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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+++++++++++
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Georg Brandl3ebb6b32011-02-20 10:37:07 +00005What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
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8*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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Martin v. Löwis5e06a5d2011-02-21 16:24:00 +000010Core and Builtins
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Martin v. Löwis418170c2011-09-28 08:54:17 +020013- PEP 393: flexible string representation. Thanks to Torsten Becker for the
14 initial implementation, and Victor Stinner for various bug fixes.
Martin v. Löwisd63a3b82011-09-28 07:41:54 +020015
Mark Dickinson0d5f6ad2011-09-24 09:14:39 +010016- Issue #13012: The 'keepends' parameter to str.splitlines may now be passed
17 as a keyword argument: "my_string.splitlines(keepends=True)". The same
18 change also applies to bytes.splitlines and bytearray.splitlines.
19
Victor Stinner53ffdc52011-09-23 18:54:40 +020020- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a
21 module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g.
22 "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead.
23
Barry Warsaw916048d2011-09-20 14:45:44 -040024- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path. Thanks to Suman Saha for
25 finding the bug and providing a patch.
26
Mark Dickinsonb2f6bc72011-09-24 08:56:09 +010027- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
28 list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These bugs
29 caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsonc0420fd2011-09-19 19:18:37 +010030
Larry Hastings9e3e70b2011-09-08 19:29:07 -070031- Issue #12904: os.utime, os.futimes, os.lutimes, and os.futimesat now write
32 atime and mtime with nanosecond precision on modern POSIX platforms.
33
Antoine Pitroua7622852011-09-01 21:37:43 +020034- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
35 mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).
36
Ezio Melotti93e7afc2011-08-22 14:08:38 +030037- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
38 characters even in narrow Unicode builds.
39
Antoine Pitroua370fcf2011-08-20 14:15:03 +020040- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
41 an exception.
42
Benjamin Peterson01fc6cd2011-08-17 12:03:47 -050043- Issue #12773: Make __doc__ mutable on user-defined classes.
44
Benjamin Petersonc4085c82011-08-16 18:53:26 -050045- Issue #12766: Raise an ValueError when creating a class with a class variable
46 that conflicts with a name in __slots__.
47
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +030048- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
49 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
50
Benjamin Petersonf413b802011-08-12 22:17:18 -050051- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
52 outside the BMP.
53
Benjamin Peterson832bfe22011-08-09 16:15:04 -050054- Issue #12575: Validate user-generated AST before it is compiled.
55
Benjamin Peterson18d7d7a2011-07-29 18:27:44 -050056- Make type(None), type(Ellipsis), and type(NotImplemented) callable. They
57 return the respective singleton instances.
Benjamin Petersonc4607ae2011-07-29 18:19:43 -050058
Benjamin Petersonc7723962011-08-17 12:05:13 -050059- Forbid summing bytes with sum().
Benjamin Petersonce071ca2011-07-29 14:23:47 -050060
Benjamin Peterson2193d2b2011-07-22 10:50:23 -050061- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
62 compiling them.
63
Raymond Hettinger66d2be82011-07-28 09:55:13 -070064- Issue #12647: The None object now has a __bool__() method that returns False.
65 Formerly, bool(None) returned False only because of special case logic
66 in PyObject_IsTrue().
67
Eric V. Smith12ebefc2011-07-18 14:03:41 -040068- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
69 format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
70 Julian Berman.
71
Brett Cannone52181c2011-07-17 19:25:50 -070072- Issue #10271: Allow warnings.showwarning() be any callable.
73
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -040074- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
75 non-exception class.
Benjamin Peterson5afa03a2011-07-15 14:09:26 -050076
Georg Brandlfd164c22011-09-04 08:12:27 +020077- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
Antoine Pitrou84f1b172011-07-12 21:57:15 +020078 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
79 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
80 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
81 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
82
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +020083- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
84
Victor Stinner99b95382011-07-04 14:23:54 +020085- Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
86 a new HAVE_MBCS define.
87
Victor Stinnerd64e8a72011-07-04 13:48:30 +020088- Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page
89 on Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if
90 we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
91 instead of using UTF-8.
92
Benjamin Petersonac913412011-07-03 16:25:11 -050093- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
94 generator.
95
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -050096- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
Benjamin Peterson9cf960c2011-07-03 13:49:59 -050097 caller's frame as they return for the last time.
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -050098
Vinay Sajip5bdae3b2011-07-02 16:42:47 +010099- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream,
100 with other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
101
Benjamin Petersone109c702011-06-24 09:37:26 -0500102- Issue #12356: When required positional or keyword-only arguments are not
103 given, produce a informative error message which includes the name(s) of the
104 missing arguments.
105
Benjamin Petersonf5ff2232011-06-19 19:42:22 -0500106- Issue #12370: Fix super with not arguments when __class__ is overriden in the
107 class body.
108
Brian Curtind25aef52011-06-13 15:16:04 -0500109- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
110 links when called from any directory.
111
Benjamin Peterson3bbb7222011-06-11 16:12:08 -0500112- Loosen type restrictions on the __dir__ method. __dir__ can now return any
113 sequence, which will be converted to a list and sorted by dir().
114
Benjamin Petersonb204a422011-06-05 22:04:07 -0500115- Issue #12265: Make error messages produced by passing an invalid set of
116 arguments to a function more informative.
117
Benjamin Peterson0bb29912011-05-31 17:11:26 -0500118- Issue #12225: Still allow Python to build if Python is not in its hg repo or
119 mercurial is not installed.
120
Victor Stinner19c52332011-05-30 23:50:04 +0200121- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner4f711012011-05-30 23:46:00 +0200122 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
123 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
124
Benjamin Peterson758888d2011-05-30 11:12:38 -0500125- Issue #12216: Allow unexpected EOF errors to happen on any line of the file.
126
Benjamin Peterson43af12b2011-05-29 11:43:10 -0500127- Issue #12199: The TryExcept and TryFinally and AST nodes have been unified
128 into a Try node.
129
Ned Deily9a7c5242011-05-28 00:19:56 -0700130- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
131 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
132 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
133 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
134
Benjamin Petersonbf1bbc12011-05-27 13:58:08 -0500135- Issue #12106: The use of the multiple-with shorthand syntax is now reflected
136 in the AST.
137
Benjamin Peterson43b06862011-05-27 09:08:01 -0500138- Issue #12190: Try to use the same filename object when compiling unmarshalling
139 a code objects in the same file.
140
Benjamin Peterson82b00c12011-05-24 11:09:06 -0500141- Issue #12166: Move implementations of dir() specialized for various types into
142 the __dir__() methods of those types.
143
Charles-François Natali7b54e752011-05-24 18:23:15 +0200144- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
145
Benjamin Petersonf5fcd332011-05-23 16:22:42 -0500146- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
147 besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
148
Victor Stinner2ec6b172011-05-15 10:21:59 +0200149- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
150 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
151
Gregory P. Smithb6471db2011-05-22 22:47:55 -0700152- Issue #1746656: Added the if_nameindex, if_indextoname, if_nametoindex
153 methods to the socket module.
Gregory P. Smith5ed2e772011-05-15 00:26:45 -0700154
Gregory P. Smith6b657452011-05-11 21:42:08 -0700155- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
156 wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
157 leaving zombie processes around.
158
Victor Stinner4755ab02011-05-10 00:19:53 +0200159- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
160 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
161
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200162- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
163 interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when
164 they try to take the GIL.
165
Antoine Pitrou6f26be02011-05-03 18:18:59 +0200166- Issue #11849: Make it more likely for the system allocator to release
167 free()d memory arenas on glibc-based systems. Patch by Charles-François
168 Natali.
169
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200170- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
171 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
172 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner13aaef52011-05-01 23:46:48 +0200173 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200174
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200175- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
176 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
177 by Charles-François Natali.
178
Victor Stinner793b5312011-04-27 00:24:21 +0200179- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
180 subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
181 the ISO-8859-15 codec.
182
Victor Stinnerb90db4c2011-04-26 22:48:24 +0200183- Issue #11918: OS/2 and VMS are no more supported because of the lack of
184 maintainer.
185
Ezio Melottiba42fd52011-04-26 06:09:45 +0300186- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
187 accepted too.
188
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300189- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
190 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
191 chars (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
192
Ezio Melotti982ef4e2011-04-15 08:15:40 +0300193- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
194 compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
195
Reid Kleckner98707c22011-04-10 22:23:08 -0400196- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait,
197 subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and
198 subprocess.check_output. If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout`
199 seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised.
200
Victor Stinner52c950f2011-04-09 15:55:44 +0200201- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
202 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
203 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
204
Victor Stinnerfe7c5b52011-04-05 01:48:03 +0200205- Issue #9319: Include the filename in "Non-UTF8 code ..." syntax error.
206
Victor Stinner7f2fee32011-04-05 00:39:01 +0200207- Issue #10785: Store the filename as Unicode in the Python parser.
208
Victor Stinner2d322272011-04-04 23:05:53 +0200209- Issue #11619: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() doesn't encode the path to bytes
210 on Windows.
211
Éric Araujobe3bd572011-03-26 01:55:15 +0100212- Issue #10998: Remove mentions of -Q, sys.flags.division_warning and
213 Py_DivisionWarningFlag left over from Python 2.
214
Mark Dickinson7c9e8032011-03-23 17:59:37 +0000215- Issue #11244: Remove an unnecessary peepholer check that was preventing
216 negative zeros from being constant-folded properly.
217
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100218- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
219 Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
220 returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if
221 stdout mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less,
222 depending on heap usage).
223
Antoine Pitroue1474842011-03-17 23:40:53 +0100224- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to
Antoine Pitrou819be342011-03-17 23:36:13 +0100225 a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
226
Éric Araujo765e94f2011-06-03 17:26:59 +0200227- _ast.__version__ is now a Mercurial hex revision.
Benjamin Peterson6cb2b922011-03-12 18:28:16 -0600228
Gregory P. Smith28edfee2011-03-15 16:02:10 -0400229- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
230 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
231 file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
232
Eric V. Smithb9cd3532011-03-12 10:08:48 -0500233- Issue #9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string
234 to be a DeprecationWarning. In 3.2 it was a PendingDeprecationWarning.
235 In 3.4 it will be a TypeError.
236
Antoine Pitrou17b880a2011-03-11 17:27:02 +0100237- Issue #11244: The peephole optimizer is now able to constant-fold
238 arbitrarily complex expressions. This also fixes a 3.2 regression where
239 operations involving negative numbers were not constant-folded.
240
Antoine Pitrou7983d332011-03-09 12:34:41 +0100241- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
242 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
243
Daniel Stutzbach8eda5f72011-03-02 23:37:50 +0000244- Issue #11335: Fixed a memory leak in list.sort when the key function
245 throws an exception.
246
Victor Stinnera5c68c32011-03-02 01:03:14 +0000247- Issue #8923: When a string is encoded to UTF-8 in strict mode, the result is
248 cached into the object. Examples: str.encode(), str.encode('utf-8'),
249 PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
250 NULL).
251
Victor Stinner6d970f42011-03-02 00:04:25 +0000252- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
253
Victor Stinner96865452011-03-01 23:44:09 +0000254- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
255 the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
256
Jesus Ceaa372de82011-09-19 17:11:26 +0200257- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
258
Victor Stinner2512a8b2011-03-01 22:46:52 +0000259- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
260 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
261 Patch written by Ray Allen.
262
Antoine Pitrou5bffa792011-02-24 20:50:49 +0000263- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
264 a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
265
Victor Stinnerc0f1a1a2011-02-23 12:07:37 +0000266- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
267 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
268
Jesus Ceaac451502011-04-20 17:09:23 +0200269- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
270 Patch by Torsten Becker.
271
Victor Stinner5ed8b2c2011-02-21 21:13:44 +0000272- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
273 narrow build.
274
Victor Stinnered4c7112011-02-21 21:05:50 +0000275- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
276 It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
277 undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
278 UnicodeEncodeError on recursion limit.
Martin v. Löwis5e06a5d2011-02-21 16:24:00 +0000279
Victor Stinnerfd34b372011-02-21 20:51:28 +0000280- Issue #11187: Remove bootstrap code (use ASCII) of
281 PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(), it was replaced by a better fallback (use the
282 locale encoding) in PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault().
283
Victor Stinnered4c7112011-02-21 21:05:50 +0000284- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
285
Eli Bendersky4db28d32011-03-03 18:21:02 +0000286- Issue #10516: New copy() and clear() methods for lists and bytearrays.
Eli Benderskycbbaa962011-02-25 05:47:53 +0000287
Eli Bendersky1bc4f192011-03-04 04:55:25 +0000288- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
289 empty, instead of OverflowError.
290
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +0300291- Issue #12380: The rjust, ljust and center methods of bytes and bytearray
292 now accept a bytearray argument.
293
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +0000294Library
295-------
Antoine Pitrou3486a982011-05-12 01:57:53 +0200296
Ned Deily86ca04c2011-09-14 14:56:32 -0700297- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
298 with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
299 (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
300
Nadeem Vawda64d25dd2011-09-12 00:04:13 +0200301- Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
302 ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
303
Benjamin Petersonc92f6222011-09-11 12:55:34 -0400304- Issue #12959: Add collections.ChainMap to collections.__all__.
Victor Stinnera1fe1f82011-09-23 18:59:08 +0200305
Éric Araujoe6db7a32011-09-10 05:22:48 +0200306- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files and packaging's METADATA files will
307 now correctly report Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or
308 Download-URL field is present.
Benjamin Petersonc92f6222011-09-11 12:55:34 -0400309
Victor Stinner71e44cb2011-09-06 01:53:03 +0200310- Issue #12567: Add curses.unget_wch() function. Push a character so the next
311 get_wch() will return it.
312
Victor Stinnerd4d8ae52011-09-06 00:11:13 +0200313- Issue #9561: distutils and packaging now writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
Victor Stinnere01aa532011-09-05 23:46:05 +0200314 instead of the locale encoding.
315
Éric Araujocfbd6302011-09-03 00:42:04 +0200316- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
317 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
318
Lars Gustäbel24757852011-09-05 16:59:44 +0200319- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
320 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
321 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
322 information was lost.
323
Ezio Melottid9e0b062011-09-05 17:11:06 +0300324- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
325 more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.
326
Benjamin Petersonf6f3a352011-09-03 09:26:20 -0400327- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
328
Victor Stinner979482a2011-09-02 01:00:40 +0200329- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
330
Victor Stinnerc15c88c2011-09-01 23:45:04 +0200331- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
332 getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
333 read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
334
Benjamin Peterson8f8cc8b2011-08-31 22:21:44 -0400335- Issue #12720: Expose low-level Linux extended file attribute functions in os.
336
Éric Araujofbe37df2011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200337- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
Éric Araujob9fe54c2011-08-30 01:42:50 +0200338 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist. The packaging commands
339 were fixed too.
Éric Araujofbe37df2011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200340
Antoine Pitrou55549ec2011-08-30 00:27:10 +0200341- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
342 the C pickle implementation.
343
Antoine Pitrou82be19f2011-08-29 23:09:33 +0200344- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
345 (more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
346
Charles-François Nataliac7e9e02011-08-28 18:10:27 +0200347- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
348 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
349
Nadeem Vawda44c6ef52011-08-28 11:29:35 +0200350- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
351 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
352
Nick Coghlan20937302011-08-28 00:17:31 +1000353- Issue #9923: The mailcap module now correctly uses the platform path
354 separator for the MAILCAP environment variable on non-POSIX platforms.
355
Nick Coghlan513886a2011-08-28 00:00:27 +1000356- Issue #12835: Follow up to #6560 that unconditionally prevents use of the
357 unencrypted sendmsg/recvmsg APIs on SSL wrapped sockets. Patch by David
358 Watson.
359
Antoine Pitrou4fd1e6a2011-08-25 14:39:44 +0200360- Issue #12803: SSLContext.load_cert_chain() now accepts a password argument
361 to be used if the private key is encrypted. Patch by Adam Simpkins.
362
Antoine Pitrou162fee12011-08-23 19:48:34 +0200363- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
364 Pipe.
365
Nick Coghlanc4a28712011-08-22 16:19:19 +1000366- Issue #12811: tabnanny.check() now promptly closes checked files. Patch by
367 Anthony Briggs.
368
Nick Coghlan96fe56a2011-08-22 11:55:57 +1000369- Issue #6560: The sendmsg/recvmsg API is now exposed by the socket module
370 when provided by the underlying platform, supporting processing of
Nick Coghlan5c7f5c62011-08-22 16:27:46 +1000371 ancillary data in pure Python code. Patch by David Watson and Heiko Wundram.
Nick Coghlan96fe56a2011-08-22 11:55:57 +1000372
Victor Stinnerff3d9392011-08-20 23:39:26 +0200373- Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
374 anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending
375 on the Linux version used to build Python.
376
Antoine Pitroue8bb1a02011-08-20 14:52:04 +0200377- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
378 could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
379
Antoine Pitroudf7fc9d2011-08-19 18:03:14 +0200380- Issue #12778: Reduce memory consumption when JSON-encoding a large
381 container of many small objects.
382
Charles-François Natali558639f2011-08-18 19:11:29 +0200383- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
384 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
385
Antoine Pitrou3c7e9282011-08-13 20:15:19 +0200386- Issue #12744: Fix inefficient representation of integers between 2**31 and
387 2**63 on systems with a 64-bit C "long".
