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Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00005What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
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8*Release date: XX-Oct-2010*
9
10Core and Builtins
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12
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +000013- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
14 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
15 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
16
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +000017- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
18 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
19 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
20
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +000021- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on
22 a non-ASCII byte in the format string.
23
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +000024- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
25 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
26 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
27
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +000028- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as
29 a single ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable
30 or not. Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate
31 pairs into a single character on UCS-2 builds.
32
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +000033- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
34 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
35 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
36
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +000037- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
38 thread-local storage key.
39
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +000040Library
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Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +000043- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
44 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
45
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +000046- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
47 values: d['x'] = d.
48
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +000049- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
50 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries
51 which become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Py3.1
52 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
53 in the first place.
54
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +000055- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
56 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Victor Stinner6f7b7832010-09-10 23:50:31 +000057 utf-8 in strict mode). Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +000058
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +000059- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use
60 PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at
61 Python startup. sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because
62 it is unable to reencode all filenames in all objects.
63
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +000064- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to
65 speedups up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from
66 Unladen Swallow; initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
67
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +000068- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given
69 order (formerly, it would sort the keys).
70
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +000071- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
72 multiprocessing.
73
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +000074- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which
75 is friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally
76 visible since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used
77 instead.
78
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +000079- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
80 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
81 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
82
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +000083- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
84 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
85 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
86 original error is re-raised.
87
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +000088- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
89 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
90 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
91
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +000092- Updates to the random module:
93
94 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same
95 across versions and which parts are subject to change.
96
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +000097 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +000098 instead of just the hash value. This makes better use of the
99 seed value and assures the seeding is platform independent.
100 Issue #7889.
101
102 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(),
103 shuffle(), sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it
104 used int(n*random()) which has a slight bias whenever n is not
105 a power of two. Issue #9025.
106
107 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +0000108
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +0000109- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning
110 keys to either end.
111
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +0000112- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest
113 test cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to
114 check that a given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
115
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +0000116- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a
117 view of their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable
118 and writable.
119
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +0000120- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
121
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +0000122- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
123 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open
124 only for reading).
125
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +0000126- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
127 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
128 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
129 algorithms available in the current process.
130
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +0000131C-API
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133
134- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
135 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
136 defined.
137
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +0000138Tools/Demos
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140
141- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
142 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
143 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
144
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +0000145Tests
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147
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +0000148- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
149
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +0000150- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
151 case when running profile or trace, for example.
152
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +0000153Build
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Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +0000156- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
157 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
158 defined by PEP 3149.
159
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +0000160- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
161 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
162
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +0000163- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
164 Sablé.
165
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +0000166
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +0000167What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
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169
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +0000170*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +0000171
172Core and Builtins
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174
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000175- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
176 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
177 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +0000178
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +0000179- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
180 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
181
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000182- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
183 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +0000184
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000185- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
186 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +0000187
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000188- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
189 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
190 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +0000191
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +0000192- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
193 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
194
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000195- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
196 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +0000197
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +0000198- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
199
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +0000200- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
201
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000202- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
203 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +0000204
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000205- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
206 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +0000207
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +0000208- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
209 filesystem encoding.
210
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +0000211- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
212 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
213 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
214 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
215 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
216
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +0000217- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
218 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
219 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
220 function.
221
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +0000222- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
223
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +0000224- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
225
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000226- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
227 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +0000228
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000229- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
230 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +0000231 sys.stderr.
232
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +0000233- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000234 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
235 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +0000236
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000237- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
238 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
239 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +0000240
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000241- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
242 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +0000243
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000244- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
245 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +0000246
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000247- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +0000248
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000249- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
250 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +0000251
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000252- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
253 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +0000254
255 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
256 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
257
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +0000258Extensions
259----------
260
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +0000261- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
262 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
263
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000264- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
265 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +0000266
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000267- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
268 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
269 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +0000270
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000271- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
272 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
273 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +0000274
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000275- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
276 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +0000277
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +0000278- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
279 Matthew Ahrens.
280
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000281- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
282 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +0000283
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000284- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
285 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +0000286
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +0000287- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
288
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000289- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
290 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +0000291
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000292- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
293 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +0000294
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +0000295- Issue #477863: Print a warning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
296
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +0000297- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
298
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000299- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
300 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +0000301
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000302- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
303 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +0000304
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000305- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
306 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +0000307
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000308- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
309 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +0000310
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +0000311- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
312
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000313- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
314 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +0000315
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +0000316- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
317 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
318
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +0000319- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
320
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000321- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
322 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +0000323
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +0000324Library
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326
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000327- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
328 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
329 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +0000330
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000331- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
332 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +0000333
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000334- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +0000335
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000336- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
337 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +0000338
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +0000339- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
340 ConfigParser.write.
341
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +0000342- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
343 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000344 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
345 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +0000346
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000347- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
348 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +0000349
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000350- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +0000351 circumstances.
352
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000353- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
354 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +0000355
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000356- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
357 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +0000358
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +0000359- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
360 falling into recursion.
361
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +0000362- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
363 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
364
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +0000365- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
366 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +0000367
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000368- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
369 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +0000370
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +0000371- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000372 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
373 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +0000374
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +0000375- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +0000376 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +0000377
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +0000378- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
379
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000380- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +0000381
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000382- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
383 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +0000384
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +0000385- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
386 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
387
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +0000388- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
389
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000390- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
391 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +0000392
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000393- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
394 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +0000395
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000396- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
397 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +0000398 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
399 structure.
400
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +0000401- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
402 single keyword arguments.
403
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000404- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
405 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +0000406
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000407- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
408 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +0000409
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +0000410- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000411 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +0000412
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000413- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
414 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +0000415
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +0000416- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
417
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +0000418- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
419 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
420
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +0000421- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
422 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
423
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +0000424- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000425 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
426 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +0000427
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000428- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
429 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +0000430
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000431- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
432 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
433 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +0000434
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000435- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
436 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
437 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +0000438
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000439- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
440 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
441 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
442 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +0000443
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +0000444- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000445 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
446 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +0000447
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +0000448- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +0000449 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
450
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000451- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
452 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +0000453
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +0000454- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
455 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
456
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000457- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
458 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
459 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +0000460
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +0000461- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +0000462 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
463 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +0000464
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000465- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
466 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
467 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +0000468
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +0000469- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
470
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000471- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
472 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +0000473
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000474- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
475 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +0000476
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000477- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
478 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
479 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +0000480
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000481- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
482 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +0000483
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000484- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
485 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +0000486
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000487- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
488 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +0000489
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000490- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
491 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +0000492
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000493- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
494 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +0000495
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000496- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
497 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +0000498
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +0000499- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
500 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
501
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +0000502- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
503 across devices.
