001703- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +00001704
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001705- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +00001706 browsers actually parse cookies.
1707
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001708- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
1709 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
1710 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +00001711
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +00001712- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +00001713
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001714- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
1715
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +00001716- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
1717
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +00001718- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
1719 ElementTree register_namespace().
1720
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +00001721- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
1722
1723- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
1724
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +00001725- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1726 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1727 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1728
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +00001729- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
1730 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
1731
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +00001732- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
1733 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
1734
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +00001735- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
1736
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +00001737- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
1738 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
1739
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +00001740- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
1741 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
1742
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +00001743- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1744
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +00001745- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001746
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001747C-API
1748-----
1749
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +00001750- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
1751 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
1752
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001753- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
1754 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001755
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001756Build
1757-----
1758
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001759- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
1760 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
1761 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +00001762
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +00001763- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
1764 scripts (#10679).
1765
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +00001766- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1767 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1768
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +00001769- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1770 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1771
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001772- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
1773 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
1774
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +00001775- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1776 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1777 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1778 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1779
Ronald Oussoren25032492011-03-14 10:11:59 -04001780- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1781 using GCC 4.0.
1782
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001783Tools/Demos
1784-----------
1785
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001786- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
1787 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
1788 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +00001789
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001790- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
1791 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
1792 Tools/demo subdirectory.
1793
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001794- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001795 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
1796 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001797
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001798Tests
1799-----
1800
Nadeem Vawda58de6ee2011-04-19 01:38:47 +02001801- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1802
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +00001803- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1804 by Ross Lagerwall.
1805
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +00001806- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
1807
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +00001808- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
1809 Björn Lindqvist.
1810
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +00001811- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
1812 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
1813
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001814- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
1815 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
1816 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001817
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001818
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001819What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
1820================================
1821
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +00001822*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001823
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001824Core and Builtins
1825-----------------
1826
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +00001827- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
1828 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
1829
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001830- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
1831 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1832 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001833
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +00001834- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
1835 Daniel Urban.
1836
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001837Library
1838-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001839
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +00001840- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
1841 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
1842
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00001843- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
1844
1845- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
1846 up function.
1847
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +00001848- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
1849 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
1850
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +00001851- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
1852 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
1853
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +00001854- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
1855 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1856
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +00001857- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1858
1859- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +00001860 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1861
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +00001862- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1863 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1864
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001865- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
1866 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
1867
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +00001868- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1869 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001870
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +00001871- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1872 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1873
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +00001874- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1875
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +00001876- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
1877
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +00001878- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1879 causes debug mode to fail.
1880
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +00001881- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
1882 that contain non-ascii values.
1883
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001884- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +00001885 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
1886 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
1887 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
1888 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
1889
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001890- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1891
1892- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +00001893 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
1894 error handles are provided.
1895
1896- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
1897 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
1898 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001899
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +00001900- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1901 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1902 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1903
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001904Tests
1905-----
1906
1907- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1908 encountering them.
1909
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001910Tools/Demos
1911-----------
1912
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +00001913- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1914 Cocoa AquaTk.
1915
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +00001916- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
1917
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001918- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
1919 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
1920
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001921Build
1922-----
1923
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +00001924- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001925
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +00001926- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
1927
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001928
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001929What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
1930================================
1931
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001932*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001933
1934Core and Builtins
1935-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001936
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +00001937- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
1938 methods.
1939
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001940- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
1941 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +00001942
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001943- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
1944 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +00001945
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001946- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
1947
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001948- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
1949 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +00001950
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +00001951- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
1952
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001953- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00001954
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +00001955- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
1956
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001957- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
1958 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +00001959
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00001960- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
1961
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001962- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
1963 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
1964 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +00001965
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001966- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +00001967
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +00001968- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
1969 masking all errors.
1970
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001971Library
1972-------
1973
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +00001974- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
1975
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +00001976- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
1977 assertions about logging.
1978
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +00001979- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
1980
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +00001981- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
1982 UnicodeEncodeError.
1983
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +00001984- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
1985
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001986- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
1987 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +00001988
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +00001989- Add the "interact" pdb command.
1990
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +00001991- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
1992
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +00001993- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
1994
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001995- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
1996 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
1997
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +00001998- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
1999 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2000 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2001
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +00002002- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
2003
2004- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +00002005 names for running specific tests.
2006
2007- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
2008 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
2009 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
2010
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +00002011- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
2012 SSLError on socket timeouts.
2013
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +00002014- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
2015 messages from argparse.
2016
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +00002017- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
2018
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +00002019- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2020 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2021 current process.
2022
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +00002023- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
2024
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +00002025- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2026
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +00002027- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
2028 Adam.
2029
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002030- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
2031 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +00002032
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +00002033- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2034
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002035- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
2036 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +00002037
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002038- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
2039 subprocess.
2040
2041- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
2042 module.
2043
2044- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
2045 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2046
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002047- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
2048 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002049
2050- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
2051
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002052- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002053 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002054
2055- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
2056 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +00002057
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +00002058- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
2059
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +00002060- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
2061 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
2062
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002063- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
2064 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
2065 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +00002066
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002067- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
2068 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +00002069
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +00002070- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2071
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +00002072- Added itertools.accumulate().
2073
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +00002074- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
2075 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
2076
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +00002077- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
2078 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
2079
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +00002080- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
2081
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002082- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
2083 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +00002084
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002085- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
2086 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +00002087
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002088- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
2089 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
2090 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +00002091
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002092- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
2093 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +00002094
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002095- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
2096 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +00002097
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +00002098- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2099
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002100- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
2101 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +00002102 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
2103
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00002104- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
2105 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +00002106
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +00002107- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
2108
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +00002109- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
2110
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +00002111- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +00002112 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2113
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +00002114- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2115 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2116
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +00002117- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
2118 when no extra arguments have been provided.
2119
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +00002120- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
2121 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
2122 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
2123
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002124- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
2125 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +00002126
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +00002127- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
2128 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
2129
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002130- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
2131 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +00002132
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +00002133- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
2134
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +00002135- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +00002136
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +00002137- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2138 end of the file.
2139
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002140- configparser: 100% test coverage.
2141
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002142- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
2143 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +00002144 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
2145 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
2146
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002147- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
2148 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
2149 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00002150
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002151- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
2152 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
2153
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002154- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
2155
2156- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
2157
2158- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
2159
2160- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
2161 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
2162
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002163- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
2164 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
2165 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002166
2167- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
2168 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
2169 values, and indentation.
2170
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002171- Issue #10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +00002172
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002173- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +00002174
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002175- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
2176 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
2177 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +00002178
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +00002179- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
2180
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +00002181- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
2182 version-specific online reference manual.
2183
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +00002184- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
2185
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +00002186- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
2187
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +00002188- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
2189 Patch by Robert Collins.
2190
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002191- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
2192 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +00002193
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002194C-API
2195-----
2196
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002197- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002198 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
2199 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002200
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002201- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
2202 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002203 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
2204 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002205
2206- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
2207 Schemenauer.
2208
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +00002209- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
2210
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002211- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
2212
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002213Tests
2214-----
2215
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002216- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002217 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +00002218
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002219- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
2220 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +00002221
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002222- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
2223 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +00002224
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002225- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
2226 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002227
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +00002228Build
2229-----
2230
2231- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
2232 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
2233
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00002234Documentation
2235-------------
2236
2237- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2238
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002239
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +00002240What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
2241=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002242
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +00002243*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002244
2245Core and Builtins
2246-----------------
2247
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +00002248- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
2249 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
2250
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002251- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
2252 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +00002253 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
2254
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002255- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +00002256
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +00002257- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
2258
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +00002259- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2260 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2261
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002262- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +00002263 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
2264
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +00002265- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
2266 of the offending line.
2267
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002268- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
2269 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +00002270
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002271- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
2272 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002273 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002274 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002275 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
2276
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002277- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
2278 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002279 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
2280
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +00002281- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2282 resolution.
2283
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002284- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
2285 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +00002286
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +00002287- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
2288 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
2289
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002290- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +00002291 descriptor.