388
Nadeem Vawda1c385462011-08-13 15:22:40 +0200389- Issue #12646: Add an 'eof' attribute to zlib.Decompress, to make it easier to
390 detect truncated input streams.
391
Georg Brandl3abb3722011-08-13 11:48:12 +0200392- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
393 the file cannot be opened.
394
Antoine Pitrouf6c7a852011-08-11 21:04:02 +0200395- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
396 (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.
397
Senthil Kumaran9dc4cad2011-08-11 09:24:37 +0800398- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
399
Ned Deilye5cad232011-08-02 18:47:13 -0700400- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
401 in os.kill().
402
Raymond Hettingerfcb393c2011-08-09 13:00:40 -0700403- Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter().
404
Senthil Kumaran2a157d22011-08-03 18:37:22 +0800405- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
406 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
407
Benjamin Peterson94b580d2011-08-02 17:30:04 -0500408- Issue #12655: Expose functions from sched.h in the os module: sched_yield(),
409 sched_setscheduler(), sched_getscheduler(), sched_setparam(),
410 sched_get_min_priority(), sched_get_max_priority(), sched_rr_get_interval(),
411 sched_getaffinity(), sched_setaffinity().
412
Benjamin Peterson28da7b82011-08-02 17:45:00 -0500413- Add ThreadError to threading.__all__.
414
Éric Araujoab7c1b32011-07-31 04:06:12 +0200415- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
416 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
417
Senthil Kumaran3d23fd62011-07-30 10:56:50 +0800418- Issue #11281: smtplib.STMP gets source_address parameter, which adds the
419 ability to bind to specific source address on a machine with multiple
420 interfaces. Patch by Paulo Scardine.
421
Charles-François Natalidef35432011-07-29 18:59:24 +0200422- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
423 symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
424
Éric Araujoe64e51b2011-07-29 17:03:55 +0200425- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
426 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
427
Éric Araujo0cdd4452011-07-28 00:28:28 +0200428- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading. The public names (Thread,
429 Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
430 classes (_Thread, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
431 code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible to
432 inherit from Thread and other classes, without having to import the private
433 underscored names like multiprocessing did.
434
Éric Araujo9bce3112011-07-27 18:29:31 +0200435- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
436 lines.
437
Charles-François Natali27c4e882011-07-27 19:40:02 +0200438- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
439
Raymond Hettinger3a081f52011-07-29 00:02:04 -0700440- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
441 collections when it is done.
442
Ross Lagerwalld98646e2011-07-27 07:16:31 +0200443- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
444 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
445
Ned Deilyf25e3d52011-07-26 18:17:33 -0700446- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
447 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
448
Senthil Kumaran1299a8f2011-07-27 08:05:58 +0800449- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
450 Connection:close header.
451
Ross Lagerwall59c01ed2011-07-25 07:12:43 +0200452- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
453 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
454
Charles-François Natali749400a2011-07-24 22:41:18 +0200455- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
456
Antoine Pitroucf9d3c02011-07-24 02:27:04 +0200457- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
458
Antoine Pitrouab85ff32011-07-23 22:03:45 +0200459- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
460 module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
461
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200462- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
Antoine Pitroud42c1d02011-07-23 21:50:21 +0200463 a read1() method), and add a *write_through* parameter to mandate
464 unbuffered writes.
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200465
Nadeem Vawdace7e51e2011-07-23 15:16:23 +0200466- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
467
Charles-François Natali54ef40b2011-07-22 23:52:02 +0200468- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
469
Charles-François Natali996f6062011-07-21 19:45:31 +0200470- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
471
Antoine Pitroud6494802011-07-21 01:11:30 +0200472- Issue #12551: Provide a get_channel_binding() method on SSL sockets so as
473 to get channel binding data for the current SSL session (only the
474 "tls-unique" channel binding is implemented). This allows the implementation
475 of certain authentication mechanisms such as SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS. Patch by
476 Jacek Konieczny.
477
R David Murray875048b2011-07-20 11:41:21 -0400478- Issue #665194: email.utils now has format_datetime and parsedate_to_datetime
479 functions, allowing for round tripping of RFC2822 format dates.
480
Antoine Pitrouc57ed912011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200481- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
482 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
483 Linux 3.0.
484
R David Murray46346762011-07-18 21:38:54 -0400485- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
486 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
487
Benjamin Petersonddddcab2011-07-15 21:11:35 -0500488- Issue #12273: Remove ast.__version__. AST changes can be accounted for by
489 checking sys.version_info or sys._mercurial.
490
Antoine Pitroudc19c242011-07-16 01:51:58 +0200491- Silence spurious "broken pipe" tracebacks when shutting down a
492 ProcessPoolExecutor.
493
Antoine Pitroud06a0652011-07-16 01:13:34 +0200494- Fix potential resource leaks in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
495 by joining all queues and processes when shutdown() is called.
496
Antoine Pitrou8cdc40e2011-07-15 21:15:07 +0200497- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
498 Andreas Stührk.
499
Antoine Pitrou8391cf42011-07-15 21:01:21 +0200500- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
501 embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
502
Victor Stinnera7878b72011-07-14 23:07:44 +0200503- Issue #6755: Add get_wch() method to curses.window class. Patch by Iñigo
504 Serna.
505
Victor Stinnerd33344a2011-07-14 22:28:36 +0200506- Add cgi.closelog() function to close the log file.
507
Charles-François Natalif64f9e92011-07-14 20:00:49 +0200508- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
509
Victor Stinner66361212011-07-13 21:43:18 +0200510- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
511 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
512
Antoine Pitroucb4ae812011-07-13 21:07:49 +0200513- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
514 TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
515
Éric Araujo4468e552011-07-08 17:22:19 +0200516- Issue #12504: Close file handles in a timely manner in packaging.database.
517 This fixes a bug with the remove (uninstall) feature on Windows.
518
Éric Araujoce5fe832011-07-08 16:27:12 +0200519- Issues #12169 and #10510: Factor out code used by various packaging commands
520 to make HTTP POST requests, and make sure it uses CRLF.
521
Victor Stinner2cded9c2011-07-08 01:45:13 +0200522- Issue #12016: Multibyte CJK decoders now resynchronize faster. They only
523 ignore the first byte of an invalid byte sequence. For example,
524 b'\xff\n'.decode('gb2312', 'replace') gives '\ufffd\n' instead of '\ufffd'.
525
Victor Stinner7f53a502011-07-05 22:00:25 +0200526- Issue #12459: time.sleep() now raises a ValueError if the sleep length is
527 negative, instead of an infinite sleep on Windows or raising an IOError on
528 Linux for example, to have the same behaviour on all platforms.
529
Victor Stinnerd7772bc2011-07-05 14:31:28 +0200530- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
531 Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
532 of the script).
533
Victor Stinner2cfb6f32011-07-05 14:00:56 +0200534- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
535 if the process has only one pipe.
536
Victor Stinner8b0508e2011-07-04 02:43:09 +0200537- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
538 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
539
Victor Stinnere975af62011-07-04 02:08:50 +0200540- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
541 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
542
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200543- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
544 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
545 than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
546
Victor Stinner3663aba2011-07-04 01:27:37 +0200547- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
548 of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
549
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400550- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
551 conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent- headers.
552
Charles-François Natali778db492011-07-02 14:35:49 +0200553- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
554 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
555
Victor Stinner48b1ce52011-07-01 13:50:09 +0200556- Issue #12462: time.sleep() now calls immediatly the (Python) signal handler
557 if it is interrupted by a signal, instead of having to wait until the next
558 instruction.
559
Giampaolo Rodola'210e7ca2011-07-01 13:55:36 +0200560- Issue #12442: new shutil.disk_usage function, providing total, used and free
561 disk space statistics.
562
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200563- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
564 UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
565 also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode
566 to avoid encoding issues.
567
Victor Stinner12b8d142011-06-30 17:35:55 +0200568- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file
569 anymore to avoid encoding issues.
570
Victor Stinnere6c910e2011-06-30 15:55:43 +0200571- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available,
572 to read the Python script from the right encoding.
573
Victor Stinnerdc9b1ea2011-06-30 15:40:22 +0200574- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
575 encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
576
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700577- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
578 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
579 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
580 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
581 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
582 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
583 still possible to globally override the default by setting
584 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
585 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
Ned Deily044369f2011-06-28 20:08:34 -0700586 was built. Also, implement the same handling in packaging.
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700587
Benjamin Petersone90ec362011-06-27 16:22:46 -0500588- Issue #12422: In the copy module, don't store objects that are their own copy
589 in the memo dict.
590
Ross Lagerwallbc808222011-06-25 12:13:40 +0200591- Issue #12303: Add sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait() to the signal module.
592
Ross Lagerwalldbfb9b82011-06-25 10:02:37 +0200593- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
594 Kitada.
595
R David Murray749073a2011-06-22 13:47:53 -0400596- Issue #1874: email now detects and reports as a defect the presence of
597 any CTE other than 7bit, 8bit, or binary on a multipart.
598
Victor Stinnerf1512a22011-06-21 17:18:38 +0200599- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
600 variables, start with an empty environment.
601
Éric Araujo3e425ac2011-06-19 21:23:43 +0200602- Issue #11637: Fix support for importing packaging setup hooks from the
603 project directory.
604
605- Issue #6771: Moved the curses.wrapper function from the single-function
R David Murrayafc9a5e2011-06-18 20:21:09 -0400606 wrapper module into __init__, eliminating the module. Since __init__ was
607 already importing the function to curses.wrapper, there is no API change.
608
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400609- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header
R David Murraye5e366c2011-06-18 12:57:28 -0400610 passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail
611 if given binary unknown-8bit input.
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400612
R David Murrayc88bce12011-06-17 22:24:05 -0400613- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
614 times without error.
615
R David Murray05ff9902011-06-17 12:54:56 -0400616- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
617
Victor Stinnerf073dc22011-06-17 14:02:18 +0200618- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
619 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
620 written by Ezio Melotti.
621
Éric Araujo643cb732011-06-11 00:33:38 +0200622- Issue #12240: Allow multiple setup hooks in packaging's setup.cfg files.
623 Original patch by Erik Bray.
624
Benjamin Peterson703f7c42011-06-11 15:56:46 -0500625- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
626 functions.
627
Éric Araujo36050302011-06-10 23:52:26 +0200628- Issue #11595: Fix assorted bugs in packaging.util.cfg_to_args, a
629 compatibility helper for the distutils-packaging transition. Original patch
630 by Erik Bray.
631
Charles-François Natalia5293082011-06-11 18:58:24 +0200632- Issue #12287: In ossaudiodev, check that the device isn't closed in several
633 methods.
634
Benjamin Peterson9aa68e42011-06-10 12:29:40 -0500635- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
636
Éric Araujofa6cfbc2011-06-10 18:31:40 +0200637- Issue #12246: Warn and fail when trying to install a third-party project from
638 an uninstalled Python (built in a source checkout). Original patch by
639 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe.
640
R David Murray51fcb812011-06-09 15:52:31 -0400641- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
642
R David Murray0a9f16b2011-06-09 15:21:02 -0400643- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
644
R David Murrayf97c59a2011-06-09 12:34:07 -0400645- Issue #10424: Argparse now includes the names of the missing required
646 arguments in the missing arguments error message.
647
Vinay Sajip8168d102011-06-09 16:50:49 +0100648- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
649 a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
650
Brian Curtin9a82eaa2011-06-08 18:43:57 -0500651- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
652 instead of os.stat.
653
Charles-François Natali4dd453c2011-06-08 19:18:14 +0200654- Issue #12021: Make mmap's read() method argument optional. Patch by Petri
655 Lehtinen.
656
Antoine Pitroudd696492011-06-08 17:21:55 +0200657- Issue #9205: concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor now detects killed
658 children and raises BrokenProcessPool in such a situation. Previously it
659 would reliably freeze/deadlock.
660
Antoine Pitrou176f07d2011-06-06 19:35:31 +0200661- Issue #12040: Expose a new attribute ``sentinel`` on instances of
662 :class:`multiprocessing.Process`. Also, fix Process.join() to not use
663 polling anymore, when given a timeout.
664
Antoine Pitrouf068ab82011-06-06 19:17:09 +0200665- Issue #11893: Remove obsolete internal wrapper class ``SSLFakeFile`` in the
666 smtplib module. Patch by Catalin Iacob.
667
Mark Dickinson7ce0fa82011-06-04 18:14:23 +0100668- Issue #12080: Fix a Decimal.power() case that took an unreasonably long time
669 to compute.
670
Benjamin Peterson8c6f88e2011-05-31 20:52:17 -0500671- Issue #12221: Remove __version__ attributes from pyexpat, pickle, tarfile,
672 pydoc, tkinter, and xml.parsers.expat. This were useless version constants
673 left over from the Mercurial transition
674
Raymond Hettinger22cc1182011-06-02 23:49:44 -0700675- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
676
Victor Stinner1b5b9d72011-06-01 00:58:57 +0200677- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
678 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
679 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
680
Victor Stinner2a129742011-05-30 23:02:52 +0200681- Issue #12028: Make threading._get_ident() public, rename it to
Victor Stinner58ab7662011-05-30 23:23:50 +0200682 threading.get_ident() and document it. This function was already used using
Victor Stinner2a129742011-05-30 23:02:52 +0200683 _thread.get_ident().
684
Victor Stinnere15dce32011-05-30 22:56:00 +0200685- Issue #12171: IncrementalEncoder.reset() of CJK codecs (multibytecodec) calls
686 encreset() instead of decreset().
687
Tarek Ziade371df052011-05-30 18:55:32 +0200688- Issue #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.
689
Victor Stinnere15dce32011-05-30 22:56:00 +0200690- Issue #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module.
Charles-François Natalidaafdd52011-05-29 20:07:40 +0200691
Ned Deily59a33382011-05-28 03:09:33 -0700692- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
693 Patch by Mher Movsisyan.
694
Nadeem Vawda55b43382011-05-27 01:52:15 +0200695- Issue #1625: BZ2File and bz2.decompress() now support multi-stream files.
696 Initial patch by Nir Aides.
697
Victor Stinnerb57f1082011-05-26 00:19:38 +0200698- Issue #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.
699
Victor Stinnere9d44ccb2011-05-26 00:16:44 +0200700- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size
701 once.
702
Victor Stinnera80987f2011-05-25 22:47:16 +0200703- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
704
Victor Stinnerb79f28c2011-05-25 22:09:03 +0200705- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
706 if the file is closed.
707
Victor Stinnerd2780ae2011-05-25 22:51:16 +0200708- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
709 class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Wark.
710
711- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
712 ctypes.util._get_soname(). Patch by Sijin Joseph.
Senthil Kumaran656ce502011-05-26 00:24:38 +0800713
Victor Stinner6daa33c2011-05-25 01:41:22 +0200714- Issue #10818: Remove the Tk GUI and the serve() function of the pydoc module,
715 pydoc -g has been deprecated in Python 3.2 and it has a new enhanced web
716 server.
Victor Stinner383c3fc2011-05-25 01:35:05 +0200717
Charles-François Natali1f4560c2011-05-24 23:47:49 +0200718- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, read the data in one chunk to speed up large
719 reads and simplify code.
720
Victor Stinner1273b7c2011-05-24 23:37:07 +0200721- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
722 correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
723
Victor Stinnereb734f72011-05-24 22:24:11 +0200724- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
725 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
726 final argument is True.
727
Victor Stinner99c8b162011-05-24 12:05:19 +0200728- Issue #12049: Add RAND_bytes() and RAND_pseudo_bytes() functions to the ssl
729 module.
730
Tarek Ziadee1177d92011-05-23 19:07:56 +0200731- Issue #12125: fixed the failures under Solaris due to improper test cleanup.
732
Victor Stinner7870bdf2011-05-23 18:12:52 +0200733- Issue #6501: os.device_encoding() returns None on Windows if the application
734 has no console.
735
Tarek Ziade35173692011-05-22 22:09:55 +0200736- Issue #12132: Skip test_build_ext in case the xxmodule is not found.
737
Charles-François Natali1e045b12011-05-22 20:42:32 +0200738- Issue #12105: Add O_CLOEXEC to the os module.
739
Mark Dickinsonb455e582011-05-22 12:53:18 +0100740- Issue #12079: Decimal('Infinity').fma(Decimal('0'), (3.91224318126786e+19+0j))
741 now raises TypeError (reflecting the invalid type of the 3rd argument) rather
742 than Decimal.InvalidOperation.
743
Victor Stinner21809a62011-05-20 00:22:39 +0200744- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
745 to be able to unload the module.
746
Éric Araujo765e94f2011-06-03 17:26:59 +0200747- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as
748 distutils2).
Tarek Ziadeebbb14c2011-05-19 19:56:12 +0200749
Antoine Pitrou7a616f22011-05-18 18:52:20 +0200750- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
751 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
752
Antoine Pitroue0650202011-05-18 18:03:09 +0200753- Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
754 passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
755 Patch by Kasun Herath.
756
Ronald Oussoren5ee05672011-05-17 14:48:40 +0200757- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
758 with Tk 8.5.
759
Ronald Oussorenf4542eb2011-05-15 17:13:47 +0200760- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Ronald Oussoren447fcfb2011-05-15 16:50:28 +0200761 is set in shell.