504
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +0000505- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
506
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +0000507- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
508
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +0000509- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
510
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +0000511- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
512
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000513- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final newline,
514 it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +0000515
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +0000516- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
517
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +0000518- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
519 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
520
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000521- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
522 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +0000523
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000524- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
525 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +0000526
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +0000527- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
528
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +0000529- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +0000530
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +0000531Tools/Demos
532-----------
533
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +0000534- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
535
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +0000536- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
537 non-ASCII content.
538
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +0000539Tests
540-----
541
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +0000542- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
543
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +0000544- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
545
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +0000546- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
547
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +0000548- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
549
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +0000550- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
551 Michele Orrù.
552
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +0000553- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
554
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +0000555Build
556-----
557
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +0000558- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
559
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +0000560- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
561
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +0000562- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
563 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +0000564
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +0000565- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
566 Sébastien Sablé.
567
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +0000568- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
569
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +0000570
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000571What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
572=================================
573
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000574*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000575
576Core and Builtins
577-----------------
578
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +0000579- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
580
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +0000581- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
582 compiler.
583
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +0000584- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
585
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +0000586- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000587 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
588 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
589 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
590 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
591 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
592 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +0000593
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000594- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
595 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +0000596
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +0000597- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
598
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +0000599- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
600 objects, as described in the documentation.
601
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +0000602- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000603 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +0000604 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +0000605
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000606- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
607 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
608 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +0000609
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +0000610- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000611 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +0000612 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000613 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +0000614
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +0000615- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
616 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
617
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +0000618- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000619 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +0000620 string formats.
621
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000622- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +0000623 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
624 location of the raised exception.
625
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +0000626- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
627 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
628
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +0000629- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
630
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000631- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
632 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
633 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +0000634
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000635- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
636 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
637 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
638 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +0000639
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +0000640- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
641 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
642 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
643
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000644- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
645 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +0000646
647- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000648 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +0000649 like bytearray.
650
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000651- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +0000652 used anymore and it was never documented.
653
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000654- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +0000655
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000656- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
657 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +0000658
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000659- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
660 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
661 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
662 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +0000663
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +0000664- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
665 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000666 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
667 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
668 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
669 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +0000670
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +0000671- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
672 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
673
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +0000674- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +0000675 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000676 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +0000677
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000678- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
679 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +0000680
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +0000681- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
682 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000683 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +0000684 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +0000685
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +0000686- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000687 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +0000688
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +0000689- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000690 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +0000691 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
692
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +0000693- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000694 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
695 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +0000696
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +0000697- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
698
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000699- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +0000700
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +0000701- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
702 arguments.
703
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +0000704- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000705 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
706 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +0000707
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +0000708- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000709 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +0000710
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000711- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
712 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +0000713
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +0000714- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000715 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
716 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
717 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +0000718
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +0000719- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
720 passed to bytes or bytearray.
721
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +0000722- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
723
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +0000724- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
725 changed.
726
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000727- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
728 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
729 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +0000730
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +0000731- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
732
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +0000733- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
734
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +0000735- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
736
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000737- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
738 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +0000739
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +0000740- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000741 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +0000742
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000743- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +0000744
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +0000745- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000746 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +0000747
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +0000748- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
749 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
750 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
751 comparisons with complex.
752
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +0000753- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
754 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000755 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +0000756
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +0000757- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
758
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000759- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
760 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +0000761
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000762- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
763 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +0000764
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +0000765- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
766
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000767- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
768 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +0000769
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +0000770- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000771 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +0000772
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000773- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
774 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +0000775
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000776- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
777 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +0000778
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +0000779- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000780 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
781 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +0000782
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000783- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
784 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +0000785
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000786- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
787 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +0000788
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000789- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
790 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
791 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
792 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +0000793
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000794- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
795 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
796 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +0000797
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +0000798- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000799 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
800 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
801 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
802 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
803 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +0000804
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000805- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
806 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
807 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +0000808
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000809- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
810 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
811 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
812 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
813 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
814 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +0000815
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +0000816- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
817 consistent with other special methods.
818
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +0000819- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
820 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
821
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +0000822- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
823 AttributeError.
824
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000825- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
826 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +0000827
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000828- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
829 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
830 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
831 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +0000832
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +0000833- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
834 executables on OSX.
835
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000836 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
837 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
838 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +0000839
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000840- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
841 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +0000842
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +0000843- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
844 with invalid values.
845
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +0000846- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
847 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
848
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000849- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
850 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +0000851
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +0000852- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
853
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +0000854- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
855 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
856
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000857- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
858 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
859 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
860 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
861 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +0000862
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000863- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
864 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +0000865
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +0000866- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
867 surrogates.
868
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +0000869- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
870
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +0000871- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
872
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +0000873- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
874 disabled since Python 3.0.
875
876- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
877 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
878 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
879
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +0000880- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000881 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +0000882
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +0000883- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
884
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +0000885- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
886 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
887 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
888
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000889- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +0000890 support.
891
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000892- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
893 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000894
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000895- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
896 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
897 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +0000898
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000899- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
900 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000901
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +0000902- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
903 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
904 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
905 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
906
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000907- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
908 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000909
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000910- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
911 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000912
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000913- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
914
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000915- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
916
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000917- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
918
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000919- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
920
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000921- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
922 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000923
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000924- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
925
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000926- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
927
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000928- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
929 occurred in the argument chain.
930
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000931- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
932 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000933
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000934- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
935
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000936- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
937 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000938
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000939- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
940
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000941- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
942 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
943 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000944
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000945- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
946 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000947
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000948- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
949
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000950- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
951 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000952
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000953- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
954 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000955
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000956- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
957 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
958 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +0000959
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +0000960- Code objects now support weak references.
961
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000962- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +0000963
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000964- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +0000965 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
966 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +0000967
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000968C-API
969-----
970
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +0000971- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
972 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
973 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
974
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +0000975- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
976 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
977 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
978
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000979- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
980 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
981 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +0000982 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
983
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +0000984- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
985 strings in an efficient manner.
986
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +0000987- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000988 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
989 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +0000990
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000991- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
992 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +0000993
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +0000994- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
995 has '\0' at the end.
