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Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00001+++++++++++
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Georg Brandl3ebb6b32011-02-20 10:37:07 +00005What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
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8*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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Martin v. Löwis5e06a5d2011-02-21 16:24:00 +000010Core and Builtins
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Benjamin Peterson18d7d7a2011-07-29 18:27:44 -050013- Make type(None), type(Ellipsis), and type(NotImplemented) callable. They
14 return the respective singleton instances.
Benjamin Petersonc4607ae2011-07-29 18:19:43 -050015
Benjamin Petersonce071ca2011-07-29 14:23:47 -050016- Forbid summing bytes in sum().
17
Benjamin Peterson2193d2b2011-07-22 10:50:23 -050018- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
19 compiling them.
20
Raymond Hettinger66d2be82011-07-28 09:55:13 -070021- Issue #12647: The None object now has a __bool__() method that returns False.
22 Formerly, bool(None) returned False only because of special case logic
23 in PyObject_IsTrue().
24
Eric V. Smith12ebefc2011-07-18 14:03:41 -040025- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
26 format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
27 Julian Berman.
28
Brett Cannone52181c2011-07-17 19:25:50 -070029- Issue #10271: Allow warnings.showwarning() be any callable.
30
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -040031- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
32 non-exception class.
Benjamin Peterson5afa03a2011-07-15 14:09:26 -050033
Antoine Pitrou84f1b172011-07-12 21:57:15 +020034- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
35 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
36 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
37 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
38 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
39
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +020040- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
41
Victor Stinner99b95382011-07-04 14:23:54 +020042- Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
43 a new HAVE_MBCS define.
44
Victor Stinnerd64e8a72011-07-04 13:48:30 +020045- Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page
46 on Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if
47 we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
48 instead of using UTF-8.
49
Benjamin Petersonac913412011-07-03 16:25:11 -050050- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
51 generator.
52
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -050053- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
Benjamin Peterson9cf960c2011-07-03 13:49:59 -050054 caller's frame as they return for the last time.
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -050055
Vinay Sajip5bdae3b2011-07-02 16:42:47 +010056- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream,
57 with other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
58
Benjamin Petersone109c702011-06-24 09:37:26 -050059- Issue #12356: When required positional or keyword-only arguments are not
60 given, produce a informative error message which includes the name(s) of the
61 missing arguments.
62
Benjamin Petersonf5ff2232011-06-19 19:42:22 -050063- Issue #12370: Fix super with not arguments when __class__ is overriden in the
64 class body.
65
Brian Curtind25aef52011-06-13 15:16:04 -050066- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
67 links when called from any directory.
68
Benjamin Peterson3bbb7222011-06-11 16:12:08 -050069- Loosen type restrictions on the __dir__ method. __dir__ can now return any
70 sequence, which will be converted to a list and sorted by dir().
71
Benjamin Petersonb204a422011-06-05 22:04:07 -050072- Issue #12265: Make error messages produced by passing an invalid set of
73 arguments to a function more informative.
74
Benjamin Peterson0bb29912011-05-31 17:11:26 -050075- Issue #12225: Still allow Python to build if Python is not in its hg repo or
76 mercurial is not installed.
77
Victor Stinner19c52332011-05-30 23:50:04 +020078- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner4f711012011-05-30 23:46:00 +020079 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
80 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
81
Benjamin Peterson758888d2011-05-30 11:12:38 -050082- Issue #12216: Allow unexpected EOF errors to happen on any line of the file.
83
Benjamin Peterson43af12b2011-05-29 11:43:10 -050084- Issue #12199: The TryExcept and TryFinally and AST nodes have been unified
85 into a Try node.
86
Ned Deily9a7c5242011-05-28 00:19:56 -070087- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
88 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
89 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
90 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
91
Benjamin Petersonbf1bbc12011-05-27 13:58:08 -050092- Issue #12106: The use of the multiple-with shorthand syntax is now reflected
93 in the AST.
94
Benjamin Peterson43b06862011-05-27 09:08:01 -050095- Issue #12190: Try to use the same filename object when compiling unmarshalling
96 a code objects in the same file.
97
Benjamin Peterson82b00c12011-05-24 11:09:06 -050098- Issue #12166: Move implementations of dir() specialized for various types into
99 the __dir__() methods of those types.
100
Charles-François Natali7b54e752011-05-24 18:23:15 +0200101- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
102
Benjamin Petersonf5fcd332011-05-23 16:22:42 -0500103- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
104 besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
105
Victor Stinner2ec6b172011-05-15 10:21:59 +0200106- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
107 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
108
Gregory P. Smithb6471db2011-05-22 22:47:55 -0700109- Issue #1746656: Added the if_nameindex, if_indextoname, if_nametoindex
110 methods to the socket module.
Gregory P. Smith5ed2e772011-05-15 00:26:45 -0700111
Gregory P. Smith6b657452011-05-11 21:42:08 -0700112- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
113 wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
114 leaving zombie processes around.
115
Victor Stinner4755ab02011-05-10 00:19:53 +0200116- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
117 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
118
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200119- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
120 interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when
121 they try to take the GIL.
122
Antoine Pitrou6f26be02011-05-03 18:18:59 +0200123- Issue #11849: Make it more likely for the system allocator to release
124 free()d memory arenas on glibc-based systems. Patch by Charles-François
125 Natali.
126
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200127- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
128 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
129 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner13aaef52011-05-01 23:46:48 +0200130 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200131
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200132- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
133 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
134 by Charles-François Natali.
135
Victor Stinner793b5312011-04-27 00:24:21 +0200136- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
137 subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
138 the ISO-8859-15 codec.
139
Victor Stinnerb90db4c2011-04-26 22:48:24 +0200140- Issue #11918: OS/2 and VMS are no more supported because of the lack of
141 maintainer.
142
Ezio Melottiba42fd52011-04-26 06:09:45 +0300143- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
144 accepted too.
145
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300146- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
147 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
148 chars (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
149
Ezio Melotti982ef4e2011-04-15 08:15:40 +0300150- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
151 compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
152
Reid Kleckner98707c22011-04-10 22:23:08 -0400153- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait,
154 subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and
155 subprocess.check_output. If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout`
156 seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised.
157
Victor Stinner52c950f2011-04-09 15:55:44 +0200158- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
159 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
160 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
161
Victor Stinnerfe7c5b52011-04-05 01:48:03 +0200162- Issue #9319: Include the filename in "Non-UTF8 code ..." syntax error.
163
Victor Stinner7f2fee32011-04-05 00:39:01 +0200164- Issue #10785: Store the filename as Unicode in the Python parser.
165
Victor Stinner2d322272011-04-04 23:05:53 +0200166- Issue #11619: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() doesn't encode the path to bytes
167 on Windows.
168
Éric Araujobe3bd572011-03-26 01:55:15 +0100169- Issue #10998: Remove mentions of -Q, sys.flags.division_warning and
170 Py_DivisionWarningFlag left over from Python 2.
171
Mark Dickinson7c9e8032011-03-23 17:59:37 +0000172- Issue #11244: Remove an unnecessary peepholer check that was preventing
173 negative zeros from being constant-folded properly.
174
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100175- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
176 Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
177 returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if
178 stdout mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less,
179 depending on heap usage).
180
Antoine Pitroue1474842011-03-17 23:40:53 +0100181- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to
Antoine Pitrou819be342011-03-17 23:36:13 +0100182 a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
183
Éric Araujo765e94f2011-06-03 17:26:59 +0200184- _ast.__version__ is now a Mercurial hex revision.
Benjamin Peterson6cb2b922011-03-12 18:28:16 -0600185
Gregory P. Smith28edfee2011-03-15 16:02:10 -0400186- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
187 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
188 file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
189
Eric V. Smithb9cd3532011-03-12 10:08:48 -0500190- Issue #9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string
191 to be a DeprecationWarning. In 3.2 it was a PendingDeprecationWarning.
192 In 3.4 it will be a TypeError.
193
Antoine Pitrou17b880a2011-03-11 17:27:02 +0100194- Issue #11244: The peephole optimizer is now able to constant-fold
195 arbitrarily complex expressions. This also fixes a 3.2 regression where
196 operations involving negative numbers were not constant-folded.
197
Antoine Pitrou7983d332011-03-09 12:34:41 +0100198- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
199 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
200
Daniel Stutzbach8eda5f72011-03-02 23:37:50 +0000201- Issue #11335: Fixed a memory leak in list.sort when the key function
202 throws an exception.
203
Victor Stinnera5c68c32011-03-02 01:03:14 +0000204- Issue #8923: When a string is encoded to UTF-8 in strict mode, the result is
205 cached into the object. Examples: str.encode(), str.encode('utf-8'),
206 PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
207 NULL).
208
Victor Stinner6d970f42011-03-02 00:04:25 +0000209- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
210
Victor Stinner96865452011-03-01 23:44:09 +0000211- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
212 the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
213
Victor Stinner2512a8b2011-03-01 22:46:52 +0000214- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
215 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
216 Patch written by Ray Allen.
217
Antoine Pitrou5bffa792011-02-24 20:50:49 +0000218- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
219 a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
220
Victor Stinnerc0f1a1a2011-02-23 12:07:37 +0000221- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
222 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
223
Jesus Ceaac451502011-04-20 17:09:23 +0200224- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
225 Patch by Torsten Becker.
226
Victor Stinner5ed8b2c2011-02-21 21:13:44 +0000227- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
228 narrow build.
229
Victor Stinnered4c7112011-02-21 21:05:50 +0000230- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
231 It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
232 undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
233 UnicodeEncodeError on recursion limit.
Martin v. Löwis5e06a5d2011-02-21 16:24:00 +0000234
Victor Stinnerfd34b372011-02-21 20:51:28 +0000235- Issue #11187: Remove bootstrap code (use ASCII) of
236 PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(), it was replaced by a better fallback (use the
237 locale encoding) in PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault().
238
Victor Stinnered4c7112011-02-21 21:05:50 +0000239- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
240
Eli Bendersky4db28d32011-03-03 18:21:02 +0000241- Issue #10516: New copy() and clear() methods for lists and bytearrays.
Eli Benderskycbbaa962011-02-25 05:47:53 +0000242
Eli Bendersky1bc4f192011-03-04 04:55:25 +0000243- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
244 empty, instead of OverflowError.
245
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +0300246- Issue #12380: The rjust, ljust and center methods of bytes and bytearray
247 now accept a bytearray argument.
248
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +0000249Library
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Antoine Pitrou3486a982011-05-12 01:57:53 +0200251
Éric Araujoab7c1b32011-07-31 04:06:12 +0200252- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
253 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
254
Senthil Kumaran3d23fd62011-07-30 10:56:50 +0800255- Issue #11281: smtplib.STMP gets source_address parameter, which adds the
256 ability to bind to specific source address on a machine with multiple
257 interfaces. Patch by Paulo Scardine.
258
Charles-François Natalidef35432011-07-29 18:59:24 +0200259- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
260 symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
261
Éric Araujoe64e51b2011-07-29 17:03:55 +0200262- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
263 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
264
Éric Araujo0cdd4452011-07-28 00:28:28 +0200265- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading. The public names (Thread,
266 Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
267 classes (_Thread, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
268 code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible to
269 inherit from Thread and other classes, without having to import the private
270 underscored names like multiprocessing did.
271
Éric Araujo9bce3112011-07-27 18:29:31 +0200272- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
273 lines.
274
Charles-François Natali27c4e882011-07-27 19:40:02 +0200275- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
276
Raymond Hettinger3a081f52011-07-29 00:02:04 -0700277- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
278 collections when it is done.
279
Ross Lagerwalld98646e2011-07-27 07:16:31 +0200280- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
281 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
282
Ned Deilyf25e3d52011-07-26 18:17:33 -0700283- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
284 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
285
Senthil Kumaran1299a8f2011-07-27 08:05:58 +0800286- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
287 Connection:close header.
288
Ross Lagerwall59c01ed2011-07-25 07:12:43 +0200289- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
290 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
291
Charles-François Natali749400a2011-07-24 22:41:18 +0200292- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
293
Antoine Pitroucf9d3c02011-07-24 02:27:04 +0200294- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
295
Antoine Pitrouab85ff32011-07-23 22:03:45 +0200296- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
297 module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
298
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200299- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
Antoine Pitroud42c1d02011-07-23 21:50:21 +0200300 a read1() method), and add a *write_through* parameter to mandate
301 unbuffered writes.
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200302
Nadeem Vawdace7e51e2011-07-23 15:16:23 +0200303- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
304
Charles-François Natali54ef40b2011-07-22 23:52:02 +0200305- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
306
Charles-François Natali996f6062011-07-21 19:45:31 +0200307- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
308
Antoine Pitroud6494802011-07-21 01:11:30 +0200309- Issue #12551: Provide a get_channel_binding() method on SSL sockets so as
310 to get channel binding data for the current SSL session (only the
311 "tls-unique" channel binding is implemented). This allows the implementation
312 of certain authentication mechanisms such as SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS. Patch by
313 Jacek Konieczny.
314
R David Murray875048b2011-07-20 11:41:21 -0400315- Issue #665194: email.utils now has format_datetime and parsedate_to_datetime
316 functions, allowing for round tripping of RFC2822 format dates.
317
Antoine Pitrouc57ed912011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200318- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
319 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
320 Linux 3.0.
321
R David Murray46346762011-07-18 21:38:54 -0400322- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
323 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
324
Benjamin Petersonddddcab2011-07-15 21:11:35 -0500325- Issue #12273: Remove ast.__version__. AST changes can be accounted for by
326 checking sys.version_info or sys._mercurial.
327
Antoine Pitroudc19c242011-07-16 01:51:58 +0200328- Silence spurious "broken pipe" tracebacks when shutting down a
329 ProcessPoolExecutor.
330
Antoine Pitroud06a0652011-07-16 01:13:34 +0200331- Fix potential resource leaks in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
332 by joining all queues and processes when shutdown() is called.
333
Antoine Pitrou8cdc40e2011-07-15 21:15:07 +0200334- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
335 Andreas Stührk.
336
Antoine Pitrou8391cf42011-07-15 21:01:21 +0200337- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
338 embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
339
Victor Stinnera7878b72011-07-14 23:07:44 +0200340- Issue #6755: Add get_wch() method to curses.window class. Patch by Iñigo
341 Serna.
342
Victor Stinnerd33344a2011-07-14 22:28:36 +0200343- Add cgi.closelog() function to close the log file.
344
Charles-François Natalif64f9e92011-07-14 20:00:49 +0200345- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
346
Victor Stinner66361212011-07-13 21:43:18 +0200347- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
348 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
349
Antoine Pitroucb4ae812011-07-13 21:07:49 +0200350- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
351 TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
352
Éric Araujo4468e552011-07-08 17:22:19 +0200353- Issue #12504: Close file handles in a timely manner in packaging.database.
354 This fixes a bug with the remove (uninstall) feature on Windows.
355
Éric Araujoce5fe832011-07-08 16:27:12 +0200356- Issues #12169 and #10510: Factor out code used by various packaging commands
357 to make HTTP POST requests, and make sure it uses CRLF.
358
Victor Stinner2cded9c2011-07-08 01:45:13 +0200359- Issue #12016: Multibyte CJK decoders now resynchronize faster. They only
360 ignore the first byte of an invalid byte sequence. For example,
361 b'\xff\n'.decode('gb2312', 'replace') gives '\ufffd\n' instead of '\ufffd'.
362
Victor Stinner7f53a502011-07-05 22:00:25 +0200363- Issue #12459: time.sleep() now raises a ValueError if the sleep length is
364 negative, instead of an infinite sleep on Windows or raising an IOError on
365 Linux for example, to have the same behaviour on all platforms.
366
Victor Stinnerd7772bc2011-07-05 14:31:28 +0200367- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
368 Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
369 of the script).
370
Victor Stinner2cfb6f32011-07-05 14:00:56 +0200371- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
372 if the process has only one pipe.