762
Nadeem Vawda0c3d96a2011-05-15 00:19:50 +0200763- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
764 their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
765 larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
766 an incorrect result.
767
Nadeem Vawda7619e882011-05-14 14:05:20 +0200768- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
769 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
770
Antoine Pitrou7c404892011-05-13 00:13:33 +0200771- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
772 on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
773 writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
774 data, and writing again).
775
Antoine Pitrou3486a982011-05-12 01:57:53 +0200776- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
777 Patch by John O'Connor.
778
Kurt B. Kaisere1478062011-05-11 12:24:17 -0400779- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
780 With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
781 IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +0000782
Senthil Kumaran4de00a22011-05-11 21:17:57 +0800783- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
784 when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
785 by Yuval Greenfield.
786
Victor Stinner19474772011-05-11 00:14:28 +0200787- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
788 non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
789 binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
790 encoding of the script.
791
Antoine Pitrou1be815a2011-05-10 19:16:29 +0200792- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
793 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
794
Victor Stinner388196e2011-05-10 17:13:00 +0200795- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
796 instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.
797
Senthil Kumaranc7ae19b2011-05-09 23:25:02 +0800798- Issue #3709: a flush_headers method to BaseHTTPRequestHandler which manages
799 the sending of headers to output stream and flushing the internal headers
800 buffer. Patch contribution by Andrew Schaaf
801
Antoine Pitrou87cf2202011-05-09 17:04:27 +0200802- Issue #11743: Rewrite multiprocessing connection classes in pure Python.
803
Martin v. Löwis2f48d892011-05-09 08:05:43 +0200804- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
805
Victor Stinnerfa0e3d52011-05-09 01:01:09 +0200806- Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark
807 Dickinson.
808
Victor Stinner3de49192011-05-09 00:42:58 +0200809- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
810
Victor Stinnerd49b1f12011-05-08 02:03:15 +0200811- Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
812 instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to
813 wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.
814
Victor Stinnerb3e72192011-05-08 01:46:11 +0200815- Issue #8407: Add pthread_kill(), sigpending() and sigwait() functions to the
816 signal module.
817
Antoine Pitrouc1d52062011-05-07 19:39:37 +0200818- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
819 by Kasun Herath.
820
Giampaolo Rodola'24befa82011-05-07 19:09:34 +0200821- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
822
Ezio Melotti43432b82011-05-08 20:01:36 +0300823- Issue #11916: Add a number of MacOSX specific definitions to the errno module.
Ronald Oussoren97c3eb42011-05-07 09:59:03 +0200824 Patch by Pierre Carrier.
825
Ezio Melotti1c3fd582011-05-08 19:58:08 +0300826- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murraycaed7fe2011-05-06 22:07:19 -0400827 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
828 previous value of the mtime.
829
Giampaolo Rodola'd78def92011-05-06 19:49:08 +0200830- Issue #11072: added MLSD command (RFC-3659) support to ftplib.
831
Antoine Pitrou08728162011-05-06 18:49:52 +0200832- Issue #8808: The IMAP4_SSL constructor now allows passing an SSLContext
833 parameter to control parameters of the secure channel. Patch by Sijin
834 Joseph.
835
Ronald Oussoren6355c162011-05-06 17:11:07 +0200836- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
837 file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
838
Antoine Pitrou1c86b442011-05-06 15:19:49 +0200839- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any
840 dNSName entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName.
841 Patch by Nicolas Bareil.
842
Ezio Melottib4dc2502011-05-06 15:01:41 +0300843- Issue #10775: assertRaises, assertRaisesRegex, assertWarns, and
844 assertWarnsRegex now accept a keyword argument 'msg' when used as context
845 managers. Initial patch by Winston Ewert.
846
Ronald Oussoren136148e2011-05-06 11:17:40 +0200847- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
848 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
849 for the case.
850
Nick Coghlan0ded3e32011-05-05 23:49:25 +1000851- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support
852 more than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch
853 by Ysj Ray.
854
Alexander Belopolsky5611a1c2011-05-02 14:14:48 -0400855- Issue #11930: Removed deprecated time.accept2dyear variable.
856 Removed year >= 1000 restriction from datetime.strftime.
857
Victor Stinnercafa2ef2011-05-02 16:11:28 +0200858- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
859
Raymond Hettinger003be522011-05-03 11:01:32 -0700860- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
861
Victor Stinnera6cd0cf2011-05-02 01:05:37 +0200862- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
863 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
864
Victor Stinnera9293352011-04-30 15:21:58 +0200865- Issue #8407: Add signal.pthread_sigmask() function to fetch and/or change the
866 signal mask of the calling thread.
867
Łukasz Langa90759a22011-04-30 09:36:35 +0200868- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
869 names.
870
871- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
872
Antoine Pitrou15399c32011-04-28 19:23:55 +0200873- Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible. Patch
874 by Charles-François Natali.
875
Ezio Melotti935a5882011-04-27 10:17:34 +0300876- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
877 strings are too long.
878
Senthil Kumaran72387f92011-04-26 21:09:49 +0800879- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
880
Antoine Pitrouf6454512011-04-25 19:16:06 +0200881- Issue #11856: Speed up parsing of JSON numbers.
882
Victor Stinner762f8d12011-04-24 23:45:23 +0200883- Issue #11005: threading.RLock()._release_save() raises a RuntimeError if the
Victor Stinnerc2824d42011-04-24 23:41:33 +0200884 lock was not acquired.
885
Antoine Pitrou8c520272011-04-23 17:51:04 +0200886- Issue #11258: Speed up ctypes.util.find_library() under Linux by a factor
887 of 5 to 10. Initial patch by Jonas H.
888
Antoine Pitrou877509a2011-04-23 17:21:13 +0200889- Issue #11382: Trivial system calls, such as dup() or pipe(), needn't
890 release the GIL. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
891
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +0200892- Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about
893 the thread implementation.
894
R David Murray3edd22a2011-04-18 13:59:37 -0400895- Issue #11731: simplify/enhance email parser/generator API by introducing
896 policy objects.
897
Victor Stinner6c9b35b2011-04-18 16:25:56 +0200898- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
899 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
900 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
901
R David Murray01581ee2011-04-18 10:04:34 -0400902- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
903
Vinay Sajipe723e962011-04-15 22:27:17 +0100904- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
905
Raymond Hettinger019a97c2011-04-19 10:21:27 -0700906- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
907 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
908
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300909- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
Senthil Kumaran397eb442011-04-15 18:20:24 +0800910 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
911
Raymond Hettinger1c746c22011-04-15 13:16:46 -0700912- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
913
Senthil Kumaran2d2ea1b2011-04-14 13:16:30 +0800914- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
915 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
916
R David Murrayb35c8502011-04-13 16:46:05 -0400917- Issue #11684: complete email.parser bytes API by adding BytesHeaderParser.
918
Nadeem Vawdaccb16cb2011-04-13 07:35:29 +0200919- The bz2 module now handles 4GiB+ input buffers correctly.
920
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300921- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
922 _json is not available.
Alexander Belopolsky1a20c122011-04-12 23:03:39 -0400923
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300924- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300925
926- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +0800927 url contains #fragment.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300928
R David Murray3dd02d62011-04-12 21:02:45 -0400929- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
930 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
931
Victor Stinner4d652242011-04-12 23:41:50 +0200932- Issue #11186: pydoc ignores a module if its name contains a surrogate
933 character in the index of modules.
934
Antoine Pitroub7877f22011-04-12 17:58:11 +0200935- Issue #11815: Use a light-weight SimpleQueue for the result queue in
936 concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
937
brian.curtinf7eac1f2011-04-11 18:18:20 -0500938- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
939 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
940
Vinay Sajip4a0a31d2011-04-11 08:42:07 +0100941- logging.basicConfig now supports an optional 'handlers' argument taking an
942 iterable of handlers to be added to the root logger. Additional parameter
943 checks were also added to basicConfig.
944
Antoine Pitroubed9a5b2011-04-11 00:20:23 +0200945- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
946
Raymond Hettinger49353d02011-04-11 12:40:58 -0700947- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
948 difflib.unified_diff().
949
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +0200950- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
951 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
952 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
953
Ezio Melotti88fdeb42011-04-10 12:59:16 +0300954- Issue #2650: re.escape() no longer escapes the '_'.
955
Antoine Pitrou131a6412011-04-09 23:49:58 +0200956- Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative timeout
957 is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised). Patch
958 by Charles-François Natali.
959
Ezio Melotti2e3607c2011-04-07 22:03:31 +0300960- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
961
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200962- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +0200963 multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200964 bytes.
R David Murrayc5c14722011-04-06 08:13:02 -0400965
Éric Araujof7d08e82011-05-29 18:13:51 +0200966- Issue #1690608: email.util.formataddr is now RFC 2047 aware: it now has a
967 charset parameter that defaults to utf-8 and is used as the charset for RFC
R David Murray8debacb2011-04-06 09:35:57 -0400968 2047 encoding when the realname contains non-ASCII characters.
969
Ross Lagerwall4f61b022011-04-05 15:34:00 +0200970- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
971
Antoine Pitrou4ec4b0c2011-04-04 21:00:37 +0200972- Issue #10791: Implement missing method GzipFile.read1(), allowing GzipFile
973 to be wrapped in a TextIOWrapper. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
974
Raymond Hettinger7ab9e222011-04-05 02:33:54 -0700975- Issue #11707: Added a fast C version of functools.cmp_to_key().
976 Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
977
Antoine Pitrou5bfa0622011-04-04 00:12:04 +0200978- Issue #11688: Add sqlite3.Connection.set_trace_callback(). Patch by
979 Torsten Landschoff.
980
Antoine Pitrou9c254862011-04-03 18:15:34 +0200981- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
982 private keys.
983
Antoine Pitrou37dc5f82011-04-03 17:05:46 +0200984- Issue #5863: Rewrite BZ2File in pure Python, and allow it to accept
985 file-like objects using a new ``fileobj`` constructor argument. Patch by
986 Nadeem Vawda.
987
Ezio Melotti0f535012011-04-03 18:02:13 +0300988- unittest.TestCase.assertSameElements has been removed.
989
Victor Stinner27181ac2011-03-31 13:39:03 +0200990- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
991 called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
992
Victor Stinner024e37a2011-03-31 01:31:06 +0200993- Issue #11393: Add the new faulthandler module.
994
Antoine Pitrou7899acf2011-03-31 01:00:32 +0200995- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
996
R David Murray86cc82e2011-03-29 11:32:35 -0400997- Removed the 'strict' argument to email.parser.Parser, which has been
998 deprecated since Python 2.4.
999
Benjamin Peterson6a2638b2011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001000- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1001 arguments.
1002
Martin v. Löwisf8d887e2011-03-27 21:05:51 +02001003- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1004
Raymond Hettinger5d446132011-03-27 18:52:10 -07001005- itertools.accumulate now supports an optional *func* argument for
1006 a user-supplied binary function.
1007
Ross Lagerwallf382ab22011-03-27 17:34:22 +02001008- Issue #11692: Remove unnecessary demo functions in subprocess module.
1009
Mark Dickinson92b60d52011-03-27 16:25:40 +01001010- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1011 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1012
Mark Dickinsonccd22832011-03-27 15:46:32 +01001013- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1014 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1015 documentation.
1016
Martin v. Löwisa6e0b4f2011-03-27 10:14:57 +02001017- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
Martin v. Löwis9bad3a92011-03-27 10:12:07 +02001018
Ross Lagerwallb8a57692011-03-26 21:19:57 +02001019- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
1020 Patch by Ben Hayden.
1021
Antoine Pitrouc13d4542011-03-26 19:29:44 +01001022- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
1023 concurrent.futures.
1024
Brett Cannon442c9b92011-03-23 16:14:42 -07001025- Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
1026 to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
1027 object originally came from.
1028
Brett Cannona7468bc2011-03-23 16:06:00 -07001029- Issue #8754: Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.
1030
Éric Araujoc09fca62011-03-23 02:06:24 +01001031- Issue #11591: Prevent "import site" from modifying sys.path when python
1032 was started with -S.
1033
Raymond Hettinger28dff612011-03-23 13:05:02 -07001034- collections.namedtuple() now adds a _source attribute to the generated
1035 class. This make the source more accessible than the outdated
1036 "verbose" option which prints to stdout but doesn't make the source
1037 string available.
1038
Éric Araujoeda55832011-03-21 00:09:07 +01001039- Issue #11371: Mark getopt error messages as localizable. Patch by Filip
1040 Gruszczyński.
1041
Raymond Hettingerc46759a2011-03-22 11:46:25 -07001042- Issue #11333: Add __slots__ to collections ABCs.
1043
Éric Araujoc09fca62011-03-23 02:06:24 +01001044- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__.
Raymond Hettingera0d1d962011-03-21 17:50:28 -07001045
Raymond Hettinger1103d052011-03-25 14:15:24 -07001046- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1047 that start with a leading underscore.
1048
Guido van Rossum20d2ab42011-03-29 12:58:29 -07001049- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
1050 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
1051
Victor Stinner628225c2011-03-21 02:38:51 +01001052- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
1053 httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
1054
Éric Araujo6a1454f2011-03-20 19:59:25 +01001055- Issue #4391: Use proper gettext plural forms in optparse.
1056
Antoine Pitrou6d58d642011-03-20 23:56:36 +01001057- Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.
1058
Senthil Kumaran799c6692011-03-20 09:26:57 +08001059- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
1060 class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
1061 contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
1062
Antoine Pitrou877766d2011-03-19 17:00:37 +01001063- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
1064 unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
1065
Antoine Pitrou5e981412011-03-17 22:38:37 +01001066- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
1067 arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001068
Ross Lagerwall7807c352011-03-17 20:20:30 +02001069- Issue #10812: Add some extra posix functions to the os module.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001070
1071- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1072 setup and teardown.
1073
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001074- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
1075
R David Murraya2150232011-03-16 21:11:23 -04001076- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
1077 the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
1078
R David Murrayde912762011-03-16 18:26:23 -04001079- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
1080 relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
1081
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -04001082- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
1083 which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line
1084 of the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
1085
Nick Coghlan35ec8a42011-03-16 14:18:29 -04001086- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001087 parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1088
Ross Lagerwallba102ec2011-03-16 18:40:25 +02001089- Issue #5870: Add `subprocess.DEVNULL` constant.
1090
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001091- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
Benjamin Petersona78e4e62011-03-16 10:29:19 -05001092 execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001093
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -04001094- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1095 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1096 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1097
Antoine Pitrou2c50a092011-03-15 21:02:59 +01001098- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
1099 not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
1100 the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
1101
Barry Warsaw1f5c9582011-03-15 15:04:44 -04001102- Issue #11289: `smtp.SMTP` class becomes a context manager so it can be used
1103 in a `with` statement. Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola.
1104
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001105- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
1106 encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
1107
briancurtin2ef76982011-03-15 11:51:28 -04001108- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
1109 Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
1110
Michael Foord1341bb02011-03-14 19:01:46 -04001111- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
1112 Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
1113
Antoine Pitroue8706232011-03-15 21:05:36 +01001114- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
Antoine Pitrou0e63f592011-03-15 21:08:50 +01001115 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussorenf2db4de2011-03-14 18:46:50 -04001116
briancurtin525c25d2011-03-14 16:03:54 -04001117- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with
1118 the "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches
1119 the documentation and general logic.
1120
Éric Araujof7d08e82011-05-29 18:13:51 +02001121- Issue #1162477: Postel Principle adjustment to email date parsing: handle the
R David Murrayaccd1c02011-03-13 20:06:23 -04001122 fact that some non-compliant MUAs use '.' instead of ':' in time specs.
1123
Mark Dickinson37a79fb2011-03-12 11:12:52 +00001124- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus
1125 operations when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1126
Antoine Pitrou16c4ce12011-03-11 21:30:43 +01001127- Issue #9935: Speed up pickling of instances of user-defined classes.
1128
Ned Deilyd2853182011-03-09 02:36:51 -08001129- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1130 initialization fails.
1131
Antoine Pitrou125d5c82011-03-06 08:40:35 +01001132- Issue #11408: In threading.Lock.acquire(), only call gettimeofday() when
1133 really necessary. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1134
Antoine Pitrou16a0a0b2011-03-06 01:11:03 +01001135- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1136 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1137 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1138
Giampaolo Rodolà3a9559b2011-03-04 12:54:34 +00001139- Issue #9795: add context manager protocol support for nntplib.NNTP class.
1140
R. David Murray91221f22011-03-03 18:03:36 +00001141- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1142 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1143 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1144
Giampaolo Rodolà1bc75c62011-03-03 13:57:47 +00001145- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1146 on accept(), send() and recv().
1147
Victor Stinner1dfd3802011-03-03 12:54:07 +00001148- Issue #11377: Deprecate platform.popen() and reimplement it with os.popen().
1149
Victor Stinner7b3b20a2011-03-03 12:54:05 +00001150- Issue #8513: On UNIX, subprocess supports bytes command string.
1151
Antoine Pitrou061cfb52011-02-28 22:25:22 +00001152- Issue #10866: Add socket.sethostname(). Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1153
Antoine Pitroufcf81fd2011-02-28 22:03:34 +00001154- Issue #11140: Lock.release() now raises a RuntimeError when attempting
1155 to release an unacquired lock, as claimed in the threading documentation.