996
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000997- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +0000998 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
999 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
1000 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00001001 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
1002
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001003- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00001004
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001005- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
1006 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00001007
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001008- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
1009 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00001010
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001011- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
1012 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
1013 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00001014
1015- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00001016
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00001017- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
1018
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00001019- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1020 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1021
1022- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1023 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1024
1025- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1026 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1027
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001028- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
1029 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
1030 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
1031 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00001032
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00001033Library
1034-------
1035
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001036- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
1037 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00001038
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001039- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
1040 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
1041 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00001042
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001043- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
1044 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00001045
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001046- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
1047 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00001048
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001049- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
1050 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00001051
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001052- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
1053 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00001054
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001055- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
1056 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00001057
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001058- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
1059 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00001060
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001061- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
1062 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00001063
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001064- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
1065 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00001066
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001067- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
1068 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00001069
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00001070- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
1071
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001072- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
1073 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
1074 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00001075
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001076- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
1077 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00001078
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00001079- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00001080 entries, consider the first one.
1081
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00001082- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
1083 string.Template class.
1084
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001085- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
1086 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00001087
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001088- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
1089 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00001090
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00001091- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
1092
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00001093- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
1094
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001095- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
1096 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00001097
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00001098- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001099 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
1100 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00001101
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001102- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00001103
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001104- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
1105 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00001106 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
1107 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001108 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
1109 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00001110
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00001111- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
1112
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001113- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00001114 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
1115 XML-RPC request.
1116
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001117- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
1118 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
1119 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00001120
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001121- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
1122 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
1123 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
1124 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
1125 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
1126 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00001127
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001128- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00001129
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001130- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
1131 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00001132
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001133- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
1134 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00001135
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00001136- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
1137 parameters.
1138
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001139- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
1140 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00001141
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001142- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
1143 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00001144
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00001145- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
1146
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00001147- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
1148
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001149- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
1150 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00001151
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00001152- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
1153
1154- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00001155
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00001156- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
1157
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001158- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
1159 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
1160 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00001161
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001162- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
1163 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
1164 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00001165
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00001166- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
1167
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00001168- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
1169
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00001170- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
1171
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001172- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
1173 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
1174 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00001175
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00001176- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
1177 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
1178
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001179- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
1180 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00001181
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001182- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
1183 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00001184
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00001185- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
1186 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
1187
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00001188- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00001189 raises an exception.
1190
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00001191- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001192 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
1193 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00001194
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00001195- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
1196 for removal in Python 3.4.
1197
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001198- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
1199 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00001200
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001201- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
1202 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00001203
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001204- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
1205 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00001206
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001207- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
1208 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00001209 deallocation while the object is still being used.
1210
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00001211- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001212 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00001213 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
1214
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001215- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00001216 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
1217
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001218- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
1219 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00001220
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001221- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
1222 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00001223
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00001224- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
1225
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00001226- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
1227 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
1228
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001229- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
1230 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
1231 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
1232 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
1233 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00001234
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001235- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
1236 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00001237
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00001238- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
1239
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00001240- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
1241
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001242- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
1243 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00001244
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00001245- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
1246 mistake.
1247
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001248- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
1249 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00001250 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00001251
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00001252- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
1253 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
1254
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001255- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
1256 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
1257 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00001258
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00001259- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
1260 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
1261
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00001262- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
1263
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00001264- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
1265 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001266 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00001267
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001268- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
1269 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00001270
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00001271- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001272 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00001273
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00001274- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001275 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
1276 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00001277
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00001278- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
1279 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
1280 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00001281
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00001282- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001283 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00001284
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00001285- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
1286 of files without one.
1287
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00001288- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
1289 comparing to a non-mapping.
1290
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00001291- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001292 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00001293
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001294- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
1295 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
1296 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00001297
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00001298- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
1299
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00001300- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
1301 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
1302 stdout is not a TTY).
1303
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00001304- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
1305 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
1306 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
1307 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
1308
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00001309- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
1310 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
1311
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00001312- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
1313 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
1314
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00001315- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
1316
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00001317- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001318 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00001319
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00001320- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
1321
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001322- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
1323 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00001324
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001325- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
1326 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00001327
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00001328- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
1329 class.
1330
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00001331- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
1332 given.
1333
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00001334- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
1335 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
1336
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001337- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
1338 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00001339
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00001340- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
1341 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
1342 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
1343 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00001344
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00001345- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
1346
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001347- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
1348 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
1349 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
1350 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00001351
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00001352- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
1353 Patch by Tres Seaver.
1354
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00001355- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001356 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00001357
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00001358- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
1359
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001360- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
1361 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00001362
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001363- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
1364 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
1365 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
1366 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
1367 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00001368
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00001369- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001370 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
1371 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00001372
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00001373- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
1374 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
1375
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001376- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
1377 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00001378
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00001379- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00001380 webbrowser.get("safari").
1381
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001382- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
1383 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00001384
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001385- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
1386 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00001387
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00001388- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
1389
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00001390- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
1391 It should correctly return an empty response now.
1392
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00001393- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
1394
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00001395- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
1396 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1397
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00001398- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
1399 and mappings.
1400
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001401- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
1402 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
1403 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
1404 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00001405
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001406- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
1407 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
1408 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00001409
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00001410- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
1411 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
1412
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001413- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
1414 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00001415
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001416- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
1417 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00001418
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00001419- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
1420 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001421 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00001422
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001423- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00001424
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001425- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
1426 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
1427 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00001428
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001429- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
1430 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00001431 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
1432 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
1433
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00001434- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
1435 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1436
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00001437- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
1438 collation name contains a surrogate character.
1439
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001440- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
1441 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
1442 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00001443
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00001444- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
1445
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001446- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00001447
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00001448- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
1449 from PORT/EPRT commands.
1450
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00001451- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
1452
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001453- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
1454 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00001455
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001456- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
1457 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00001458
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00001459- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
1460 surrogates.
1461
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00001462- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00001463 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00001464
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00001465- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
1466 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
1467
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00001468- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
1469 the current working directory.
1470
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00001471- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001472 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00001473
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001474- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00001475
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00001476- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
1477 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
1478
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00001479- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
1480
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001481- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00001482 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001483 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00001484
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00001485- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
1486 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001487 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00001488
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00001489- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001490 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
1491 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00001492
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00001493- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001494 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
1495 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00001496
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00001497- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
1498 present before it cleans them.