373
Victor Stinner8b0508e2011-07-04 02:43:09 +0200374- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
375 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
376
Victor Stinnere975af62011-07-04 02:08:50 +0200377- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
378 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
379
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200380- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
381 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
382 than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
383
Victor Stinner3663aba2011-07-04 01:27:37 +0200384- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
385 of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
386
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400387- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
388 conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent- headers.
389
Charles-François Natali778db492011-07-02 14:35:49 +0200390- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
391 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
392
Victor Stinner48b1ce52011-07-01 13:50:09 +0200393- Issue #12462: time.sleep() now calls immediatly the (Python) signal handler
394 if it is interrupted by a signal, instead of having to wait until the next
395 instruction.
396
Giampaolo Rodola'210e7ca2011-07-01 13:55:36 +0200397- Issue #12442: new shutil.disk_usage function, providing total, used and free
398 disk space statistics.
399
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200400- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
401 UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
402 also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode
403 to avoid encoding issues.
404
Victor Stinner12b8d142011-06-30 17:35:55 +0200405- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file
406 anymore to avoid encoding issues.
407
Victor Stinnere6c910e2011-06-30 15:55:43 +0200408- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available,
409 to read the Python script from the right encoding.
410
Victor Stinnerdc9b1ea2011-06-30 15:40:22 +0200411- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
412 encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
413
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700414- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
415 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
416 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
417 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
418 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
419 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
420 still possible to globally override the default by setting
421 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
422 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
Ned Deily044369f2011-06-28 20:08:34 -0700423 was built. Also, implement the same handling in packaging.
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700424
Benjamin Petersone90ec362011-06-27 16:22:46 -0500425- Issue #12422: In the copy module, don't store objects that are their own copy
426 in the memo dict.
427
Ross Lagerwallbc808222011-06-25 12:13:40 +0200428- Issue #12303: Add sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait() to the signal module.
429
Ross Lagerwalldbfb9b82011-06-25 10:02:37 +0200430- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
431 Kitada.
432
R David Murray749073a2011-06-22 13:47:53 -0400433- Issue #1874: email now detects and reports as a defect the presence of
434 any CTE other than 7bit, 8bit, or binary on a multipart.
435
Victor Stinnerf1512a22011-06-21 17:18:38 +0200436- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
437 variables, start with an empty environment.
438
Éric Araujo3e425ac2011-06-19 21:23:43 +0200439- Issue #11637: Fix support for importing packaging setup hooks from the
440 project directory.
441
442- Issue #6771: Moved the curses.wrapper function from the single-function
R David Murrayafc9a5e2011-06-18 20:21:09 -0400443 wrapper module into __init__, eliminating the module. Since __init__ was
444 already importing the function to curses.wrapper, there is no API change.
445
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400446- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header
R David Murraye5e366c2011-06-18 12:57:28 -0400447 passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail
448 if given binary unknown-8bit input.
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400449
R David Murrayc88bce12011-06-17 22:24:05 -0400450- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
451 times without error.
452
R David Murray05ff9902011-06-17 12:54:56 -0400453- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
454
Victor Stinnerf073dc22011-06-17 14:02:18 +0200455- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
456 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
457 written by Ezio Melotti.
458
Éric Araujo643cb732011-06-11 00:33:38 +0200459- Issue #12240: Allow multiple setup hooks in packaging's setup.cfg files.
460 Original patch by Erik Bray.
461
Benjamin Peterson703f7c42011-06-11 15:56:46 -0500462- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
463 functions.
464
Éric Araujo36050302011-06-10 23:52:26 +0200465- Issue #11595: Fix assorted bugs in packaging.util.cfg_to_args, a
466 compatibility helper for the distutils-packaging transition. Original patch
467 by Erik Bray.
468
Charles-François Natalia5293082011-06-11 18:58:24 +0200469- Issue #12287: In ossaudiodev, check that the device isn't closed in several
470 methods.
471
Benjamin Peterson9aa68e42011-06-10 12:29:40 -0500472- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
473
Éric Araujofa6cfbc2011-06-10 18:31:40 +0200474- Issue #12246: Warn and fail when trying to install a third-party project from
475 an uninstalled Python (built in a source checkout). Original patch by
476 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe.
477
R David Murray51fcb812011-06-09 15:52:31 -0400478- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
479
R David Murray0a9f16b2011-06-09 15:21:02 -0400480- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
481
R David Murrayf97c59a2011-06-09 12:34:07 -0400482- Issue #10424: Argparse now includes the names of the missing required
483 arguments in the missing arguments error message.
484
Vinay Sajip8168d102011-06-09 16:50:49 +0100485- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
486 a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
487
Brian Curtin9a82eaa2011-06-08 18:43:57 -0500488- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
489 instead of os.stat.
490
Charles-François Natali4dd453c2011-06-08 19:18:14 +0200491- Issue #12021: Make mmap's read() method argument optional. Patch by Petri
492 Lehtinen.
493
Antoine Pitroudd696492011-06-08 17:21:55 +0200494- Issue #9205: concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor now detects killed
495 children and raises BrokenProcessPool in such a situation. Previously it
496 would reliably freeze/deadlock.
497
Antoine Pitrou176f07d2011-06-06 19:35:31 +0200498- Issue #12040: Expose a new attribute ``sentinel`` on instances of
499 :class:`multiprocessing.Process`. Also, fix Process.join() to not use
500 polling anymore, when given a timeout.
501
Antoine Pitrouf068ab82011-06-06 19:17:09 +0200502- Issue #11893: Remove obsolete internal wrapper class ``SSLFakeFile`` in the
503 smtplib module. Patch by Catalin Iacob.
504
Mark Dickinson7ce0fa82011-06-04 18:14:23 +0100505- Issue #12080: Fix a Decimal.power() case that took an unreasonably long time
506 to compute.
507
Benjamin Peterson8c6f88e2011-05-31 20:52:17 -0500508- Issue #12221: Remove __version__ attributes from pyexpat, pickle, tarfile,
509 pydoc, tkinter, and xml.parsers.expat. This were useless version constants
510 left over from the Mercurial transition
511
Raymond Hettinger22cc1182011-06-02 23:49:44 -0700512- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
513
Victor Stinner1b5b9d72011-06-01 00:58:57 +0200514- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
515 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
516 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
517
Victor Stinner2a129742011-05-30 23:02:52 +0200518- Issue #12028: Make threading._get_ident() public, rename it to
Victor Stinner58ab7662011-05-30 23:23:50 +0200519 threading.get_ident() and document it. This function was already used using
Victor Stinner2a129742011-05-30 23:02:52 +0200520 _thread.get_ident().
521
Victor Stinnere15dce32011-05-30 22:56:00 +0200522- Issue #12171: IncrementalEncoder.reset() of CJK codecs (multibytecodec) calls
523 encreset() instead of decreset().
524
Tarek Ziade371df052011-05-30 18:55:32 +0200525- Issue #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.
526
Victor Stinnere15dce32011-05-30 22:56:00 +0200527- Issue #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module.
Charles-François Natalidaafdd52011-05-29 20:07:40 +0200528
Ned Deily59a33382011-05-28 03:09:33 -0700529- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
530 Patch by Mher Movsisyan.
531
Nadeem Vawda55b43382011-05-27 01:52:15 +0200532- Issue #1625: BZ2File and bz2.decompress() now support multi-stream files.
533 Initial patch by Nir Aides.
534
Victor Stinnerb57f1082011-05-26 00:19:38 +0200535- Issue #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.
536
Victor Stinnere9d44ccb2011-05-26 00:16:44 +0200537- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size
538 once.
539
Victor Stinnera80987f2011-05-25 22:47:16 +0200540- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
541
Victor Stinnerb79f28c2011-05-25 22:09:03 +0200542- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
543 if the file is closed.
544
Victor Stinnerd2780ae2011-05-25 22:51:16 +0200545- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
546 class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Wark.
547
548- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
549 ctypes.util._get_soname(). Patch by Sijin Joseph.
Senthil Kumaran656ce502011-05-26 00:24:38 +0800550
Victor Stinner6daa33c2011-05-25 01:41:22 +0200551- Issue #10818: Remove the Tk GUI and the serve() function of the pydoc module,
552 pydoc -g has been deprecated in Python 3.2 and it has a new enhanced web
553 server.
Victor Stinner383c3fc2011-05-25 01:35:05 +0200554
Charles-François Natali1f4560c2011-05-24 23:47:49 +0200555- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, read the data in one chunk to speed up large
556 reads and simplify code.
557
Victor Stinner1273b7c2011-05-24 23:37:07 +0200558- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
559 correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
560
Victor Stinnereb734f72011-05-24 22:24:11 +0200561- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
562 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
563 final argument is True.
564
Victor Stinner99c8b162011-05-24 12:05:19 +0200565- Issue #12049: Add RAND_bytes() and RAND_pseudo_bytes() functions to the ssl
566 module.
567
Tarek Ziadee1177d92011-05-23 19:07:56 +0200568- Issue #12125: fixed the failures under Solaris due to improper test cleanup.
569
Victor Stinner7870bdf2011-05-23 18:12:52 +0200570- Issue #6501: os.device_encoding() returns None on Windows if the application
571 has no console.
572
Tarek Ziade35173692011-05-22 22:09:55 +0200573- Issue #12132: Skip test_build_ext in case the xxmodule is not found.
574
Charles-François Natali1e045b12011-05-22 20:42:32 +0200575- Issue #12105: Add O_CLOEXEC to the os module.
576
Mark Dickinsonb455e582011-05-22 12:53:18 +0100577- Issue #12079: Decimal('Infinity').fma(Decimal('0'), (3.91224318126786e+19+0j))
578 now raises TypeError (reflecting the invalid type of the 3rd argument) rather
579 than Decimal.InvalidOperation.
580
Victor Stinner21809a62011-05-20 00:22:39 +0200581- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
582 to be able to unload the module.
583
Éric Araujo765e94f2011-06-03 17:26:59 +0200584- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as
585 distutils2).
Tarek Ziadeebbb14c2011-05-19 19:56:12 +0200586
Antoine Pitrou7a616f22011-05-18 18:52:20 +0200587- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
588 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
589
Antoine Pitroue0650202011-05-18 18:03:09 +0200590- Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
591 passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
592 Patch by Kasun Herath.
593
Ronald Oussoren5ee05672011-05-17 14:48:40 +0200594- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
595 with Tk 8.5.
596
Ronald Oussorenf4542eb2011-05-15 17:13:47 +0200597- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Ronald Oussoren447fcfb2011-05-15 16:50:28 +0200598 is set in shell.
599
Nadeem Vawda0c3d96a2011-05-15 00:19:50 +0200600- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
601 their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
602 larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
603 an incorrect result.
604
Nadeem Vawda7619e882011-05-14 14:05:20 +0200605- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
606 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
607
Antoine Pitrou7c404892011-05-13 00:13:33 +0200608- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
609 on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
610 writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
611 data, and writing again).
612
Antoine Pitrou3486a982011-05-12 01:57:53 +0200613- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
614 Patch by John O'Connor.
615
Kurt B. Kaisere1478062011-05-11 12:24:17 -0400616- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
617 With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
618 IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +0000619
Senthil Kumaran4de00a22011-05-11 21:17:57 +0800620- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
621 when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
622 by Yuval Greenfield.
623
Victor Stinner19474772011-05-11 00:14:28 +0200624- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
625 non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
626 binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
627 encoding of the script.
628
Antoine Pitrou1be815a2011-05-10 19:16:29 +0200629- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
630 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
631
Victor Stinner388196e2011-05-10 17:13:00 +0200632- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
633 instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.
634
Senthil Kumaranc7ae19b2011-05-09 23:25:02 +0800635- Issue #3709: a flush_headers method to BaseHTTPRequestHandler which manages
636 the sending of headers to output stream and flushing the internal headers
637 buffer. Patch contribution by Andrew Schaaf
638
Antoine Pitrou87cf2202011-05-09 17:04:27 +0200639- Issue #11743: Rewrite multiprocessing connection classes in pure Python.
640
Martin v. Löwis2f48d892011-05-09 08:05:43 +0200641- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
642
Victor Stinnerfa0e3d52011-05-09 01:01:09 +0200643- Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark
644 Dickinson.
645
Victor Stinner3de49192011-05-09 00:42:58 +0200646- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
647
Victor Stinnerd49b1f12011-05-08 02:03:15 +0200648- Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
649 instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to
650 wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.
651
Victor Stinnerb3e72192011-05-08 01:46:11 +0200652- Issue #8407: Add pthread_kill(), sigpending() and sigwait() functions to the
653 signal module.
654
Antoine Pitrouc1d52062011-05-07 19:39:37 +0200655- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
656 by Kasun Herath.
657
Giampaolo Rodola'24befa82011-05-07 19:09:34 +0200658- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
659
Ezio Melotti43432b82011-05-08 20:01:36 +0300660- Issue #11916: Add a number of MacOSX specific definitions to the errno module.
Ronald Oussoren97c3eb42011-05-07 09:59:03 +0200661 Patch by Pierre Carrier.
662
Ezio Melotti1c3fd582011-05-08 19:58:08 +0300663- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murraycaed7fe2011-05-06 22:07:19 -0400664 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
665 previous value of the mtime.
666
Giampaolo Rodola'd78def92011-05-06 19:49:08 +0200667- Issue #11072: added MLSD command (RFC-3659) support to ftplib.
668
Antoine Pitrou08728162011-05-06 18:49:52 +0200669- Issue #8808: The IMAP4_SSL constructor now allows passing an SSLContext
670 parameter to control parameters of the secure channel. Patch by Sijin
671 Joseph.
672
Ronald Oussoren6355c162011-05-06 17:11:07 +0200673- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
674 file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
675
Antoine Pitrou1c86b442011-05-06 15:19:49 +0200676- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any
677 dNSName entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName.
678 Patch by Nicolas Bareil.
679
Ezio Melottib4dc2502011-05-06 15:01:41 +0300680- Issue #10775: assertRaises, assertRaisesRegex, assertWarns, and
681 assertWarnsRegex now accept a keyword argument 'msg' when used as context
682 managers. Initial patch by Winston Ewert.
683
Ronald Oussoren136148e2011-05-06 11:17:40 +0200684- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
685 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
686 for the case.
687
Nick Coghlan0ded3e32011-05-05 23:49:25 +1000688- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support
689 more than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch
690 by Ysj Ray.
691
Alexander Belopolsky5611a1c2011-05-02 14:14:48 -0400692- Issue #11930: Removed deprecated time.accept2dyear variable.
693 Removed year >= 1000 restriction from datetime.strftime.
694
Victor Stinnercafa2ef2011-05-02 16:11:28 +0200695- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
696
Raymond Hettinger003be522011-05-03 11:01:32 -0700697- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
698
Victor Stinnera6cd0cf2011-05-02 01:05:37 +0200699- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
700 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
701
Victor Stinnera9293352011-04-30 15:21:58 +0200702- Issue #8407: Add signal.pthread_sigmask() function to fetch and/or change the
703 signal mask of the calling thread.
704
Łukasz Langa90759a22011-04-30 09:36:35 +0200705- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
706 names.
707
708- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
709
Antoine Pitrou15399c32011-04-28 19:23:55 +0200710- Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible. Patch
711 by Charles-François Natali.
712
Ezio Melotti935a5882011-04-27 10:17:34 +0300713- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
714 strings are too long.
715
Senthil Kumaran72387f92011-04-26 21:09:49 +0800716- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
717
Antoine Pitrouf6454512011-04-25 19:16:06 +0200718- Issue #11856: Speed up parsing of JSON numbers.
719
Victor Stinner762f8d12011-04-24 23:45:23 +0200720- Issue #11005: threading.RLock()._release_save() raises a RuntimeError if the
Victor Stinnerc2824d42011-04-24 23:41:33 +0200721 lock was not acquired.
722
Antoine Pitrou8c520272011-04-23 17:51:04 +0200723- Issue #11258: Speed up ctypes.util.find_library() under Linux by a factor
724 of 5 to 10. Initial patch by Jonas H.