2292
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00002293- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
2294 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
2295
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00002296- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
2297
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002298Library
2299-------
2300
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00002301- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
2302
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00002303- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
2304
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00002305- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
2306
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00002307- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2308
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002309- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
2310 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00002311
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002312- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
2313 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00002314
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002315- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
2316 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00002317
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002318- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002319 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00002320
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002321- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
2322 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00002323
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00002324- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
2325
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002326- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002327 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
2328 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002329 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
2330
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002331- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
2332 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
2333 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
2334 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002335
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002336- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
2337 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00002338
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00002339- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
2340
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002341- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
2342 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00002343
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00002344- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
2345 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
2346
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002347- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
2348 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00002349
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002350- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
2351 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
2352 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
2353 ASCII.
2354
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002355- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002356 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002357 Belopolsky.
2358
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002359- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2360 --enable-shared.
2361
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00002362- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2363 Arfrever.
2364
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00002365- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2366
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00002367- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2368 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2369
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00002370- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
2371 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
2372
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002373- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
2374 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00002375
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00002376- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
2377
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00002378- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
2379
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002380- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
2381 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00002382
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00002383- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
2384 response, instead of raising an exception.
2385
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002386- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
2387 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002388 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
2389 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
2390 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002391
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002392- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
2393 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00002394
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00002395- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
2396
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002397- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
2398 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00002399
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00002400- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2401
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002402- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
2403 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00002404
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002405- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
2406 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00002407
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00002408- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
2409
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00002410- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2411
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002412- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
2413 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00002414
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002415- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
2416 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00002417
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002418- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
2419 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00002420
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00002421- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2422 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2423
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002424- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
2425 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00002426
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00002427- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
2428
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00002429- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
2430
2431- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
2432
2433- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
2434
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002435- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
2436 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00002437
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002438- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002439 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
2440 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002441
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002442- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
2443 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00002444
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00002445- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
2446
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002447- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
2448 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00002449
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00002450- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2451 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2452 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2453
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00002454- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
2455
2456- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00002457
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00002458- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2459
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002460- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
2461 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00002462
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00002463- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
2464 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
2465
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002466- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
2467 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
2468 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00002469
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00002470- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
2471
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002472- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00002473
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00002474- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
2475
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00002476- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
2477
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00002478- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
2479
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00002480- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2481
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00002482- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
2483 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
2484
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002485- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
2486 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
2487 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00002488
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00002489- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
2490 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
2491
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00002492- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
2493 switch to python-config for command line access.
2494
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00002495- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2496
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00002497- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2498 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2499
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002500- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002501 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002502
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00002503- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00002504 debugging in doctests.
2505
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002506- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
2507 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00002508
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002509- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
2510 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00002511
2512- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002513 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002514 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
2515 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002516
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00002517- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2518 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2519 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2520
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002521- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
2522 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
2523 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00002524
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002525- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002526 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
2527 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002528
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00002529- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2530 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2531
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002532- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00002533
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00002534- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
2535
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002536- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2537
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002538Extension Modules
2539-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002540
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00002541- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
2542 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
2543
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00002544- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
2545
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00002546- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
2547
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00002548- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
2549
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00002550- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
2551
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00002552- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
2553
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00002554- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2555
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002556- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
2557 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00002558
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002559- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
2560 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
2561 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00002562
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00002563- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
2564
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002565C-API
2566-----
2567
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002568- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002569 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002570
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002571- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
2572 type has been introduced.
2573
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002574Tools/Demos
2575-----------
2576
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002577- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
2578 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
2579 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00002580
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002581- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2582
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002583Tests
2584-----
2585
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002586- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
2587 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00002588
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00002589- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
2590
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002591- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
2592 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002593
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002594Build
2595-----
2596
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00002597- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
2598
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00002599- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2600
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00002601- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
2602
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002603- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
2604
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00002605- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
2606
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002607- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
2608 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00002609
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002610
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002611What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
2612=================================
2613
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00002614*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002615
2616Core and Builtins
2617-----------------
2618
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00002619- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2620 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2621
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002622- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002623 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002624
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002625- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
2626 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
2627 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00002628
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00002629- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
2630 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
2631
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00002632- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
2633
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002634- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002635 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
2636 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002637
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002638- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002639 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002640
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00002641- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
2642
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00002643- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
2644 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
2645
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002646- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
2647 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00002648
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002649- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002650 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002651
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00002652- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
2653
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002654- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
2655 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
2656 Py_Initialize().
2657
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002658- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
2659 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00002660
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00002661- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
2662 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
2663
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002664- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002665 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00002666
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002667- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2668 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2669 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2670 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
2671 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
2672 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00002673
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00002674- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
2675 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
2676 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
2677
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00002678- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
2679 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
2680 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
2681
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002682- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
2683 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00002684
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00002685- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
2686 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
2687 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
2688
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002689- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
2690 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
2691 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
2692 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00002693
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00002694- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
2695 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
2696 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
2697
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00002698- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2699 thread-local storage key.
2700
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002701Library
2702-------
2703
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00002704- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2705
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002706- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2707
2708- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2709
2710- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2711 not in build_clib.
2712
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00002713- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2714
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00002715- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
2716 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
2717
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00002718- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
2719 verification for higher-level protocols.
2720
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00002721- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2722 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2723
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00002724- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2725 gettext.
2726
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00002727- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002728 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002729 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002730 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
2731 directly.
2732
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00002733- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2734 gname field.
2735
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002736- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
2737 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00002738
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00002739- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2740 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2741
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002742- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
2743 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00002744
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002745- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
2746 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00002747
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002748- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
2749 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
2750 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00002751
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00002752- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
2753
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002754- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002755 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
2756 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
2757 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002758
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00002759- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
2760
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002761- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002762 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
2763 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
2764 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002765
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002766- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2767
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002768- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2769
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00002770- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2771
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00002772- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
2773 in ntpath.
2774
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00002775- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2776
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002777- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
2778 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00002779
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00002780- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
2781 performance-critical threads.
2782
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00002783- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
2784
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002785- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
2786
2787- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
2788
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00002789- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
2790
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00002791- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
2792 object, only munmap().
2793
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002794- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
2795 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00002796
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00002797- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
2798 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
2799 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
2800
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00002801- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
2802
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002803- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002804 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
2805 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002806
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00002807- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
2808 another kind.
2809
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00002810- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
2811
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002812- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00002813
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002814- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
2815 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00002816
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002817- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
2818 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
2819 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00002820
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002821- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
2822 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00002823
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002824- Issue #9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002825 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00002826
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00002827- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
2828
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00002829- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00002830
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00002831- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2832 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2833
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002834- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
2835 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00002836
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002837- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002838 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
2839 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002840 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
2841 in the first place.
2842
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002843- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
2844 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002845 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002846
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002847- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
2848 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
2849 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
2850 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00002851
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002852- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
2853 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
2854 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00002855
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002856- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
2857 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00002858
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00002859- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
2860 multiprocessing.
2861
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002862- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
2863 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
2864 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00002865
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00002866- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
2867 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
2868 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
2869
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002870- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
2871 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
2872 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
2873 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00002874
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002875- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
2876 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
2877 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00002878
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002879- Updates to the random module:
2880
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002881 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
2882 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002883
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002884 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
2885 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
2886 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002887
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002888 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
2889 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
2890 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002891
2892 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00002893
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002894- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
2895 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00002896
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002897- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
2898 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
2899 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00002900
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002901- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
2902 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
2903 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00002904
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00002905- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
2906
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002907- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002908 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
2909 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002910
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00002911- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
2912 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
2913 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
2914 algorithms available in the current process.
2915
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00002916- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
2917
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002918C-API
2919-----
2920
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00002921- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
2922
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002923- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
2924 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
2925 defined.
2926
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002927Tools/Demos
2928-----------
2929
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002930- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
2931 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
2932 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002933
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002934Tests
2935-----
2936
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00002937- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
2938 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
2939
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002940- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
2941 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00002942
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00002943- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2944 in test_os)
2945
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00002946- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
2947 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
2948
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00002949- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
2950
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002951- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
2952 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00002953
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00002954- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2955
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00002956- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
2957
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002958- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2959 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2960
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00002961- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2962
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002963Build
2964-----
2965
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00002966- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
2967
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002968- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
2969 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00002970
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00002971- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2972
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00002973- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
2974
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00002975- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2976
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002977- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
2978 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00002979
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002980- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
2981 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00002982
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00002983- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
2984 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
2985 defined by PEP 3149.