1499
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001500- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
1501 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00001502
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00001503- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001504 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
1505 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00001506
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00001507- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
1508
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001509- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
1510 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00001511
1512 >>> Decimal(1.1)
1513 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
1514
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001515- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
1516 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00001517
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001518- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
1519 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
1520 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
1521 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00001522
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001523- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
1524 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
1525 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
1526 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
1527 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00001528
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00001529- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
1530
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00001531- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001532 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
1533 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
1534 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00001535
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00001536- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
1537 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001538 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00001539
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001540- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
1541 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
1542 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
1543 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00001544
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001545- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
1546 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
1547 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00001548
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00001549- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
1550 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
1551
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00001552- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001553 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
1554 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00001555
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001556- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
1557 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00001558
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00001559- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
1560 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
1561 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00001562
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00001563- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
1564 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
1565 (utf8) encoding.
1566
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00001567- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
1568
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00001569- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
1570
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00001571- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
1572
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00001573- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
1574 detected.
1575
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00001576- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
1577
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00001578- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
1579 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
1580
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001581- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00001582
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001583- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
1584 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00001585
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001586- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
1587 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
1588 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00001589
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001590- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
1591 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
1592 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
1593 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00001594
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00001595- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
1596 cElementTree module is updated too.
1597
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00001598- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001599 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
1600 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00001601
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00001602- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
1603
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001604- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
1605 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00001606
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00001607- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
1608 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
1609
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00001610- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
1611 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00001612
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00001613- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
1614 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
1615
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00001616- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
1617 class.
1618
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00001619- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
1620 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
1621
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00001622- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
1623
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00001624- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
1625 writing.
1626
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00001627- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
1628
1629- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
1630
1631- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
1632
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00001633- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
1634
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001635- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
1636 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00001637
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00001638- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
1639
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001640- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
1641 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00001642
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001643- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
1644 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00001645
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00001646- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
1647
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00001648- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
1649 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
1650
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00001651- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
1652 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
1653
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001654- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
1655 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
1656 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
1657 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00001658
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00001659- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
1660 interpreter shutdown.
1661
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001662- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
1663 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
1664 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
1665 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00001666
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001667- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
1668 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
1669 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00001670
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001671- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
1672 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00001673
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00001674- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
1675 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001676 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
1677 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00001678
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001679- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
1680 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
1681 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00001682 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1683
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00001684- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001685 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
1686 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
1687 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
1688 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
1689 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00001690
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00001691- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001692 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
1693 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00001694
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00001695- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
1696
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00001697- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00001698
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00001699- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
1700
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00001701- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
1702 the release file is empty.
1703
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00001704- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
1705 module.
1706
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001707- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
1708 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
1709 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00001710
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001711- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
1712 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00001713
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001714- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
1715 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00001716
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001717- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
1718 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00001719
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001720- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
1721 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00001722
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00001723- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
1724
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00001725- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
1726 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
1727 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
1728
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001729- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
1730 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00001731
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001732- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
1733 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00001734
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001735- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
1736 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00001737
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00001738- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001739 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
1740 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00001741
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001742- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
1743 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
1744 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00001745
1746- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00001747 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
1748
1749- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
1750
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001751- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
1752 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00001753
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001754- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
1755 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
1756 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00001757
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001758- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
1759 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
1760 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00001761
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00001762- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
1763 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
1764
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001765- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
1766 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
1767 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00001768
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00001769- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
1770 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
1771 the same as passing no argument.
1772
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001773- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00001774
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001775- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
1776 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00001777
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00001778- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00001779
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00001780- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
1781
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001782- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
1783 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00001784
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001785- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00001786 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
1787
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00001788- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
1789 TLS with authentication credentials.
1790
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001791- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
1792 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00001793
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00001794- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1795 msvc9compiler.
1796
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00001797- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001798 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
1799 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00001800
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00001801- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1802 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1803 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1804
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00001805- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001806 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
1807 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00001808
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001809- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
1810 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00001811
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001812- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1813
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00001814- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
1815 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
1816 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1817
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001818- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
1819 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
1820 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00001821
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00001822- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
1823
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001824- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00001825
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00001826- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1827 raises ReadError on empty files.
1828
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001829- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00001830
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00001831- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
1832 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00001833
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001834- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
1835 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00001836
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00001837- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
1838 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
1839
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001840- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
1841 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00001842
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001843- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00001844
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001845- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
1846 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00001847
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001848- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
1849 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
1850 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
1851 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00001852 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1853
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001854- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
1855 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
1856 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00001857
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00001858- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001859 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00001860 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1861
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00001862- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1863 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1864 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001865
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00001866- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00001867 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
1868
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00001869- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001870 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
1871 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
1872 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00001873
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001874- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
1875 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00001876 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
1877
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00001878- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
1879 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
1880
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00001881- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1882 which are part of a reference cycle.
1883
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00001884- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
1885 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
1886
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001887- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
1888 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
1889 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00001890
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001891- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
1892 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
1893 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
1894 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00001895
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001896- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
1897 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
1898 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
1899 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00001900
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00001901- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1902 header as required by RFC 1952.
1903
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00001904- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1905 Distutils.
1906
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00001907- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1908 an uppercase.
1909
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00001910- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
1911 several threads at once.
1912
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001913- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1914
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00001915- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1916 larger than emax.
1917
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00001918- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
1919 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
1920
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001921- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
1922 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00001923
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001924- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00001925
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001926- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1927 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001928
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001929- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
1930 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00001931
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00001932- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
1933 builtin tokenizer.
1934
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001935- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
1936 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00001937
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001938- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
1939 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00001940
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001941- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
1942 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00001943
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001944- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
1945 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00001946
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00001947- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
1948
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00001949- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1950
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00001951- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1952
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00001953- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
1954
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001955- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00001956
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001957- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
1958 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
1959 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00001960
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001961- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
1962 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00001963
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00001964- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
1965
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001966- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
1967 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
1968 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
1969 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00001970
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00001971- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
1972 should be raised, not AttributeError.
1973
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00001974- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
1975 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
1976
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00001977- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00001978 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00001979
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00001980- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
1981
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00001982- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
1983
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00001984- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1985
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00001986- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1987 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1988
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00001989- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
1990
1991- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
1992
1993- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1994
1995- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1996 ScrolledText.
