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Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001+++++++++++
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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00007What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-XXX*
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12Core and Builtins
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Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +000015- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
16 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
17 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
18 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
19 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
20 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
21 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
22
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +000023- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real
24 part -0.0 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to
25 "-(7j)".
26
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +000027- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
28
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +000029- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
30 objects, as described in the documentation.
31
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +000032- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +000033 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
34 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +000035
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +000036- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST
37 compilation code dealing with unary minus applied to a constant.
38 The removed code was mutating the ST, causing a second compilation
39 to fail.
40
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +000041- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
42 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
43 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Victor Stinner2bdab242010-06-16 23:48:49 +000044 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +000045
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +000046- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
47 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
48
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +000049- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
50 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
51 string formats.
52
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +000053- Issue #7490: to facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
54 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
55 location of the raised exception.
56
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +000057- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
58 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
59
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +000060- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
61
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +000062- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
63 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
64 (higher than 0x10000).
65
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +000066- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now
67 raise TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float
68 is parsed using the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer
69 codes already raise TypeError in this case.)
70
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +000071- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
72 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
73 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
74
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +000075- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
76 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python3.
77
78- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
79 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
80 like bytearray.
81
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +000082- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
83 used anymore and it was never documented.
84
Benjamin Peterson95304522010-06-08 14:57:22 +000085- In the str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too
86 large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +000087
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +000088- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for
89 invalid integers n (including n = -909).
90
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +000091- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers
92 (instances of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and
93 fractions.Fraction) that makes it easy to maintain the invariant
94 that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have equal value.
95
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +000096- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
97 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
98 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
99 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
100 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
101 in sets or dicts.
102
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +0000103- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
104 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
105
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +0000106- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
107 encoding and surrogateespace error handler instead of the locale encoding to
108 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
109
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +0000110- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace
111 (instead of strict) error handler to escape surrogates
112
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +0000113- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
114 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +0000115 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
116 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +0000117
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +0000118- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
119 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict)
120
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +0000121- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
122 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
123 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
124
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +0000125- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
126 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the
127 right encoding
128
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +0000129- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
130
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +0000131- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler
132
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +0000133- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
134 arguments.
135
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +0000136- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
137 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores
138 exceptions (KeyboardInterrupt)
139
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +0000140- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
141 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace)
142
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +0000143- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept bytearray object anymore,
144 you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes
145
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +0000146- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
147 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable
148 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
149 Charles-François Natali.
150
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +0000151- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
152 passed to bytes or bytearray.
153
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +0000154- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
155
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +0000156- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
157 changed.
158
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +0000159- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
160 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
161 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
162
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +0000163- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
164
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +0000165- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
166
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +0000167- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
168
Marc-André Lemburg177ab082010-05-05 13:32:59 +0000169- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in
170 case it is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +0000171
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +0000172- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
173 is unknown
174
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +0000175- Issue #1583863: An str subclass can now override the __str__ method
176
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +0000177- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
178 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
179
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +0000180- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
181 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
182 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
183 comparisons with complex.
184
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +0000185- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
186 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
187 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
188 module.
189
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +0000190- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
191
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +0000192- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
193 a fatal error in low memory condition.
194
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +0000195- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
196 the BOM check fails.
197
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +0000198- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
199
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +0000200- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule
201 in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
202
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +0000203- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
204 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
205 strings.
206
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +0000207- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
208 0 padding.
209
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +0000210- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
211 complex.__format__. Now it matches other numeric types.
212
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +0000213- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
214 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string
215 and PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original
216 deprecations.
217
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +0000218- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
219 `PyObject_GetBuffer` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
220
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +0000221- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
222 slice with very large step value.
223
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +0000224- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
225 tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
226 structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
227 suite_mask, and product_type.
228
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +0000229- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
230 could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
231 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
232 string instead.
233
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +0000234- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
235 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
236 a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
237 is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
238 executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
239 constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
240 Malcolm.
241
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +0000242- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
243 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
244 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
245
Mark Dickinson45b63652010-01-16 18:10:25 +0000246- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
247 alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
248 occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
249 that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
Mark Dickinsonc4f18682010-01-17 14:39:12 +0000250 strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
251 some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
252 flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +0000253
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +0000254- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
255 consistent with other special methods.
256
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +0000257- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
258 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
259
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +0000260- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
261 AttributeError.
262
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +0000263- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
264 negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
265 described in C99 Annex F.
266
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +0000267- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
268 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
269 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
270 particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
271
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +0000272- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
273 executables on OSX.
274
275 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
276 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
277 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
278
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +0000279- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
280 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
281
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +0000282- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
283 with invalid values.
284
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +0000285- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
286 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
287
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +0000288- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
289 on MacOSX 10.6.
290
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +0000291- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
292
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +0000293- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
294 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
295
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +0000296- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
297 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
298 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
299 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
300 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
301
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +0000302- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
303 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
304
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +0000305- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
306 surrogates.
307
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +0000308- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
309
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +0000310- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
311
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +0000312- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
313 disabled since Python 3.0.
314
315- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
316 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
317 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
318
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +0000319- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
320 removed in 3.3. See http://bugs.python.org/issue8606 .
321
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +0000322- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
323
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +0000324- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
325 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
326 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
327
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000328- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +0000329 support.
330
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000331- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
332 crash in GAE.
333
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +0000334- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
335 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
336 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
337
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000338- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000339 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000340
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +0000341- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
342 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
343 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
344 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
345
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000346- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
347 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
348
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000349- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
350 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
351
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000352- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
353
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000354- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
355
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000356- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
357
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000358- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
359
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000360- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
361 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
362
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000363- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
364
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000365- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
366
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000367- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
368 occurred in the argument chain.