2986
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002987- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
2988 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00002989
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002990- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2991 Sablé.
2992
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00002993- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2994 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2995 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2996
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002997
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002998What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
2999=================================
3000
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00003001*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003002
3003Core and Builtins
3004-----------------
3005
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003006- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
3007 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
3008 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00003009
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00003010- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
3011 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
3012
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003013- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
3014 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00003015
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003016- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
3017 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00003018
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003019- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
3020 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
3021 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00003022
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00003023- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
3024 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
3025
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003026- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
3027 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00003028
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00003029- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
3030
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00003031- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
3032
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003033- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
3034 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00003035
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003036- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
3037 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00003038
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00003039- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
3040 filesystem encoding.
3041
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00003042- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
3043 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
3044 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
3045 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
3046 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
3047
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00003048- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
3049 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
3050 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
3051 function.
3052
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00003053- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
3054
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00003055- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
3056
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003057- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
3058 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00003059
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003060- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
3061 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00003062 sys.stderr.
3063
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003064- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003065 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
3066 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003067
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003068- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
3069 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
3070 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00003071
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003072- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
3073 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003074
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003075- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
3076 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00003077
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003078- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00003079
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003080- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
3081 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00003082
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003083- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
3084 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00003085
3086 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
3087 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
3088
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00003089Extension Modules
3090-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003091
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00003092- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
3093 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
3094 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
3095 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
3096 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
3097
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00003098- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
3099 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
3100
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00003101- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
3102 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3103
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003104- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
3105 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00003106
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003107- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
3108 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
3109 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00003110
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003111- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
3112 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
3113 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00003114
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003115- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
3116 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00003117
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00003118- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
3119 Matthew Ahrens.
3120
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003121- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
3122 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00003123
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003124- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
3125 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00003126
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00003127- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
3128
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003129- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
3130 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00003131
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003132- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
3133 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00003134
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00003135- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00003136
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00003137- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
3138
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003139- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
3140 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00003141
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003142- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
3143 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00003144
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003145- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
3146 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00003147
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003148- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
3149 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00003150
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00003151- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
3152
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003153- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
3154 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00003155
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00003156- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
3157 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
3158
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00003159- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
3160
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003161- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
3162 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003163
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003164Library
3165-------
3166
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003167- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
3168 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
3169 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00003170
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003171- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
3172 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00003173
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003174- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00003175
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003176- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
3177 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00003178
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00003179- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
3180 ConfigParser.write.
3181
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003182- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
3183 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003184 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
3185 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003186
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003187- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
3188 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00003189
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003190- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00003191 circumstances.
3192
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003193- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
3194 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00003195
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003196- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
3197 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00003198
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00003199- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
3200 falling into recursion.
3201
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00003202- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
3203 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
3204
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00003205- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
3206 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00003207
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003208- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
3209 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00003210
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003211- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003212 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
3213 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003214
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003215- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003216 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003217
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00003218- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
3219
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003220- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00003221
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003222- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
3223 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00003224
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00003225- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
3226 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
3227
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00003228- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
3229
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003230- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
3231 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00003232
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003233- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
3234 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00003235
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003236- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
3237 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00003238 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
3239 structure.
3240
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00003241- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
3242 single keyword arguments.
3243
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003244- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
3245 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00003246
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003247- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
3248 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00003249
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003250- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003251 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003252
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003253- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
3254 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003255
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00003256- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
3257
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003258- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
3259 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3260
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00003261- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
3262 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3263
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003264- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003265 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
3266 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003267
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003268- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
3269 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00003270
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003271- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
3272 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
3273 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00003274
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003275- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
3276 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
3277 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00003278
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003279- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
3280 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
3281 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
3282 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00003283
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003284- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003285 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
3286 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003287
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003288- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00003289 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
3290
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003291- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
3292 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00003293
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00003294- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
3295 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
3296
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003297- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
3298 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
3299 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00003300
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003301- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00003302 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
3303 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003304
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003305- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
3306 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
3307 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00003308
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00003309- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
3310
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003311- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
3312 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00003313
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003314- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
3315 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00003316
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003317- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
3318 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
3319 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00003320
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003321- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
3322 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00003323
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003324- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
3325 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00003326
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003327- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
3328 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003329
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003330- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
3331 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003332
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003333- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
3334 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00003335
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003336- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
3337 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00003338
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00003339- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
3340 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
3341
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00003342- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
3343 across devices.
3344
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00003345- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
3346
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00003347- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
3348
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00003349- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
3350
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00003351- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
3352
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00003353- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
3354 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00003355
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00003356- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
3357
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00003358- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
3359 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
3360
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003361- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
3362 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00003363
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003364- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
3365 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00003366
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00003367- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
3368
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00003369- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00003370
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003371Tools/Demos
3372-----------
3373
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00003374- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
3375
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003376- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
3377 non-ASCII content.
3378
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003379Tests
3380-----
3381
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003382- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
3383
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00003384- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3385
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00003386- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3387
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00003388- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3389
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00003390- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3391 Michele Orrù.
3392
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003393- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
3394
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003395Build
3396-----
3397
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00003398- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
3399
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003400- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
3401
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003402- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
3403 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00003404
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00003405- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3406 Sébastien Sablé.
3407
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003408- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
3409
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003410
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003411What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
3412=================================
3413
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003414*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003415
3416Core and Builtins
3417-----------------
3418
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00003419- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
3420
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00003421- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
3422 compiler.
3423
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00003424- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
3425
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003426- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003427 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
3428 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
3429 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
3430 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
3431 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
3432 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003433
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003434- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
3435 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00003436
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00003437- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
3438
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00003439- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
3440 objects, as described in the documentation.
3441
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003442- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003443 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00003444 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003445
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003446- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
3447 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
3448 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00003449
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003450- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003451 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003452 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003453 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003454
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00003455- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
3456 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
3457
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003458- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003459 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003460 string formats.
3461
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003462- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00003463 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
3464 location of the raised exception.
3465
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00003466- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
3467 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
3468
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00003469- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3470
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003471- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
3472 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
3473 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00003474
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003475- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
3476 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
3477 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
3478 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00003479
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00003480- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
3481 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
3482 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
3483
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003484- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
3485 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003486
3487- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003488 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003489 like bytearray.
3490
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003491- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00003492 used anymore and it was never documented.
3493
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003494- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00003495
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003496- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
3497 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00003498
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003499- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
3500 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
3501 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
3502 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00003503
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003504- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3505 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003506 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
3507 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
3508 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
3509 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003510
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00003511- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
3512 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
3513
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003514- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003515 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003516 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003517
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003518- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
3519 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00003520
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003521- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
3522 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003523 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00003524 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003525
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003526- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003527 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003528
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003529- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003530 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003531 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
3532
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003533- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003534 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
3535 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003536
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00003537- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3538
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003539- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00003540
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003541- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
3542 arguments.
3543
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003544- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003545 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
3546 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003547
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003548- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003549 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003550
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003551- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
3552 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00003553
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003554- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003555 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
3556 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
3557 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003558
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00003559- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3560 passed to bytes or bytearray.
3561
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00003562- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3563
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00003564- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3565 changed.
3566
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003567- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
3568 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
3569 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00003570
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00003571- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3572
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00003573- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
3574
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00003575- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3576
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003577- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3578 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00003579
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003580- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003581 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003582
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003583- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00003584
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003585- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003586 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003587
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00003588- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
3589 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
3590 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
3591 comparisons with complex.