1997
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00001998- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1999
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002000- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
2001 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00002002
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00002003- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
2004 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
2005 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
2006 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
2007
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002008- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
2009 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00002010
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00002011- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
2012
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002013- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
2014 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
2015 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00002016
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00002017- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
2018 DO/DONT correctly.
2019
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00002020- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002021 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
2022 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00002023
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00002024- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002025 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
2026 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
2027 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00002028
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00002029- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
2030 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
2031 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
2032
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002033- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
2034 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
2035 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00002036
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00002037- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00002038
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002039- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
2040 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00002041
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002042- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
2043 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00002044
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00002045- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
2046 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
2047
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00002048- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
2049
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00002050- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
2051
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00002052- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
2053
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00002054- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
2055 sys.path.
2056
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00002057- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
2058
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002059- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
2060 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00002061
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00002062- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
2063 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
2064
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002065- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
2066 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00002067
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00002068- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
2069
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00002070- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
2071
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002072- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
2073 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00002074
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00002075- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
2076 for tracing methods.
2077
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00002078Extension Modules
2079-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00002080
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00002081- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
2082
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00002083- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002084 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
2085 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
2086 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
2087 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00002088
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00002089- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
2090
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002091- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
2092 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
2093 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00002094
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002095- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
2096 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00002097
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002098- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
2099 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00002100
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002101- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
2102 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00002103
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00002104- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
2105 object in the '?' format.
2106
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00002107- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
2108
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00002109- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
2110 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00002111
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002112- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
2113 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
2114 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
2115 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00002116
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002117- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
2118 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
2119 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
2120 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
2121 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
2122 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00002123
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00002124- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002125 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
2126 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
2127 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
2128 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
2129 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00002130
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002131- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
2132 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00002133
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00002134- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00002135 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00002136 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00002137
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002138- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
2139 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
2140 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00002141
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002142- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
2143 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00002144
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002145- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
2146 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
2147 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
2148 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
2149 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00002150
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00002151- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
2152 overflow checks in the audioop module.
2153
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00002154- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
2155 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002156 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
2157 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00002158
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002159- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
2160 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
2161 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00002162
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00002163- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
2164
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00002165- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
2166 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
2167 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
2168 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
2169
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00002170- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
2171
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00002172- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
2173
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002174- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00002175 handling.
2176
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00002177- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
2178 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
2179
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00002180- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
2181
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00002182- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
2183
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00002184- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00002185
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002186- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
2187 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00002188
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00002189- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
2190
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00002191- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
2192
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002193- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
2194 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
2195 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00002196
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002197- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
2198 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00002199
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00002200- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
2201
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00002202- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
2203 (CVE_2009_3560).
2204
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002205- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
2206 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
2207 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00002208
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00002209- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
2210 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
2211
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00002212- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
2213
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002214- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
2215 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00002216
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00002217- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00002218
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00002219Build
2220-----
2221
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00002222- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
2223
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00002224- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
2225
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002226- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
2227 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
2228 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
2229 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
2230 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00002231
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00002232- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2233
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00002234- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
2235 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00002236
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002237- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
2238 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
2239 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
2240 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00002241
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002242- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
2243 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00002244
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00002245- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
2246
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00002247- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
2248 give false warnings.
2249
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002250- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
2251 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
2252 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00002253
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002254- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
2255 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00002256
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00002257- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00002258
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002259- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
2260 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
2261 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00002262
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00002263- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
2264
2265- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
2266 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
2267
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00002268- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
2269 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
2270 Python.
2271
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00002272- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
2273 found.
2274
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00002275- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00002276
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00002277- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
2278 icc or suncc.
2279
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002280- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
2281 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
2282 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00002283
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002284- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00002285
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00002286- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
2287
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00002288- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00002289 directories.
2290
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00002291- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002292 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00002293
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002294- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00002295 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00002296
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00002297- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
2298
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00002299- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
2300
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00002301- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
2302
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00002303Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00002304-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00002305
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00002306- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
2307 to Doc/license.rst.
2308
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00002309- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
2310 with os.kill.
2311
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00002312- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00002313 only.
2314
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002315- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00002316 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
2317
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002318- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
2319 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00002320
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00002321- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
2322 ImportError.
2323
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002324- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
2325 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00002326
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00002327- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
2328 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00002329
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00002330- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2331 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2332
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00002333Tests
2334-----
2335
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002336- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
2337 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00002338
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00002339- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
2340
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002341- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00002342
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002343- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
2344 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
2345 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00002346
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00002347- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002348 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00002349
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00002350- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
2351 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
2352
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00002353- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
2354 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
2355
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002356- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
2357 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00002358
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002359- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
2360 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00002361
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002362- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
2363 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00002364
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00002365- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
2366
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00002367- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2368
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00002369- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
2370 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
2371
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00002372- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
2373 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00002374
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002375- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
2376 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00002377
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00002378- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
2379 effectively raised.
2380
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002381- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
2382 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00002383
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002384- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
2385 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00002386
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00002387- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
2388 filesystem encoding.
2389
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002390- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
2391 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00002392
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002393- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
2394 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
2395 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
2396 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00002397
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002398- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
2399 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
2400 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00002401
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00002402- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
2403 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00002404
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002405- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00002406 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
2407
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00002408- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
2409
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00002410- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00002411 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
2412
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002413- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
2414 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
2415 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00002416
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002417- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
2418 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00002419
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002420- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
2421 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00002422
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002423- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
2424 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
2425 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
2426 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00002427
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00002428- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
2429
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00002430- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
2431 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
2432
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00002433- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
2434 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
2435 between concurrent executions on the same system.
2436
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00002437- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
2438 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
2439 calling methods on the object.
2440
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00002441- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002442 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
2443 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
2444 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00002445 :func:`_thread._count()`.
2446
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002447- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
2448 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00002449
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00002450- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
2451 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
2452
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00002453- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002454 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
2455 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00002456
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00002457- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
2458
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002459- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
2460 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
2461 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00002462
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00002463- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002464 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00002465
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00002466Tools/Demos
2467-----------
2468
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00002469- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00002470
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00002471- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002472 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00002473
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00002474
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00002475What's New in Python 3.1?
2476=========================
2477
2478*Release date: 27-June-2009*
2479
2480Core and Builtins
2481-----------------
2482
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00002483- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
2484 large arguments.
2485
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00002486- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
2487 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
2488
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00002489Library
2490-------
2491
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00002492- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
2493
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002494- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00002495
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00002496- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
2497
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00002498- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
2499 io.UnsupportedOperation.