Antoine Pitrou8d0f2572011-02-28 22:06:48 +00001156 The _thread.error exception is now an alias of RuntimeError. Patch by
Antoine Pitrou819c40f2011-03-01 23:05:42 +00001157 Filip Gruszczyński. Patch for _dummy_thread by Aymeric Augustin.
Antoine Pitroufcf81fd2011-02-28 22:03:34 +00001158
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001159- Issue #8594: ftplib now provides a source_address parameter to specify which
Giampaolo Rodolà396ff062011-02-28 19:19:51 +00001160 (address, port) to bind to before connecting.
1161
Antoine Pitroue93bf7a2011-02-26 23:24:06 +00001162- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1163 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1164
Raymond Hettinger9fe1ccf2011-02-26 01:02:51 +00001165- Issue #11297: Add collections.ChainMap().
1166
Antoine Pitrou8250e232011-02-25 23:41:16 +00001167- Issue #10755: Add the posix.fdlistdir() function. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1168
Antoine Pitrouf65132d2011-02-25 23:25:17 +00001169- Issue #4761: Add the *at() family of functions (openat(), etc.) to the posix
1170 module. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1171
Antoine Pitrou68e5c042011-02-25 23:07:44 +00001172- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
1173 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
1174
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001175- Issue #11291: poplib.POP no longer suppresses errors on quit().
Giampaolo Rodolà95bcb932011-02-25 22:28:24 +00001176
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001177- Issue #11177: asyncore's create_socket() arguments can now be omitted.
Giampaolo Rodolà103a6d62011-02-25 22:21:22 +00001178
Antoine Pitrou0bd4deb2011-02-25 22:07:43 +00001179- Issue #6064: Add a ``daemon`` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
1180 and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
1181 default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
1182 thread/process.
1183
Antoine Pitrou707ce822011-02-25 21:24:11 +00001184- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1185 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1186
Giampaolo Rodolà7e1b9af2011-02-25 21:00:10 +00001187- Issue #10784: New os.getpriority() and os.setpriority() functions.
1188
Antoine Pitrou211b81d2011-02-25 20:27:33 +00001189- Issue #11114: Fix catastrophic performance of tell() on text files (up
1190 to 1000x faster in some cases). It is still one to two order of magnitudes
1191 slower than binary tell().
1192
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001193- Issue #10882: Add os.sendfile function.
Giampaolo Rodolàc9c2c8b2011-02-25 14:39:16 +00001194
Éric Araujo6c3787c2011-02-24 18:03:10 +00001195- Issue #10868: Allow usage of the register method of an ABC as a class
1196 decorator.
1197
Lars Gustäbeldd071042011-02-23 11:42:22 +00001198- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
1199 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
1200 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
1201
Sean Reifscheidere2dfefb2011-02-22 10:55:44 +00001202- Issue #10924: Adding salt and Modular Crypt Format to crypt library.
1203 Moved old C wrapper to _crypt, and added a Python wrapper with
1204 enhanced salt generation and simpler API for password generation.
1205
Brett Cannonf3042782011-02-22 03:25:12 +00001206- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
1207
Raymond Hettinger158c9c22011-02-22 00:41:50 +00001208- Issue #11085: Moved collections abstract base classes into a separate
1209 module called collections.abc, following the pattern used by importlib.abc.
1210 For backwards compatibility, the names are imported into the collections
1211 module.
1212
Antoine Pitrouecc26922011-02-21 23:41:12 +00001213- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1214 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1215 32-bit Windows.
1216
Victor Stinner441cc012011-02-21 20:58:02 +00001217- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
1218 escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
1219
Raymond Hettingerddb52402011-02-21 19:42:11 +00001220- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinnerfd34b372011-02-21 20:51:28 +00001221 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingerddb52402011-02-21 19:42:11 +00001222
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +00001223- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
1224 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1225
Eli Bendersky9479d1a2011-03-04 05:34:58 +00001226- Issue #11388: Added a clear() method to MutableSequence
1227
Steven Bethard0331e902011-03-26 14:48:04 +01001228- Issue #11174: Add argparse.MetavarTypeHelpFormatter, which uses type names
1229 for the names of optional and positional arguments in help messages.
1230
Steven Bethard006ba5c2011-03-26 18:29:48 +01001231- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1232
Steven Bethardd8f2d502011-03-26 19:50:06 +01001233- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1234
Steven Bethardd186f992011-03-26 21:49:00 +01001235- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1236 their children.
1237
Steven Bethard8a6a1982011-03-27 13:53:53 +02001238- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1239
Steven Bethard7cb20a82011-04-04 01:53:02 +02001240- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1241
Sandro Tosid902a142011-08-22 23:28:27 +02001242- Issue #12191: Added shutil.chown() to change user and/or group owner of a
1243 given path also specifying their names.
1244
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001245Build
1246-----
1247
Victor Stinner14d098d2011-09-07 22:29:43 +02001248- Issue #12852: Set _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700, instead of 600, to get POSIX 2008
1249 functions on OpenBSD (e.g. fdopendir).
1250
Antoine Pitrou37009202011-07-08 23:47:50 +02001251- Issue #11863: Remove support for legacy systems deprecated in Python 3.2
1252 (following PEP 11). These systems are systems using Mach C Threads,
1253 SunOS lightweight processes, GNU pth threads and IRIX threads.
1254
Ned Deily8b56c4b2011-06-28 00:13:01 -07001255- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1256 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1257 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1258 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1259
Éric Araujof5949b52011-06-09 14:10:07 +02001260- Issue #10645: Installing Python does no longer create a
1261 Python-X.Y.Z-pyX.Y.egg-info file in the lib-dynload directory.
1262
Brett Cannonc5011fe2011-06-06 20:09:10 -07001263- Do not accidentally include the directory containing sqlite.h twice when
1264 building sqlite3.
1265
Ned Deilye4eed062011-05-28 06:04:02 -07001266- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1267 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1268 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1269
Martin v. Löwis8ffaa102011-05-09 07:42:28 +02001270- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
Martin v. Löwis48e14d32011-05-09 07:37:45 +02001271
Thomas Wouters6b103432011-03-06 11:51:24 -08001272- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1273
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001274- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1275 package had previously been installed.
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001276
Jesus Cea736e7fc2011-03-14 17:36:54 +01001277- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001278
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001279
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001280IDLE
1281----
1282
1283- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1284 file in a package.
Jesus Cea736e7fc2011-03-14 17:36:54 +01001285
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001286Tools/Demos
1287-----------
1288
Victor Stinnere670c882011-05-13 17:40:15 +02001289- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
1290 add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
1291
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001292- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
1293
Jason R. Coombs1322bd42011-07-26 11:57:08 -04001294- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1295 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
Jason R. Coombs76eec3d2011-07-26 11:38:04 -04001296 "--newline" option added to specify new line character.
Jason R. Coombs1322bd42011-07-26 11:57:08 -04001297
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001298Extension Modules
1299-----------------
1300
Meador Inge48d49492011-09-27 20:52:04 -05001301- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
1302 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
1303
Jesus Cea41c98a32011-09-21 03:56:05 +02001304- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
1305 file descriptor was actually received.
1306
Meador Inge1c9f0c92011-09-20 19:55:51 -05001307- Issue #1172711: Add 'long long' support to the array module.
1308 Initial patch by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1309
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc65604b52011-09-12 21:09:12 +02001310- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
1311 object triggers the garbage collector.
1312
Jesus Cea9af32cc2011-09-10 04:40:13 +02001313- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
1314 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
1315
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9b20e272011-09-02 20:43:59 +02001316- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
1317 a string.
1318
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdd2f8b02011-08-30 22:07:20 +02001319- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
1320
1321- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
1322 some functions like file.write().
1323
Barry Warsaw2ebada42011-07-19 19:23:56 -04001324- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1325 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1326 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1327
Benjamin Peterson9e3e1c62011-05-31 19:07:45 -05001328- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
1329
Ezio Melotti13672652011-05-11 01:02:56 +03001330- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1331 objects using the C accelerations.
1332
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001333- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1334 objects using the C accelerations.
Benjamin Peterson1a07f072011-03-26 18:17:05 -05001335
1336- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1337 to an instance of the class.
1338
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001339Tests
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001340-----
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001341
Charles-François Natalie78cbec2011-08-24 23:24:05 +02001342- Issue #12656: Add tests for IPv6 and Unix sockets to test_asyncore.
1343
Nick Coghlan029ba2b2011-08-22 16:05:44 +10001344- Issue #6484: Add unit tests for mailcap module (patch by Gregory Nofi)
1345
Nadeem Vawda3c01d162011-08-01 23:48:26 +02001346- Issue #11651: Improve the Makefile test targets to run more of the test suite
1347 more quickly. The --multiprocess option is now enabled by default, reducing
1348 the amount of time needed to run the tests. "make test" and "make quicktest"
1349 now include some resource-intensive tests, but no longer run the test suite
1350 twice to check for bugs in .pyc generation. Tools/scripts/run_test.py provides
1351 as an easy platform-independent way to run test suite with sensible defaults.
1352
Éric Araujob85b9662011-07-31 20:47:47 +02001353- Issue #12331: The test suite for the packaging module can now run from an
1354 installed Python.
1355
Éric Araujoad548b82011-07-31 18:33:00 +02001356- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1357 Python.
1358
Antoine Pitrouf83e4ac2011-07-29 23:57:10 +02001359- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
1360 with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
1361 using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
1362 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
1363
Antoine Pitrou8dbd8572011-07-23 22:37:52 +02001364- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
1365 running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
1366 (or ``-G``) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
1367 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
1368
Ned Deilydac7de32011-07-19 16:18:11 -07001369- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
1370 (Patch by Robert Xiao)
1371
Antoine Pitrou428bc6c2011-07-15 22:15:38 +02001372- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
1373
Ned Deily07b35372011-07-13 15:09:49 -07001374- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1375 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1376
Antoine Pitrou13d7db12011-07-09 02:32:36 +02001377- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1378 failure in name resolution.
1379
Antoine Pitrou4a183b42011-07-08 19:44:55 +02001380- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1381 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1382 Web site.
1383
Antoine Pitrou88fcf1b2011-07-08 19:22:31 +02001384- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1385 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1386 is now skipped instead.
1387
Antoine Pitrou7128f952011-07-08 18:49:07 +02001388- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
1389 reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
1390 rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
1391
Brian Curtin6a4ffd72011-07-05 19:14:16 -05001392- Issue #11512: Add a test suite for the cgitb module. Patch by Robbie Clemons.
1393
Ned Deily368ff102011-07-04 19:11:14 -07001394- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
1395 tests.
1396
1397- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
Ned Deily4bd3e5d2011-07-04 17:51:48 -07001398 testcase failure in test_ssl.
1399
Victor Stinnerd554cdf2011-07-04 17:49:40 +02001400- Issue #12469: Run wakeup and pending signal tests in a subprocess to run the
1401 test in a fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal
1402 handling of the parent process.
1403
Ned Deilyefa384a2011-07-03 22:27:16 -07001404- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1405 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1406 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1407
Antoine Pitrou61600cb2011-06-30 20:04:06 +02001408- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
1409
Victor Stinnere2185d72011-06-29 13:04:35 +02001410- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
1411 the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
1412 error twice anymore if there is only one error.
1413
Ned Deily4a1ec122011-06-28 00:53:54 -07001414- Issue #12141: Install copies of template C module file so that
1415 test_build_ext of test_distutils and test_command_build_ext of
1416 test_packaging are no longer silently skipped when
1417 run outside of a build directory.
1418
Ned Deily8b56c4b2011-06-28 00:13:01 -07001419- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1420 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1421
Ned Deilyf6837aa2011-06-27 23:18:45 -07001422- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1423 2.8 + on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1424
Victor Stinner1eb6d272011-05-31 00:03:07 +02001425- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1426 iso2022_kr).
1427
Éric Araujo08ae8bb2011-05-26 17:06:47 +02001428- Issue #12180: Fixed a few remaining errors in test_packaging when no
1429 threading.
1430
1431- Issue #12120, #12119: skip a test in packaging and distutils
1432 if sys.dont_write_bytecode is set to True.
1433
Victor Stinner5f3b1c42011-05-18 00:20:18 +02001434- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
1435 written by Charles-François Natali.
1436
Victor Stinner118ed712011-05-16 16:35:35 +02001437- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
1438 Andreas Stührk.
1439
Ezio Melotti6b60fb92011-05-14 06:47:51 +03001440- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1441
Antoine Pitrou606c3f52011-05-09 21:17:02 +02001442- Issue #12041: Make test_wait3 more robust.
1443
R David Murray66a18fd2011-05-05 11:52:44 -04001444- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
1445 when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
1446
Victor Stinnerc90e19d2011-05-01 01:23:03 +02001447- Issue #11958: Fix FTP tests for IPv6, bind to "::1" instead of "localhost".
1448 Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1449
Victor Stinnera9293352011-04-30 15:21:58 +02001450- Issue #8407, #11859: Fix tests of test_io using threads and an alarm: use
1451 pthread_sigmask() to ensure that the SIGALRM signal is received by the main
1452 thread.
1453
Antoine Pitrou9c39f3c2011-04-28 19:18:10 +02001454- Issue #11811: Factor out detection of IPv6 support on the current host
1455 and make it available as ``test.support.IPV6_ENABLED``. Patch by
1456 Charles-François Natali.
1457
Antoine Pitrou72562d02011-04-25 21:22:04 +02001458- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
1459
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001460- Issue #11223: Skip test_lock_acquire_interruption() and
1461 test_rlock_acquire_interruption() of test_threadsignals if a thread lock is
1462 implemented using a POSIX mutex and a POSIX condition variable. A POSIX
1463 condition variable cannot be interrupted by a signal (e.g. on Linux, the
1464 futex system call is restarted).
1465
Antoine Pitrouf25a8de2011-04-16 21:02:01 +02001466- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
1467
Antoine Pitrouee429342011-04-16 18:53:59 +02001468- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
1469
Ross Lagerwall226580e2011-04-09 20:05:04 +02001470- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1471 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1472
Victor Stinnerd7edf3b2011-04-03 23:46:42 +02001473- Issue #11727: Add a --timeout option to regrtest: if a test takes more than
1474 TIMEOUT seconds, dumps the traceback of all threads and exits.
Victor Stinner0cc8d592011-03-31 18:10:13 +02001475
Antoine Pitroue44b1252011-03-23 23:02:31 +01001476- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
1477
R David Murray9aaba782011-03-21 17:17:06 -04001478- The email test suite now lives in the Lib/test/test_email package. The test
1479 harness code has also been modernized to allow use of new unittest features.
1480
1481- regrtest now discovers test packages as well as test modules.
1482
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001483- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
1484
Nick Coghlan49cb9592011-03-16 20:23:58 -04001485- New test_crashers added to exercise the scripts in the Lib/test/crashers
1486 directory and confirm they fail as expected
1487
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001488- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
R David Murraya88da672011-03-16 17:32:27 -04001489
Michael Foord07926f02011-03-16 17:19:16 -04001490- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1491
Nick Coghlan62ecb6a2011-05-31 19:40:11 +10001492- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py, increases granularity of
1493 string.Formatter tests. Initial patch by Alicia Arlen.
Nick Coghlan7462fa62011-03-16 14:30:45 -04001494
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001495- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
1496 Evan Dandrea.
1497
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001498- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
1499
Nick Coghlan252183e2011-03-16 14:37:06 -04001500- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
1501 Arlen
Nick Coghland25fd4d2011-03-15 08:54:37 +10001502
R David Murray384069c2011-03-13 22:26:53 -04001503- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1504 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1505
Antoine Pitroud3cccd22011-03-13 19:14:21 +01001506- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
1507 non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
1508
Victor Stinner096f1a82011-03-01 23:08:36 +00001509- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
1510 Pierre Quentel.
1511
Antoine Pitroud20a5f62011-02-26 15:58:05 +00001512- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
1513 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1514
Brett Cannoneeb114b2011-02-22 03:14:12 +00001515- Issue #10512: Properly close sockets under test.test_cgi.
1516
Brett Cannon7a540732011-02-22 03:04:06 +00001517- Issue #10992: Make tests pass under coverage.
1518
Antoine Pitrouce58dc72011-02-21 21:55:48 +00001519- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
1520 to open door files.
1521
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001522- Issue #10990: Prevent tests from clobbering a set trace function.
1523
Benjamin Peterson485119e2011-03-15 15:07:20 -05001524C-API
1525-----
1526
Ezio Melotti8c9375b2011-08-22 20:03:25 +03001527- Issue #10542: Add 4 macros to work with surrogates: Py_UNICODE_IS_SURROGATE,
1528 Py_UNICODE_IS_HIGH_SURROGATE, Py_UNICODE_IS_LOW_SURROGATE,
1529 Py_UNICODE_JOIN_SURROGATES.
1530
Brian Curtin0275fc12011-08-10 20:32:10 -05001531- Issue #12724: Add Py_RETURN_NOTIMPLEMENTED macro for returning NotImplemented.
1532
Benjamin Peterson8a021002011-05-25 09:27:43 -05001533- PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION has been removed, since it's meaningless with
1534 Mercurial.
Benjamin Peterson485119e2011-03-15 15:07:20 -05001535
Benjamin Peterson04778a82011-05-25 09:29:00 -05001536- Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const
Benjamin Petersonc556e102011-05-26 17:49:57 -05001537 char *` instead of `char *`.