725
Antoine Pitrou877509a2011-04-23 17:21:13 +0200726- Issue #11382: Trivial system calls, such as dup() or pipe(), needn't
727 release the GIL. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
728
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +0200729- Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about
730 the thread implementation.
731
R David Murray3edd22a2011-04-18 13:59:37 -0400732- Issue #11731: simplify/enhance email parser/generator API by introducing
733 policy objects.
734
Victor Stinner6c9b35b2011-04-18 16:25:56 +0200735- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
736 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
737 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
738
R David Murray01581ee2011-04-18 10:04:34 -0400739- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
740
Vinay Sajipe723e962011-04-15 22:27:17 +0100741- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
742
Raymond Hettinger019a97c2011-04-19 10:21:27 -0700743- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
744 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
745
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300746- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
Senthil Kumaran397eb442011-04-15 18:20:24 +0800747 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
748
Raymond Hettinger1c746c22011-04-15 13:16:46 -0700749- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
750
Senthil Kumaran2d2ea1b2011-04-14 13:16:30 +0800751- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
752 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
753
R David Murrayb35c8502011-04-13 16:46:05 -0400754- Issue #11684: complete email.parser bytes API by adding BytesHeaderParser.
755
Nadeem Vawdaccb16cb2011-04-13 07:35:29 +0200756- The bz2 module now handles 4GiB+ input buffers correctly.
757
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300758- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
759 _json is not available.
Alexander Belopolsky1a20c122011-04-12 23:03:39 -0400760
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300761- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300762
763- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +0800764 url contains #fragment.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300765
R David Murray3dd02d62011-04-12 21:02:45 -0400766- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
767 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
768
Victor Stinner4d652242011-04-12 23:41:50 +0200769- Issue #11186: pydoc ignores a module if its name contains a surrogate
770 character in the index of modules.
771
Antoine Pitroub7877f22011-04-12 17:58:11 +0200772- Issue #11815: Use a light-weight SimpleQueue for the result queue in
773 concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
774
brian.curtinf7eac1f2011-04-11 18:18:20 -0500775- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
776 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
777
Vinay Sajip4a0a31d2011-04-11 08:42:07 +0100778- logging.basicConfig now supports an optional 'handlers' argument taking an
779 iterable of handlers to be added to the root logger. Additional parameter
780 checks were also added to basicConfig.
781
Antoine Pitroubed9a5b2011-04-11 00:20:23 +0200782- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
783
Raymond Hettinger49353d02011-04-11 12:40:58 -0700784- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
785 difflib.unified_diff().
786
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +0200787- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
788 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
789 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
790
Ezio Melotti88fdeb42011-04-10 12:59:16 +0300791- Issue #2650: re.escape() no longer escapes the '_'.
792
Antoine Pitrou131a6412011-04-09 23:49:58 +0200793- Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative timeout
794 is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised). Patch
795 by Charles-François Natali.
796
Ezio Melotti2e3607c2011-04-07 22:03:31 +0300797- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
798
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200799- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +0200800 multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200801 bytes.
R David Murrayc5c14722011-04-06 08:13:02 -0400802
Éric Araujof7d08e82011-05-29 18:13:51 +0200803- Issue #1690608: email.util.formataddr is now RFC 2047 aware: it now has a
804 charset parameter that defaults to utf-8 and is used as the charset for RFC
R David Murray8debacb2011-04-06 09:35:57 -0400805 2047 encoding when the realname contains non-ASCII characters.
806
Ross Lagerwall4f61b022011-04-05 15:34:00 +0200807- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
808
Antoine Pitrou4ec4b0c2011-04-04 21:00:37 +0200809- Issue #10791: Implement missing method GzipFile.read1(), allowing GzipFile
810 to be wrapped in a TextIOWrapper. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
811
Raymond Hettinger7ab9e222011-04-05 02:33:54 -0700812- Issue #11707: Added a fast C version of functools.cmp_to_key().
813 Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
814
Antoine Pitrou5bfa0622011-04-04 00:12:04 +0200815- Issue #11688: Add sqlite3.Connection.set_trace_callback(). Patch by
816 Torsten Landschoff.
817
Antoine Pitrou9c254862011-04-03 18:15:34 +0200818- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
819 private keys.
820
Antoine Pitrou37dc5f82011-04-03 17:05:46 +0200821- Issue #5863: Rewrite BZ2File in pure Python, and allow it to accept
822 file-like objects using a new ``fileobj`` constructor argument. Patch by
823 Nadeem Vawda.
824
Ezio Melotti0f535012011-04-03 18:02:13 +0300825- unittest.TestCase.assertSameElements has been removed.
826
Victor Stinner27181ac2011-03-31 13:39:03 +0200827- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
828 called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
829
Victor Stinner024e37a2011-03-31 01:31:06 +0200830- Issue #11393: Add the new faulthandler module.
831
Antoine Pitrou7899acf2011-03-31 01:00:32 +0200832- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
833
R David Murray86cc82e2011-03-29 11:32:35 -0400834- Removed the 'strict' argument to email.parser.Parser, which has been
835 deprecated since Python 2.4.
836
Benjamin Peterson6a2638b2011-03-28 17:32:31 -0500837- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
838 arguments.
839
Martin v. Löwisf8d887e2011-03-27 21:05:51 +0200840- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
841
Raymond Hettinger5d446132011-03-27 18:52:10 -0700842- itertools.accumulate now supports an optional *func* argument for
843 a user-supplied binary function.
844
Ross Lagerwallf382ab22011-03-27 17:34:22 +0200845- Issue #11692: Remove unnecessary demo functions in subprocess module.
846
Mark Dickinson92b60d52011-03-27 16:25:40 +0100847- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
848 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
849
Mark Dickinsonccd22832011-03-27 15:46:32 +0100850- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
851 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
852 documentation.
853
Martin v. Löwisa6e0b4f2011-03-27 10:14:57 +0200854- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
Martin v. Löwis9bad3a92011-03-27 10:12:07 +0200855
Ross Lagerwallb8a57692011-03-26 21:19:57 +0200856- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
857 Patch by Ben Hayden.
858
Antoine Pitrouc13d4542011-03-26 19:29:44 +0100859- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
860 concurrent.futures.
861
Brett Cannon442c9b92011-03-23 16:14:42 -0700862- Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
863 to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
864 object originally came from.
865
Brett Cannona7468bc2011-03-23 16:06:00 -0700866- Issue #8754: Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.
867
Éric Araujoc09fca62011-03-23 02:06:24 +0100868- Issue #11591: Prevent "import site" from modifying sys.path when python
869 was started with -S.
870
Raymond Hettinger28dff612011-03-23 13:05:02 -0700871- collections.namedtuple() now adds a _source attribute to the generated
872 class. This make the source more accessible than the outdated
873 "verbose" option which prints to stdout but doesn't make the source
874 string available.
875
Éric Araujoeda55832011-03-21 00:09:07 +0100876- Issue #11371: Mark getopt error messages as localizable. Patch by Filip
877 Gruszczyński.
878
Raymond Hettingerc46759a2011-03-22 11:46:25 -0700879- Issue #11333: Add __slots__ to collections ABCs.
880
Éric Araujoc09fca62011-03-23 02:06:24 +0100881- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__.
Raymond Hettingera0d1d962011-03-21 17:50:28 -0700882
Raymond Hettinger1103d052011-03-25 14:15:24 -0700883- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
884 that start with a leading underscore.
885
Guido van Rossum20d2ab42011-03-29 12:58:29 -0700886- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
887 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
888
Victor Stinner628225c2011-03-21 02:38:51 +0100889- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
890 httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
891
Éric Araujo6a1454f2011-03-20 19:59:25 +0100892- Issue #4391: Use proper gettext plural forms in optparse.
893
Antoine Pitrou6d58d642011-03-20 23:56:36 +0100894- Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.
895
Senthil Kumaran799c6692011-03-20 09:26:57 +0800896- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
897 class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
898 contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
899
Antoine Pitrou877766d2011-03-19 17:00:37 +0100900- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
901 unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
902
Antoine Pitrou5e981412011-03-17 22:38:37 +0100903- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
904 arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -0400905
Ross Lagerwall7807c352011-03-17 20:20:30 +0200906- Issue #10812: Add some extra posix functions to the os module.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -0400907
908- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
909 setup and teardown.
910
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -0400911- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
912
R David Murraya2150232011-03-16 21:11:23 -0400913- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
914 the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
915
R David Murrayde912762011-03-16 18:26:23 -0400916- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
917 relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
918
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -0400919- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
920 which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line
921 of the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
922
Nick Coghlan35ec8a42011-03-16 14:18:29 -0400923- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -0400924 parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
925
Ross Lagerwallba102ec2011-03-16 18:40:25 +0200926- Issue #5870: Add `subprocess.DEVNULL` constant.
927
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -0400928- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
Benjamin Petersona78e4e62011-03-16 10:29:19 -0500929 execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -0400930
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -0400931- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
932 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
933 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
934
Antoine Pitrou2c50a092011-03-15 21:02:59 +0100935- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
936 not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
937 the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
938
Barry Warsaw1f5c9582011-03-15 15:04:44 -0400939- Issue #11289: `smtp.SMTP` class becomes a context manager so it can be used
940 in a `with` statement. Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola.
941
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -0400942- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
943 encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
944
briancurtin2ef76982011-03-15 11:51:28 -0400945- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
946 Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
947
Michael Foord1341bb02011-03-14 19:01:46 -0400948- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
949 Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
950
Antoine Pitroue8706232011-03-15 21:05:36 +0100951- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
Antoine Pitrou0e63f592011-03-15 21:08:50 +0100952 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussorenf2db4de2011-03-14 18:46:50 -0400953
briancurtin525c25d2011-03-14 16:03:54 -0400954- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with
955 the "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches
956 the documentation and general logic.
957
Éric Araujof7d08e82011-05-29 18:13:51 +0200958- Issue #1162477: Postel Principle adjustment to email date parsing: handle the
R David Murrayaccd1c02011-03-13 20:06:23 -0400959 fact that some non-compliant MUAs use '.' instead of ':' in time specs.
960
Mark Dickinson37a79fb2011-03-12 11:12:52 +0000961- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus
962 operations when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
963
Antoine Pitrou16c4ce12011-03-11 21:30:43 +0100964- Issue #9935: Speed up pickling of instances of user-defined classes.
965
Ned Deilyd2853182011-03-09 02:36:51 -0800966- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
967 initialization fails.
968
Antoine Pitrou125d5c82011-03-06 08:40:35 +0100969- Issue #11408: In threading.Lock.acquire(), only call gettimeofday() when
970 really necessary. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
971
Antoine Pitrou16a0a0b2011-03-06 01:11:03 +0100972- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
973 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
974 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
975
Giampaolo Rodolà3a9559b2011-03-04 12:54:34 +0000976- Issue #9795: add context manager protocol support for nntplib.NNTP class.
977
R. David Murray91221f22011-03-03 18:03:36 +0000978- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
979 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
980 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
981
Giampaolo Rodolà1bc75c62011-03-03 13:57:47 +0000982- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
983 on accept(), send() and recv().
984
Victor Stinner1dfd3802011-03-03 12:54:07 +0000985- Issue #11377: Deprecate platform.popen() and reimplement it with os.popen().
986
Victor Stinner7b3b20a2011-03-03 12:54:05 +0000987- Issue #8513: On UNIX, subprocess supports bytes command string.
988
Antoine Pitrou061cfb52011-02-28 22:25:22 +0000989- Issue #10866: Add socket.sethostname(). Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
990
Antoine Pitroufcf81fd2011-02-28 22:03:34 +0000991- Issue #11140: Lock.release() now raises a RuntimeError when attempting
992 to release an unacquired lock, as claimed in the threading documentation.
Antoine Pitrou8d0f2572011-02-28 22:06:48 +0000993 The _thread.error exception is now an alias of RuntimeError. Patch by
Antoine Pitrou819c40f2011-03-01 23:05:42 +0000994 Filip Gruszczyński. Patch for _dummy_thread by Aymeric Augustin.
Antoine Pitroufcf81fd2011-02-28 22:03:34 +0000995
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +0100996- Issue #8594: ftplib now provides a source_address parameter to specify which
Giampaolo Rodolà396ff062011-02-28 19:19:51 +0000997 (address, port) to bind to before connecting.
998
Antoine Pitroue93bf7a2011-02-26 23:24:06 +0000999- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1000 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1001
Raymond Hettinger9fe1ccf2011-02-26 01:02:51 +00001002- Issue #11297: Add collections.ChainMap().
1003
Antoine Pitrou8250e232011-02-25 23:41:16 +00001004- Issue #10755: Add the posix.fdlistdir() function. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1005
Antoine Pitrouf65132d2011-02-25 23:25:17 +00001006- Issue #4761: Add the *at() family of functions (openat(), etc.) to the posix
1007 module. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1008
Antoine Pitrou68e5c042011-02-25 23:07:44 +00001009- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
1010 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
1011
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001012- Issue #11291: poplib.POP no longer suppresses errors on quit().
Giampaolo Rodolà95bcb932011-02-25 22:28:24 +00001013
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001014- Issue #11177: asyncore's create_socket() arguments can now be omitted.
Giampaolo Rodolà103a6d62011-02-25 22:21:22 +00001015
Antoine Pitrou0bd4deb2011-02-25 22:07:43 +00001016- Issue #6064: Add a ``daemon`` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
1017 and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
1018 default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
1019 thread/process.
1020
Antoine Pitrou707ce822011-02-25 21:24:11 +00001021- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1022 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1023
Giampaolo Rodolà7e1b9af2011-02-25 21:00:10 +00001024- Issue #10784: New os.getpriority() and os.setpriority() functions.
1025
Antoine Pitrou211b81d2011-02-25 20:27:33 +00001026- Issue #11114: Fix catastrophic performance of tell() on text files (up
1027 to 1000x faster in some cases). It is still one to two order of magnitudes
1028 slower than binary tell().
1029
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001030- Issue #10882: Add os.sendfile function.
Giampaolo Rodolàc9c2c8b2011-02-25 14:39:16 +00001031
Éric Araujo6c3787c2011-02-24 18:03:10 +00001032- Issue #10868: Allow usage of the register method of an ABC as a class
1033 decorator.
1034
Lars Gustäbeldd071042011-02-23 11:42:22 +00001035- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
1036 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
1037 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
1038
Sean Reifscheidere2dfefb2011-02-22 10:55:44 +00001039- Issue #10924: Adding salt and Modular Crypt Format to crypt library.
1040 Moved old C wrapper to _crypt, and added a Python wrapper with
1041 enhanced salt generation and simpler API for password generation.
1042
Brett Cannonf3042782011-02-22 03:25:12 +00001043- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
1044
Raymond Hettinger158c9c22011-02-22 00:41:50 +00001045- Issue #11085: Moved collections abstract base classes into a separate
1046 module called collections.abc, following the pattern used by importlib.abc.
1047 For backwards compatibility, the names are imported into the collections
1048 module.
1049
Antoine Pitrouecc26922011-02-21 23:41:12 +00001050- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1051 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1052 32-bit Windows.
1053
Victor Stinner441cc012011-02-21 20:58:02 +00001054- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
1055 escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
1056
Raymond Hettingerddb52402011-02-21 19:42:11 +00001057- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinnerfd34b372011-02-21 20:51:28 +00001058 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingerddb52402011-02-21 19:42:11 +00001059
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +00001060- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
1061 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1062
Eli Bendersky9479d1a2011-03-04 05:34:58 +00001063- Issue #11388: Added a clear() method to MutableSequence
1064
Steven Bethard0331e902011-03-26 14:48:04 +01001065- Issue #11174: Add argparse.MetavarTypeHelpFormatter, which uses type names
1066 for the names of optional and positional arguments in help messages.
1067
Steven Bethard006ba5c2011-03-26 18:29:48 +01001068- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1069
Steven Bethardd8f2d502011-03-26 19:50:06 +01001070- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1071
Steven Bethardd186f992011-03-26 21:49:00 +01001072- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1073 their children.