3592
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003593- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
3594 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003595 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003596
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00003597- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
3598
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003599- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3600 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00003601
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003602- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3603 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00003604
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00003605- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
3606
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003607- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
3608 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00003609
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003610- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003611 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003612
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003613- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3614 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00003615
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003616- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
3617 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00003618
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003619- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003620 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
3621 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003622
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003623- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
3624 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00003625
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003626- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3627 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00003628
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003629- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
3630 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
3631 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3632 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00003633
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003634- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
3635 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
3636 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00003637
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003638- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003639 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
3640 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
3641 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
3642 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
3643 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003644
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003645- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
3646 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
3647 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00003648
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003649- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3650 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
3651 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
3652 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
3653 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
3654 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00003655
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00003656- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
3657 consistent with other special methods.
3658
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00003659- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3660 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3661
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00003662- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3663 AttributeError.
3664
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003665- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3666 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00003667
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003668- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3669 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3670 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3671 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00003672
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003673- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
3674 executables on OSX.
3675
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003676 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3677 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3678 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003679
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003680- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3681 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00003682
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00003683- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
3684 with invalid values.
3685
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00003686- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
3687 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
3688
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003689- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3690 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00003691
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00003692- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3693
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00003694- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
3695 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
3696
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003697- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
3698 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
3699 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
3700 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
3701 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00003702
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003703- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
3704 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00003705
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00003706- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
3707 surrogates.
3708
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00003709- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
3710
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00003711- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3712
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00003713- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
3714 disabled since Python 3.0.
3715
3716- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
3717 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
3718 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
3719
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003720- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003721 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003722
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00003723- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
3724
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00003725- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
3726 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3727 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
3728
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00003729- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00003730 support.
3731
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003732- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3733 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003734
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003735- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3736 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3737 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00003738
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003739- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
3740 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00003741
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00003742- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3743 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3744 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3745 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3746
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003747- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3748 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00003749
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003750- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
3751 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00003752
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00003753- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
3754
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00003755- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
3756
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00003757- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
3758
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00003759- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3760
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003761- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
3762 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00003763
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00003764- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
3765
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00003766- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
3767
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00003768- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
3769 occurred in the argument chain.
3770
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003771- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3772 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00003773
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00003774- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3775
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003776- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
3777 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00003778
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00003779- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
3780
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003781- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3782 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3783 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00003784
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003785- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
3786 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00003787
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00003788- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3789
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003790- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
3791 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00003792
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003793- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
3794 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00003795
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003796- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
3797 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
3798 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00003799
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00003800- Code objects now support weak references.
3801
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003802- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003803
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003804- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003805 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
3806 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003807
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003808C-API
3809-----
3810
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00003811- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
3812 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
3813 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
3814
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00003815- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
3816 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
3817 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
3818
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003819- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
3820 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
3821 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00003822 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3823
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003824- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
3825 strings in an efficient manner.
3826
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003827- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003828 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3829 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003830
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003831- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
3832 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00003833
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00003834- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
3835 has '\0' at the end.
3836
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003837- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003838 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
3839 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
3840 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003841 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
3842
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003843- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00003844
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003845- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
3846 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00003847
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003848- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3849 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00003850
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003851- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
3852 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
3853 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00003854
3855- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00003856
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003857- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
3858
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00003859- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3860 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3861
3862- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3863 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3864
3865- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3866 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3867
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003868- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3869 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3870 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3871 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00003872
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003873Library
3874-------
3875
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003876- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
3877 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00003878
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003879- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
3880 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
3881 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00003882
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003883- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
3884 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003885
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003886- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
3887 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003888
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003889- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
3890 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003891
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003892- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
3893 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00003894
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003895- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
3896 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00003897
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003898- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
3899 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00003900
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003901- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
3902 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00003903
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003904- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
3905 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00003906
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003907- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
3908 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00003909
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00003910- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
3911
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003912- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
3913 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
3914 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00003915
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003916- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
3917 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00003918
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003919- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00003920 entries, consider the first one.
3921
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00003922- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
3923 string.Template class.
3924
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003925- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
3926 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00003927
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003928- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
3929 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00003930
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00003931- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
3932
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00003933- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
3934
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003935- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
3936 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00003937
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003938- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003939 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
3940 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003941
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003942- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00003943
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003944- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
3945 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00003946 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
3947 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003948 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
3949 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00003950
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00003951- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
3952
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003953- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00003954 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
3955 XML-RPC request.
3956
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003957- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
3958 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
3959 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00003960
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003961- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
3962 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
3963 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
3964 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
3965 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
3966 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00003967
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003968- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00003969
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003970- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
3971 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00003972
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003973- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
3974 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00003975
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00003976- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
3977 parameters.
3978
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003979- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
3980 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00003981
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003982- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
3983 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00003984
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00003985- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
3986
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00003987- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
3988
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003989- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
3990 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00003991
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00003992- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
3993
3994- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00003995
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00003996- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
3997
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003998- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
3999 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
4000 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00004001
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004002- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
4003 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
4004 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00004005
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00004006- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
4007
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00004008- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
4009
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00004010- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
4011
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004012- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
4013 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
4014 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00004015
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00004016- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
4017 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
4018
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004019- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
4020 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004021
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004022- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
4023 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00004024
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00004025- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
4026 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
4027
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004028- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00004029 raises an exception.
4030
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004031- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004032 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
4033 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004034
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00004035- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
4036 for removal in Python 3.4.
4037
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004038- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
4039 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00004040
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004041- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
4042 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00004043
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004044- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
4045 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00004046
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004047- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
4048 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00004049 deallocation while the object is still being used.
4050
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004051- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004052 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004053 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
4054
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004055- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00004056 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
4057
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004058- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
4059 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00004060
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004061- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
4062 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00004063
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00004064- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
4065
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004066- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
4067 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
4068
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004069- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
4070 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
4071 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
4072 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
4073 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00004074
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004075- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
4076 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00004077
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00004078- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00004079
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00004080- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
4081
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004082- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
4083 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00004084
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00004085- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
4086 mistake.
4087
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004088- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
4089 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004090 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00004091
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00004092- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
4093 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
4094
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004095- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
4096 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
4097 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00004098
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00004099- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
4100 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
4101
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00004102- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
4103
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004104- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
4105 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004106 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004107
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004108- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
4109 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00004110
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004111- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004112 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004113
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004114- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004115 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
4116 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004117
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00004118- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
4119 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
4120 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00004121
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004122- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004123 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004124
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00004125- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
4126 of files without one.
4127
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00004128- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
4129 comparing to a non-mapping.
4130
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004131- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004132 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004133
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004134- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
4135 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
4136 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00004137
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00004138- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
4139
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00004140- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
4141 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
4142 stdout is not a TTY).
4143
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00004144- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
4145 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
4146 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
4147 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
4148
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00004149- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
4150 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
4151
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00004152- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
4153 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
4154
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00004155- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
4156
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00004157- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004158 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00004159
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00004160- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
4161
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004162- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
4163 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00004164
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004165- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
4166 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00004167
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00004168- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
4169 class.
4170
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00004171- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
4172 given.
4173
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00004174- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
4175 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
4176
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004177- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
4178 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00004179
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00004180- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
4181 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
4182 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
4183 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00004184
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004185- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
4186
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004187- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
4188 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
4189 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
4190 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004191
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00004192- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
4193 Patch by Tres Seaver.
4194
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00004195- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004196 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00004197
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00004198- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
4199
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004200- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
4201 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00004202
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004203- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
4204 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
4205 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
4206 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
4207 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00004208
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004209- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004210 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
4211 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004212
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00004213- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
4214 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
4215
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004216- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
4217 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00004218
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00004219- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00004220 webbrowser.get("safari").
4221
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004222- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
4223 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00004224
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004225- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
4226 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00004227
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00004228- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
4229
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00004230- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
4231 It should correctly return an empty response now.
4232
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00004233- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
4234
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00004235- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
4236 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
4237
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00004238- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
4239 and mappings.
4240
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004241- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
4242 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
4243 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
4244 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00004245
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004246- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
4247 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
4248 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00004249
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004250- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
4251 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
4252
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004253- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
4254 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004255
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004256- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
4257 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00004258
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004259- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
4260 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004261 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004262
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004263- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00004264
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004265- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
4266 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
4267 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00004268
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004269- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
4270 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00004271 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
4272 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
4273
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00004274- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
4275 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4276
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00004277- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
4278 collation name contains a surrogate character.