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001538
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +03001539- Issue #12380: PyArg_ParseTuple now accepts a bytearray for the 'c' format.
1540
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +02001541Documentation
1542-------------
1543
1544- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
1545
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001546
1547What's New in Python 3.2?
1548=========================
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +00001549
1550*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001551
1552Core and Builtins
1553-----------------
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +00001554
1555- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +00001556
1557Build
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001558-----
1559
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +00001560- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
1561
1562- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1563
1564- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001565
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001566Documentation
1567-------------
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001568
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001569- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001570
1571
1572What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
1573=============================================
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +00001574
1575*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +00001576
1577Core and Builtins
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001578-----------------
1579
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +00001580- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +00001581
1582- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001583
1584- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
1585 ABI.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001586
1587- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +00001588
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001589Library
1590-------
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +00001591
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +00001592- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
1593 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001594
1595- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +00001596 compileall.compile_dir().
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001597
1598- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
1599
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001600- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
1601 by Stan Mihai.
1602
1603Build
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +00001604-----
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001605
1606- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001607 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
1608 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
1609 framework under share/doc.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001610
1611- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001612
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001613Tests
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001614-----
1615
1616- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +00001617 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001618
1619
1620What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
1621=============================================
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +00001622
1623*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
1624
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001625Core and Builtins
1626-----------------
1627
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +00001628- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1629 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1630
1631Library
1632-------
1633
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +00001634- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
1635 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
1636 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
1637 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +00001638 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
1639
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +00001640- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
1641 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
1642 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +00001643
1644- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
1645
1646- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +00001647 commands.
1648
1649- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
1650 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +00001651 obscured.
1652
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +00001653- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1654 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1655 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +00001656
1657- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
1658
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +00001659- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
1660 conversion.
1661
1662- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +00001663 with a None body.
1664
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +00001665- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
1666 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
1667 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +00001668
1669- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1670
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +00001671- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
1672 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +00001673
1674- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +00001675 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001676
1677- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +00001678
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001679- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001680
1681- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +00001682 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
1683 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
1684 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +00001685
1686- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1687
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +00001688- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1689 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1690
1691- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +00001692 a symbol named FSTAT.
1693
1694- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
1695 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
1696 of HTTP 1.1.
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +00001697
1698- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001699 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +00001700 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
1701 both incoming and outgoing direction.
1702
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +00001703- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1704 argparse.FileType.
1705
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +00001706- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
1707 during request handling.
1708
1709- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1710 argparse.
1711
1712Build
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001713-----
1714
1715- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +00001716 the system-provided Python.
1717
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001718
1719What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
1720============================================
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001721
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001722*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001723
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +00001724Core and Builtins
1725-----------------
1726
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001727- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001728 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
1729
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001730- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001731 class.
1732
1733- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +00001734 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +00001735 by Matt Bandy.
1736
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +00001737- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
1738 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
1739 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
1740
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +00001741- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
1742
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +00001743- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +00001744 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1745 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1746
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001747- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +02001748 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001749
1750- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +00001751 can now handle dates after 2038.
1752
1753- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +00001754 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
1755 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001756
1757- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
1758 encoding instead of UTF-8.
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +00001759
1760- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
1761
Benjamin Peterson62f8bcb2011-04-12 18:34:30 -05001762- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a
1763 SyntaxError.
1764
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001765Library
1766-------
1767
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001768- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
1769 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
1770 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +00001771
Ronald Oussoren6edd8c12011-05-17 13:03:54 +02001772- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1773 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1774
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001775- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1776 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1777 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +00001778
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001779- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
1780 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +00001781 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
1782 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001783
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001784- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +00001785
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001786- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
1787 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +00001788
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +00001789- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1790
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +00001791- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
1792 if available.
1793
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001794- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
1795 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +00001796
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001797- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001798 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
1799 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
1800 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
1801 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001802
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +00001803- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
1804 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
1805
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +00001806- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1807 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1808
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001809- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001810 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a BytesParser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001811 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001812
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001813- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding whitespace when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001814 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
1815 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
1816 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +00001817
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +00001818- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
1819 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
1820 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
1821 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
1822 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
1823 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +00001824
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +00001825- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1826 on an existing file.
1827
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +00001828- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1829 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1830
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +00001831- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
1832 compilation (if the input is a string).
1833
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001834- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +00001835 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001836
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +00001837- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
1838 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +00001839
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +00001840- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
1841 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
1842
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +00001843- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
1844 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
1845
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +00001846- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
1847 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
1848 2^32-1 bytes).
1849
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001850- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
1851 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +00001852
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001853- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
1854 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
1855 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +00001856
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +00001857- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
1858 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
1859
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +00001860- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
1861 few POSIX semaphores.
1862
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +00001863- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
1864 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
1865
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001866- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
1867 filenames.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +00001868
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +00001869- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
1870 David Daniels.
1871
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001872- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
1873 define __missing__().
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001874
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001875- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
1876 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
1877 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001878
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001879- Issue #10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
1880 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's request_uri
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001881 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
1882 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +00001883
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001884- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +00001885
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001886- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +00001887 browsers actually parse cookies.
1888
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001889- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
1890 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
1891 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +00001892
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +00001893- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +00001894
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001895- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
1896
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +00001897- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
1898
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +00001899- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
1900 ElementTree register_namespace().
1901
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +00001902- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
1903
1904- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
1905
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +00001906- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1907 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1908 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1909
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +00001910- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
1911 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
1912
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +00001913- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
1914 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
1915
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +00001916- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
1917
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +00001918- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
1919 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
1920
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +00001921- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
1922 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
1923
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +00001924- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1925
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +00001926- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001927
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001928C-API
1929-----
1930
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +00001931- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
1932 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
1933
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001934- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
1935 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001936
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001937Build
1938-----
1939
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001940- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
1941 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
1942 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +00001943
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +00001944- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
1945 scripts (#10679).
1946
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +00001947- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1948 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1949
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +00001950- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1951 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1952
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001953- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
1954 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
1955
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +00001956- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1957 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1958 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1959 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1960
Ronald Oussoren25032492011-03-14 10:11:59 -04001961- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1962 using GCC 4.0.
1963
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001964Tools/Demos
1965-----------
1966
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001967- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
1968 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
1969 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +00001970
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001971- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
1972 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
1973 Tools/demo subdirectory.
1974
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001975- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001976 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
1977 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001978
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001979Tests
1980-----
1981
Ezio Melotti8269a442011-05-09 07:15:04 +03001982- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1983
Nadeem Vawda58de6ee2011-04-19 01:38:47 +02001984- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1985
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +00001986- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1987 by Ross Lagerwall.
1988
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +00001989- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
1990
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +00001991- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
1992 Björn Lindqvist.
1993
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +00001994- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
1995 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
1996
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001997- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
1998 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
1999 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00002000
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00002001
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002002What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
2003================================
2004
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +00002005*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002006
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00002007Core and Builtins
2008-----------------
2009
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +00002010- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
2011 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
2012
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00002013- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
2014 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
2015 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002016
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +00002017- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
2018 Daniel Urban.
2019
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002020Library
2021-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00002022
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +00002023- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
2024 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
2025
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00002026- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
2027
2028- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
2029 up function.
2030
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +00002031- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
2032 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
2033
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +00002034- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
2035 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
2036
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +00002037- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
2038 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
2039
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +00002040- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
2041
2042- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +00002043 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
2044
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +00002045- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
2046 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
2047
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00002048- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
2049 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
2050
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +00002051- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
2052 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002053
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +00002054- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
2055 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2056
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +00002057- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
2058
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +00002059- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
2060
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +00002061- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
2062 causes debug mode to fail.
2063
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +00002064- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
2065 that contain non-ascii values.
2066
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00002067- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +00002068 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
2069 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
2070 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
2071 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
2072
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00002073- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
2074
2075- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +00002076 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
2077 error handles are provided.
2078
2079- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
2080 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
2081 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002082
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +00002083- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
2084 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
2085 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
2086
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00002087Tests
2088-----
2089
2090- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
2091 encountering them.
2092
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00002093Tools/Demos
2094-----------
2095
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +00002096- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
2097 Cocoa AquaTk.
2098
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +00002099- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
2100
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00002101- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
2102 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
2103
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00002104Build
2105-----
2106
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +00002107- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00002108
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +00002109- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
2110
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00002111
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002112What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
2113================================
2114
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002115*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002116
2117Core and Builtins
2118-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002119
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +00002120- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
2121 methods.
2122
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002123- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
2124 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +00002125
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002126- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
2127 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +00002128
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00002129- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
2130
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002131- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
2132 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +00002133
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +00002134- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
2135
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002136- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002137
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +00002138- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
2139
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002140- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
2141 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +00002142
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00002143- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
2144
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002145- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
2146 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
2147 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +00002148
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002149- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +00002150
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +00002151- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
2152 masking all errors.
2153
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002154Library
2155-------
2156
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +00002157- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
2158
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +00002159- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
2160 assertions about logging.
2161
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +00002162- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
2163
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +00002164- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
2165 UnicodeEncodeError.
2166
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +00002167- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
2168
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002169- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
2170 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +00002171
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +00002172- Add the "interact" pdb command.
2173
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +00002174- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
2175
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +00002176- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
2177
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00002178- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
2179 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
2180
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +00002181- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2182 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2183 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2184
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +00002185- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
2186
2187- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +00002188 names for running specific tests.
2189
2190- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
2191 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
2192 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
2193
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +00002194- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
2195 SSLError on socket timeouts.
2196
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +00002197- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
2198 messages from argparse.
2199
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +00002200- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
2201
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +00002202- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2203 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2204 current process.
2205
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +00002206- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
2207
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +00002208- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2209
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +00002210- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
2211 Adam.
2212
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002213- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
2214 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +00002215
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +00002216- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2217
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002218- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
2219 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +00002220
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002221- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
2222 subprocess.
2223
2224- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
2225 module.
2226
2227- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
2228 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2229
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002230- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
2231 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002232
2233- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
2234
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002235- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002236 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002237
2238- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
2239 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +00002240
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +00002241- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
2242
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +00002243- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
2244 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
2245
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002246- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
2247 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
2248 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +00002249
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002250- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
2251 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +00002252
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +00002253- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2254
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +00002255- Added itertools.accumulate().
2256
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +00002257- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
2258 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
2259
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +00002260- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
2261 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
2262
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +00002263- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
2264
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002265- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
2266 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +00002267
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002268- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
2269 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +00002270
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002271- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
2272 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
2273 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +00002274
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002275- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
2276 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +00002277
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002278- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
2279 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +00002280
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +00002281- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2282
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002283- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
2284 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +00002285 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
2286
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00002287- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
2288 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +00002289
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +00002290- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
2291
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +00002292- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
2293
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +00002294- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +00002295 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2296
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +00002297- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2298 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2299
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +00002300- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
2301 when no extra arguments have been provided.
2302
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +00002303- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
2304 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
2305 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
2306
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002307- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
2308 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +00002309
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +00002310- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
2311 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
2312
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002313- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
2314 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +00002315
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +00002316- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
2317
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +00002318- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +00002319
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +00002320- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2321 end of the file.
2322
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002323- configparser: 100% test coverage.
2324
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002325- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
2326 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +00002327 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
2328 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
2329
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002330- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
2331 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
2332 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00002333
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002334- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
2335 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
2336
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002337- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
2338
2339- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
2340
2341- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
2342
2343- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
2344 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
2345
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002346- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
2347 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
2348 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002349
2350- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
2351 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
2352 values, and indentation.
2353
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002354- Issue #10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +00002355
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002356- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +00002357
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002358- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
2359 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
2360 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +00002361
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +00002362- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
2363
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +00002364- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
2365 version-specific online reference manual.
2366
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +00002367- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
2368
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +00002369- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
2370
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +00002371- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
2372 Patch by Robert Collins.
2373
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002374- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
2375 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +00002376
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002377C-API
2378-----
2379
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002380- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002381 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
2382 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002383
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002384- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
2385 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002386 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
2387 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002388
2389- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
2390 Schemenauer.
2391
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +00002392- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
2393
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002394- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
2395
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002396Tests
2397-----
2398
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002399- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002400 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +00002401
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002402- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
2403 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +00002404
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002405- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
2406 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +00002407
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002408- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
2409 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002410
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +00002411Build
2412-----
2413
2414- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
2415 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
2416
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00002417Documentation
2418-------------
2419
2420- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2421
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002422
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +00002423What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
2424=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002425
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +00002426*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002427
2428Core and Builtins
2429-----------------
2430
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +00002431- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
2432 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
2433
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002434- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
2435 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +00002436 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
2437
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002438- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +00002439
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +00002440- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
2441
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +00002442- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2443 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2444
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002445- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +00002446 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
2447
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +00002448- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
2449 of the offending line.
2450
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002451- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
2452 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +00002453
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002454- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
2455 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002456 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002457 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002458 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
2459
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002460- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
2461 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002462 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
2463
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +00002464- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2465 resolution.
2466
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002467- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
2468 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +00002469
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +00002470- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
2471 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
2472
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002473- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +00002474 descriptor.
2475
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00002476- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
2477 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
2478
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00002479- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
2480
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002481Library
2482-------
2483
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00002484- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
2485
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00002486- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
2487
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00002488- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
2489
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00002490- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2491
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002492- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
2493 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00002494
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002495- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
2496 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00002497
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002498- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
2499 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00002500
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002501- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002502 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00002503
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002504- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
2505 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00002506
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00002507- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
2508
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002509- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002510 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
2511 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002512 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
2513
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002514- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
2515 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
2516 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
2517 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002518
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002519- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
2520 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00002521
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00002522- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
2523
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002524- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
2525 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00002526
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00002527- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
2528 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
2529
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002530- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
2531 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00002532
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002533- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
2534 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
2535 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
2536 ASCII.
2537
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002538- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002539 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002540 Belopolsky.
2541
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002542- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2543 --enable-shared.
2544
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00002545- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2546 Arfrever.
2547
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00002548- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2549
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00002550- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2551 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2552
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00002553- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
2554 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
2555
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002556- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
2557 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00002558
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00002559- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
2560
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00002561- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
2562
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002563- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
2564 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00002565
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00002566- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
2567 response, instead of raising an exception.
2568
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002569- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
2570 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002571 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
2572 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
2573 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002574
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002575- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
2576 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00002577
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00002578- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
2579
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002580- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
2581 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00002582
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00002583- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2584
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002585- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
2586 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00002587
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002588- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
2589 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00002590
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00002591- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
2592
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00002593- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2594
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002595- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
2596 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00002597
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002598- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
2599 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00002600
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002601- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
2602 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00002603
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00002604- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2605 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2606
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002607- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
2608 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00002609
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00002610- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
2611
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00002612- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
2613
2614- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
2615
2616- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
2617
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002618- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
2619 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00002620
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002621- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002622 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
2623 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002624
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002625- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
2626 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00002627
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00002628- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
2629
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002630- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
2631 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00002632
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00002633- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2634 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2635 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2636
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00002637- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
2638
2639- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00002640
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00002641- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2642
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002643- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
2644 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00002645
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00002646- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
2647 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
2648
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002649- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
2650 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
2651 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00002652
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00002653- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
2654
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002655- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00002656
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00002657- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
2658
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00002659- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
2660
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00002661- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
2662
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00002663- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2664
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00002665- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
2666 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
2667
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002668- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
2669 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
2670 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00002671
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00002672- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
2673 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
2674
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00002675- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
2676 switch to python-config for command line access.
2677
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00002678- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2679
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00002680- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2681 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2682
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002683- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002684 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002685
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00002686- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00002687 debugging in doctests.
2688
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002689- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
2690 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00002691
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002692- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
2693 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00002694
2695- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002696 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002697 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
2698 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002699
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00002700- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2701 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2702 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2703
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002704- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
2705 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
2706 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00002707
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002708- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002709 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
2710 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002711
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00002712- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2713 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2714
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002715- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00002716
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00002717- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
2718
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002719- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2720
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002721Extension Modules
2722-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002723
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00002724- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
2725 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
2726
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00002727- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
2728
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00002729- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
2730
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00002731- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
2732
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00002733- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
2734
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00002735- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
2736
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00002737- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2738
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002739- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
2740 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00002741
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002742- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
2743 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
2744 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00002745
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00002746- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
2747
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002748C-API
2749-----
2750
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002751- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002752 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002753
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002754- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
2755 type has been introduced.
2756
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002757Tools/Demos
2758-----------
2759
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002760- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
2761 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
2762 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00002763
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002764- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2765
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002766Tests
2767-----
2768
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002769- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
2770 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00002771
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00002772- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
2773
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002774- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
2775 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002776
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002777Build
2778-----
2779
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00002780- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
2781
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00002782- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2783
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00002784- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
2785
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002786- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
2787
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00002788- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
2789
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002790- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
2791 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00002792
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002793
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002794What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
2795=================================
2796
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00002797*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002798
2799Core and Builtins
2800-----------------
2801
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00002802- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2803 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2804
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002805- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002806 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002807
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002808- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
2809 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
2810 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00002811
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00002812- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
2813 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
2814
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00002815- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
2816
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002817- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002818 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
2819 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002820
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002821- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002822 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002823
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00002824- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
2825
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00002826- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
2827 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
2828
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002829- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
2830 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00002831
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002832- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002833 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002834
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00002835- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
2836
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002837- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
2838 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
2839 Py_Initialize().
2840
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002841- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
2842 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00002843
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00002844- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
2845 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
2846
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002847- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002848 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00002849
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002850- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2851 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2852 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2853 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
2854 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
2855 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00002856
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00002857- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
2858 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
2859 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
2860
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00002861- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
2862 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
2863 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
2864
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002865- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
2866 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00002867
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00002868- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
2869 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
2870 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
2871
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002872- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
2873 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
2874 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
2875 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00002876
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00002877- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
2878 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
2879 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
2880
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00002881- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2882 thread-local storage key.