2500
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00002501- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00002502 (On Unix)
2503
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00002504- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
2505 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
2506
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00002507Extension Modules
2508-----------------
2509
2510- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
2511
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00002512
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00002513What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
2514=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00002515
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00002516*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00002517
2518Core and Builtins
2519-----------------
2520
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00002521- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
2522
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00002523- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
2524 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
2525
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00002526- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
2527 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
2528
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00002529- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00002530 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00002531
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00002532Library
2533-------
2534
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00002535- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002536 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00002537 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
2538
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00002539- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
2540
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00002541- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
2542 binary files.
2543
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002544- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
2545 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
2546
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00002547- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
2548 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
2549 are always None now.
2550
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00002551- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
2552 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
2553 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
2554 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
2555
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00002556- Removed the ipaddr module.
2557
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00002558- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
2559 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
2560 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
2561
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00002562- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
2563
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00002564- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
2565
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00002566- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
2567 parameters.
2568
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00002569Windows
2570-------
2571
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00002572- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
2573
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00002574- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
2575
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00002576C-API
2577-----
2578
2579- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
2580 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
2581 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
2582
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00002583
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00002584Build
2585-----
2586
2587- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
2588 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
2589
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00002590- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
2591 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
2592
2593
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00002594
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00002595What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
2596=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00002597
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00002598*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00002599
2600Core and Builtins
2601-----------------
2602
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00002603- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
2604 of the command line.
2605
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00002606- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
2607
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00002608- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
2609 that would raise SystemError.
2610
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00002611- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
2612 function with __func__.
2613
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00002614- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
2615 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00002616
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00002617- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
2618 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
2619 and imaginary literals.
2620
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00002621- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
2622
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00002623- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
2624
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00002625- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
2626 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
2627 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
2628 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
2629 didn't match that of float('-nan').
2630
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00002631Library
2632-------
2633
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00002634- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
2635
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00002636- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
2637
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00002638- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
2639 argument to the 'help' function.
2640
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00002641- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
2642 arguments for strings with a space in them.
2643
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00002644- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
2645 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
2646
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00002647- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
2648 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
2649
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00002650- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
2651 the directory already exists.
2652
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00002653- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
2654 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
2655 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
2656
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00002657- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
2658 IO objects.
2659
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00002660- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
2661 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
2662
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00002663- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
2664 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
2665 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
2666
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00002667- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
2668 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
2669
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00002670- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
2671 deepcopy()ing.
2672
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00002673- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
2674
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00002675- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
2676
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00002677- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
2678
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00002679- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
2680 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
2681 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
2682 empty.
2683
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00002684- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
2685 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
2686 corrects a pydoc regression.
2687
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00002688- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00002689 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
2690
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00002691Installation
2692------------
2693
2694- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
2695 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00002696
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00002697- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
2698
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00002699Extension Modules
2700-----------------
2701
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00002702- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00002703
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00002704- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
2705
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00002706- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
2707
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00002708- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
2709 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00002710
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00002711Build
2712-----
2713
2714- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
2715 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
2716 Clinton Roy.
2717
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00002718Tests
2719-----
2720
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00002721- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00002722 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
2723 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
2724 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
2725
2726
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00002727What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
2728================================
2729
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00002730*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00002731
2732Core and Builtins
2733-----------------
2734
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00002735- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
2736 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
2737
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00002738- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
2739 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
2740 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
2741
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00002742- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
2743 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
2744 a PendingDeprecation warning.
2745
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00002746- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
2747 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
2748 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
2749 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
2750 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
2751 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
2752 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
2753 the same way.
2754
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00002755- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
2756
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00002757- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
2758 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
2759 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
2760
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00002761- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
2762 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
2763
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00002764- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00002765
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00002766- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
2767 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
2768 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
2769
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00002770- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
2771 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
2772 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
2773 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00002774
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00002775- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00002776 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
2777
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00002778- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
2779 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
2780
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00002781- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
2782 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
2783
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00002784- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
2785
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00002786- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
2787 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
2788
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00002789- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
2790
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00002791- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
2792 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
2793
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00002794- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00002795
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00002796- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
2797 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
2798 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
2799 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
2800
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00002801- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
2802 some builtin types.
2803
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00002804- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
2805
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00002806- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
2807 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00002808
2809- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
2810 floats.
2811
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00002812- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00002813 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
2814 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
2815 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
2816 long time.)
2817
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00002818- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
2819 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
2820 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
2821 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00002822 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
2823 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
2824 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00002825
2826 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
2827 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
2828 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
2829 reason or another.
2830
2831 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
2832 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
2833 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
2834 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
2835 correctly rounded on these platforms.
2836
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00002837 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00002838 this change does not apply.
2839
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00002840- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
2841
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00002842- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
2843 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
2844 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
2845 methods available on the str class.
2846
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00002847- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
2848 its clarity and its speed.
2849
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00002850- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00002851 to avoid compiler warnings.
2852
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00002853- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
2854 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
2855
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00002856Installation
2857------------
2858
2859- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
2860
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00002861Library
2862-------
2863
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00002864- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
2865
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00002866- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
2867 specific Python version.
2868
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00002869- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
2870 whitespace.
2871
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002872- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00002873 the right type checkings anymore.
2874
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00002875- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
2876 return directories.
2877
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00002878- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
2879
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00002880- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
2881 looking for files given by a relative filename.
2882
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00002883- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
2884 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
2885
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00002886- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
2887 extracting a file to the root directory.
2888
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00002889- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
2890
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00002891- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
2892 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
2893 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
2894
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00002895- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
2896
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00002897- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
2898 Contributed by Google.
2899
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00002900- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
2901 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
2902
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00002903- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
2904
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00002905- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
2906
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00002907- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
2908 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
2909 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
2910
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00002911- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
2912 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
2913 initialized before.
2914
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002915- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
2916 names which should not be exported.
2917
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00002918- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
2919 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
2920
2921- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
2922
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00002923- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
2924 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
2925 instances.
2926
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00002927- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
2928 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
2929 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
2930
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00002931- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
2932 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
2933
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00002934- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
2935 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
2936 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
2937 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
2938 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
2939
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00002940- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
2941 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
2942
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00002943- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2944 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2945 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2946
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00002947Extension Modules
2948-----------------
2949
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00002950- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
2951 pwd.
2952
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00002953- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
2954 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
2955 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
2956 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
2957
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00002958- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
2959 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00002960
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00002961Tests
2962-----
2963
2964- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
2965 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
2966 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
2967 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
2968 can be adjusted to use it over time.
2969
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00002970- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2971 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2972 incorrectly on __exit__.