4279
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004280- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
4281 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
4282 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00004283
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00004284- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
4285
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004286- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00004287
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00004288- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
4289 from PORT/EPRT commands.
4290
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00004291- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
4292
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004293- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
4294 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00004295
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004296- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
4297 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00004298
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00004299- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
4300 surrogates.
4301
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004302- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00004303 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004304
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00004305- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
4306 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
4307
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00004308- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
4309 the current working directory.
4310
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004311- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004312 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004313
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004314- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00004315
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00004316- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
4317 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
4318
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00004319- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
4320
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004321- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004322 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004323 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004324
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004325- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
4326 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004327 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004328
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004329- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004330 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
4331 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004332
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004333- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004334 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
4335 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004336
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00004337- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
4338 present before it cleans them.
4339
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004340- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
4341 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00004342
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004343- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004344 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
4345 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004346
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00004347- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
4348
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004349- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
4350 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00004351
4352 >>> Decimal(1.1)
4353 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
4354
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004355- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
4356 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00004357
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004358- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
4359 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
4360 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
4361 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004362
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004363- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
4364 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
4365 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
4366 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
4367 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004368
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00004369- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
4370
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004371- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004372 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
4373 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
4374 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004375
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004376- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
4377 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004378 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004379
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004380- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
4381 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
4382 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
4383 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00004384
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004385- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
4386 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
4387 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00004388
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00004389- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
4390 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
4391
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004392- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004393 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
4394 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004395
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004396- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
4397 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00004398
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00004399- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
4400 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
4401 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00004402
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00004403- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
4404 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
4405 (utf8) encoding.
4406
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00004407- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
4408
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00004409- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
4410
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00004411- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
4412
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00004413- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
4414 detected.
4415
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00004416- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
4417
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00004418- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
4419 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
4420
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004421- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00004422
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004423- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
4424 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00004425
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004426- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
4427 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
4428 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00004429
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004430- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
4431 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
4432 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
4433 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00004434
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00004435- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
4436 cElementTree module is updated too.
4437
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004438- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004439 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
4440 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004441
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00004442- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
4443
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004444- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
4445 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00004446
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00004447- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
4448 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4449
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00004450- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
4451 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00004452
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00004453- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
4454 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
4455
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00004456- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
4457 class.
4458
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00004459- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
4460 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
4461
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00004462- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
4463
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00004464- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
4465 writing.
4466
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00004467- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
4468
4469- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
4470
4471- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4472
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00004473- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
4474
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004475- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
4476 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00004477
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00004478- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
4479
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004480- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
4481 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00004482
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004483- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
4484 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00004485
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00004486- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
4487
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00004488- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
4489 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
4490
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00004491- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
4492 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
4493
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004494- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
4495 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
4496 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
4497 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00004498
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00004499- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4500 interpreter shutdown.
4501
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004502- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
4503 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
4504 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
4505 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00004506
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004507- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
4508 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
4509 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00004510
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004511- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
4512 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00004513
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004514- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
4515 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004516 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
4517 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004518
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004519- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
4520 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4521 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00004522 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4523
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004524- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004525 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
4526 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
4527 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
4528 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
4529 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004530
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004531- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004532 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4533 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004534
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00004535- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4536
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00004537- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00004538
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00004539- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
4540
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00004541- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
4542 the release file is empty.
4543
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00004544- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
4545 module.
4546
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004547- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
4548 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
4549 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00004550
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004551- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
4552 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00004553
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004554- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
4555 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00004556
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004557- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4558 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00004559
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004560- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4561 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00004562
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00004563- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
4564
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00004565- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
4566 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
4567 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
4568
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004569- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4570 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00004571
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004572- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
4573 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00004574
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004575- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4576 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00004577
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004578- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004579 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4580 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004581
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004582- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4583 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
4584 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00004585
4586- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00004587 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4588
4589- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
4590
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004591- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
4592 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00004593
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004594- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
4595 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
4596 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00004597
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004598- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4599 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4600 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00004601
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00004602- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4603 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
4604
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004605- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
4606 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
4607 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00004608
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00004609- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4610 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4611 the same as passing no argument.
4612
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004613- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00004614
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004615- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
4616 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00004617
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00004618- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00004619
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00004620- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4621
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004622- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4623 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00004624
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004625- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00004626 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
4627
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004628- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
4629 TLS with authentication credentials.
4630
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004631- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4632 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00004633
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00004634- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4635 msvc9compiler.
4636
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004637- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004638 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4639 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004640
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00004641- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4642 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4643 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4644
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004645- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004646 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
4647 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004648
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004649- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4650 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00004651
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004652- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4653
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00004654- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
4655 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
4656 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4657
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004658- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
4659 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4660 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00004661
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00004662- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4663
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004664- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00004665
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00004666- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4667 raises ReadError on empty files.
4668
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004669- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00004670
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00004671- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
4672 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00004673
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004674- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4675 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00004676
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00004677- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
4678 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
4679
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004680- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4681 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00004682
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004683- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00004684
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004685- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4686 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00004687
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004688- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4689 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4690 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
4691 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00004692 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4693
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004694- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4695 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4696 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00004697
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004698- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004699 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004700 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4701
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004702- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
4703 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
4704 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004705
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004706- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004707 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
4708
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004709- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004710 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
4711 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
4712 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004713
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004714- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4715 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00004716 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
4717
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00004718- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
4719 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
4720
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00004721- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4722 which are part of a reference cycle.
4723
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00004724- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
4725 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
4726
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004727- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
4728 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
4729 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00004730
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004731- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4732 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4733 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4734 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00004735
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004736- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4737 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4738 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4739 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00004740
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00004741- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4742 header as required by RFC 1952.
4743
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00004744- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4745 Distutils.
4746
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00004747- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4748 an uppercase.
4749
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00004750- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
4751 several threads at once.
4752
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004753- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4754
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00004755- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4756 larger than emax.
4757
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00004758- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
4759 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
4760
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004761- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4762 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00004763
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004764- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00004765
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004766- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4767 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004768
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004769- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4770 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00004771
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00004772- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
4773 builtin tokenizer.
4774
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004775- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4776 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00004777
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004778- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
4779 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00004780
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004781- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4782 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00004783
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004784- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
4785 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00004786
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00004787- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
4788
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00004789- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4790
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00004791- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4792
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00004793- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
4794
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004795- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00004796
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004797- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4798 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4799 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00004800
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004801- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4802 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00004803
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00004804- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
4805
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004806- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4807 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4808 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4809 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00004810
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00004811- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
4812 should be raised, not AttributeError.
4813
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00004814- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
4815 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
4816
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004817- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004818 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004819
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00004820- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
4821
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00004822- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
4823
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00004824- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4825
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00004826- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4827 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4828
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00004829- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
4830
4831- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
4832
4833- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4834
4835- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4836 ScrolledText.
4837
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00004838- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4839
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004840- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4841 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00004842
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00004843- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
4844 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4845 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4846 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4847
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004848- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
4849 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00004850
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00004851- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
4852
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004853- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4854 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4855 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00004856
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00004857- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
4858 DO/DONT correctly.
4859
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00004860- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004861 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
4862 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00004863
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004864- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004865 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
4866 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
4867 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004868
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00004869- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
4870 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
4871 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
4872
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004873- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4874 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4875 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00004876
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00004877- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00004878
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004879- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
4880 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00004881
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004882- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
4883 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00004884
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00004885- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4886 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4887
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00004888- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
4889
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00004890- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4891
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00004892- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
4893
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004894- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
4895 sys.path.
4896
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00004897- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
4898
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004899- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
4900 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00004901
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00004902- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
4903 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
4904
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004905- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
4906 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00004907
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00004908- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
4909
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00004910- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
4911
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004912- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
4913 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00004914
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00004915- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
4916 for tracing methods.
4917
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004918Extension Modules
4919-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00004920
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00004921- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
4922 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
4923
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00004924- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
4925
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004926- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004927 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
4928 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
4929 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
4930 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004931
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00004932- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
4933
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004934- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
4935 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
4936 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00004937
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004938- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
4939 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00004940
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004941- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
4942 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00004943
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004944- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
4945 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00004946
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00004947- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
4948 object in the '?' format.