2883
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002884Library
2885-------
2886
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00002887- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2888
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002889- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2890
2891- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2892
2893- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2894 not in build_clib.
2895
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00002896- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2897
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00002898- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
2899 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
2900
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00002901- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
2902 verification for higher-level protocols.
2903
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00002904- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2905 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2906
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00002907- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2908 gettext.
2909
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00002910- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002911 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002912 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002913 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
2914 directly.
2915
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00002916- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2917 gname field.
2918
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002919- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
2920 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00002921
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00002922- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2923 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2924
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002925- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
2926 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00002927
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002928- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
2929 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00002930
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002931- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
2932 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
2933 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00002934
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00002935- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
2936
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002937- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002938 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
2939 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
2940 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002941
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00002942- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
2943
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002944- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002945 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
2946 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
2947 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002948
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002949- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2950
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002951- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2952
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00002953- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2954
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00002955- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
2956 in ntpath.
2957
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00002958- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2959
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002960- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
2961 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00002962
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00002963- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
2964 performance-critical threads.
2965
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00002966- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
2967
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002968- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
2969
2970- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
2971
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00002972- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
2973
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00002974- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
2975 object, only munmap().
2976
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002977- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
2978 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00002979
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00002980- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
2981 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
2982 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
2983
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00002984- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
2985
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002986- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002987 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
2988 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002989
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00002990- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
2991 another kind.
2992
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00002993- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
2994
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002995- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00002996
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002997- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
2998 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00002999
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003000- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
3001 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
3002 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00003003
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003004- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
3005 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00003006
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01003007- Issue #9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003008 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00003009
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00003010- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
3011
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00003012- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00003013
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00003014- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
3015 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
3016
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003017- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
3018 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00003019
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00003020- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003021 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
3022 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00003023 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
3024 in the first place.
3025
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00003026- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
3027 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003028 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00003029
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003030- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
3031 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
3032 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
3033 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00003034
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003035- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
3036 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
3037 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00003038
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003039- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
3040 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00003041
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00003042- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
3043 multiprocessing.
3044
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003045- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
3046 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
3047 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00003048
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00003049- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
3050 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
3051 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
3052
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003053- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
3054 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
3055 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
3056 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00003057
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003058- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
3059 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
3060 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00003061
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00003062- Updates to the random module:
3063
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003064 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
3065 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00003066
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003067 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
3068 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
3069 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00003070
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003071 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
3072 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
3073 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00003074
3075 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00003076
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003077- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
3078 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00003079
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003080- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
3081 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
3082 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00003083
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003084- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
3085 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
3086 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00003087
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00003088- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
3089
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00003090- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003091 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
3092 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00003093
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00003094- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
3095 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
3096 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
3097 algorithms available in the current process.
3098
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00003099- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
3100
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00003101C-API
3102-----
3103
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00003104- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
3105
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00003106- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
3107 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
3108 defined.
3109
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00003110Tools/Demos
3111-----------
3112
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003113- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
3114 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
3115 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00003116
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00003117Tests
3118-----
3119
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00003120- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
3121 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
3122
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003123- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
3124 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00003125
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00003126- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
3127 in test_os)
3128
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00003129- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
3130 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
3131
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00003132- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
3133
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003134- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
3135 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00003136
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00003137- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
3138
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00003139- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
3140
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00003141- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
3142 case when running profile or trace, for example.
3143
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00003144- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
3145
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00003146Build
3147-----
3148
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00003149- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
3150
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003151- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
3152 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00003153
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00003154- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
3155
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00003156- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
3157
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00003158- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
3159
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003160- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
3161 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00003162
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003163- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
3164 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00003165
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00003166- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
3167 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
3168 defined by PEP 3149.
3169
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003170- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
3171 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00003172
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00003173- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
3174 Sablé.
3175
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00003176- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
3177 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
3178 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
3179
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00003180
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003181What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
3182=================================
3183
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00003184*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003185
3186Core and Builtins
3187-----------------
3188
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003189- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
3190 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
3191 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00003192
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00003193- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
3194 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
3195
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003196- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
3197 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00003198
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003199- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
3200 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00003201
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003202- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
3203 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
3204 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00003205
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00003206- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
3207 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
3208
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003209- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
3210 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00003211
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00003212- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
3213
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00003214- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
3215
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003216- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
3217 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00003218
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003219- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
3220 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00003221
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00003222- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
3223 filesystem encoding.
3224
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00003225- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
3226 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
3227 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
3228 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
3229 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
3230
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00003231- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
3232 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
3233 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
3234 function.
3235
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00003236- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
3237
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00003238- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
3239
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003240- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
3241 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00003242
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003243- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
3244 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00003245 sys.stderr.
3246
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003247- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003248 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
3249 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003250
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003251- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
3252 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
3253 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00003254
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003255- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
3256 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003257
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003258- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
3259 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00003260
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003261- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00003262
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003263- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
3264 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00003265
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003266- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
3267 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00003268
3269 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
3270 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
3271
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00003272Extension Modules
3273-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003274
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00003275- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
3276 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
3277 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
3278 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
3279 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
3280
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00003281- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
3282 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
3283
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00003284- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
3285 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3286
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003287- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
3288 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00003289
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003290- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
3291 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
3292 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00003293
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003294- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
3295 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
3296 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00003297
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003298- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
3299 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00003300
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00003301- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
3302 Matthew Ahrens.
3303
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003304- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
3305 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00003306
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003307- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
3308 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00003309
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00003310- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
3311
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003312- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
3313 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00003314
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003315- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
3316 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00003317
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00003318- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00003319
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00003320- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
3321
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003322- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
3323 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00003324
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003325- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
3326 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00003327
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003328- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
3329 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00003330
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003331- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
3332 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00003333
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00003334- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
3335
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003336- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
3337 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00003338
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00003339- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
3340 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
3341
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00003342- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
3343
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003344- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
3345 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003346
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003347Library
3348-------
3349
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003350- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
3351 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
3352 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00003353
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003354- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
3355 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00003356
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003357- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00003358
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003359- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
3360 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00003361
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00003362- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
3363 ConfigParser.write.
3364
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003365- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
3366 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003367 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
3368 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003369
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003370- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
3371 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00003372
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003373- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00003374 circumstances.
3375
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003376- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
3377 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00003378
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003379- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
3380 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00003381
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00003382- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
3383 falling into recursion.
3384
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00003385- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
3386 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
3387
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00003388- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
3389 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00003390
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003391- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
3392 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00003393
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003394- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003395 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
3396 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003397
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003398- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003399 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003400
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00003401- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
3402
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003403- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00003404
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003405- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
3406 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00003407
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00003408- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
3409 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
3410
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00003411- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
3412
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003413- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
3414 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00003415
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003416- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
3417 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00003418
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003419- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
3420 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00003421 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
3422 structure.
3423
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00003424- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
3425 single keyword arguments.
3426
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003427- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
3428 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00003429
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003430- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
3431 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00003432
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003433- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003434 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003435
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003436- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
3437 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003438
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00003439- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
3440
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003441- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
3442 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3443
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00003444- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
3445 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3446
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003447- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003448 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
3449 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003450
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003451- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
3452 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00003453
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003454- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
3455 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
3456 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00003457
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003458- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
3459 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
3460 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00003461
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003462- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
3463 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
3464 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
3465 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00003466
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003467- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003468 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
3469 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003470
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003471- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00003472 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
3473
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003474- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
3475 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00003476
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00003477- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
3478 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
3479
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003480- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
3481 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
3482 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00003483
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003484- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00003485 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
3486 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003487
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003488- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
3489 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
3490 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00003491
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00003492- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
3493
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003494- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
3495 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00003496
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003497- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
3498 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00003499
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003500- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
3501 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
3502 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00003503
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003504- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
3505 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00003506
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003507- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
3508 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00003509
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003510- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
3511 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003512
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003513- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
3514 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003515
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003516- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
3517 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00003518
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003519- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
3520 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00003521
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00003522- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
3523 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
3524
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00003525- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
3526 across devices.
3527
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00003528- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
3529
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00003530- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
3531
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00003532- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
3533
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00003534- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
3535
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00003536- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
3537 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00003538
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00003539- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
3540
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00003541- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
3542 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
3543
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003544- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
3545 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00003546
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003547- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
3548 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00003549
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00003550- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
3551
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00003552- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00003553
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003554Tools/Demos
3555-----------
3556
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00003557- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
3558
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003559- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
3560 non-ASCII content.
3561
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003562Tests
3563-----
3564
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003565- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
3566
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00003567- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3568
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00003569- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3570
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00003571- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3572
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00003573- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3574 Michele Orrù.
3575
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003576- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
3577
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003578Build
3579-----
3580
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00003581- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
3582
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003583- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
3584
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003585- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
3586 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00003587
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00003588- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3589 Sébastien Sablé.
3590
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003591- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
3592
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003593
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003594What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
3595=================================
3596
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003597*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003598
3599Core and Builtins
3600-----------------
3601
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00003602- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
3603
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00003604- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
3605 compiler.
3606
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00003607- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
3608
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003609- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003610 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
3611 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
3612 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
3613 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
3614 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
3615 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003616
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003617- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
3618 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00003619
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00003620- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
3621
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00003622- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
3623 objects, as described in the documentation.
3624
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003625- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003626 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00003627 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003628
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003629- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
3630 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
3631 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00003632
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003633- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003634 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003635 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003636 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003637
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00003638- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
3639 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
3640
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003641- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003642 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003643 string formats.
3644
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003645- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00003646 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
3647 location of the raised exception.
3648
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00003649- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
3650 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
3651
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00003652- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3653
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003654- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
3655 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
3656 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00003657
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003658- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
3659 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
3660 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
3661 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00003662
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00003663- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
3664 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
3665 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
3666
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003667- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
3668 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003669
3670- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003671 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003672 like bytearray.
3673
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003674- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00003675 used anymore and it was never documented.
3676
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003677- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00003678
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003679- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
3680 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00003681
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003682- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
3683 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
3684 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
3685 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00003686
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003687- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3688 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003689 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
3690 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
3691 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
3692 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003693
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00003694- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
3695 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
3696
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003697- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003698 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003699 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003700
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003701- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
3702 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00003703
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003704- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
3705 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003706 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00003707 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003708
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003709- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003710 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003711
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003712- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003713 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003714 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
3715
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003716- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003717 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
3718 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003719
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00003720- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3721
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003722- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00003723
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003724- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
3725 arguments.
3726
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003727- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003728 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
3729 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003730
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003731- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003732 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003733
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003734- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
3735 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00003736
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003737- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003738 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
3739 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
3740 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003741
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00003742- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3743 passed to bytes or bytearray.
3744
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00003745- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3746
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00003747- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3748 changed.
3749
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003750- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
3751 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
3752 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00003753
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00003754- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3755
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00003756- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
3757
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00003758- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3759
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003760- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3761 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00003762
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003763- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003764 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003765
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003766- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00003767
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003768- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003769 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003770
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00003771- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
3772 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
3773 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
3774 comparisons with complex.
3775
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003776- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
3777 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003778 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003779
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00003780- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
3781
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003782- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3783 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00003784
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003785- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3786 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00003787
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00003788- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
3789
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003790- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
3791 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00003792
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003793- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003794 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003795
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003796- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3797 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00003798
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003799- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
3800 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00003801
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003802- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003803 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
3804 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003805
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003806- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
3807 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00003808
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003809- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3810 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00003811
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003812- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
3813 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
3814 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3815 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00003816
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003817- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
3818 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
3819 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00003820
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003821- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003822 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
3823 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
3824 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
3825 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
3826 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003827
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003828- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
3829 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
3830 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00003831
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003832- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3833 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
3834 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
3835 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
3836 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
3837 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00003838
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00003839- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
3840 consistent with other special methods.
3841
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00003842- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3843 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3844
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00003845- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3846 AttributeError.
3847
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003848- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3849 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00003850
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003851- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3852 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3853 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3854 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00003855
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003856- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
3857 executables on OSX.
3858
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003859 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3860 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3861 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003862
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003863- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3864 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00003865
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00003866- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
3867 with invalid values.
3868
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00003869- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
3870 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
3871
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003872- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3873 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00003874
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00003875- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3876
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00003877- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
3878 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
3879
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003880- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
3881 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
3882 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
3883 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
3884 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00003885
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003886- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
3887 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00003888
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00003889- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
3890 surrogates.
3891
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00003892- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
3893
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00003894- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3895
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00003896- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
3897 disabled since Python 3.0.
3898
3899- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
3900 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
3901 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
3902
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003903- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003904 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003905
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00003906- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
3907
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00003908- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
3909 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3910 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
3911
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00003912- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00003913 support.
3914
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003915- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3916 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003917
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003918- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3919 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3920 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00003921
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003922- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
3923 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00003924
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00003925- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3926 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3927 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3928 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3929
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003930- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3931 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00003932
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003933- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
3934 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00003935
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00003936- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
3937
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00003938- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
3939
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00003940- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
3941
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00003942- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3943
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003944- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
3945 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00003946
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00003947- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
3948
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00003949- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
3950
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00003951- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
3952 occurred in the argument chain.
3953
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003954- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3955 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00003956
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00003957- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3958
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003959- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
3960 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00003961
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00003962- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
3963
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003964- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3965 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3966 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00003967
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003968- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
3969 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00003970
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00003971- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3972
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003973- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
3974 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00003975
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003976- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
3977 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00003978
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003979- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
3980 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
3981 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00003982
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00003983- Code objects now support weak references.
3984
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003985- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003986
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003987- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003988 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
3989 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003990
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003991C-API
3992-----
3993
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00003994- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
3995 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
3996 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
3997
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00003998- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
3999 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
4000 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
4001
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004002- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
4003 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
4004 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00004005 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
4006
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00004007- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
4008 strings in an efficient manner.
4009
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00004010- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004011 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
4012 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00004013
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004014- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
4015 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00004016
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00004017- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
4018 has '\0' at the end.
4019
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00004020- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004021 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
4022 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
4023 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00004024 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
4025
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004026- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00004027
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004028- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
4029 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00004030
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004031- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4032 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00004033
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004034- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
4035 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
4036 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00004037
4038- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00004039
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00004040- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
4041
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00004042- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4043 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4044
4045- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4046 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4047
4048- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4049 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4050
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004051- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
4052 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
4053 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
4054 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00004055
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00004056Library
4057-------
4058
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004059- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
4060 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00004061
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004062- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
4063 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
4064 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00004065
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004066- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
4067 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004068
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004069- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
4070 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004071
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004072- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
4073 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004074
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004075- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
4076 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00004077
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004078- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
4079 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00004080
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004081- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
4082 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00004083
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004084- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
4085 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00004086
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004087- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
4088 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00004089
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004090- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
4091 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00004092
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00004093- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
4094
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004095- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
4096 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
4097 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00004098
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004099- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
4100 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00004101
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004102- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00004103 entries, consider the first one.
4104
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00004105- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
4106 string.Template class.
4107
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004108- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
4109 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00004110
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004111- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
4112 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00004113
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00004114- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
4115
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00004116- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
4117
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004118- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
4119 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00004120
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00004121- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004122 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
4123 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00004124
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004125- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00004126
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004127- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
4128 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00004129 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
4130 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004131 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
4132 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00004133
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00004134- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
4135
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004136- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00004137 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
4138 XML-RPC request.
4139
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004140- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
4141 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
4142 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00004143
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004144- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
4145 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
4146 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
4147 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
4148 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
4149 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00004150
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004151- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00004152
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004153- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
4154 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00004155
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004156- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
4157 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00004158
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00004159- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
4160 parameters.
4161
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004162- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
4163 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00004164
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004165- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
4166 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00004167
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00004168- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
4169
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00004170- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
4171
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004172- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
4173 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00004174
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00004175- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
4176
4177- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00004178
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00004179- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
4180
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004181- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
4182 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
4183 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00004184
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004185- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
4186 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
4187 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00004188
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00004189- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
4190
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00004191- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
4192
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00004193- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
4194
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004195- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
4196 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
4197 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00004198
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00004199- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
4200 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
4201
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004202- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
4203 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004204
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004205- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
4206 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00004207
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00004208- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
4209 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
4210
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004211- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00004212 raises an exception.
4213
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004214- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004215 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
4216 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004217
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00004218- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
4219 for removal in Python 3.4.
4220
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004221- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
4222 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00004223
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004224- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
4225 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00004226
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004227- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
4228 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00004229
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004230- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
4231 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00004232 deallocation while the object is still being used.