1074
Steven Bethard8a6a1982011-03-27 13:53:53 +02001075- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1076
Steven Bethard7cb20a82011-04-04 01:53:02 +02001077- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1078
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001079Build
1080-----
1081
Antoine Pitrou37009202011-07-08 23:47:50 +02001082- Issue #11863: Remove support for legacy systems deprecated in Python 3.2
1083 (following PEP 11). These systems are systems using Mach C Threads,
1084 SunOS lightweight processes, GNU pth threads and IRIX threads.
1085
Ned Deily8b56c4b2011-06-28 00:13:01 -07001086- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1087 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1088 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1089 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1090
Éric Araujof5949b52011-06-09 14:10:07 +02001091- Issue #10645: Installing Python does no longer create a
1092 Python-X.Y.Z-pyX.Y.egg-info file in the lib-dynload directory.
1093
Brett Cannonc5011fe2011-06-06 20:09:10 -07001094- Do not accidentally include the directory containing sqlite.h twice when
1095 building sqlite3.
1096
Ned Deilye4eed062011-05-28 06:04:02 -07001097- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1098 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1099 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1100
Martin v. Löwis8ffaa102011-05-09 07:42:28 +02001101- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
Martin v. Löwis48e14d32011-05-09 07:37:45 +02001102
Thomas Wouters6b103432011-03-06 11:51:24 -08001103- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1104
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001105- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1106 package had previously been installed.
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001107
Jesus Cea736e7fc2011-03-14 17:36:54 +01001108- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001109
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001110
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001111IDLE
1112----
1113
1114- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1115 file in a package.
Jesus Cea736e7fc2011-03-14 17:36:54 +01001116
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001117Tools/Demos
1118-----------
1119
Victor Stinnere670c882011-05-13 17:40:15 +02001120- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
1121 add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
1122
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001123- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
1124
Jason R. Coombs1322bd42011-07-26 11:57:08 -04001125- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1126 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
Jason R. Coombs76eec3d2011-07-26 11:38:04 -04001127 "--newline" option added to specify new line character.
Jason R. Coombs1322bd42011-07-26 11:57:08 -04001128
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001129Extension Modules
1130-----------------
1131
Barry Warsaw2ebada42011-07-19 19:23:56 -04001132- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1133 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1134 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1135
Benjamin Peterson9e3e1c62011-05-31 19:07:45 -05001136- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
1137
Ezio Melotti13672652011-05-11 01:02:56 +03001138- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1139 objects using the C accelerations.
1140
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001141- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1142 objects using the C accelerations.
Benjamin Peterson1a07f072011-03-26 18:17:05 -05001143
1144- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1145 to an instance of the class.
1146
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001147Tests
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001148-----
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001149
Nadeem Vawda3c01d162011-08-01 23:48:26 +02001150- Issue #11651: Improve the Makefile test targets to run more of the test suite
1151 more quickly. The --multiprocess option is now enabled by default, reducing
1152 the amount of time needed to run the tests. "make test" and "make quicktest"
1153 now include some resource-intensive tests, but no longer run the test suite
1154 twice to check for bugs in .pyc generation. Tools/scripts/run_test.py provides
1155 as an easy platform-independent way to run test suite with sensible defaults.
1156
Éric Araujob85b9662011-07-31 20:47:47 +02001157- Issue #12331: The test suite for the packaging module can now run from an
1158 installed Python.
1159
Éric Araujoad548b82011-07-31 18:33:00 +02001160- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1161 Python.
1162
Antoine Pitrouf83e4ac2011-07-29 23:57:10 +02001163- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
1164 with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
1165 using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
1166 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
1167
Antoine Pitrou8dbd8572011-07-23 22:37:52 +02001168- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
1169 running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
1170 (or ``-G``) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
1171 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
1172
Ned Deilydac7de32011-07-19 16:18:11 -07001173- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
1174 (Patch by Robert Xiao)
1175
Antoine Pitrou428bc6c2011-07-15 22:15:38 +02001176- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
1177
Ned Deily07b35372011-07-13 15:09:49 -07001178- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1179 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1180
Antoine Pitrou13d7db12011-07-09 02:32:36 +02001181- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1182 failure in name resolution.
1183
Antoine Pitrou4a183b42011-07-08 19:44:55 +02001184- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1185 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1186 Web site.
1187
Antoine Pitrou88fcf1b2011-07-08 19:22:31 +02001188- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1189 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1190 is now skipped instead.
1191
Antoine Pitrou7128f952011-07-08 18:49:07 +02001192- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
1193 reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
1194 rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
1195
Brian Curtin6a4ffd72011-07-05 19:14:16 -05001196- Issue #11512: Add a test suite for the cgitb module. Patch by Robbie Clemons.
1197
Ned Deily368ff102011-07-04 19:11:14 -07001198- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
1199 tests.
1200
1201- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
Ned Deily4bd3e5d2011-07-04 17:51:48 -07001202 testcase failure in test_ssl.
1203
Victor Stinnerd554cdf2011-07-04 17:49:40 +02001204- Issue #12469: Run wakeup and pending signal tests in a subprocess to run the
1205 test in a fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal
1206 handling of the parent process.
1207
Ned Deilyefa384a2011-07-03 22:27:16 -07001208- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1209 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1210 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1211
Antoine Pitrou61600cb2011-06-30 20:04:06 +02001212- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
1213
Victor Stinnere2185d72011-06-29 13:04:35 +02001214- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
1215 the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
1216 error twice anymore if there is only one error.
1217
Ned Deily4a1ec122011-06-28 00:53:54 -07001218- Issue #12141: Install copies of template C module file so that
1219 test_build_ext of test_distutils and test_command_build_ext of
1220 test_packaging are no longer silently skipped when
1221 run outside of a build directory.
1222
Ned Deily8b56c4b2011-06-28 00:13:01 -07001223- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1224 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1225
Ned Deilyf6837aa2011-06-27 23:18:45 -07001226- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1227 2.8 + on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1228
Victor Stinner1eb6d272011-05-31 00:03:07 +02001229- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1230 iso2022_kr).
1231
Éric Araujo08ae8bb2011-05-26 17:06:47 +02001232- Issue #12180: Fixed a few remaining errors in test_packaging when no
1233 threading.
1234
1235- Issue #12120, #12119: skip a test in packaging and distutils
1236 if sys.dont_write_bytecode is set to True.
1237
Victor Stinner5f3b1c42011-05-18 00:20:18 +02001238- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
1239 written by Charles-François Natali.
1240
Victor Stinner118ed712011-05-16 16:35:35 +02001241- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
1242 Andreas Stührk.
1243
Ezio Melotti6b60fb92011-05-14 06:47:51 +03001244- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1245
Antoine Pitrou606c3f52011-05-09 21:17:02 +02001246- Issue #12041: Make test_wait3 more robust.
1247
R David Murray66a18fd2011-05-05 11:52:44 -04001248- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
1249 when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
1250
Victor Stinnerc90e19d2011-05-01 01:23:03 +02001251- Issue #11958: Fix FTP tests for IPv6, bind to "::1" instead of "localhost".
1252 Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1253
Victor Stinnera9293352011-04-30 15:21:58 +02001254- Issue #8407, #11859: Fix tests of test_io using threads and an alarm: use
1255 pthread_sigmask() to ensure that the SIGALRM signal is received by the main
1256 thread.
1257
Antoine Pitrou9c39f3c2011-04-28 19:18:10 +02001258- Issue #11811: Factor out detection of IPv6 support on the current host
1259 and make it available as ``test.support.IPV6_ENABLED``. Patch by
1260 Charles-François Natali.
1261
Antoine Pitrou72562d02011-04-25 21:22:04 +02001262- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
1263
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001264- Issue #11223: Skip test_lock_acquire_interruption() and
1265 test_rlock_acquire_interruption() of test_threadsignals if a thread lock is
1266 implemented using a POSIX mutex and a POSIX condition variable. A POSIX
1267 condition variable cannot be interrupted by a signal (e.g. on Linux, the
1268 futex system call is restarted).
1269
Antoine Pitrouf25a8de2011-04-16 21:02:01 +02001270- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
1271
Antoine Pitrouee429342011-04-16 18:53:59 +02001272- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
1273
Ross Lagerwall226580e2011-04-09 20:05:04 +02001274- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1275 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1276
Victor Stinnerd7edf3b2011-04-03 23:46:42 +02001277- Issue #11727: Add a --timeout option to regrtest: if a test takes more than
1278 TIMEOUT seconds, dumps the traceback of all threads and exits.
Victor Stinner0cc8d592011-03-31 18:10:13 +02001279
Antoine Pitroue44b1252011-03-23 23:02:31 +01001280- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
1281
R David Murray9aaba782011-03-21 17:17:06 -04001282- The email test suite now lives in the Lib/test/test_email package. The test
1283 harness code has also been modernized to allow use of new unittest features.
1284
1285- regrtest now discovers test packages as well as test modules.
1286
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001287- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
1288
Nick Coghlan49cb9592011-03-16 20:23:58 -04001289- New test_crashers added to exercise the scripts in the Lib/test/crashers
1290 directory and confirm they fail as expected
1291
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001292- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
R David Murraya88da672011-03-16 17:32:27 -04001293
Michael Foord07926f02011-03-16 17:19:16 -04001294- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1295
Nick Coghlan62ecb6a2011-05-31 19:40:11 +10001296- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py, increases granularity of
1297 string.Formatter tests. Initial patch by Alicia Arlen.
Nick Coghlan7462fa62011-03-16 14:30:45 -04001298
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001299- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
1300 Evan Dandrea.
1301
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001302- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
1303
Nick Coghlan252183e2011-03-16 14:37:06 -04001304- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
1305 Arlen
Nick Coghland25fd4d2011-03-15 08:54:37 +10001306
R David Murray384069c2011-03-13 22:26:53 -04001307- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1308 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1309
Antoine Pitroud3cccd22011-03-13 19:14:21 +01001310- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
1311 non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
1312
Victor Stinner096f1a82011-03-01 23:08:36 +00001313- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
1314 Pierre Quentel.
1315
Antoine Pitroud20a5f62011-02-26 15:58:05 +00001316- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
1317 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1318
Brett Cannoneeb114b2011-02-22 03:14:12 +00001319- Issue #10512: Properly close sockets under test.test_cgi.
1320
Brett Cannon7a540732011-02-22 03:04:06 +00001321- Issue #10992: Make tests pass under coverage.
1322
Antoine Pitrouce58dc72011-02-21 21:55:48 +00001323- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
1324 to open door files.
1325
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001326- Issue #10990: Prevent tests from clobbering a set trace function.
1327
Benjamin Peterson485119e2011-03-15 15:07:20 -05001328C-API
1329-----
1330
Benjamin Peterson8a021002011-05-25 09:27:43 -05001331- PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION has been removed, since it's meaningless with
1332 Mercurial.
Benjamin Peterson485119e2011-03-15 15:07:20 -05001333
Benjamin Peterson04778a82011-05-25 09:29:00 -05001334- Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const
Benjamin Petersonc556e102011-05-26 17:49:57 -05001335 char *` instead of `char *`.
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001336
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +03001337- Issue #12380: PyArg_ParseTuple now accepts a bytearray for the 'c' format.
1338
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +02001339Documentation
1340-------------
1341
1342- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
1343
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001344
1345What's New in Python 3.2?
1346=========================
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +00001347
1348*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001349
1350Core and Builtins
1351-----------------
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +00001352
1353- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +00001354
1355Build
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001356-----
1357
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +00001358- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
1359
1360- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1361
1362- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001363
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001364Documentation
1365-------------
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001366
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001367- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001368
1369
1370What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
1371=============================================
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +00001372
1373*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +00001374
1375Core and Builtins
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001376-----------------
1377
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +00001378- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +00001379
1380- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001381
1382- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
1383 ABI.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001384
1385- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +00001386
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001387Library
1388-------
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +00001389
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +00001390- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
1391 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001392
1393- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +00001394 compileall.compile_dir().
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001395
1396- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
1397
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001398- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
1399 by Stan Mihai.
1400
1401Build
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +00001402-----
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001403
1404- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001405 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
1406 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
1407 framework under share/doc.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001408
1409- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001410
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001411Tests
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001412-----
1413
1414- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +00001415 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001416
1417
1418What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
1419=============================================
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +00001420
1421*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
1422
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001423Core and Builtins
1424-----------------
1425
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +00001426- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1427 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1428
1429Library
1430-------
1431
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +00001432- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
1433 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
1434 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
1435 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +00001436 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
1437
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +00001438- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
1439 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
1440 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +00001441
1442- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
1443
1444- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +00001445 commands.
1446
1447- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
1448 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +00001449 obscured.
1450
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +00001451- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1452 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1453 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +00001454
1455- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
1456
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +00001457- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
1458 conversion.
1459
1460- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +00001461 with a None body.
1462
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +00001463- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
1464 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
1465 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +00001466
1467- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1468
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +00001469- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
1470 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +00001471
1472- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +00001473 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001474
1475- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +00001476
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001477- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001478
1479- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +00001480 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
1481 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
1482 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +00001483
1484- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1485
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +00001486- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1487 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1488
1489- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +00001490 a symbol named FSTAT.
1491
1492- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
1493 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
1494 of HTTP 1.1.
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +00001495
1496- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001497 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +00001498 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
1499 both incoming and outgoing direction.
1500
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +00001501- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1502 argparse.FileType.
1503
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +00001504- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
1505 during request handling.
1506
1507- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1508 argparse.
1509
1510Build
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001511-----
1512
1513- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +00001514 the system-provided Python.
1515
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001516
1517What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
1518============================================
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001519
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001520*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001521
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +00001522Core and Builtins
1523-----------------
1524
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001525- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001526 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
1527
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001528- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001529 class.
1530
1531- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +00001532 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +00001533 by Matt Bandy.
1534
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +00001535- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
1536 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
1537 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
1538
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +00001539- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
1540
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +00001541- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +00001542 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1543 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1544
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001545- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +02001546 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001547
1548- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +00001549 can now handle dates after 2038.
1550
1551- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +00001552 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
1553 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001554
1555- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
1556 encoding instead of UTF-8.
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +00001557
1558- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
1559
Benjamin Peterson62f8bcb2011-04-12 18:34:30 -05001560- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a
1561 SyntaxError.
1562
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001563Library
1564-------
1565
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001566- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
1567 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
1568 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +00001569
Ronald Oussoren6edd8c12011-05-17 13:03:54 +02001570- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1571 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1572
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001573- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1574 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1575 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +00001576
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001577- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
1578 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +00001579 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
1580 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001581
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001582- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +00001583
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001584- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
1585 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +00001586
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +00001587- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1588
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +00001589- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
1590 if available.
1591
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001592- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
1593 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +00001594
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001595- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001596 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
1597 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
1598 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
1599 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001600
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +00001601- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
1602 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
1603
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +00001604- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1605 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1606
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001607- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001608 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a BytesParser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001609 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001610
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001611- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding whitespace when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001612 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
1613 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
1614 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +00001615
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +00001616- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
1617 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
1618 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
1619 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
1620 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
1621 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +00001622
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +00001623- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1624 on an existing file.
1625
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +00001626- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1627 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1628
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +00001629- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
1630 compilation (if the input is a string).
1631
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001632- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +00001633 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001634
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +00001635- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
1636 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +00001637
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +00001638- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
1639 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
1640
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +00001641- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
1642 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
1643
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +00001644- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
1645 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
1646 2^32-1 bytes).
1647
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001648- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
1649 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +00001650
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001651- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
1652 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
1653 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +00001654
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +00001655- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
1656 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
1657
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +00001658- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
1659 few POSIX semaphores.
1660
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +00001661- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
1662 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
1663
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001664- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
1665 filenames.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +00001666
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +00001667- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
1668 David Daniels.
1669
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001670- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
1671 define __missing__().
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001672
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001673- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
1674 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
1675 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001676
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001677- Issue #10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
1678 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's request_uri
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001679 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
1680 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +00001681
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001682- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +00001683
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001684- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +00001685 browsers actually parse cookies.