4949
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00004950- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
4951
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00004952- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
4953 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00004954
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004955- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
4956 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
4957 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
4958 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00004959
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004960- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
4961 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
4962 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
4963 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
4964 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
4965 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00004966
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004967- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004968 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
4969 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
4970 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
4971 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
4972 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004973
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004974- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
4975 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00004976
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004977- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004978 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004979 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00004980
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004981- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
4982 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
4983 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00004984
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004985- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
4986 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00004987
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004988- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
4989 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
4990 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
4991 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
4992 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00004993
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00004994- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
4995 overflow checks in the audioop module.
4996
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004997- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
4998 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004999 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
5000 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00005001
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005002- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
5003 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
5004 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00005005
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00005006- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
5007
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00005008- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
5009 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
5010 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
5011 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
5012
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00005013- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
5014
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00005015- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
5016
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005017- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00005018 handling.
5019
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00005020- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
5021 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
5022
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00005023- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5024
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00005025- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5026
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00005027- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005028
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005029- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
5030 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005031
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00005032- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5033
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00005034- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
5035
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005036- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5037 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5038 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00005039
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005040- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
5041 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005042
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00005043- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5044
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00005045- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
5046 (CVE_2009_3560).
5047
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005048- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
5049 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
5050 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00005051
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00005052- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
5053 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
5054
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00005055- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
5056
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005057- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
5058 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00005059
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005060- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00005061
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005062Build
5063-----
5064
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00005065- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
5066
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00005067- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
5068
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005069- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
5070 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
5071 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
5072 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
5073 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00005074
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00005075- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
5076
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00005077- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
5078 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00005079
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005080- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
5081 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
5082 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
5083 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00005084
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005085- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
5086 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00005087
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00005088- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
5089
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00005090- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
5091 give false warnings.
5092
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005093- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
5094 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
5095 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00005096
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005097- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
5098 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00005099
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00005100- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00005101
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005102- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
5103 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
5104 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00005105
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00005106- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
5107
5108- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
5109 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
5110
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00005111- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
5112 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
5113 Python.
5114
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00005115- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
5116 found.
5117
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00005118- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00005119
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00005120- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
5121 icc or suncc.
5122
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005123- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5124 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5125 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00005126
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005127- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00005128
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00005129- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5130
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005131- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00005132 directories.
5133
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005134- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005135 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005136
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005137- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005138 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00005139
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00005140- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
5141
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00005142- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
5143
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00005144- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
5145
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00005146Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005147-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005148
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00005149- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
5150 to Doc/license.rst.
5151
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00005152- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
5153 with os.kill.
5154
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005155- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00005156 only.
5157
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005158- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00005159 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
5160
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005161- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
5162 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00005163
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00005164- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
5165 ImportError.
5166
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005167- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5168 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005169
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00005170- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
5171 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005172
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00005173- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
5174 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
5175
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005176Tests
5177-----
5178
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005179- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
5180 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00005181
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00005182- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
5183
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005184- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00005185
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005186- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
5187 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
5188 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00005189
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00005190- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005191 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00005192
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00005193- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
5194 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
5195
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00005196- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
5197 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
5198
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005199- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
5200 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00005201
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005202- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
5203 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00005204
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005205- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
5206 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00005207
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00005208- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
5209
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00005210- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
5211
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00005212- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
5213 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
5214
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00005215- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
5216 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00005217
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005218- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
5219 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005220
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00005221- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
5222 effectively raised.
5223
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005224- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
5225 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00005226
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005227- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
5228 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00005229
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00005230- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
5231 filesystem encoding.
5232
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005233- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
5234 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00005235
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005236- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
5237 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
5238 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
5239 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00005240
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005241- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
5242 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
5243 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00005244
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005245- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
5246 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00005247
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005248- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00005249 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
5250
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00005251- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
5252
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00005253- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00005254 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
5255
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005256- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5257 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5258 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00005259
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005260- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5261 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00005262
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005263- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5264 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00005265
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005266- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
5267 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
5268 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
5269 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00005270
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00005271- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5272
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00005273- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5274 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5275
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00005276- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
5277 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
5278 between concurrent executions on the same system.
5279
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00005280- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
5281 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
5282 calling methods on the object.
5283
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005284- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005285 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5286 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5287 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005288 :func:`_thread._count()`.
5289
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005290- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5291 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00005292
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00005293- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5294 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5295
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00005296- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005297 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
5298 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00005299
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00005300- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5301
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005302- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
5303 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
5304 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00005305
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005306- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005307 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005308
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005309Tools/Demos
5310-----------
5311
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00005312- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00005313
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005314- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005315 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005316
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00005317
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005318What's New in Python 3.1?
5319=========================
5320
5321*Release date: 27-June-2009*
5322
5323Core and Builtins
5324-----------------
5325
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00005326- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
5327 large arguments.
5328
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00005329- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
5330 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
5331
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005332Library
5333-------
5334
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00005335- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
5336
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005337- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005338
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00005339- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
5340
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00005341- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
5342 io.UnsupportedOperation.
5343
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005344- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00005345 (On Unix)
5346
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00005347- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
5348 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
5349
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00005350Extension Modules
5351-----------------
5352
5353- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
5354
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005355
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00005356What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
5357=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005358
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00005359*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005360
5361Core and Builtins
5362-----------------
5363
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00005364- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
5365
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00005366- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
5367 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
5368
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00005369- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
5370 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
5371
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005372- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00005373 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005374
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005375Library
5376-------
5377
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005378- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005379 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005380 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
5381
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00005382- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5383
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00005384- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
5385 binary files.
5386
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005387- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
5388 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5389
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00005390- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
5391 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
5392 are always None now.
5393
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00005394- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
5395 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
5396 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
5397 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
5398
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00005399- Removed the ipaddr module.
5400
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00005401- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
5402 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
5403 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
5404
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00005405- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
5406
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00005407- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
5408
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00005409- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
5410 parameters.
5411
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005412Windows
5413-------
5414
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00005415- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
5416
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005417- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
5418
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00005419C-API
5420-----
5421
5422- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
5423 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
5424 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
5425
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005426
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005427Build
5428-----
5429
5430- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
5431 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
5432
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00005433- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
5434 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
5435
5436
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005437
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00005438What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
5439=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005440
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00005441*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005442
5443Core and Builtins
5444-----------------
5445
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00005446- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
5447 of the command line.
5448
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00005449- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
5450
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00005451- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
5452 that would raise SystemError.
5453
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00005454- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
5455 function with __func__.
5456
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00005457- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
5458 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00005459
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00005460- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
5461 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
5462 and imaginary literals.
5463
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00005464- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
5465
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00005466- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
5467
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00005468- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
5469 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
5470 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
5471 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
5472 didn't match that of float('-nan').
5473
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005474Library
5475-------
5476
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00005477- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
5478
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00005479- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
5480
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00005481- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
5482 argument to the 'help' function.
5483
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00005484- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
5485 arguments for strings with a space in them.
5486
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00005487- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
5488 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
5489
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00005490- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5491 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5492
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00005493- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
5494 the directory already exists.
5495
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00005496- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5497 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5498 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5499
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00005500- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
5501 IO objects.
5502
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00005503- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
5504 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
5505
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00005506- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
5507 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
5508 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
5509
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00005510- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5511 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5512
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00005513- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5514 deepcopy()ing.
5515
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00005516- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5517
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00005518- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5519
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00005520- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5521
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00005522- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
5523 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
5524 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
5525 empty.
5526
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00005527- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5528 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
5529 corrects a pydoc regression.
5530
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005531- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00005532 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
5533
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00005534Installation
5535------------
5536
5537- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
5538 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005539
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00005540- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
5541
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005542Extension Modules
5543-----------------
5544
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00005545- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00005546
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00005547- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5548
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005549- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
5550
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00005551- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
5552 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00005553
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00005554Build
5555-----
5556
5557- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
5558 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
5559 Clinton Roy.
5560
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005561Tests
5562-----
5563
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005564- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005565 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
5566 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
5567 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
5568
5569
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005570What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
5571================================
5572
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00005573*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005574
5575Core and Builtins
5576-----------------
5577
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00005578- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
5579 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
5580
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005581- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
5582 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
5583 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
5584
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00005585- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
5586 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
5587 a PendingDeprecation warning.