2973
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00002974C-API
2975-----
2976
2977- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
2978
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00002979
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002980What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
2981=================================
2982
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00002983*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002984
2985Core and Builtins
2986-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00002987
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00002988- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
2989 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002990
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00002991- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
2992
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00002993- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
2994 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
2995
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00002996- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2997 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2998
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00002999- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
3000
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00003001- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
3002 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
3003
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00003004- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
3005 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
3006 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
3007
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00003008- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
3009
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00003010- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
3011 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
3012
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00003013- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
3014 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
3015 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
3016 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
3017
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00003018- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
3019 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
3020 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
3021
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00003022- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
3023 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
3024 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
3025 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
3026 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
3027 the internal format.
3028
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00003029- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
3030 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
3031 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
3032
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00003033- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
3034 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
3035
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00003036- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
3037 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
3038
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00003039- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
3040 short file names.
3041
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00003042Library
3043-------
3044
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00003045- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00003046 mailbox.MH.get_message().
3047
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00003048- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
3049 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
3050 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
3051
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00003052- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
3053 the -T argument.
3054
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00003055- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
3056
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00003057- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
3058
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00003059- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
3060
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00003061- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
3062 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
3063
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00003064- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
3065
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00003066- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
3067
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00003068- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
3069 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
3070
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00003071- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
3072 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
3073
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00003074- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
3075 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
3076 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
3077
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00003078- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
3079
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00003080- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
3081 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
3082
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00003083- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
3084 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
3085
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00003086- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
3087 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
3088 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
3089 partial bzip2 compressed data.
3090
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00003091- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
3092 specifier to Decimal.__format__
3093
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00003094- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
3095 '>' alignment characters.
3096
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00003097- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
3098 value, and report it as -1 instead.
3099
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00003100- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
3101 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3102
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00003103Extension Modules
3104-----------------
3105
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00003106- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
3107
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00003108- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
3109 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00003110 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
3111 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
3112 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00003113
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00003114
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00003115What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00003116================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00003117
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00003118*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00003119
3120Core and Builtins
3121-----------------
3122
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00003123- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
3124
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00003125- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
3126
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00003127- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
3128 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
3129
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00003130- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
3131 contained non ascii character on windows.
3132
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00003133- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
3134 source has already been decoded into str.
3135
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00003136- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
3137 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
3138
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00003139- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
3140 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
3141
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00003142- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
3143 returns a non-number type.
3144
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00003145- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
3146
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00003147- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
3148 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00003149 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
3150 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00003151
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00003152- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00003153 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
3154
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00003155- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
3156 Previously it returned a float.
3157
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00003158- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
3159 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
3160 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
3161 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
3162
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00003163- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
3164
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00003165- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
3166 from a string.
3167
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00003168- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
3169
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00003170- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
3171 optional module state data.
3172
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00003173- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003174 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00003175
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00003176- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
3177 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
3178 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
3179
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00003180- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
3181 __next__ method.
3182
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00003183- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
3184 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
3185 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
3186
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00003187- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
3188
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00003189- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
3190
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00003191- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
3192 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
3193 amount of loop unrolling.
3194
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00003195- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
3196 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
3197 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
3198 Martin von Löwis at
3199 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
3200
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00003201- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00003202 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
3203 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
3204
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00003205- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
3206 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
3207 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
3208 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
3209
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00003210- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
3211 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
3212 Python's overall memory).
3213
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00003214- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
3215 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
3216 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
3217 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
3218 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
3219
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00003220- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
3221 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
3222 items, rather than the size in bytes.
3223
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00003224- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
3225
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00003226- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
3227 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
3228
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003229- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
3230 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00003231
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00003232- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
3233 did not get collected.
3234
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00003235- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
3236 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
3237
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00003238- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
3239 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
3240
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00003241- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
3242 fail.
3243
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00003244- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
3245
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00003246- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
3247 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
3248
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00003249- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
3250 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
3251 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
3252
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00003253- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
3254
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00003255- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
3256 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
3257 failures on OS X.
3258
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00003259- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
3260 exceptions.
3261
3262- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00003263 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
3264
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00003265- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
3266 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
3267 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
3268 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
3269
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00003270- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
3271 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
3272 Python 2.x.
3273
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00003274- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
3275 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
3276
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00003277- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
3278 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
3279 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
3280 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00003281
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00003282- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
3283 larger than 1.
3284
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00003285- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
3286
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00003287- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
3288
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00003289- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
3290 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
3291 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
3292 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
3293
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00003294Library
3295-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00003296
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00003297- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
3298 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
3299
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00003300- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00003301 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
3302
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003303- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00003304 Distutils.
3305
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00003306- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
3307
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00003308- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
3309 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
3310 Michael Haubenwallner.
3311
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00003312- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
3313
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00003314- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
3315 opening an empty or very small file.
3316
3317- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00003318 behavior is similar when used with -O.
3319
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00003320- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
3321
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00003322- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
3323 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
3324 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
3325 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
3326
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00003327- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
3328
3329- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
3330
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00003331- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00003332 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
3333
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00003334- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00003335
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00003336- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00003337 attribute.
3338
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00003339- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
3340
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00003341- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
3342
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00003343- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
3344 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
3345 descriptor errors
3346
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00003347- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00003348 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
3349
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00003350- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00003351 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
3352
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00003353- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
3354 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
3355
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00003356- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
3357
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00003358- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
3359
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00003360- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
3361 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
3362 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
3363
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00003364- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
3365 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
3366
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00003367- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
3368
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00003369- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00003370 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
3371
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00003372- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
3373
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00003374- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
3375 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
3376
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00003377- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00003378 subcommand.
3379
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00003380- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
3381 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
3382
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00003383- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
3384 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
3385
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00003386- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
3387 for old-style extensions.
3388
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00003389- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
3390
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00003391- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
3392 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
3393 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
3394 Cournapeau.
3395
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00003396- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
3397
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00003398- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00003399 anymore.
3400
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00003401- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00003402 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
3403
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00003404- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
3405
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00003406- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
3407
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00003408- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
3409
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00003410- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
3411 a value in SafeConfigParser.
3412
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00003413- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
3414
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00003415- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00003416 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
3417
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00003418- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
3419 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
3420
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00003421- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
3422 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
3423
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00003424- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00003425
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00003426- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00003427
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00003428- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
3429 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
3430 threads.
3431
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00003432- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
3433 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
3434 that it was failing to do localization.
3435
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00003436- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
3437 Brandl.
3438
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00003439- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
3440 character.
3441
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00003442- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
3443 Tim Golden.
3444
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00003445- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
3446
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00003447- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
3448 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
3449 window flashing.