1686
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001687- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
1688 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
1689 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +00001690
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +00001691- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +00001692
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001693- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
1694
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +00001695- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
1696
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +00001697- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
1698 ElementTree register_namespace().
1699
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +00001700- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
1701
1702- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
1703
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +00001704- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1705 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1706 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1707
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +00001708- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
1709 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
1710
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +00001711- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
1712 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
1713
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +00001714- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
1715
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +00001716- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
1717 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
1718
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +00001719- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
1720 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
1721
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +00001722- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1723
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +00001724- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001725
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001726C-API
1727-----
1728
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +00001729- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
1730 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
1731
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001732- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
1733 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001734
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001735Build
1736-----
1737
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001738- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
1739 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
1740 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +00001741
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +00001742- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
1743 scripts (#10679).
1744
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +00001745- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1746 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1747
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +00001748- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1749 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1750
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001751- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
1752 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
1753
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +00001754- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1755 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1756 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1757 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1758
Ronald Oussoren25032492011-03-14 10:11:59 -04001759- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1760 using GCC 4.0.
1761
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001762Tools/Demos
1763-----------
1764
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001765- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
1766 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
1767 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +00001768
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001769- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
1770 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
1771 Tools/demo subdirectory.
1772
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001773- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001774 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
1775 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001776
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001777Tests
1778-----
1779
Ezio Melotti8269a442011-05-09 07:15:04 +03001780- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1781
Nadeem Vawda58de6ee2011-04-19 01:38:47 +02001782- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1783
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +00001784- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1785 by Ross Lagerwall.
1786
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +00001787- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
1788
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +00001789- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
1790 Björn Lindqvist.
1791
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +00001792- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
1793 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
1794
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001795- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
1796 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
1797 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001798
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001799
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001800What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
1801================================
1802
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +00001803*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001804
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001805Core and Builtins
1806-----------------
1807
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +00001808- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
1809 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
1810
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001811- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
1812 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1813 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001814
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +00001815- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
1816 Daniel Urban.
1817
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001818Library
1819-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001820
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +00001821- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
1822 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
1823
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00001824- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
1825
1826- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
1827 up function.
1828
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +00001829- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
1830 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
1831
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +00001832- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
1833 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
1834
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +00001835- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
1836 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1837
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +00001838- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1839
1840- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +00001841 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1842
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +00001843- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1844 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1845
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001846- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
1847 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
1848
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +00001849- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1850 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001851
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +00001852- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1853 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1854
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +00001855- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1856
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +00001857- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
1858
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +00001859- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1860 causes debug mode to fail.
1861
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +00001862- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
1863 that contain non-ascii values.
1864
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001865- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +00001866 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
1867 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
1868 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
1869 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
1870
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001871- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1872
1873- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +00001874 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
1875 error handles are provided.
1876
1877- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
1878 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
1879 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001880
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +00001881- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1882 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1883 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1884
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001885Tests
1886-----
1887
1888- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1889 encountering them.
1890
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001891Tools/Demos
1892-----------
1893
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +00001894- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1895 Cocoa AquaTk.
1896
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +00001897- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
1898
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001899- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
1900 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
1901
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001902Build
1903-----
1904
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +00001905- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001906
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +00001907- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
1908
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001909
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001910What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
1911================================
1912
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001913*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001914
1915Core and Builtins
1916-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001917
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +00001918- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
1919 methods.
1920
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001921- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
1922 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +00001923
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001924- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
1925 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +00001926
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001927- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
1928
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001929- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
1930 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +00001931
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +00001932- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
1933
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001934- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00001935
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +00001936- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
1937
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001938- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
1939 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +00001940
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00001941- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
1942
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001943- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
1944 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
1945 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +00001946
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001947- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +00001948
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +00001949- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
1950 masking all errors.
1951
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001952Library
1953-------
1954
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +00001955- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
1956
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +00001957- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
1958 assertions about logging.
1959
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +00001960- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
1961
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +00001962- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
1963 UnicodeEncodeError.
1964
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +00001965- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
1966
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001967- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
1968 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +00001969
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +00001970- Add the "interact" pdb command.
1971
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +00001972- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
1973
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +00001974- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
1975
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001976- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
1977 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
1978
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +00001979- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
1980 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
1981 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
1982
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +00001983- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
1984
1985- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +00001986 names for running specific tests.
1987
1988- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
1989 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
1990 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
1991
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +00001992- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
1993 SSLError on socket timeouts.
1994
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +00001995- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
1996 messages from argparse.
1997
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +00001998- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1999
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +00002000- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2001 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2002 current process.
2003
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +00002004- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
2005
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +00002006- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2007
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +00002008- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
2009 Adam.
2010
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002011- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
2012 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +00002013
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +00002014- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2015
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002016- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
2017 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +00002018
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002019- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
2020 subprocess.
2021
2022- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
2023 module.
2024
2025- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
2026 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2027
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002028- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
2029 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002030
2031- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
2032
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002033- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002034 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002035
2036- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
2037 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +00002038
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +00002039- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
2040
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +00002041- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
2042 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
2043
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002044- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
2045 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
2046 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +00002047
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002048- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
2049 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +00002050
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +00002051- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2052
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +00002053- Added itertools.accumulate().
2054
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +00002055- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
2056 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
2057
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +00002058- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
2059 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
2060
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +00002061- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
2062
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002063- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
2064 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +00002065
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002066- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
2067 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +00002068
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002069- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
2070 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
2071 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +00002072
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002073- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
2074 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +00002075
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002076- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
2077 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +00002078
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +00002079- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2080
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002081- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
2082 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +00002083 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
2084
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00002085- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
2086 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +00002087
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +00002088- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
2089
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +00002090- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
2091
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +00002092- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +00002093 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2094
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +00002095- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2096 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2097
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +00002098- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
2099 when no extra arguments have been provided.
2100
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +00002101- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
2102 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
2103 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
2104
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002105- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
2106 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +00002107
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +00002108- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
2109 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
2110
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002111- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
2112 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +00002113
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +00002114- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
2115
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +00002116- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +00002117
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +00002118- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2119 end of the file.
2120
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002121- configparser: 100% test coverage.
2122
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002123- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
2124 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +00002125 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
2126 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
2127
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002128- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
2129 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
2130 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00002131
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002132- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
2133 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
2134
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002135- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
2136
2137- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
2138
2139- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
2140
2141- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
2142 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
2143
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002144- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
2145 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
2146 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002147
2148- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
2149 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
2150 values, and indentation.
2151
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002152- Issue #10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +00002153
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002154- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +00002155
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002156- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
2157 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
2158 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +00002159
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +00002160- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
2161
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +00002162- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
2163 version-specific online reference manual.
2164
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +00002165- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
2166
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +00002167- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
2168
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +00002169- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
2170 Patch by Robert Collins.
2171
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002172- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
2173 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +00002174
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002175C-API
2176-----
2177
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002178- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002179 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
2180 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002181
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002182- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
2183 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002184 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
2185 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002186
2187- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
2188 Schemenauer.
2189
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +00002190- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
2191
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002192- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
2193
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002194Tests
2195-----
2196
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002197- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002198 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +00002199
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002200- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
2201 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +00002202
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002203- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
2204 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +00002205
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002206- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
2207 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002208
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +00002209Build
2210-----
2211
2212- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
2213 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
2214
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00002215Documentation
2216-------------
2217
2218- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2219
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002220
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +00002221What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
2222=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002223
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +00002224*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002225
2226Core and Builtins
2227-----------------
2228
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +00002229- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
2230 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
2231
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002232- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
2233 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +00002234 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
2235
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002236- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +00002237
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +00002238- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
2239
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +00002240- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2241 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2242
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002243- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +00002244 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
2245
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +00002246- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
2247 of the offending line.
2248
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002249- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
2250 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +00002251
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002252- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
2253 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002254 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002255 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002256 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
2257
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002258- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
2259 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002260 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
2261
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +00002262- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2263 resolution.
2264
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002265- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
2266 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +00002267
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +00002268- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
2269 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
2270
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002271- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +00002272 descriptor.
2273
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00002274- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
2275 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
2276
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00002277- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
2278
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002279Library
2280-------
2281
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00002282- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
2283
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00002284- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
2285
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00002286- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
2287
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00002288- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2289
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002290- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
2291 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00002292
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002293- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
2294 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00002295
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002296- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
2297 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00002298
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002299- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002300 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00002301
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002302- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
2303 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00002304
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00002305- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
2306
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002307- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002308 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
2309 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002310 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
2311
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002312- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
2313 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
2314 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
2315 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002316
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002317- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
2318 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00002319
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00002320- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
2321
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002322- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
2323 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00002324
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00002325- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
2326 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
2327
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002328- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
2329 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00002330
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002331- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
2332 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
2333 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
2334 ASCII.
2335
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002336- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002337 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002338 Belopolsky.
2339
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002340- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2341 --enable-shared.
2342
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00002343- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2344 Arfrever.
2345
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00002346- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2347
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00002348- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2349 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2350
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00002351- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
2352 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
2353
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002354- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
2355 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00002356
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00002357- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
2358
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00002359- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
2360
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002361- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
2362 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00002363
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00002364- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
2365 response, instead of raising an exception.
2366
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002367- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
2368 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002369 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
2370 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
2371 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002372
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002373- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
2374 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00002375
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00002376- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
2377
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002378- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
2379 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00002380
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00002381- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2382
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002383- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
2384 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00002385
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002386- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
2387 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00002388
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00002389- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
2390
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00002391- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2392
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002393- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
2394 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00002395
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002396- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
2397 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00002398
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002399- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
2400 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00002401
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00002402- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2403 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2404
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002405- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
2406 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00002407
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00002408- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
2409
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00002410- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
2411
2412- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
2413
2414- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
2415
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002416- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
2417 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00002418
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002419- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002420 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
2421 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002422
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002423- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
2424 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00002425
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00002426- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
2427
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002428- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
2429 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00002430
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00002431- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2432 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2433 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2434
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00002435- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
2436
2437- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00002438
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00002439- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2440
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002441- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
2442 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00002443
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00002444- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
2445 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
2446
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002447- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
2448 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
2449 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00002450
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00002451- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
2452
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002453- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00002454
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00002455- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
2456
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00002457- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
2458
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00002459- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
2460
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00002461- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2462
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00002463- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
2464 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
2465
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002466- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
2467 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
2468 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00002469
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00002470- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
2471 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
2472
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00002473- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
2474 switch to python-config for command line access.
2475
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00002476- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2477
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00002478- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2479 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2480
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002481- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002482 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002483
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00002484- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00002485 debugging in doctests.
2486
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002487- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
2488 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00002489
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002490- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
2491 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00002492
2493- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002494 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002495 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
2496 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002497
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00002498- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2499 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2500 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2501
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002502- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
2503 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
2504 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00002505
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002506- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002507 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
2508 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002509
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00002510- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2511 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2512
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002513- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00002514
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00002515- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
2516
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002517- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2518
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002519Extension Modules
2520-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002521
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00002522- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
2523 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
2524
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00002525- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
2526
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00002527- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
2528
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00002529- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
2530
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00002531- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
2532
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00002533- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
2534
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00002535- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2536
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002537- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
2538 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00002539
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002540- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
2541 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
2542 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00002543
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00002544- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
2545
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002546C-API
2547-----
2548
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002549- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002550 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002551
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002552- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
2553 type has been introduced.
2554
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002555Tools/Demos
2556-----------
2557
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002558- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
2559 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
2560 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00002561
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002562- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2563
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002564Tests
2565-----
2566
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002567- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
2568 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00002569
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00002570- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
2571
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002572- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
2573 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002574
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002575Build
2576-----
2577
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00002578- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
2579
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00002580- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2581
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00002582- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
2583
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002584- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
2585
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00002586- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
2587
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002588- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
2589 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00002590
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002591
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002592What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
2593=================================
2594
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00002595*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002596
2597Core and Builtins
2598-----------------
2599
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00002600- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2601 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2602
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002603- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002604 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002605
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002606- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
2607 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
2608 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00002609
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00002610- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
2611 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
2612
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00002613- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
2614
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002615- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002616 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
2617 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002618
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002619- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002620 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002621
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00002622- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
2623
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00002624- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
2625 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
2626
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002627- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
2628 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00002629
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002630- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002631 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002632
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00002633- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
2634
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002635- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
2636 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
2637 Py_Initialize().
2638
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002639- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
2640 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00002641
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00002642- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
2643 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
2644
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002645- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002646 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00002647
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002648- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2649 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2650 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2651 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
2652 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
2653 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00002654
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00002655- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
2656 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
2657 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
2658
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00002659- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
2660 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
2661 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
2662
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002663- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
2664 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00002665
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00002666- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
2667 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
2668 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
2669
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002670- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
2671 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
2672 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
2673 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00002674
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00002675- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
2676 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
2677 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
2678
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00002679- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2680 thread-local storage key.
2681
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002682Library
2683-------
2684
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00002685- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2686
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002687- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2688
2689- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2690
2691- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2692 not in build_clib.
2693
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00002694- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2695
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00002696- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
2697 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
2698
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00002699- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
2700 verification for higher-level protocols.
2701
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00002702- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2703 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2704
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00002705- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2706 gettext.
2707
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00002708- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002709 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002710 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002711 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
2712 directly.
2713
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00002714- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2715 gname field.
2716
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002717- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
2718 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00002719
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00002720- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2721 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2722
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002723- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
2724 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00002725
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002726- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
2727 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00002728
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002729- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
2730 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
2731 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00002732
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00002733- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
2734
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002735- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002736 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
2737 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
2738 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002739
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00002740- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
2741
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002742- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002743 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
2744 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
2745 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002746
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002747- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2748
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002749- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2750
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00002751- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2752
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00002753- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
2754 in ntpath.
2755
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00002756- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2757
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002758- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
2759 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00002760
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00002761- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
2762 performance-critical threads.
2763
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00002764- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
2765
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002766- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
2767
2768- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
2769
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00002770- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
2771
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00002772- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
2773 object, only munmap().
2774
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002775- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
2776 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00002777
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00002778- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
2779 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
2780 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
2781
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00002782- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
2783
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002784- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002785 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
2786 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002787
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00002788- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
2789 another kind.
2790
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00002791- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
2792
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002793- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00002794
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002795- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
2796 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00002797
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002798- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
2799 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
2800 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00002801
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002802- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
2803 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00002804
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002805- Issue #9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002806 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00002807
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00002808- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
2809
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00002810- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00002811
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00002812- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2813 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2814
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002815- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
2816 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00002817
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002818- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002819 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
2820 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002821 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
2822 in the first place.
2823
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002824- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
2825 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002826 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002827
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002828- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
2829 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
2830 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
2831 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00002832
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002833- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
2834 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
2835 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00002836
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002837- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
2838 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00002839
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00002840- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
2841 multiprocessing.
2842
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002843- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
2844 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
2845 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00002846
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00002847- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
2848 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
2849 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
2850
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002851- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
2852 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
2853 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
2854 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00002855
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002856- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
2857 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
2858 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00002859
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002860- Updates to the random module:
2861
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002862 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
2863 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002864
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002865 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
2866 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
2867 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002868
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002869 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
2870 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
2871 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002872
2873 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00002874
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002875- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
2876 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00002877
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002878- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
2879 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
2880 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00002881
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002882- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
2883 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
2884 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00002885
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00002886- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
2887
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002888- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002889 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
2890 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002891
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00002892- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
2893 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
2894 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
2895 algorithms available in the current process.
2896
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00002897- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
2898
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002899C-API
2900-----
2901
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00002902- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
2903
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002904- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
2905 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
2906 defined.