5588
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00005589- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
5590 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
5591 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
5592 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
5593 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
5594 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
5595 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
5596 the same way.
5597
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00005598- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
5599
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00005600- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
5601 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
5602 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
5603
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00005604- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
5605 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
5606
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00005607- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00005608
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00005609- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
5610 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
5611 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
5612
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00005613- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
5614 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
5615 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
5616 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00005617
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005618- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00005619 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
5620
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00005621- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
5622 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
5623
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00005624- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
5625 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
5626
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00005627- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
5628
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00005629- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
5630 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
5631
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00005632- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
5633
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00005634- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
5635 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
5636
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00005637- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00005638
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00005639- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
5640 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
5641 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
5642 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
5643
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00005644- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
5645 some builtin types.
5646
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005647- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
5648
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00005649- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
5650 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005651
5652- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5653 floats.
5654
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005655- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005656 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
5657 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
5658 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
5659 long time.)
5660
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005661- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
5662 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
5663 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
5664 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005665 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
5666 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
5667 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005668
5669 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
5670 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
5671 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
5672 reason or another.
5673
5674 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
5675 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
5676 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
5677 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
5678 correctly rounded on these platforms.
5679
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005680 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005681 this change does not apply.
5682
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00005683- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
5684
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00005685- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
5686 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
5687 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
5688 methods available on the str class.
5689
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00005690- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
5691 its clarity and its speed.
5692
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005693- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00005694 to avoid compiler warnings.
5695
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00005696- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
5697 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
5698
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00005699Installation
5700------------
5701
5702- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
5703
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005704Library
5705-------
5706
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00005707- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
5708
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00005709- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
5710 specific Python version.
5711
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00005712- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
5713 whitespace.
5714
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005715- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00005716 the right type checkings anymore.
5717
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00005718- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
5719 return directories.
5720
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00005721- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5722
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00005723- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5724 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5725
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00005726- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
5727 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
5728
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00005729- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
5730 extracting a file to the root directory.
5731
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00005732- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
5733
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00005734- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5735 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
5736 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
5737
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00005738- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
5739
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00005740- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5741 Contributed by Google.
5742
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00005743- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5744 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5745
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00005746- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
5747
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00005748- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5749
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00005750- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
5751 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
5752 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5753
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00005754- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
5755 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5756 initialized before.
5757
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005758- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5759 names which should not be exported.
5760
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00005761- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
5762 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
5763
5764- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5765
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00005766- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
5767 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
5768 instances.
5769
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00005770- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
5771 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
5772 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
5773
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00005774- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
5775 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
5776
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00005777- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
5778 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
5779 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
5780 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
5781 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
5782
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00005783- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
5784 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
5785
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00005786- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5787 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5788 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5789
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005790Extension Modules
5791-----------------
5792
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00005793- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
5794 pwd.
5795
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00005796- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
5797 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
5798 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
5799 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
5800
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00005801- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
5802 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005803
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00005804Tests
5805-----
5806
5807- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
5808 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
5809 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
5810 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
5811 can be adjusted to use it over time.
5812
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00005813- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5814 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5815 incorrectly on __exit__.
5816
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00005817C-API
5818-----
5819
5820- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
5821
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005822
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005823What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
5824=================================
5825
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00005826*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005827
5828Core and Builtins
5829-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005830
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00005831- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5832 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005833
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00005834- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
5835
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00005836- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
5837 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
5838
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00005839- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
5840 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
5841
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00005842- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
5843
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00005844- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
5845 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
5846
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00005847- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
5848 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
5849 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
5850
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00005851- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
5852
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00005853- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
5854 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
5855
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00005856- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
5857 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
5858 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
5859 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
5860
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00005861- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
5862 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
5863 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
5864
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00005865- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
5866 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
5867 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
5868 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
5869 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
5870 the internal format.
5871
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00005872- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
5873 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
5874 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
5875
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00005876- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
5877 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
5878
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00005879- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
5880 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
5881
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00005882- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
5883 short file names.
5884
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005885Library
5886-------
5887
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005888- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00005889 mailbox.MH.get_message().
5890
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00005891- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
5892 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
5893 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
5894
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00005895- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
5896 the -T argument.
5897
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00005898- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
5899
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00005900- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
5901
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00005902- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
5903
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00005904- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
5905 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
5906
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00005907- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
5908
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00005909- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
5910
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00005911- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
5912 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
5913
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00005914- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
5915 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
5916
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00005917- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
5918 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
5919 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
5920
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00005921- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
5922
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00005923- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
5924 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
5925
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00005926- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
5927 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
5928
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00005929- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
5930 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
5931 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
5932 partial bzip2 compressed data.
5933
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00005934- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
5935 specifier to Decimal.__format__
5936
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00005937- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
5938 '>' alignment characters.
5939
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00005940- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
5941 value, and report it as -1 instead.
5942
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00005943- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
5944 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
5945
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005946Extension Modules
5947-----------------
5948
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005949- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
5950
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005951- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
5952 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00005953 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
5954 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
5955 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005956
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005957
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005958What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00005959================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005960
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005961*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005962
5963Core and Builtins
5964-----------------
5965
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00005966- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
5967
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00005968- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
5969
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00005970- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
5971 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
5972
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00005973- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
5974 contained non ascii character on windows.
5975
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00005976- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
5977 source has already been decoded into str.
5978
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00005979- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
5980 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
5981
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00005982- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
5983 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
5984
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00005985- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
5986 returns a non-number type.
5987
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00005988- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
5989
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00005990- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
5991 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00005992 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
5993 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00005994
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005995- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00005996 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
5997
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00005998- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
5999 Previously it returned a float.
6000
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00006001- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
6002 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
6003 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
6004 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
6005
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00006006- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
6007
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00006008- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
6009 from a string.
6010
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00006011- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
6012
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00006013- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
6014 optional module state data.
6015
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006016- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006017 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006018
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00006019- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
6020 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
6021 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
6022
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00006023- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
6024 __next__ method.
6025
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00006026- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
6027 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
6028 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
6029
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00006030- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
6031
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00006032- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
6033
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00006034- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
6035 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
6036 amount of loop unrolling.
6037
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00006038- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
6039 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
6040 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
6041 Martin von Löwis at
6042 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
6043
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006044- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00006045 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
6046 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
6047
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00006048- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
6049 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
6050 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
6051 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
6052
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00006053- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
6054 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
6055 Python's overall memory).
6056
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00006057- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
6058 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
6059 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
6060 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
6061 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
6062
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00006063- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
6064 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
6065 items, rather than the size in bytes.
6066
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006067- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
6068
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00006069- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
6070 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
6071
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006072- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
6073 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00006074
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00006075- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
6076 did not get collected.
6077
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00006078- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
6079 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
6080
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00006081- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
6082 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
6083
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00006084- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
6085 fail.
6086
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00006087- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
6088
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00006089- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
6090 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
6091
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00006092- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
6093 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
6094 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
6095
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00006096- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
6097
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00006098- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
6099 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
6100 failures on OS X.
6101
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00006102- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
6103 exceptions.
6104
6105- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00006106 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
6107
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00006108- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
6109 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
6110 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
6111 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
6112
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00006113- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
6114 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
6115 Python 2.x.
6116
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00006117- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
6118 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
6119
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006120- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
6121 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
6122 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
6123 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00006124
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00006125- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
6126 larger than 1.
6127
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00006128- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
6129
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00006130- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
6131
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00006132- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
6133 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
6134 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
6135 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
6136
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006137Library
6138-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006139
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00006140- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
6141 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
6142
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00006143- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00006144 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
6145
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00006146- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00006147 Distutils.
6148
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00006149- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
6150
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00006151- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
6152 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
6153 Michael Haubenwallner.
6154
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00006155- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
6156
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00006157- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
6158 opening an empty or very small file.