4233
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004234- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004235 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004236 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
4237
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004238- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00004239 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
4240
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004241- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
4242 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00004243
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004244- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
4245 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00004246
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00004247- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
4248
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004249- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
4250 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
4251
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004252- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
4253 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
4254 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
4255 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
4256 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00004257
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004258- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
4259 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00004260
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00004261- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00004262
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00004263- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
4264
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004265- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
4266 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00004267
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00004268- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
4269 mistake.
4270
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004271- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
4272 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004273 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00004274
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00004275- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
4276 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
4277
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004278- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
4279 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
4280 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00004281
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00004282- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
4283 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
4284
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00004285- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
4286
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004287- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
4288 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004289 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004290
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004291- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
4292 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00004293
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004294- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004295 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004296
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004297- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004298 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
4299 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004300
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00004301- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
4302 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
4303 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00004304
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004305- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004306 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004307
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00004308- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
4309 of files without one.
4310
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00004311- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
4312 comparing to a non-mapping.
4313
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004314- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004315 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004316
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004317- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
4318 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
4319 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00004320
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00004321- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
4322
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00004323- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
4324 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
4325 stdout is not a TTY).
4326
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00004327- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
4328 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
4329 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
4330 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
4331
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00004332- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
4333 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
4334
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00004335- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
4336 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
4337
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00004338- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
4339
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00004340- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004341 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00004342
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00004343- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
4344
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004345- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
4346 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00004347
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004348- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
4349 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00004350
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00004351- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
4352 class.
4353
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00004354- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
4355 given.
4356
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00004357- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
4358 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
4359
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004360- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
4361 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00004362
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00004363- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
4364 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
4365 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
4366 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00004367
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004368- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
4369
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004370- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
4371 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
4372 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
4373 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004374
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00004375- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
4376 Patch by Tres Seaver.
4377
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00004378- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004379 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00004380
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00004381- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
4382
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004383- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
4384 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00004385
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004386- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
4387 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
4388 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
4389 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
4390 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00004391
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004392- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004393 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
4394 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004395
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00004396- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
4397 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
4398
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004399- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
4400 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00004401
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00004402- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00004403 webbrowser.get("safari").
4404
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004405- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
4406 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00004407
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004408- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
4409 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00004410
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00004411- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
4412
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00004413- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
4414 It should correctly return an empty response now.
4415
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00004416- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
4417
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00004418- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
4419 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
4420
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00004421- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
4422 and mappings.
4423
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004424- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
4425 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
4426 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
4427 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00004428
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004429- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
4430 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
4431 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00004432
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004433- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
4434 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
4435
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004436- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
4437 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004438
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004439- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
4440 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00004441
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004442- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
4443 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004444 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004445
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004446- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00004447
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004448- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
4449 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
4450 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00004451
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004452- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
4453 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00004454 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
4455 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
4456
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00004457- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
4458 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4459
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00004460- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
4461 collation name contains a surrogate character.
4462
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004463- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
4464 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
4465 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00004466
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00004467- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
4468
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004469- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00004470
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00004471- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
4472 from PORT/EPRT commands.
4473
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00004474- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
4475
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004476- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
4477 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00004478
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004479- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
4480 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00004481
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00004482- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
4483 surrogates.
4484
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004485- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00004486 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004487
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00004488- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
4489 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
4490
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00004491- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
4492 the current working directory.
4493
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004494- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004495 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004496
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004497- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00004498
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00004499- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
4500 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
4501
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00004502- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
4503
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004504- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004505 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004506 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004507
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004508- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
4509 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004510 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004511
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004512- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004513 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
4514 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004515
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004516- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004517 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
4518 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004519
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00004520- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
4521 present before it cleans them.
4522
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004523- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
4524 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00004525
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004526- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004527 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
4528 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004529
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00004530- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
4531
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004532- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
4533 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00004534
4535 >>> Decimal(1.1)
4536 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
4537
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004538- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
4539 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00004540
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004541- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
4542 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
4543 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
4544 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004545
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004546- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
4547 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
4548 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
4549 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
4550 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004551
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00004552- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
4553
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004554- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004555 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
4556 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
4557 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004558
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004559- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
4560 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004561 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004562
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004563- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
4564 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
4565 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
4566 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00004567
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004568- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
4569 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
4570 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00004571
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00004572- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
4573 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
4574
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004575- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004576 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
4577 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004578
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004579- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
4580 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00004581
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00004582- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
4583 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
4584 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00004585
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00004586- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
4587 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
4588 (utf8) encoding.
4589
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00004590- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
4591
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00004592- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
4593
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00004594- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
4595
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00004596- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
4597 detected.
4598
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00004599- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
4600
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00004601- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
4602 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
4603
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004604- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00004605
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004606- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
4607 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00004608
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004609- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
4610 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
4611 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00004612
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004613- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
4614 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
4615 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
4616 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00004617
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00004618- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
4619 cElementTree module is updated too.
4620
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004621- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004622 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
4623 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004624
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00004625- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
4626
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004627- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
4628 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00004629
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00004630- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
4631 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4632
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00004633- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
4634 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00004635
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00004636- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
4637 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
4638
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00004639- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
4640 class.
4641
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00004642- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
4643 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
4644
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00004645- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
4646
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00004647- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
4648 writing.
4649
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00004650- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
4651
4652- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
4653
4654- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4655
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00004656- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
4657
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004658- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
4659 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00004660
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00004661- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
4662
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004663- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
4664 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00004665
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004666- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
4667 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00004668
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00004669- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
4670
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00004671- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
4672 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
4673
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00004674- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
4675 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
4676
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004677- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
4678 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
4679 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
4680 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00004681
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00004682- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4683 interpreter shutdown.
4684
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004685- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
4686 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
4687 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
4688 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00004689
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004690- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
4691 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
4692 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00004693
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004694- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
4695 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00004696
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004697- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
4698 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004699 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
4700 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004701
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004702- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
4703 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4704 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00004705 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4706
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004707- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004708 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
4709 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
4710 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
4711 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
4712 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004713
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004714- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004715 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4716 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004717
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00004718- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4719
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00004720- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00004721
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00004722- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
4723
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00004724- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
4725 the release file is empty.
4726
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00004727- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
4728 module.
4729
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004730- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
4731 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
4732 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00004733
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004734- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
4735 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00004736
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004737- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
4738 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00004739
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004740- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4741 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00004742
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004743- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4744 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00004745
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00004746- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
4747
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00004748- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
4749 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
4750 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
4751
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004752- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4753 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00004754
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004755- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
4756 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00004757
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004758- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4759 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00004760
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004761- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004762 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4763 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004764
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004765- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4766 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
4767 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00004768
4769- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00004770 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4771
4772- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
4773
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004774- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
4775 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00004776
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004777- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
4778 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
4779 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00004780
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004781- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4782 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4783 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00004784
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00004785- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4786 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
4787
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004788- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
4789 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
4790 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00004791
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00004792- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4793 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4794 the same as passing no argument.
4795
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004796- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00004797
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004798- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
4799 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00004800
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00004801- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00004802
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00004803- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4804
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004805- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4806 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00004807
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004808- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00004809 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
4810
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004811- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
4812 TLS with authentication credentials.
4813
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004814- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4815 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00004816
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00004817- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4818 msvc9compiler.
4819
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004820- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004821 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4822 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004823
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00004824- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4825 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4826 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4827
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004828- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004829 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
4830 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004831
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004832- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4833 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00004834
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004835- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4836
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00004837- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
4838 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
4839 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4840
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004841- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
4842 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4843 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00004844
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00004845- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4846
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004847- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00004848
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00004849- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4850 raises ReadError on empty files.
4851
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004852- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00004853
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00004854- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
4855 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00004856
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004857- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4858 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00004859
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00004860- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
4861 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
4862
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004863- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4864 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00004865
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004866- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00004867
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004868- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4869 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00004870
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004871- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4872 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4873 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
4874 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00004875 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4876
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004877- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4878 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4879 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00004880
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004881- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004882 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004883 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4884
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004885- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
4886 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
4887 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004888
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004889- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004890 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
4891
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004892- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004893 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
4894 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
4895 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004896
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004897- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4898 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00004899 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
4900
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00004901- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
4902 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
4903
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00004904- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4905 which are part of a reference cycle.
4906
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00004907- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
4908 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
4909
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004910- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
4911 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
4912 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00004913
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004914- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4915 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4916 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4917 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00004918
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004919- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4920 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4921 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4922 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00004923
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00004924- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4925 header as required by RFC 1952.
4926
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00004927- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4928 Distutils.
4929
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00004930- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4931 an uppercase.
4932
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00004933- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
4934 several threads at once.
4935
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004936- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4937
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00004938- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4939 larger than emax.
4940
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00004941- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
4942 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
4943
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004944- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4945 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00004946
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004947- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00004948
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004949- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4950 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004951
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004952- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4953 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00004954
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00004955- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
4956 builtin tokenizer.
4957
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004958- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4959 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00004960
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004961- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
4962 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00004963
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004964- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4965 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00004966
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004967- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
4968 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00004969
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00004970- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
4971
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00004972- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4973
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00004974- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4975
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00004976- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
4977
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004978- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00004979
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004980- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4981 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4982 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00004983
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004984- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4985 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00004986
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00004987- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
4988
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004989- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4990 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4991 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4992 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00004993
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00004994- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
4995 should be raised, not AttributeError.
4996
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00004997- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
4998 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
4999
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00005000- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005001 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00005002
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00005003- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
5004
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00005005- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
5006
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00005007- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
5008
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00005009- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
5010 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
5011
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00005012- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
5013
5014- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
5015
5016- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
5017
5018- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
5019 ScrolledText.
5020
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00005021- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
5022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005023- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
5024 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00005025
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00005026- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
5027 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
5028 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
5029 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
5030
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005031- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
5032 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00005033
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00005034- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
5035
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005036- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
5037 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
5038 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00005039
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00005040- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
5041 DO/DONT correctly.
5042
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00005043- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005044 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
5045 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00005046
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00005047- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005048 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
5049 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
5050 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00005051
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00005052- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
5053 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
5054 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
5055
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005056- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
5057 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
5058 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00005059
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00005060- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00005061
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005062- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
5063 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00005064
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005065- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
5066 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00005067
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00005068- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
5069 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
5070
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00005071- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
5072
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00005073- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
5074
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00005075- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
5076
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005077- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
5078 sys.path.
5079
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00005080- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
5081
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005082- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
5083 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00005084
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00005085- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
5086 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
5087
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005088- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
5089 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00005090
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00005091- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
5092
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00005093- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
5094
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005095- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
5096 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00005097
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00005098- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
5099 for tracing methods.
5100
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005101Extension Modules
5102-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005103
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00005104- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
5105 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
5106
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00005107- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
5108
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00005109- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005110 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
5111 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
5112 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
5113 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00005114
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00005115- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
5116
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005117- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
5118 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
5119 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00005120
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005121- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
5122 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00005123
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005124- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
5125 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00005126
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005127- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
5128 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00005129
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00005130- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
5131 object in the '?' format.
5132
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00005133- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
5134
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00005135- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
5136 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00005137
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005138- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
5139 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
5140 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
5141 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00005142
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005143- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
5144 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
5145 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
5146 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
5147 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
5148 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00005149
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00005150- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005151 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
5152 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
5153 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
5154 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
5155 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00005156
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005157- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
5158 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00005159
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00005160- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00005161 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00005162 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00005163
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005164- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
5165 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
5166 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00005167
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005168- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
5169 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00005170
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005171- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
5172 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
5173 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
5174 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
5175 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00005176
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00005177- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
5178 overflow checks in the audioop module.
5179
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00005180- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
5181 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005182 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
5183 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00005184
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005185- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
5186 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
5187 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00005188
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00005189- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
5190
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00005191- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
5192 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
5193 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
5194 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
5195
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00005196- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
5197
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00005198- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
5199
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005200- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00005201 handling.
5202
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00005203- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
5204 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
5205
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00005206- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5207
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00005208- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5209
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00005210- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005211
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005212- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
5213 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005214
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00005215- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5216
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00005217- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
5218
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005219- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5220 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5221 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00005222
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005223- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
5224 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005225
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00005226- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5227
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00005228- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
5229 (CVE_2009_3560).
5230
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005231- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
5232 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
5233 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00005234
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00005235- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
5236 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
5237
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00005238- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
5239
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005240- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
5241 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00005242
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005243- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00005244
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005245Build
5246-----
5247
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00005248- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
5249
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00005250- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
5251
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005252- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
5253 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
5254 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
5255 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
5256 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00005257
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00005258- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
5259
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00005260- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
5261 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00005262
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005263- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
5264 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
5265 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
5266 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00005267
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005268- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
5269 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00005270
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00005271- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
5272
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00005273- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
5274 give false warnings.
5275
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005276- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
5277 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
5278 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00005279
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005280- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
5281 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00005282
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00005283- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00005284
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005285- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
5286 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
5287 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00005288
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00005289- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
5290
5291- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
5292 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
5293
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00005294- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
5295 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
5296 Python.
5297
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00005298- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
5299 found.
5300
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00005301- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00005302
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00005303- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
5304 icc or suncc.
5305
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005306- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5307 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5308 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00005309
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005310- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00005311
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00005312- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5313
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005314- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00005315 directories.
5316
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005317- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005318 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005319
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005320- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005321 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00005322
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00005323- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
5324
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00005325- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
5326
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00005327- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
5328
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00005329Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005330-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005331
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00005332- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
5333 to Doc/license.rst.
5334
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00005335- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
5336 with os.kill.
5337
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005338- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00005339 only.
5340
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005341- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00005342 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
5343
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005344- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
5345 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00005346
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00005347- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
5348 ImportError.
5349
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005350- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5351 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005352
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00005353- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
5354 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005355
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00005356- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
5357 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
5358
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005359Tests
5360-----
5361
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005362- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
5363 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00005364
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00005365- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
5366
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005367- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00005368
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005369- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
5370 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
5371 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00005372
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00005373- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005374 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00005375
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00005376- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
5377 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
5378
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00005379- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
5380 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
5381
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005382- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
5383 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00005384
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005385- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
5386 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00005387
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005388- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
5389 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00005390
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00005391- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
5392
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00005393- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
5394
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00005395- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
5396 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
5397
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00005398- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
5399 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00005400
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005401- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
5402 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005403
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00005404- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
5405 effectively raised.
5406
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005407- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
5408 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00005409
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005410- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
5411 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00005412
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00005413- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
5414 filesystem encoding.
5415
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005416- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
5417 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00005418
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005419- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
5420 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
5421 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
5422 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00005423
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005424- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
5425 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
5426 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00005427
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005428- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
5429 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00005430
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005431- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00005432 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
5433
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00005434- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
5435
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00005436- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00005437 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
5438
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005439- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5440 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5441 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00005442
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005443- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5444 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00005445
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005446- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5447 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00005448
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005449- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
5450 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
5451 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
5452 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00005453
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00005454- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5455
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00005456- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5457 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5458
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00005459- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
5460 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
5461 between concurrent executions on the same system.
5462
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00005463- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
5464 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
5465 calling methods on the object.
5466
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005467- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005468 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5469 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5470 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005471 :func:`_thread._count()`.
5472
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005473- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5474 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00005475
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00005476- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5477 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5478
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00005479- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005480 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
5481 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00005482
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00005483- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5484
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005485- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
5486 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
5487 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00005488
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005489- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005490 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005491
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005492Tools/Demos
5493-----------
5494
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00005495- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00005496
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005497- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005498 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005499
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00005500
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005501What's New in Python 3.1?
5502=========================
5503
5504*Release date: 27-June-2009*
5505
5506Core and Builtins
5507-----------------
5508
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00005509- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
5510 large arguments.
5511
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00005512- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
5513 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
5514
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005515Library
5516-------
5517
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00005518- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
5519
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005520- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005521
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00005522- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
5523
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00005524- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
5525 io.UnsupportedOperation.
5526
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005527- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00005528 (On Unix)
5529
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00005530- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
5531 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
5532
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00005533Extension Modules
5534-----------------
5535
5536- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
5537
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005538
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00005539What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
5540=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005541
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00005542*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005543
5544Core and Builtins
5545-----------------
5546
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00005547- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
5548
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00005549- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
5550 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
5551
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00005552- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
5553 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
5554
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005555- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00005556 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005557
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005558Library
5559-------
5560
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005561- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005562 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005563 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
5564
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00005565- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5566
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00005567- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
5568 binary files.
5569
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005570- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
5571 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5572
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00005573- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
5574 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
5575 are always None now.
5576
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00005577- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
5578 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
5579 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
5580 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
5581
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00005582- Removed the ipaddr module.
5583
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00005584- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
5585 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
5586 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
5587
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00005588- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
5589
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00005590- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
5591
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00005592- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
5593 parameters.
5594
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005595Windows
5596-------
5597
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00005598- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
5599
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005600- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
5601
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00005602C-API
5603-----
5604
5605- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
5606 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
5607 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
5608
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005609
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005610Build
5611-----
5612
5613- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
5614 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
5615
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00005616- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
5617 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
5618
5619
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005620
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00005621What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
5622=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005623
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00005624*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005625
5626Core and Builtins
5627-----------------
5628
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00005629- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
5630 of the command line.
5631
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00005632- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
5633
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00005634- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
5635 that would raise SystemError.
5636
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00005637- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
5638 function with __func__.
5639
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00005640- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
5641 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00005642
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00005643- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
5644 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
5645 and imaginary literals.