2907
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002908Tools/Demos
2909-----------
2910
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002911- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
2912 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
2913 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002914
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002915Tests
2916-----
2917
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00002918- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
2919 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
2920
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002921- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
2922 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00002923
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00002924- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2925 in test_os)
2926
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00002927- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
2928 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
2929
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00002930- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
2931
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002932- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
2933 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00002934
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00002935- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2936
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00002937- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
2938
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002939- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2940 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2941
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00002942- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2943
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002944Build
2945-----
2946
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00002947- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
2948
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002949- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
2950 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00002951
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00002952- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2953
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00002954- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
2955
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00002956- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2957
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002958- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
2959 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00002960
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002961- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
2962 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00002963
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00002964- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
2965 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
2966 defined by PEP 3149.
2967
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002968- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
2969 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00002970
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002971- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2972 Sablé.
2973
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00002974- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2975 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2976 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2977
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002978
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002979What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
2980=================================
2981
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00002982*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002983
2984Core and Builtins
2985-----------------
2986
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002987- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
2988 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
2989 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00002990
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00002991- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
2992 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
2993
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002994- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
2995 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00002996
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002997- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
2998 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00002999
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003000- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
3001 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
3002 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00003003
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00003004- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
3005 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
3006
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003007- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
3008 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00003009
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00003010- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
3011
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00003012- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
3013
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003014- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
3015 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00003016
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003017- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
3018 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00003019
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00003020- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
3021 filesystem encoding.
3022
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00003023- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
3024 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
3025 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
3026 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
3027 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
3028
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00003029- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
3030 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
3031 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
3032 function.
3033
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00003034- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
3035
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00003036- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
3037
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003038- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
3039 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00003040
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003041- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
3042 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00003043 sys.stderr.
3044
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003045- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003046 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
3047 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003048
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003049- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
3050 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
3051 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00003052
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003053- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
3054 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003055
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003056- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
3057 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00003058
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003059- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00003060
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003061- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
3062 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00003063
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003064- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
3065 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00003066
3067 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
3068 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
3069
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00003070Extension Modules
3071-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003072
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00003073- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
3074 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
3075 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
3076 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
3077 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
3078
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00003079- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
3080 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
3081
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00003082- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
3083 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3084
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003085- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
3086 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00003087
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003088- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
3089 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
3090 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00003091
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003092- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
3093 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
3094 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00003095
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003096- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
3097 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00003098
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00003099- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
3100 Matthew Ahrens.
3101
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003102- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
3103 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00003104
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003105- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
3106 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00003107
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00003108- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
3109
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003110- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
3111 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00003112
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003113- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
3114 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00003115
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00003116- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00003117
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00003118- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
3119
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003120- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
3121 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00003122
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003123- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
3124 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00003125
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003126- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
3127 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00003128
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003129- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
3130 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00003131
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00003132- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
3133
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003134- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
3135 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00003136
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00003137- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
3138 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
3139
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00003140- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
3141
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003142- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
3143 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003144
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003145Library
3146-------
3147
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003148- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
3149 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
3150 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00003151
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003152- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
3153 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00003154
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003155- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00003156
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003157- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
3158 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00003159
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00003160- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
3161 ConfigParser.write.
3162
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003163- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
3164 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003165 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
3166 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003167
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003168- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
3169 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00003170
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003171- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00003172 circumstances.
3173
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003174- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
3175 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00003176
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003177- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
3178 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00003179
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00003180- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
3181 falling into recursion.
3182
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00003183- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
3184 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
3185
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00003186- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
3187 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00003188
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003189- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
3190 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00003191
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003192- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003193 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
3194 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003195
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003196- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003197 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003198
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00003199- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
3200
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003201- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00003202
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003203- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
3204 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00003205
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00003206- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
3207 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
3208
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00003209- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
3210
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003211- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
3212 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00003213
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003214- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
3215 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00003216
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003217- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
3218 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00003219 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
3220 structure.
3221
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00003222- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
3223 single keyword arguments.
3224
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003225- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
3226 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00003227
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003228- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
3229 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00003230
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003231- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003232 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003233
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003234- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
3235 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003236
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00003237- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
3238
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003239- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
3240 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3241
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00003242- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
3243 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3244
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003245- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003246 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
3247 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003248
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003249- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
3250 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00003251
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003252- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
3253 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
3254 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00003255
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003256- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
3257 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
3258 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00003259
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003260- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
3261 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
3262 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
3263 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00003264
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003265- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003266 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
3267 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003268
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003269- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00003270 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
3271
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003272- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
3273 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00003274
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00003275- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
3276 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
3277
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003278- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
3279 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
3280 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00003281
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003282- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00003283 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
3284 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003285
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003286- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
3287 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
3288 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00003289
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00003290- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
3291
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003292- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
3293 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00003294
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003295- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
3296 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00003297
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003298- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
3299 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
3300 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00003301
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003302- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
3303 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00003304
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003305- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
3306 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00003307
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003308- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
3309 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003310
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003311- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
3312 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003313
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003314- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
3315 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00003316
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003317- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
3318 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00003319
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00003320- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
3321 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
3322
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00003323- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
3324 across devices.
3325
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00003326- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
3327
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00003328- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
3329
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00003330- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
3331
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00003332- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
3333
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00003334- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
3335 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00003336
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00003337- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
3338
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00003339- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
3340 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
3341
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003342- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
3343 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00003344
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003345- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
3346 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00003347
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00003348- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
3349
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00003350- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00003351
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003352Tools/Demos
3353-----------
3354
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00003355- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
3356
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003357- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
3358 non-ASCII content.
3359
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003360Tests
3361-----
3362
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003363- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
3364
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00003365- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3366
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00003367- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3368
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00003369- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3370
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00003371- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3372 Michele Orrù.
3373
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003374- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
3375
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003376Build
3377-----
3378
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00003379- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
3380
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003381- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
3382
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003383- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
3384 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00003385
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00003386- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3387 Sébastien Sablé.
3388
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003389- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
3390
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003391
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003392What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
3393=================================
3394
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003395*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003396
3397Core and Builtins
3398-----------------
3399
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00003400- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
3401
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00003402- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
3403 compiler.
3404
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00003405- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
3406
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003407- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003408 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
3409 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
3410 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
3411 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
3412 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
3413 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003414
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003415- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
3416 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00003417
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00003418- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
3419
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00003420- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
3421 objects, as described in the documentation.
3422
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003423- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003424 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00003425 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003426
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003427- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
3428 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
3429 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00003430
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003431- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003432 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003433 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003434 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003435
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00003436- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
3437 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
3438
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003439- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003440 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003441 string formats.
3442
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003443- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00003444 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
3445 location of the raised exception.
3446
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00003447- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
3448 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
3449
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00003450- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3451
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003452- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
3453 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
3454 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00003455
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003456- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
3457 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
3458 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
3459 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00003460
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00003461- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
3462 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
3463 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
3464
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003465- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
3466 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003467
3468- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003469 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003470 like bytearray.
3471
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003472- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00003473 used anymore and it was never documented.
3474
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003475- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00003476
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003477- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
3478 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00003479
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003480- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
3481 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
3482 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
3483 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00003484
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003485- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3486 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003487 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
3488 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
3489 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
3490 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003491
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00003492- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
3493 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
3494
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003495- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003496 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003497 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003498
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003499- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
3500 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00003501
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003502- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
3503 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003504 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00003505 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003506
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003507- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003508 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003509
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003510- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003511 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003512 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
3513
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003514- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003515 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
3516 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003517
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00003518- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3519
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003520- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00003521
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003522- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
3523 arguments.
3524
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003525- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003526 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
3527 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003528
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003529- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003530 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003531
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003532- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
3533 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00003534
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003535- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003536 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
3537 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
3538 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003539
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00003540- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3541 passed to bytes or bytearray.
3542
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00003543- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3544
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00003545- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3546 changed.
3547
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003548- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
3549 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
3550 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00003551
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00003552- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3553
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00003554- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
3555
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00003556- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3557
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003558- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3559 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00003560
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003561- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003562 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003563
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003564- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00003565
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003566- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003567 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003568
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00003569- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
3570 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
3571 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
3572 comparisons with complex.
3573
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003574- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
3575 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003576 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003577
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00003578- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
3579
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003580- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3581 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00003582
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003583- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3584 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00003585
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00003586- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
3587
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003588- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
3589 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00003590
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003591- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003592 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003593
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003594- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3595 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00003596
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003597- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
3598 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00003599
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003600- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003601 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
3602 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003603
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003604- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
3605 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00003606
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003607- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3608 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00003609
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003610- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
3611 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
3612 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3613 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00003614
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003615- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
3616 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
3617 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00003618
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003619- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003620 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
3621 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
3622 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
3623 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
3624 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003625
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003626- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
3627 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
3628 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00003629
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003630- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3631 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
3632 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
3633 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
3634 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
3635 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00003636
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00003637- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
3638 consistent with other special methods.
3639
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00003640- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3641 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3642
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00003643- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3644 AttributeError.
3645
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003646- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3647 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00003648
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003649- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3650 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3651 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3652 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00003653
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003654- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
3655 executables on OSX.
3656
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003657 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3658 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3659 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003660
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003661- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3662 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00003663
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00003664- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
3665 with invalid values.
3666
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00003667- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
3668 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
3669
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003670- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3671 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00003672
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00003673- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3674
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00003675- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
3676 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
3677
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003678- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
3679 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
3680 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
3681 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
3682 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00003683
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003684- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
3685 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00003686
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00003687- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
3688 surrogates.
3689
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00003690- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
3691
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00003692- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3693
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00003694- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
3695 disabled since Python 3.0.
3696
3697- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
3698 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
3699 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
3700
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003701- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003702 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003703
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00003704- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
3705
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00003706- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
3707 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3708 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
3709
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00003710- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00003711 support.
3712
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003713- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3714 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003715
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003716- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3717 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3718 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00003719
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003720- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
3721 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00003722
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00003723- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3724 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3725 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3726 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3727
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003728- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3729 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00003730
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003731- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
3732 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00003733
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00003734- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
3735
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00003736- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
3737
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00003738- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
3739
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00003740- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3741
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003742- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
3743 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00003744
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00003745- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
3746
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00003747- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
3748
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00003749- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
3750 occurred in the argument chain.
3751
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003752- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3753 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00003754
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00003755- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3756
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003757- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
3758 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00003759
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00003760- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
3761
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003762- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3763 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3764 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00003765
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003766- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
3767 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00003768
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00003769- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3770
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003771- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
3772 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00003773
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003774- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
3775 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00003776
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003777- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
3778 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
3779 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00003780
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00003781- Code objects now support weak references.
3782
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003783- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003784
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003785- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003786 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
3787 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003788
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003789C-API
3790-----
3791
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00003792- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
3793 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
3794 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
3795
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00003796- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
3797 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
3798 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
3799
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003800- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
3801 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
3802 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00003803 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3804
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003805- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
3806 strings in an efficient manner.
3807
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003808- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003809 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3810 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003811
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003812- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
3813 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00003814
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00003815- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
3816 has '\0' at the end.
3817
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003818- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003819 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
3820 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
3821 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003822 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
3823
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003824- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00003825
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003826- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
3827 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00003828
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003829- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3830 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00003831
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003832- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
3833 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
3834 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00003835
3836- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00003837
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003838- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
3839
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00003840- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3841 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3842
3843- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3844 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3845
3846- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3847 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3848
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003849- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3850 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3851 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3852 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00003853
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003854Library
3855-------
3856
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003857- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
3858 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00003859
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003860- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
3861 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
3862 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00003863
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003864- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
3865 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003866
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003867- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
3868 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003869
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003870- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
3871 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003872
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003873- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
3874 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00003875
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003876- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
3877 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00003878
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003879- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
3880 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00003881
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003882- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
3883 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00003884
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003885- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
3886 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00003887
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003888- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
3889 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00003890
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00003891- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
3892
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003893- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
3894 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
3895 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00003896
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003897- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
3898 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00003899
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003900- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00003901 entries, consider the first one.
3902
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00003903- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
3904 string.Template class.
3905
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003906- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
3907 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00003908
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003909- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
3910 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00003911
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00003912- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
3913
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00003914- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
3915
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003916- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
3917 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00003918
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003919- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003920 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
3921 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003922
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003923- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00003924
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003925- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
3926 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00003927 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
3928 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003929 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
3930 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00003931
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00003932- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
3933
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003934- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00003935 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
3936 XML-RPC request.
3937
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003938- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
3939 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
3940 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00003941
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003942- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
3943 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
3944 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
3945 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
3946 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
3947 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00003948
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003949- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00003950
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003951- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
3952 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00003953
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003954- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
3955 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00003956
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00003957- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
3958 parameters.
3959
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003960- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
3961 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00003962
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003963- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
3964 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00003965
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00003966- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
3967
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00003968- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
3969
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003970- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
3971 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00003972
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00003973- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
3974
3975- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00003976
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00003977- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
3978
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003979- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
3980 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
3981 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00003982
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003983- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
3984 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
3985 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00003986
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00003987- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
3988
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00003989- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
3990
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00003991- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
3992
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003993- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
3994 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
3995 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00003996
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00003997- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
3998 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
3999
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004000- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
4001 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004002
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004003- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
4004 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00004005
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00004006- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
4007 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
4008
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004009- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00004010 raises an exception.
4011
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004012- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004013 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
4014 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004015
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00004016- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
4017 for removal in Python 3.4.
4018
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004019- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
4020 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00004021
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004022- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
4023 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00004024
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004025- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
4026 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00004027
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004028- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
4029 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00004030 deallocation while the object is still being used.
4031
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004032- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004033 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004034 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
4035
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004036- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00004037 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
4038
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004039- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
4040 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00004041
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004042- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
4043 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00004044
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00004045- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
4046
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004047- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
4048 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
4049
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004050- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
4051 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
4052 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
4053 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
4054 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00004055
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004056- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
4057 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00004058
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00004059- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00004060
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00004061- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
4062
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004063- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
4064 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00004065
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00004066- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
4067 mistake.
4068
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004069- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
4070 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004071 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00004072
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00004073- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
4074 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
4075
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004076- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
4077 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
4078 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00004079
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00004080- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
4081 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
4082
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00004083- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
4084
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004085- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
4086 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004087 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004088
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004089- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
4090 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00004091
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004092- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004093 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004094
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004095- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004096 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
4097 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004098
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00004099- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
4100 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
4101 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00004102
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004103- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004104 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004105
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00004106- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
4107 of files without one.
4108
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00004109- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
4110 comparing to a non-mapping.
4111
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004112- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004113 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004114
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004115- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
4116 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
4117 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00004118
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00004119- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
4120
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00004121- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
4122 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
4123 stdout is not a TTY).
4124
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00004125- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
4126 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
4127 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
4128 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
4129
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00004130- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
4131 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
4132
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00004133- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
4134 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
4135
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00004136- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
4137
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00004138- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004139 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00004140
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00004141- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
4142
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004143- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
4144 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00004145
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004146- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
4147 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00004148
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00004149- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
4150 class.
4151
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00004152- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
4153 given.
4154
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00004155- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
4156 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
4157
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004158- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
4159 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00004160
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00004161- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
4162 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
4163 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
4164 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00004165
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004166- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
4167
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004168- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
4169 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
4170 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
4171 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004172
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00004173- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
4174 Patch by Tres Seaver.
4175
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00004176- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004177 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00004178
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00004179- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
4180
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004181- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
4182 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00004183
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004184- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
4185 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
4186 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
4187 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
4188 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00004189
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004190- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004191 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
4192 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004193
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00004194- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
4195 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
4196
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004197- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
4198 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00004199
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00004200- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00004201 webbrowser.get("safari").
4202
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004203- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
4204 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00004205
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004206- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
4207 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00004208
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00004209- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
4210
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00004211- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
4212 It should correctly return an empty response now.
4213
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00004214- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
4215
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00004216- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
4217 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
4218
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00004219- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
4220 and mappings.
4221
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004222- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
4223 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
4224 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
4225 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00004226
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004227- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
4228 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
4229 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00004230
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004231- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
4232 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
4233
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004234- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
4235 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004236
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004237- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
4238 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00004239
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004240- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
4241 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004242 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004243
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004244- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00004245
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004246- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
4247 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
4248 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00004249
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004250- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
4251 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00004252 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
4253 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
4254
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00004255- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
4256 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4257
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00004258- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
4259 collation name contains a surrogate character.