6159
6160- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00006161 behavior is similar when used with -O.
6162
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00006163- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
6164
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00006165- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
6166 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
6167 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
6168 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
6169
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006170- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
6171
6172- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
6173
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00006174- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006175 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
6176
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006177- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00006178
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006179- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00006180 attribute.
6181
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00006182- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
6183
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00006184- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
6185
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006186- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
6187 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
6188 descriptor errors
6189
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006190- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00006191 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
6192
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006193- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00006194 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
6195
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00006196- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
6197 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
6198
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00006199- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
6200
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00006201- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
6202
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00006203- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
6204 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
6205 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6206
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00006207- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
6208 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6209
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00006210- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
6211
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006212- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00006213 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
6214
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00006215- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6216
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00006217- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
6218 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
6219
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006220- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00006221 subcommand.
6222
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00006223- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
6224 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
6225
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00006226- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
6227 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
6228
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00006229- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
6230 for old-style extensions.
6231
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00006232- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
6233
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00006234- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
6235 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
6236 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
6237 Cournapeau.
6238
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00006239- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
6240
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006241- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00006242 anymore.
6243
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006244- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00006245 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
6246
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00006247- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
6248
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00006249- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
6250
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00006251- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
6252
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00006253- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
6254 a value in SafeConfigParser.
6255
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00006256- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
6257
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006258- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00006259 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
6260
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00006261- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
6262 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
6263
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00006264- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
6265 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
6266
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006267- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00006268
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006269- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00006270
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00006271- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
6272 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
6273 threads.
6274
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00006275- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
6276 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
6277 that it was failing to do localization.
6278
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00006279- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
6280 Brandl.
6281
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00006282- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
6283 character.
6284
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00006285- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
6286 Tim Golden.
6287
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00006288- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
6289
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00006290- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
6291 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
6292 window flashing.
6293
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00006294- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
6295 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
6296 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
6297
6298- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
6299
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00006300- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
6301 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
6302
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00006303- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
6304
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00006305- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
6306
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00006307- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
6308
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00006309- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
6310
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00006311- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
6312
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00006313- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
6314
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00006315- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
6316 import guess_extension`` was used.
6317
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00006318- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
6319 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
6320
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00006321- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
6322 overrun.
6323
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006324- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00006325 bdist_rpm command.
6326
6327- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
6328
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006329- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
6330
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00006331- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
6332 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006333
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006334- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
6335 IronPython.
6336
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00006337- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
6338 The file was resized to wrong size.
6339
6340- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
6341
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006342- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00006343 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
6344
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006345- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00006346 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
6347
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00006348- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
6349 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
6350
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00006351- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
6352
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00006353- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
6354 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
6355 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
6356
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00006357- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
6358 encoding.
6359
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00006360- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
6361 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
6362
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00006363- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
6364 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
6365
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00006366- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
6367 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
6368 ctime of the files involved.
6369
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00006370- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
6371 deadlock.
6372
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00006373- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
6374 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
6375 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
6376
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00006377- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
6378
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00006379- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
6380 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
6381
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00006382- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
6383 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
6384 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
6385 Vajda.
6386
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00006387- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
6388 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
6389 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
6390 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
6391
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00006392- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
6393 Ross Light.
6394
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006395- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00006396 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
6397
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00006398- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
6399 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
6400
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006401- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00006402 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
6403
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00006404- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
6405
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00006406- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
6407
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00006408- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
6409 items being passed through ord().
6410
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00006411- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
6412 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
6413 "src.new").
6414
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00006415- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
6416
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00006417- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
6418 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
6419 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
6420
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006421- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00006422 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
6423
6424- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
6425 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
6426
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00006427- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
6428 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
6429
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00006430- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
6431
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00006432- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
6433 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00006434
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006435- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00006436 allowed non-integer arguments.
6437
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00006438- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
6439 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
6440 examples.
6441
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00006442- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
6443 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
6444
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00006445- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
6446 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
6447
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00006448- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
6449 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
6450
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006451- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00006452 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
6453 be disabled, and not compiled.
6454
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00006455- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
6456 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
6457 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
6458 traditional 2.x file object.
6459
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006460- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
6461 parameter was set.
6462
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00006463- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
6464 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
6465
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00006466- Add the importlib package.
6467
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00006468- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6469 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6470
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00006471- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006472 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00006473
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00006474- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
6475 without defaults.
6476
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006477- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
6478 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00006479 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
6480
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00006481- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
6482 in sharedctypes.py.
6483
6484- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
6485 __getattr__.
6486
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00006487- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
6488 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
6489 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
6490
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00006491- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
6492 counting.
6493
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00006494- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
6495
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00006496- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
6497 function without defining argtypes.
6498
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00006499- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
6500 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
6501 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
6502 Jacques Frechet.
6503
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00006504- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
6505
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00006506- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
6507 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
6508
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006509- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
6510 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00006511 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
6512
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00006513- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
6514 to the decimal module.
6515
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006516- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
6517 cast as floats.
6518
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00006519- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
6520 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
6521
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006522- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006523 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
6524
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006525- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
6526 the function is not a generator.
6527
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006528- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
6529 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00006530
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006531- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00006532 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
6533
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00006534- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
6535
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00006536- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
6537
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00006538- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
6539 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
6540
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00006541- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
6542 works as expected in the interactive environment.
6543
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00006544- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
6545 Gabriel Genellina.
6546
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00006547- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
6548 boundary.
6549
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00006550- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
6551 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
6552 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
6553
6554- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
6555 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
6556 Alexander Belopolsky.
6557
6558- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
6559 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
6560 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
6561 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
6562 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
6563 Alexander Belopolsky.
6564
6565- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
6566 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
6567 Alexander Belopolsky.
6568
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00006569- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
6570 a non-ASCII letter.
6571
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00006572- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
6573
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00006574- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
6575 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
6576
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00006577- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
6578 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
6579 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
6580
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00006581- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
6582 libs.
6583
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006584- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
6585 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6586
6587- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6588 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6589 Content-Disposition headers.
6590
6591- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
6592 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
6593 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
6594 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
6595 doesn't configure logging.
6596
6597- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
6598 exception.
6599
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00006600- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
6601 statements.
6602
6603- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
6604 not a malformed option.
6605
6606- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
6607 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6608
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00006609- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
6610 the corresponding tests now pass.
6611
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00006612- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
6613 it was calling the wrong open() function.
6614
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00006615- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6616 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6617 Content-Disposition headers.
6618
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00006619- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
6620 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
6621
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00006622- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
6623 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
6624 and getservbyport().
6625
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00006626- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
6627
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006628Tools/Demos
6629-----------
6630
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00006631- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
6632 and make it 2.6-compatible.
6633
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00006634- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
6635
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006636- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
6637
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006638
6639Build
6640-----
6641
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00006642- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
6643
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00006644- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
6645
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00006646- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
6647 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6648
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006649- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006650 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006651
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00006652- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
6653
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00006654- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
6655
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00006656- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
6657
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00006658- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
6659
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006660- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
6661
6662- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
6663
6664- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
6665
6666- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
6667
6668- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
6669
6670- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
6671
6672- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
6673
6674- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
6675
6676- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
6677
6678- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
6679
6680
6681C-API
6682-----
6683
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00006684- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
6685 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
6686
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00006687- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
6688 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
6689
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006690- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6691
6692- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
6693 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
6694
6695- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6696 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
6697
6698
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006699Extension Modules
6700-----------------
6701
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00006702- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6703 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
6704 implementations or external openssl library).
6705
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00006706- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
6707
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00006708- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6709
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00006710- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
6711 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
6712 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
6713
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006714- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6715
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00006716- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
6717 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
6718 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
6719
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006720- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6721
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00006722- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6723
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006724- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6725 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00006726
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00006727- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
6728 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
6729 buffer.
6730
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00006731
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00006732- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6733
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006734Tests
6735-----
6736
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00006737- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6738 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6739
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00006740- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6741 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
6742 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
6743 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
6744
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006745- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006746 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006747 from test support, which does the conversion.
6748
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006749- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6750
6751
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00006752Docs
6753----
6754
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00006755
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00006756**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**