3450
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00003451- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
3452 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
3453 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
3454
3455- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
3456
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00003457- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
3458 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
3459
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00003460- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
3461
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00003462- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
3463
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00003464- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
3465
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00003466- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
3467
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00003468- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
3469
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00003470- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
3471
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00003472- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
3473 import guess_extension`` was used.
3474
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00003475- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
3476 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
3477
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00003478- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
3479 overrun.
3480
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003481- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00003482 bdist_rpm command.
3483
3484- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
3485
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00003486- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
3487
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00003488- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
3489 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00003490
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00003491- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
3492 IronPython.
3493
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00003494- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
3495 The file was resized to wrong size.
3496
3497- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
3498
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00003499- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00003500 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
3501
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00003502- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00003503 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
3504
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00003505- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
3506 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
3507
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00003508- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
3509
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00003510- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
3511 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
3512 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
3513
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00003514- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
3515 encoding.
3516
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00003517- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
3518 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
3519
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00003520- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
3521 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
3522
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00003523- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
3524 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
3525 ctime of the files involved.
3526
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00003527- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
3528 deadlock.
3529
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00003530- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
3531 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
3532 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
3533
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00003534- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
3535
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00003536- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
3537 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
3538
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00003539- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
3540 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
3541 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
3542 Vajda.
3543
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00003544- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
3545 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
3546 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
3547 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
3548
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00003549- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
3550 Ross Light.
3551
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00003552- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00003553 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
3554
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00003555- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
3556 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
3557
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00003558- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00003559 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
3560
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00003561- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
3562
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00003563- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
3564
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00003565- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
3566 items being passed through ord().
3567
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00003568- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
3569 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
3570 "src.new").
3571
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00003572- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
3573
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00003574- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
3575 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
3576 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
3577
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00003578- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00003579 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
3580
3581- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
3582 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
3583
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00003584- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
3585 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
3586
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00003587- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
3588
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00003589- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
3590 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00003591
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00003592- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00003593 allowed non-integer arguments.
3594
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00003595- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
3596 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
3597 examples.
3598
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00003599- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
3600 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
3601
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00003602- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
3603 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
3604
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00003605- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
3606 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
3607
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00003608- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00003609 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
3610 be disabled, and not compiled.
3611
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00003612- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
3613 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
3614 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
3615 traditional 2.x file object.
3616
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00003617- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
3618 parameter was set.
3619
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00003620- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
3621 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
3622
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00003623- Add the importlib package.
3624
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00003625- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
3626 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
3627
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00003628- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00003629 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00003630
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00003631- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
3632 without defaults.
3633
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003634- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
3635 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00003636 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
3637
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00003638- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
3639 in sharedctypes.py.
3640
3641- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
3642 __getattr__.
3643
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00003644- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
3645 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
3646 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
3647
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00003648- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
3649 counting.
3650
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00003651- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
3652
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00003653- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
3654 function without defining argtypes.
3655
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00003656- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
3657 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
3658 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
3659 Jacques Frechet.
3660
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00003661- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
3662
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00003663- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
3664 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
3665
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00003666- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
3667 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00003668 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
3669
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00003670- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
3671 to the decimal module.
3672
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00003673- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
3674 cast as floats.
3675
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00003676- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
3677 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
3678
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00003679- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00003680 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
3681
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00003682- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
3683 the function is not a generator.
3684
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00003685- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
3686 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00003687
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00003688- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00003689 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
3690
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00003691- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
3692
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00003693- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
3694
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00003695- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
3696 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
3697
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00003698- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
3699 works as expected in the interactive environment.
3700
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00003701- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
3702 Gabriel Genellina.
3703
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00003704- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
3705 boundary.
3706
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00003707- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
3708 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
3709 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
3710
3711- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
3712 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
3713 Alexander Belopolsky.
3714
3715- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
3716 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
3717 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
3718 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
3719 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
3720 Alexander Belopolsky.
3721
3722- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
3723 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
3724 Alexander Belopolsky.
3725
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00003726- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
3727 a non-ASCII letter.
3728
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00003729- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
3730
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00003731- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
3732 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
3733
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00003734- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
3735 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
3736 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
3737
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00003738- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
3739 libs.
3740
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00003741- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
3742 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
3743
3744- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
3745 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
3746 Content-Disposition headers.
3747
3748- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
3749 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
3750 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
3751 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
3752 doesn't configure logging.
3753
3754- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
3755 exception.
3756
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00003757- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
3758 statements.
3759
3760- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
3761 not a malformed option.
3762
3763- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
3764 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
3765
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00003766- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
3767 the corresponding tests now pass.
3768
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00003769- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
3770 it was calling the wrong open() function.
3771
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00003772- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
3773 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
3774 Content-Disposition headers.
3775
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00003776- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
3777 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
3778
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00003779- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
3780 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
3781 and getservbyport().
3782
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00003783- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
3784
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00003785Tools/Demos
3786-----------
3787
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00003788- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
3789 and make it 2.6-compatible.
3790
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00003791- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
3792
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00003793- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
3794
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00003795
3796Build
3797-----
3798
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00003799- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
3800
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00003801- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
3802
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00003803- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
3804 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
3805
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00003806- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00003807 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00003808
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00003809- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
3810
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00003811- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
3812
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00003813- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
3814
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00003815- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
3816
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00003817- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
3818
3819- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
3820
3821- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
3822
3823- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
3824
3825- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
3826
3827- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
3828
3829- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
3830
3831- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
3832
3833- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
3834
3835- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
3836
3837
3838C-API
3839-----
3840
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00003841- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
3842 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
3843
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00003844- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
3845 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
3846
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00003847- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
3848
3849- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
3850 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
3851
3852- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
3853 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
3854
3855
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00003856Extension Modules
3857-----------------
3858
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00003859- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
3860 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
3861 implementations or external openssl library).
3862
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00003863- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
3864
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00003865- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
3866
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00003867- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
3868 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
3869 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
3870
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00003871- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
3872
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00003873- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
3874 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
3875 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
3876
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00003877- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
3878
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00003879- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
3880
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00003881- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
3882 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00003883
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00003884- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
3885 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
3886 buffer.
3887
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00003888
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00003889- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
3890
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00003891Tests
3892-----
3893
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00003894- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
3895 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
3896
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00003897- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
3898 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
3899 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
3900 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
3901
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00003902- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00003903 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00003904 from test support, which does the conversion.
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Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00003906- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003913**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**