4260
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004261- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
4262 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
4263 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00004264
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00004265- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
4266
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004267- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00004268
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00004269- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
4270 from PORT/EPRT commands.
4271
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00004272- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
4273
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004274- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
4275 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00004276
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004277- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
4278 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00004279
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00004280- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
4281 surrogates.
4282
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004283- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00004284 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004285
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00004286- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
4287 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
4288
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00004289- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
4290 the current working directory.
4291
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004292- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004293 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004294
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004295- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00004296
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00004297- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
4298 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
4299
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00004300- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
4301
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004302- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004303 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004304 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004305
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004306- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
4307 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004308 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004309
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004310- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004311 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
4312 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004313
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004314- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004315 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
4316 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004317
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00004318- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
4319 present before it cleans them.
4320
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004321- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
4322 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00004323
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004324- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004325 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
4326 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004327
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00004328- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
4329
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004330- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
4331 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00004332
4333 >>> Decimal(1.1)
4334 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
4335
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004336- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
4337 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00004338
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004339- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
4340 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
4341 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
4342 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004343
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004344- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
4345 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
4346 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
4347 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
4348 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004349
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00004350- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
4351
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004352- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004353 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
4354 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
4355 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004356
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004357- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
4358 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004359 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004360
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004361- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
4362 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
4363 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
4364 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00004365
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004366- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
4367 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
4368 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00004369
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00004370- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
4371 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
4372
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004373- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004374 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
4375 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004376
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004377- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
4378 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00004379
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00004380- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
4381 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
4382 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00004383
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00004384- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
4385 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
4386 (utf8) encoding.
4387
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00004388- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
4389
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00004390- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
4391
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00004392- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
4393
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00004394- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
4395 detected.
4396
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00004397- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
4398
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00004399- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
4400 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
4401
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004402- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00004403
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004404- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
4405 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00004406
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004407- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
4408 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
4409 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00004410
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004411- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
4412 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
4413 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
4414 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00004415
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00004416- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
4417 cElementTree module is updated too.
4418
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004419- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004420 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
4421 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004422
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00004423- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
4424
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004425- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
4426 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00004427
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00004428- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
4429 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4430
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00004431- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
4432 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00004433
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00004434- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
4435 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
4436
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00004437- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
4438 class.
4439
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00004440- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
4441 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
4442
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00004443- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
4444
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00004445- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
4446 writing.
4447
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00004448- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
4449
4450- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
4451
4452- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4453
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00004454- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
4455
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004456- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
4457 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00004458
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00004459- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
4460
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004461- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
4462 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00004463
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004464- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
4465 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00004466
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00004467- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
4468
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00004469- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
4470 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
4471
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00004472- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
4473 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
4474
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004475- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
4476 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
4477 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
4478 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00004479
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00004480- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4481 interpreter shutdown.
4482
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004483- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
4484 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
4485 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
4486 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00004487
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004488- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
4489 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
4490 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00004491
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004492- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
4493 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00004494
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004495- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
4496 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004497 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
4498 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004499
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004500- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
4501 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4502 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00004503 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4504
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004505- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004506 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
4507 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
4508 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
4509 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
4510 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004511
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004512- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004513 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4514 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004515
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00004516- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4517
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00004518- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00004519
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00004520- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
4521
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00004522- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
4523 the release file is empty.
4524
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00004525- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
4526 module.
4527
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004528- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
4529 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
4530 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00004531
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004532- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
4533 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00004534
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004535- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
4536 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00004537
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004538- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4539 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00004540
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004541- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4542 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00004543
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00004544- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
4545
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00004546- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
4547 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
4548 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
4549
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004550- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4551 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00004552
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004553- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
4554 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00004555
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004556- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4557 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00004558
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004559- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004560 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4561 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004562
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004563- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4564 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
4565 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00004566
4567- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00004568 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4569
4570- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
4571
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004572- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
4573 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00004574
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004575- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
4576 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
4577 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00004578
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004579- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4580 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4581 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00004582
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00004583- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4584 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
4585
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004586- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
4587 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
4588 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00004589
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00004590- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4591 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4592 the same as passing no argument.
4593
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004594- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00004595
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004596- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
4597 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00004598
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00004599- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00004600
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00004601- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4602
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004603- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4604 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00004605
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004606- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00004607 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
4608
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004609- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
4610 TLS with authentication credentials.
4611
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004612- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4613 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00004614
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00004615- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4616 msvc9compiler.
4617
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004618- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004619 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4620 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004621
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00004622- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4623 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4624 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4625
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004626- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004627 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
4628 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004629
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004630- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4631 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00004632
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004633- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4634
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00004635- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
4636 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
4637 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4638
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004639- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
4640 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4641 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00004642
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00004643- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4644
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004645- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00004646
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00004647- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4648 raises ReadError on empty files.
4649
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004650- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00004651
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00004652- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
4653 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00004654
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004655- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4656 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00004657
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00004658- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
4659 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
4660
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004661- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4662 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00004663
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004664- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00004665
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004666- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4667 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00004668
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004669- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4670 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4671 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
4672 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00004673 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4674
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004675- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4676 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4677 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00004678
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004679- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004680 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004681 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4682
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004683- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
4684 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
4685 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004686
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004687- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004688 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
4689
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004690- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004691 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
4692 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
4693 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004694
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004695- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4696 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00004697 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
4698
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00004699- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
4700 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
4701
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00004702- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4703 which are part of a reference cycle.
4704
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00004705- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
4706 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
4707
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004708- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
4709 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
4710 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00004711
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004712- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4713 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4714 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4715 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00004716
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004717- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4718 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4719 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4720 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00004721
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00004722- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4723 header as required by RFC 1952.
4724
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00004725- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4726 Distutils.
4727
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00004728- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4729 an uppercase.
4730
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00004731- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
4732 several threads at once.
4733
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004734- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4735
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00004736- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4737 larger than emax.
4738
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00004739- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
4740 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
4741
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004742- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4743 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00004744
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004745- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00004746
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004747- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4748 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004749
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004750- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4751 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00004752
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00004753- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
4754 builtin tokenizer.
4755
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004756- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4757 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00004758
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004759- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
4760 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00004761
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004762- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4763 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00004764
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004765- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
4766 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00004767
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00004768- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
4769
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00004770- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4771
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00004772- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4773
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00004774- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
4775
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004776- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00004777
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004778- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4779 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4780 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00004781
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004782- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4783 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00004784
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00004785- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
4786
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004787- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4788 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4789 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4790 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00004791
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00004792- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
4793 should be raised, not AttributeError.
4794
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00004795- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
4796 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
4797
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004798- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004799 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004800
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00004801- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
4802
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00004803- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
4804
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00004805- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4806
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00004807- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4808 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4809
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00004810- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
4811
4812- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
4813
4814- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4815
4816- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4817 ScrolledText.
4818
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00004819- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4820
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004821- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4822 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00004823
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00004824- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
4825 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4826 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4827 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4828
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004829- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
4830 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00004831
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00004832- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
4833
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004834- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4835 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4836 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00004837
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00004838- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
4839 DO/DONT correctly.
4840
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00004841- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004842 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
4843 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00004844
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004845- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004846 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
4847 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
4848 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004849
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00004850- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
4851 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
4852 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
4853
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004854- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4855 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4856 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00004857
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00004858- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00004859
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004860- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
4861 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00004862
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004863- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
4864 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00004865
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00004866- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4867 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4868
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00004869- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
4870
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00004871- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4872
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00004873- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
4874
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004875- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
4876 sys.path.
4877
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00004878- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
4879
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004880- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
4881 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00004882
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00004883- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
4884 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
4885
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004886- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
4887 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00004888
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00004889- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
4890
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00004891- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
4892
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004893- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
4894 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00004895
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00004896- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
4897 for tracing methods.
4898
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004899Extension Modules
4900-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00004901
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00004902- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
4903 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
4904
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00004905- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
4906
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004907- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004908 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
4909 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
4910 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
4911 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004912
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00004913- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
4914
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004915- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
4916 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
4917 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00004918
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004919- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
4920 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00004921
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004922- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
4923 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00004924
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004925- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
4926 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00004927
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00004928- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
4929 object in the '?' format.
4930
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00004931- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
4932
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00004933- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
4934 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00004935
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004936- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
4937 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
4938 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
4939 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00004940
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004941- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
4942 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
4943 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
4944 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
4945 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
4946 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00004947
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004948- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004949 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
4950 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
4951 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
4952 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
4953 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004954
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004955- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
4956 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00004957
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004958- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004959 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004960 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00004961
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004962- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
4963 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
4964 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00004965
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004966- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
4967 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00004968
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004969- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
4970 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
4971 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
4972 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
4973 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00004974
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00004975- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
4976 overflow checks in the audioop module.
4977
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004978- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
4979 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004980 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
4981 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004982
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004983- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
4984 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
4985 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00004986
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00004987- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
4988
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00004989- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
4990 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
4991 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
4992 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
4993
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00004994- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
4995
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00004996- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
4997
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004998- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00004999 handling.
5000
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00005001- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
5002 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
5003
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00005004- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5005
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00005006- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5007
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00005008- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005009
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005010- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
5011 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005012
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00005013- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5014
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00005015- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
5016
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005017- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5018 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5019 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00005020
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005021- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
5022 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005023
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00005024- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5025
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00005026- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
5027 (CVE_2009_3560).
5028
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005029- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
5030 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
5031 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00005032
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00005033- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
5034 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
5035
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00005036- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
5037
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005038- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
5039 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00005040
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005041- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00005042
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005043Build
5044-----
5045
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00005046- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
5047
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00005048- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
5049
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005050- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
5051 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
5052 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
5053 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
5054 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00005055
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00005056- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
5057
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00005058- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
5059 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00005060
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005061- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
5062 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
5063 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
5064 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00005065
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005066- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
5067 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00005068
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00005069- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
5070
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00005071- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
5072 give false warnings.
5073
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005074- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
5075 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
5076 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00005077
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005078- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
5079 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00005080
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00005081- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00005082
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005083- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
5084 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
5085 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00005086
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00005087- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
5088
5089- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
5090 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
5091
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00005092- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
5093 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
5094 Python.
5095
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00005096- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
5097 found.
5098
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00005099- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00005100
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00005101- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
5102 icc or suncc.
5103
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005104- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5105 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5106 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00005107
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005108- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00005109
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00005110- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5111
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005112- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00005113 directories.
5114
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005115- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005116 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005117
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005118- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005119 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00005120
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00005121- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
5122
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00005123- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
5124
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00005125- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
5126
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00005127Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005128-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005129
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00005130- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
5131 to Doc/license.rst.
5132
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00005133- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
5134 with os.kill.
5135
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005136- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00005137 only.
5138
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005139- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00005140 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
5141
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005142- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
5143 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00005144
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00005145- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
5146 ImportError.
5147
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005148- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5149 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005150
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00005151- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
5152 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005153
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00005154- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
5155 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
5156
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005157Tests
5158-----
5159
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005160- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
5161 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00005162
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00005163- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
5164
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005165- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00005166
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005167- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
5168 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
5169 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00005170
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00005171- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005172 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00005173
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00005174- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
5175 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
5176
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00005177- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
5178 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
5179
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005180- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
5181 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00005182
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005183- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
5184 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00005185
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005186- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
5187 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00005188
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00005189- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
5190
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00005191- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
5192
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00005193- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
5194 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
5195
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00005196- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
5197 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00005198
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005199- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
5200 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005201
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00005202- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
5203 effectively raised.
5204
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005205- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
5206 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00005207
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005208- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
5209 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00005210
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00005211- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
5212 filesystem encoding.
5213
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005214- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
5215 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00005216
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005217- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
5218 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
5219 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
5220 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00005221
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005222- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
5223 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
5224 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00005225
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005226- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
5227 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00005228
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005229- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00005230 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
5231
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00005232- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
5233
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00005234- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00005235 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
5236
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005237- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5238 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5239 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00005240
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005241- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5242 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00005243
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005244- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5245 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00005246
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005247- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
5248 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
5249 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
5250 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00005251
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00005252- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5253
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00005254- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5255 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5256
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00005257- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
5258 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
5259 between concurrent executions on the same system.
5260
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00005261- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
5262 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
5263 calling methods on the object.
5264
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005265- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005266 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5267 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5268 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005269 :func:`_thread._count()`.
5270
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005271- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5272 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00005273
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00005274- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5275 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5276
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00005277- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005278 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
5279 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00005280
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00005281- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5282
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005283- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
5284 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
5285 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00005286
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005287- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005288 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005289
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005290Tools/Demos
5291-----------
5292
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00005293- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00005294
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005295- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005296 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005297
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00005298
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005299What's New in Python 3.1?
5300=========================
5301
5302*Release date: 27-June-2009*
5303
5304Core and Builtins
5305-----------------
5306
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00005307- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
5308 large arguments.
5309
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00005310- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
5311 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
5312
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005313Library
5314-------
5315
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00005316- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
5317
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005318- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005319
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00005320- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
5321
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00005322- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
5323 io.UnsupportedOperation.
5324
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005325- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00005326 (On Unix)
5327
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00005328- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
5329 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
5330
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00005331Extension Modules
5332-----------------
5333
5334- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
5335
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005336
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00005337What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
5338=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005339
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00005340*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005341
5342Core and Builtins
5343-----------------
5344
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00005345- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
5346
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00005347- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
5348 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
5349
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00005350- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
5351 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
5352
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005353- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00005354 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005355
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005356Library
5357-------
5358
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005359- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005360 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005361 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
5362
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00005363- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5364
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00005365- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
5366 binary files.
5367
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005368- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
5369 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5370
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00005371- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
5372 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
5373 are always None now.
5374
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00005375- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
5376 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
5377 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
5378 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
5379
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00005380- Removed the ipaddr module.
5381
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00005382- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
5383 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
5384 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
5385
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00005386- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
5387
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00005388- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
5389
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00005390- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
5391 parameters.
5392
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005393Windows
5394-------
5395
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00005396- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
5397
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005398- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
5399
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00005400C-API
5401-----
5402
5403- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
5404 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
5405 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
5406
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005407
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005408Build
5409-----
5410
5411- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
5412 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
5413
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00005414- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
5415 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
5416
5417
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005418
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00005419What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
5420=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005421
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00005422*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005423
5424Core and Builtins
5425-----------------
5426
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00005427- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
5428 of the command line.
5429
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00005430- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
5431
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00005432- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
5433 that would raise SystemError.
5434
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00005435- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
5436 function with __func__.
5437
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00005438- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
5439 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00005440
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00005441- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
5442 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
5443 and imaginary literals.
5444
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00005445- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
5446
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00005447- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
5448
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00005449- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
5450 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
5451 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
5452 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
5453 didn't match that of float('-nan').
5454
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005455Library
5456-------
5457
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00005458- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
5459
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00005460- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
5461
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00005462- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
5463 argument to the 'help' function.
5464
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00005465- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
5466 arguments for strings with a space in them.
5467
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00005468- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
5469 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
5470
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00005471- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5472 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5473
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00005474- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
5475 the directory already exists.
5476
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00005477- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5478 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5479 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5480
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00005481- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
5482 IO objects.
5483
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00005484- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
5485 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
5486
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00005487- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
5488 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
5489 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
5490
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00005491- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5492 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5493
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00005494- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5495 deepcopy()ing.
5496
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00005497- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5498
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00005499- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5500
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00005501- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5502
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00005503- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
5504 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
5505 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
5506 empty.
5507
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00005508- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5509 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
5510 corrects a pydoc regression.
5511
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005512- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00005513 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
5514
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00005515Installation
5516------------
5517
5518- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
5519 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005520
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00005521- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
5522
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005523Extension Modules
5524-----------------
5525
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00005526- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00005527
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00005528- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5529
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005530- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
5531
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00005532- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
5533 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00005534
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00005535Build
5536-----
5537
5538- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
5539 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
5540 Clinton Roy.
5541
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005542Tests
5543-----
5544
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005545- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005546 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
5547 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
5548 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
5549
5550
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005551What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
5552================================
5553
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00005554*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005555
5556Core and Builtins
5557-----------------
5558
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00005559- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
5560 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
5561
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005562- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
5563 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
5564 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
5565
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00005566- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
5567 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
5568 a PendingDeprecation warning.