5646
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00005647- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
5648
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00005649- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
5650
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00005651- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
5652 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
5653 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
5654 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
5655 didn't match that of float('-nan').
5656
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005657Library
5658-------
5659
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00005660- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
5661
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00005662- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
5663
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00005664- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
5665 argument to the 'help' function.
5666
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00005667- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
5668 arguments for strings with a space in them.
5669
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00005670- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
5671 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
5672
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00005673- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5674 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5675
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00005676- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
5677 the directory already exists.
5678
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00005679- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5680 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5681 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5682
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00005683- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
5684 IO objects.
5685
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00005686- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
5687 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
5688
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00005689- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
5690 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
5691 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
5692
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00005693- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5694 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5695
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00005696- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5697 deepcopy()ing.
5698
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00005699- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5700
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00005701- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5702
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00005703- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5704
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00005705- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
5706 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
5707 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
5708 empty.
5709
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00005710- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5711 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
5712 corrects a pydoc regression.
5713
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005714- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00005715 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
5716
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00005717Installation
5718------------
5719
5720- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
5721 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005722
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00005723- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
5724
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005725Extension Modules
5726-----------------
5727
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00005728- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00005729
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00005730- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5731
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005732- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
5733
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00005734- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
5735 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00005736
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00005737Build
5738-----
5739
5740- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
5741 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
5742 Clinton Roy.
5743
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005744Tests
5745-----
5746
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005747- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005748 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
5749 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
5750 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
5751
5752
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005753What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
5754================================
5755
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00005756*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005757
5758Core and Builtins
5759-----------------
5760
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00005761- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
5762 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
5763
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005764- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
5765 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
5766 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
5767
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00005768- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
5769 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
5770 a PendingDeprecation warning.
5771
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00005772- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
5773 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
5774 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
5775 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
5776 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
5777 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
5778 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
5779 the same way.
5780
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00005781- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
5782
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00005783- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
5784 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
5785 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
5786
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00005787- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
5788 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
5789
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00005790- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00005791
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00005792- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
5793 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
5794 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
5795
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00005796- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
5797 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
5798 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
5799 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00005800
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005801- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00005802 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
5803
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00005804- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
5805 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
5806
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00005807- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
5808 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
5809
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00005810- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
5811
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00005812- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
5813 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
5814
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00005815- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
5816
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00005817- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
5818 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
5819
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00005820- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00005821
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00005822- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
5823 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
5824 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
5825 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
5826
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00005827- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
5828 some builtin types.
5829
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005830- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
5831
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00005832- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
5833 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005834
5835- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5836 floats.
5837
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005838- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005839 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
5840 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
5841 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
5842 long time.)
5843
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005844- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
5845 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
5846 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
5847 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005848 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
5849 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
5850 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005851
5852 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
5853 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
5854 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
5855 reason or another.
5856
5857 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
5858 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
5859 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
5860 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
5861 correctly rounded on these platforms.
5862
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005863 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005864 this change does not apply.
5865
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00005866- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
5867
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00005868- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
5869 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
5870 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
5871 methods available on the str class.
5872
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00005873- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
5874 its clarity and its speed.
5875
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005876- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00005877 to avoid compiler warnings.
5878
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00005879- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
5880 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
5881
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00005882Installation
5883------------
5884
5885- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
5886
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005887Library
5888-------
5889
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00005890- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
5891
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00005892- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
5893 specific Python version.
5894
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00005895- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
5896 whitespace.
5897
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005898- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00005899 the right type checkings anymore.
5900
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00005901- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
5902 return directories.
5903
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00005904- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5905
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00005906- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5907 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5908
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00005909- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
5910 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
5911
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00005912- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
5913 extracting a file to the root directory.
5914
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00005915- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
5916
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00005917- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5918 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
5919 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
5920
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00005921- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
5922
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00005923- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5924 Contributed by Google.
5925
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00005926- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5927 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5928
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00005929- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
5930
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00005931- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5932
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00005933- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
5934 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
5935 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5936
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00005937- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
5938 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5939 initialized before.
5940
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005941- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5942 names which should not be exported.
5943
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00005944- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
5945 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
5946
5947- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5948
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00005949- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
5950 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
5951 instances.
5952
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00005953- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
5954 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
5955 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
5956
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00005957- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
5958 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
5959
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00005960- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
5961 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
5962 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
5963 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
5964 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
5965
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00005966- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
5967 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
5968
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00005969- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5970 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5971 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5972
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005973Extension Modules
5974-----------------
5975
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00005976- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
5977 pwd.
5978
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00005979- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
5980 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
5981 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
5982 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
5983
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00005984- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
5985 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005986
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00005987Tests
5988-----
5989
5990- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
5991 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
5992 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
5993 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
5994 can be adjusted to use it over time.
5995
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00005996- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5997 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5998 incorrectly on __exit__.
5999
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00006000C-API
6001-----
6002
6003- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
6004
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00006005
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006006What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
6007=================================
6008
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00006009*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006010
6011Core and Builtins
6012-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00006013
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00006014- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
6015 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006016
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00006017- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
6018
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00006019- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
6020 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
6021
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00006022- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
6023 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
6024
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00006025- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
6026
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00006027- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
6028 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
6029
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00006030- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
6031 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
6032 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
6033
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00006034- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
6035
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00006036- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
6037 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
6038
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00006039- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
6040 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
6041 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
6042 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
6043
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00006044- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
6045 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
6046 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
6047
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00006048- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
6049 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
6050 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
6051 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
6052 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
6053 the internal format.
6054
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00006055- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
6056 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
6057 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
6058
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00006059- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
6060 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
6061
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00006062- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
6063 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
6064
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00006065- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
6066 short file names.
6067
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006068Library
6069-------
6070
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006071- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00006072 mailbox.MH.get_message().
6073
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00006074- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
6075 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
6076 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
6077
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00006078- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
6079 the -T argument.
6080
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00006081- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
6082
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00006083- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
6084
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00006085- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
6086
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00006087- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
6088 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
6089
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00006090- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
6091
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00006092- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
6093
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00006094- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
6095 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
6096
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00006097- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
6098 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
6099
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00006100- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
6101 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
6102 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
6103
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00006104- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
6105
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00006106- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
6107 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
6108
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00006109- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
6110 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
6111
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00006112- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
6113 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
6114 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
6115 partial bzip2 compressed data.
6116
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00006117- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
6118 specifier to Decimal.__format__
6119
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00006120- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
6121 '>' alignment characters.
6122
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00006123- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
6124 value, and report it as -1 instead.
6125
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00006126- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
6127 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
6128
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006129Extension Modules
6130-----------------
6131
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00006132- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
6133
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006134- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
6135 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00006136 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
6137 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
6138 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006139
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006140
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00006141What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00006142================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006143
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00006144*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006145
6146Core and Builtins
6147-----------------
6148
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00006149- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
6150
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00006151- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
6152
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00006153- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
6154 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
6155
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00006156- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
6157 contained non ascii character on windows.
6158
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00006159- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
6160 source has already been decoded into str.
6161
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00006162- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
6163 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
6164
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00006165- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
6166 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
6167
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00006168- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
6169 returns a non-number type.
6170
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00006171- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
6172
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00006173- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
6174 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00006175 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
6176 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00006177
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006178- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00006179 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
6180
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00006181- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
6182 Previously it returned a float.
6183
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00006184- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
6185 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
6186 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
6187 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
6188
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00006189- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
6190
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00006191- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
6192 from a string.
6193
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00006194- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
6195
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00006196- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
6197 optional module state data.
6198
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006199- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006200 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006201
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00006202- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
6203 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
6204 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
6205
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00006206- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
6207 __next__ method.
6208
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00006209- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
6210 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
6211 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
6212
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00006213- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
6214
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00006215- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
6216
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00006217- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
6218 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
6219 amount of loop unrolling.
6220
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00006221- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
6222 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
6223 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
6224 Martin von Löwis at
6225 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
6226
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006227- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00006228 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
6229 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
6230
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00006231- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
6232 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
6233 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
6234 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
6235
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00006236- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
6237 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
6238 Python's overall memory).
6239
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00006240- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
6241 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
6242 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
6243 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
6244 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
6245
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00006246- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
6247 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
6248 items, rather than the size in bytes.
6249
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006250- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
6251
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00006252- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
6253 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
6254
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006255- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
6256 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00006257
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00006258- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
6259 did not get collected.
6260
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00006261- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
6262 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
6263
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00006264- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
6265 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
6266
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00006267- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
6268 fail.
6269
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00006270- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
6271
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00006272- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
6273 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
6274
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00006275- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
6276 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
6277 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
6278
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00006279- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
6280
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00006281- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
6282 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
6283 failures on OS X.
6284
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00006285- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
6286 exceptions.
6287
6288- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00006289 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
6290
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00006291- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
6292 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
6293 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
6294 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
6295
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00006296- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
6297 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
6298 Python 2.x.
6299
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00006300- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
6301 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
6302
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006303- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
6304 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
6305 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
6306 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00006307
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00006308- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
6309 larger than 1.
6310
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00006311- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
6312
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00006313- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
6314
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00006315- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
6316 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
6317 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
6318 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
6319
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006320Library
6321-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006322
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00006323- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
6324 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
6325
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00006326- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00006327 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
6328
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00006329- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00006330 Distutils.
6331
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00006332- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
6333
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00006334- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
6335 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
6336 Michael Haubenwallner.
6337
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00006338- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
6339
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00006340- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
6341 opening an empty or very small file.
6342
6343- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00006344 behavior is similar when used with -O.
6345
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00006346- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
6347
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00006348- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
6349 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
6350 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
6351 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
6352
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006353- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
6354
6355- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
6356
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00006357- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006358 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
6359
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006360- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00006361
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006362- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00006363 attribute.
6364
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00006365- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
6366
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00006367- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
6368
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006369- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
6370 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
6371 descriptor errors
6372
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006373- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00006374 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
6375
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006376- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00006377 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
6378
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00006379- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
6380 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
6381
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00006382- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
6383
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00006384- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
6385
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00006386- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
6387 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
6388 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6389
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00006390- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
6391 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6392
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00006393- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
6394
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006395- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00006396 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
6397
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00006398- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6399
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00006400- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
6401 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
6402
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006403- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00006404 subcommand.
6405
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00006406- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
6407 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
6408
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00006409- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
6410 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
6411
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00006412- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
6413 for old-style extensions.
6414
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00006415- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
6416
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00006417- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
6418 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
6419 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
6420 Cournapeau.
6421
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00006422- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
6423
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006424- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00006425 anymore.
6426
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006427- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00006428 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
6429
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00006430- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
6431
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00006432- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
6433
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00006434- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
6435
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00006436- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
6437 a value in SafeConfigParser.
6438
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00006439- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
6440
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006441- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00006442 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
6443
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00006444- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
6445 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
6446
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00006447- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
6448 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
6449
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006450- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00006451
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006452- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00006453
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00006454- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
6455 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
6456 threads.
6457
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00006458- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
6459 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
6460 that it was failing to do localization.
6461
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00006462- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
6463 Brandl.
6464
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00006465- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
6466 character.
6467
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00006468- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
6469 Tim Golden.
6470
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00006471- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
6472
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00006473- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
6474 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
6475 window flashing.
6476
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00006477- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
6478 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
6479 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
6480
6481- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
6482
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00006483- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
6484 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
6485
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00006486- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
6487
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00006488- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
6489
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00006490- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
6491
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00006492- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
6493
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00006494- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
6495
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00006496- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
6497
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00006498- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
6499 import guess_extension`` was used.
6500
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00006501- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
6502 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
6503
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00006504- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
6505 overrun.
6506
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006507- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00006508 bdist_rpm command.
6509
6510- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
6511
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006512- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
6513
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00006514- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
6515 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006516
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006517- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
6518 IronPython.
6519
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00006520- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
6521 The file was resized to wrong size.
6522
6523- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
6524
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006525- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00006526 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
6527
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006528- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00006529 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
6530
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00006531- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
6532 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
6533
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00006534- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
6535
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00006536- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
6537 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
6538 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
6539
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00006540- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
6541 encoding.
6542
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00006543- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
6544 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
6545
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00006546- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
6547 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
6548
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00006549- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
6550 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
6551 ctime of the files involved.
6552
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00006553- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
6554 deadlock.
6555
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00006556- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
6557 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
6558 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
6559
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00006560- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
6561
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00006562- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
6563 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
6564
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00006565- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
6566 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
6567 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
6568 Vajda.
6569
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00006570- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
6571 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
6572 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
6573 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
6574
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00006575- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
6576 Ross Light.
6577
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006578- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00006579 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
6580
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00006581- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
6582 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
6583
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006584- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00006585 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
6586
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00006587- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
6588
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00006589- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
6590
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00006591- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
6592 items being passed through ord().
6593
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00006594- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
6595 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
6596 "src.new").
6597
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00006598- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
6599
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00006600- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
6601 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
6602 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
6603
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006604- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00006605 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
6606
6607- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
6608 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
6609
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00006610- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
6611 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
6612
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00006613- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
6614
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00006615- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
6616 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00006617
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006618- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00006619 allowed non-integer arguments.
6620
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00006621- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
6622 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
6623 examples.
6624
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00006625- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
6626 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
6627
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00006628- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
6629 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
6630
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00006631- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
6632 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
6633
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006634- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00006635 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
6636 be disabled, and not compiled.
6637
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00006638- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
6639 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
6640 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
6641 traditional 2.x file object.
6642
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006643- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
6644 parameter was set.
6645
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00006646- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
6647 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
6648
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00006649- Add the importlib package.
6650
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00006651- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6652 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6653
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00006654- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006655 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00006656
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00006657- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
6658 without defaults.
6659
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006660- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
6661 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00006662 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
6663
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00006664- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
6665 in sharedctypes.py.
6666
6667- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
6668 __getattr__.
6669
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00006670- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
6671 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
6672 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
6673
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00006674- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
6675 counting.
6676
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00006677- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
6678
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00006679- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
6680 function without defining argtypes.
6681
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00006682- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
6683 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
6684 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
6685 Jacques Frechet.
6686
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00006687- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
6688
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00006689- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
6690 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
6691
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006692- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
6693 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00006694 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
6695
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00006696- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
6697 to the decimal module.
6698
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006699- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
6700 cast as floats.
6701
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00006702- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
6703 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
6704
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006705- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006706 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
6707
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006708- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
6709 the function is not a generator.
6710
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006711- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
6712 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00006713
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006714- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00006715 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
6716
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00006717- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
6718
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00006719- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
6720
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00006721- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
6722 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
6723
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00006724- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
6725 works as expected in the interactive environment.
6726
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00006727- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
6728 Gabriel Genellina.
6729
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00006730- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
6731 boundary.
6732
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00006733- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
6734 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
6735 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
6736
6737- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
6738 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
6739 Alexander Belopolsky.
6740
6741- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
6742 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
6743 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
6744 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
6745 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
6746 Alexander Belopolsky.
6747
6748- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
6749 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
6750 Alexander Belopolsky.
6751
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00006752- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
6753 a non-ASCII letter.
6754
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00006755- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
6756
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00006757- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
6758 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
6759
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00006760- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
6761 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
6762 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
6763
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00006764- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
6765 libs.
6766
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006767- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
6768 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6769
6770- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6771 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6772 Content-Disposition headers.
6773
6774- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
6775 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
6776 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
6777 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
6778 doesn't configure logging.
6779
6780- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
6781 exception.
6782
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00006783- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
6784 statements.
6785
6786- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
6787 not a malformed option.
6788
6789- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
6790 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6791
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00006792- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
6793 the corresponding tests now pass.
6794
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00006795- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
6796 it was calling the wrong open() function.
6797
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00006798- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6799 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6800 Content-Disposition headers.
6801
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00006802- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
6803 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
6804
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00006805- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
6806 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
6807 and getservbyport().
6808
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00006809- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
6810
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006811Tools/Demos
6812-----------
6813
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00006814- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
6815 and make it 2.6-compatible.
6816
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00006817- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
6818
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006819- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
6820
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006821
6822Build
6823-----
6824
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00006825- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
6826
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00006827- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
6828
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00006829- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
6830 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6831
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006832- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006833 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006834
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00006835- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
6836
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00006837- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
6838
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00006839- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
6840
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00006841- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
6842
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006843- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
6844
6845- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
6846
6847- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
6848
6849- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
6850
6851- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
6852
6853- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
6854
6855- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
6856
6857- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
6858
6859- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
6860
6861- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
6862
6863
6864C-API
6865-----
6866
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00006867- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
6868 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
6869
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00006870- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
6871 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
6872
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006873- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6874
6875- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
6876 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
6877
6878- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6879 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
6880
6881
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006882Extension Modules
6883-----------------
6884
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00006885- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6886 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
6887 implementations or external openssl library).
6888
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00006889- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
6890
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00006891- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6892
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00006893- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
6894 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
6895 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
6896
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006897- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6898
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00006899- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
6900 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
6901 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
6902
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006903- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6904
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00006905- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6906
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006907- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6908 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00006909
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00006910- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
6911 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
6912 buffer.
6913
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00006914
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00006915- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6916
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006917Tests
6918-----
6919
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00006920- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6921 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6922
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00006923- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6924 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
6925 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
6926 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
6927
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006928- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006929 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006930 from test support, which does the conversion.
6931
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006932- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6933
6934
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00006935Docs
6936----
6937
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00006938
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +03006939**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**