5569
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00005570- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
5571 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
5572 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
5573 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
5574 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
5575 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
5576 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
5577 the same way.
5578
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00005579- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
5580
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00005581- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
5582 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
5583 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
5584
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00005585- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
5586 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
5587
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00005588- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00005589
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00005590- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
5591 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
5592 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
5593
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00005594- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
5595 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
5596 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
5597 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00005598
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005599- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00005600 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
5601
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00005602- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
5603 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
5604
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00005605- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
5606 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
5607
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00005608- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
5609
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00005610- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
5611 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
5612
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00005613- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
5614
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00005615- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
5616 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
5617
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00005618- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00005619
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00005620- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
5621 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
5622 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
5623 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
5624
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00005625- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
5626 some builtin types.
5627
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005628- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
5629
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00005630- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
5631 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005632
5633- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5634 floats.
5635
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005636- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005637 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
5638 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
5639 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
5640 long time.)
5641
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005642- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
5643 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
5644 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
5645 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005646 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
5647 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
5648 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005649
5650 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
5651 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
5652 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
5653 reason or another.
5654
5655 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
5656 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
5657 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
5658 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
5659 correctly rounded on these platforms.
5660
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005661 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005662 this change does not apply.
5663
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00005664- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
5665
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00005666- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
5667 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
5668 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
5669 methods available on the str class.
5670
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00005671- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
5672 its clarity and its speed.
5673
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005674- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00005675 to avoid compiler warnings.
5676
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00005677- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
5678 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
5679
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00005680Installation
5681------------
5682
5683- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
5684
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005685Library
5686-------
5687
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00005688- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
5689
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00005690- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
5691 specific Python version.
5692
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00005693- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
5694 whitespace.
5695
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005696- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00005697 the right type checkings anymore.
5698
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00005699- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
5700 return directories.
5701
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00005702- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5703
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00005704- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5705 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5706
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00005707- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
5708 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
5709
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00005710- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
5711 extracting a file to the root directory.
5712
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00005713- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
5714
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00005715- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5716 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
5717 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
5718
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00005719- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
5720
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00005721- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5722 Contributed by Google.
5723
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00005724- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5725 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5726
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00005727- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
5728
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00005729- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5730
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00005731- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
5732 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
5733 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5734
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00005735- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
5736 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5737 initialized before.
5738
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005739- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5740 names which should not be exported.
5741
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00005742- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
5743 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
5744
5745- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5746
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00005747- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
5748 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
5749 instances.
5750
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00005751- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
5752 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
5753 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
5754
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00005755- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
5756 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
5757
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00005758- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
5759 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
5760 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
5761 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
5762 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
5763
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00005764- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
5765 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
5766
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00005767- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5768 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5769 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5770
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005771Extension Modules
5772-----------------
5773
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00005774- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
5775 pwd.
5776
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00005777- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
5778 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
5779 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
5780 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
5781
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00005782- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
5783 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005784
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00005785Tests
5786-----
5787
5788- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
5789 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
5790 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
5791 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
5792 can be adjusted to use it over time.
5793
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00005794- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5795 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5796 incorrectly on __exit__.
5797
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00005798C-API
5799-----
5800
5801- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
5802
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005803
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005804What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
5805=================================
5806
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00005807*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005808
5809Core and Builtins
5810-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005811
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00005812- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5813 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005814
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00005815- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
5816
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00005817- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
5818 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
5819
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00005820- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
5821 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
5822
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00005823- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
5824
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00005825- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
5826 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
5827
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00005828- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
5829 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
5830 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
5831
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00005832- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
5833
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00005834- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
5835 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
5836
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00005837- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
5838 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
5839 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
5840 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
5841
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00005842- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
5843 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
5844 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
5845
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00005846- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
5847 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
5848 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
5849 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
5850 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
5851 the internal format.
5852
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00005853- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
5854 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
5855 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
5856
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00005857- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
5858 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
5859
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00005860- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
5861 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
5862
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00005863- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
5864 short file names.
5865
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005866Library
5867-------
5868
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005869- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00005870 mailbox.MH.get_message().
5871
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00005872- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
5873 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
5874 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
5875
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00005876- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
5877 the -T argument.
5878
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00005879- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
5880
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00005881- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
5882
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00005883- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
5884
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00005885- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
5886 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
5887
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00005888- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
5889
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00005890- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
5891
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00005892- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
5893 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
5894
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00005895- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
5896 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
5897
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00005898- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
5899 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
5900 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
5901
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00005902- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
5903
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00005904- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
5905 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
5906
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00005907- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
5908 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
5909
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00005910- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
5911 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
5912 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
5913 partial bzip2 compressed data.
5914
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00005915- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
5916 specifier to Decimal.__format__
5917
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00005918- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
5919 '>' alignment characters.
5920
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00005921- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
5922 value, and report it as -1 instead.
5923
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00005924- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
5925 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
5926
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005927Extension Modules
5928-----------------
5929
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005930- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
5931
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005932- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
5933 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00005934 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
5935 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
5936 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005937
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005938
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005939What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00005940================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005941
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005942*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005943
5944Core and Builtins
5945-----------------
5946
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00005947- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
5948
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00005949- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
5950
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00005951- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
5952 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
5953
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00005954- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
5955 contained non ascii character on windows.
5956
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00005957- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
5958 source has already been decoded into str.
5959
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00005960- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
5961 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
5962
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00005963- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
5964 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
5965
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00005966- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
5967 returns a non-number type.
5968
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00005969- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
5970
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00005971- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
5972 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00005973 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
5974 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00005975
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005976- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00005977 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
5978
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00005979- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
5980 Previously it returned a float.
5981
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00005982- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
5983 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
5984 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
5985 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
5986
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00005987- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
5988
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00005989- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
5990 from a string.
5991
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00005992- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
5993
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00005994- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
5995 optional module state data.
5996
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00005997- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005998 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00005999
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00006000- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
6001 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
6002 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
6003
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00006004- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
6005 __next__ method.
6006
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00006007- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
6008 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
6009 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
6010
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00006011- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
6012
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00006013- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
6014
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00006015- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
6016 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
6017 amount of loop unrolling.
6018
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00006019- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
6020 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
6021 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
6022 Martin von Löwis at
6023 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
6024
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006025- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00006026 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
6027 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
6028
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00006029- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
6030 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
6031 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
6032 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
6033
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00006034- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
6035 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
6036 Python's overall memory).
6037
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00006038- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
6039 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
6040 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
6041 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
6042 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
6043
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00006044- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
6045 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
6046 items, rather than the size in bytes.
6047
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006048- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
6049
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00006050- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
6051 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
6052
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006053- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
6054 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00006055
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00006056- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
6057 did not get collected.
6058
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00006059- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
6060 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
6061
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00006062- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
6063 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
6064
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00006065- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
6066 fail.
6067
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00006068- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
6069
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00006070- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
6071 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
6072
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00006073- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
6074 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
6075 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
6076
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00006077- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
6078
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00006079- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
6080 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
6081 failures on OS X.
6082
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00006083- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
6084 exceptions.
6085
6086- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00006087 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
6088
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00006089- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
6090 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
6091 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
6092 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
6093
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00006094- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
6095 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
6096 Python 2.x.
6097
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00006098- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
6099 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
6100
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006101- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
6102 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
6103 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
6104 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00006105
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00006106- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
6107 larger than 1.
6108
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00006109- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
6110
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00006111- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
6112
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00006113- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
6114 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
6115 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
6116 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
6117
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006118Library
6119-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006120
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00006121- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
6122 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
6123
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00006124- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00006125 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
6126
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00006127- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00006128 Distutils.
6129
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00006130- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
6131
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00006132- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
6133 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
6134 Michael Haubenwallner.
6135
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00006136- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
6137
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00006138- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
6139 opening an empty or very small file.
6140
6141- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00006142 behavior is similar when used with -O.
6143
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00006144- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
6145
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00006146- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
6147 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
6148 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
6149 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
6150
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006151- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
6152
6153- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
6154
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00006155- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006156 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
6157
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006158- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00006159
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006160- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00006161 attribute.
6162
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00006163- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
6164
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00006165- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
6166
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006167- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
6168 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
6169 descriptor errors
6170
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006171- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00006172 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
6173
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006174- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00006175 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
6176
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00006177- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
6178 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
6179
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00006180- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
6181
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00006182- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
6183
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00006184- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
6185 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
6186 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6187
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00006188- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
6189 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6190
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00006191- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
6192
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006193- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00006194 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
6195
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00006196- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6197
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00006198- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
6199 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
6200
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006201- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00006202 subcommand.
6203
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00006204- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
6205 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
6206
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00006207- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
6208 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
6209
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00006210- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
6211 for old-style extensions.
6212
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00006213- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
6214
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00006215- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
6216 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
6217 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
6218 Cournapeau.
6219
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00006220- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
6221
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006222- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00006223 anymore.
6224
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006225- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00006226 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
6227
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00006228- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
6229
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00006230- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
6231
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00006232- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
6233
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00006234- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
6235 a value in SafeConfigParser.
6236
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00006237- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
6238
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006239- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00006240 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
6241
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00006242- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
6243 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
6244
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00006245- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
6246 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
6247
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006248- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00006249
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006250- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00006251
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00006252- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
6253 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
6254 threads.
6255
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00006256- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
6257 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
6258 that it was failing to do localization.
6259
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00006260- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
6261 Brandl.
6262
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00006263- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
6264 character.
6265
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00006266- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
6267 Tim Golden.
6268
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00006269- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
6270
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00006271- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
6272 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
6273 window flashing.
6274
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00006275- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
6276 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
6277 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
6278
6279- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
6280
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00006281- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
6282 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
6283
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00006284- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
6285
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00006286- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
6287
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00006288- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
6289
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00006290- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
6291
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00006292- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
6293
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00006294- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
6295
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00006296- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
6297 import guess_extension`` was used.
6298
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00006299- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
6300 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
6301
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00006302- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
6303 overrun.
6304
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006305- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00006306 bdist_rpm command.
6307
6308- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
6309
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006310- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
6311
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00006312- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
6313 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006314
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006315- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
6316 IronPython.
6317
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00006318- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
6319 The file was resized to wrong size.
6320
6321- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
6322
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006323- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00006324 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
6325
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006326- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00006327 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
6328
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00006329- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
6330 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
6331
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00006332- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
6333
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00006334- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
6335 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
6336 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
6337
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00006338- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
6339 encoding.
6340
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00006341- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
6342 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
6343
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00006344- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
6345 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
6346
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00006347- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
6348 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
6349 ctime of the files involved.
6350
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00006351- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
6352 deadlock.
6353
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00006354- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
6355 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
6356 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
6357
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00006358- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
6359
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00006360- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
6361 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
6362
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00006363- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
6364 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
6365 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
6366 Vajda.
6367
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00006368- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
6369 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
6370 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
6371 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
6372
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00006373- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
6374 Ross Light.
6375
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006376- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00006377 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
6378
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00006379- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
6380 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
6381
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006382- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00006383 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
6384
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00006385- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
6386
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00006387- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
6388
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00006389- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
6390 items being passed through ord().
6391
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00006392- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
6393 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
6394 "src.new").
6395
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00006396- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
6397
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00006398- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
6399 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
6400 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
6401
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006402- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00006403 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
6404
6405- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
6406 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
6407
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00006408- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
6409 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
6410
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00006411- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
6412
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00006413- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
6414 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00006415
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006416- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00006417 allowed non-integer arguments.
6418
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00006419- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
6420 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
6421 examples.
6422
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00006423- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
6424 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
6425
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00006426- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
6427 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
6428
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00006429- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
6430 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
6431
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006432- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00006433 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
6434 be disabled, and not compiled.
6435
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00006436- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
6437 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
6438 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
6439 traditional 2.x file object.
6440
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006441- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
6442 parameter was set.
6443
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00006444- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
6445 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
6446
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00006447- Add the importlib package.
6448
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00006449- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6450 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6451
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00006452- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006453 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00006454
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00006455- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
6456 without defaults.
6457
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006458- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
6459 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00006460 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
6461
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00006462- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
6463 in sharedctypes.py.
6464
6465- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
6466 __getattr__.
6467
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00006468- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
6469 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
6470 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
6471
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00006472- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
6473 counting.
6474
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00006475- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
6476
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00006477- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
6478 function without defining argtypes.
6479
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00006480- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
6481 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
6482 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
6483 Jacques Frechet.
6484
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00006485- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
6486
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00006487- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
6488 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
6489
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006490- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
6491 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00006492 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
6493
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00006494- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
6495 to the decimal module.
6496
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006497- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
6498 cast as floats.
6499
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00006500- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
6501 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
6502
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006503- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006504 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
6505
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006506- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
6507 the function is not a generator.
6508
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006509- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
6510 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00006511
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006512- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00006513 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
6514
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00006515- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
6516
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00006517- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
6518
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00006519- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
6520 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
6521
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00006522- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
6523 works as expected in the interactive environment.
6524
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00006525- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
6526 Gabriel Genellina.
6527
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00006528- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
6529 boundary.
6530
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00006531- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
6532 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
6533 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
6534
6535- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
6536 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
6537 Alexander Belopolsky.
6538
6539- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
6540 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
6541 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
6542 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
6543 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
6544 Alexander Belopolsky.
6545
6546- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
6547 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
6548 Alexander Belopolsky.
6549
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00006550- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
6551 a non-ASCII letter.
6552
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00006553- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
6554
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00006555- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
6556 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
6557
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00006558- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
6559 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
6560 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
6561
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00006562- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
6563 libs.
6564
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006565- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
6566 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6567
6568- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6569 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6570 Content-Disposition headers.
6571
6572- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
6573 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
6574 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
6575 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
6576 doesn't configure logging.
6577
6578- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
6579 exception.
6580
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00006581- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
6582 statements.
6583
6584- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
6585 not a malformed option.
6586
6587- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
6588 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6589
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00006590- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
6591 the corresponding tests now pass.
6592
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00006593- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
6594 it was calling the wrong open() function.
6595
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00006596- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6597 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6598 Content-Disposition headers.
6599
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00006600- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
6601 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
6602
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00006603- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
6604 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
6605 and getservbyport().
6606
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00006607- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
6608
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006609Tools/Demos
6610-----------
6611
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00006612- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
6613 and make it 2.6-compatible.
6614
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00006615- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
6616
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006617- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
6618
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006619
6620Build
6621-----
6622
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00006623- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
6624
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00006625- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
6626
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00006627- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
6628 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6629
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006630- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006631 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006632
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00006633- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
6634
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00006635- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
6636
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00006637- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
6638
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00006639- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
6640
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006641- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
6642
6643- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
6644
6645- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
6646
6647- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
6648
6649- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
6650
6651- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
6652
6653- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
6654
6655- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
6656
6657- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
6658
6659- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
6660
6661
6662C-API
6663-----
6664
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00006665- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
6666 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
6667
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00006668- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
6669 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
6670
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006671- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6672
6673- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
6674 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
6675
6676- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6677 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
6678
6679
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006680Extension Modules
6681-----------------
6682
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00006683- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6684 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
6685 implementations or external openssl library).
6686
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00006687- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
6688
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00006689- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6690
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00006691- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
6692 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
6693 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
6694
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006695- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6696
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00006697- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
6698 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
6699 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
6700
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006701- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6702
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00006703- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6704
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006705- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6706 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00006707
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00006708- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
6709 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
6710 buffer.
6711
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00006712
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00006713- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6714
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006715Tests
6716-----
6717
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00006718- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6719 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6720
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00006721- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6722 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
6723 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
6724 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
6725
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006726- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006727 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006728 from test support, which does the conversion.
6729
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006730- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6731
6732
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00006733Docs
6734----
6735
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00006736
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +03006737**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**