369
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000370- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
371 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
372
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000373- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
374
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000375- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
376 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
377 documentation.
378
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000379- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
380
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000381- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
382 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
383 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
384
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000385- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000386 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
387 surrogates.
388
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000389- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
390
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000391- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
392 argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
393
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000394- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
395 These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
396
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +0000397- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes
398 instances from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses
399 from being pickled properly.
400
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +0000401- Code objects now support weak references.
402
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +0000403- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
404
Ronald Oussoren4cda46a2010-05-08 10:49:43 +0000405- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework
406 builds on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install
407 into "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +0000408
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000409C-API
410-----
411
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +0000412- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
413 embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
414 sys.path. This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
415 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
416
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +0000417- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
418 strings in an efficient manner.
419
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +0000420- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
421 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
422 is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
423
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +0000424- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added,
425 analogous to PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
426
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +0000427- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
428 has '\0' at the end.
429
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000430- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
431 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
432 PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
433 DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
434 code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
435 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
436
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +0000437- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
438
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000439- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
440 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
441
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000442- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000443 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
444
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000445- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
446 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
447 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
448 using PyDescr_COMMON.
449
450- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000451
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000452- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
453
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000454- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
455 PyCode_Addr2Line().
456
457- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
458 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
459
460- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
461 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
462
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000463- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
464 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
465 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
466 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
467
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000468Library
469-------
470
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +0000471- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
472 raises an exception.
473
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +0000474- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
475 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes
476 to use ContextDecorator.
477
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +0000478- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
479 for removal in Python 3.4.
480
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +0000481- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument.
482
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +0000483- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is
484 not ``str`` or ``bytes``.
485
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +0000486- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
487 on an OpenSSL structure.
488
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +0000489- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of
490 a socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
491 deallocation while the object is still being used.
492
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +0000493- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
494 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
495 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
496
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +0000497- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
498 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
499
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +0000500- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
501 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
502
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +0000503- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
504 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
505
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +0000506- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
507
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +0000508- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
509 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
510
Mark Dickinson9b88b912010-06-11 10:46:57 +0000511- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +0000512 now permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical
513 values of the operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed
514 Decimal-to-float comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric
515 types (bool, int, float, complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now
516 act as expected.
517
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +0000518- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written
519 by Thomas Jollans.
520
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +0000521- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
522
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +0000523- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
524
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +0000525- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as
526 binary strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
527
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +0000528- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
529 mistake.
530
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +0000531- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding
532 with the output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the
533 tests from 2.x issue 1368247.
534
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +0000535- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
536 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
537
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +0000538- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float
539 and divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest
540 multiple of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even
541 method.
542
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +0000543- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
544 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
545
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +0000546- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
547
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +0000548- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
549 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
550 API
551
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +0000552- Issue #8770: now sysconfig displays information when it's called as
553 a script. Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
554
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +0000555- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
556 Fredrik Håård
557
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +0000558- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
559 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating
560 contexts that correspond to the decimal interchange formats
561 specified in IEEE 754.
562
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +0000563- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
564 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
565 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +0000566
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +0000567- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
568 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler
569
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +0000570- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
571 of files without one.
572
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +0000573- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
574 comparing to a non-mapping.
575
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +0000576- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
577 correct encoding
578
579- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +0000580 several ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively
581 disable protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
582
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +0000583- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
584
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +0000585- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
586 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
587 stdout is not a TTY).
588
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +0000589- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
590 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
591 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
592 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
593
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +0000594- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
595 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
596
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +0000597- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
598 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
599
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +0000600- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
601
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +0000602- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
603 surrogates and bytes for the filename
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +0000604
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +0000605- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
606
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +0000607- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when
608 the zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
609
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +0000610- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater
611 than 2**31 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
612
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +0000613- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
614 class.
615
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +0000616- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
617 given.
618
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +0000619- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
620 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
621
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +0000622- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a
623 chunk larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
624 objects.
625
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +0000626- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
627 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
628 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
629 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +0000630
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +0000631- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
632
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000633- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
634 error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
635 inheritance with the underlying socket object.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +0000636 The cheap inheritance has been deprecated.
637
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +0000638- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
639 Patch by Tres Seaver.
640
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +0000641- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateespace as the default error handler
642 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode)
643
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +0000644- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
645
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +0000646- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
647 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
648
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +0000649- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
650 Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
651 signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which
652 the signals should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't
653 being followed, leading to the wrong Python exception being raised.
654
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +0000655- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
656 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
657 close() several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
658
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +0000659- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
660 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
661
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +0000662- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals,
663 not just SIGCHLD.
664
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +0000665- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +0000666 webbrowser.get("safari").
667
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +0000668- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
669 when mode="w|" is used.
670
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +0000671- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
672 of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
673
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +0000674- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
675
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +0000676- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
677 It should correctly return an empty response now.
678
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +0000679- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
680
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +0000681- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
682 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
683
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +0000684- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
685 and mappings.
686
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +0000687- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
688 where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
689 event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
690 witnessed in test_httpservers.
691
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +0000692- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the
693 original socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout
694 would be turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
695
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +0000696- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
697 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
698
699- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
700 the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
701
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +0000702- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates
703 and bytes strings for environment keys and values
704
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +0000705- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
706 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
707 message
708
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +0000709- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames
710
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +0000711- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of
712 the string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional
713 and keywords.
714
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +0000715- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
716 a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
717 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
718 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
719
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +0000720- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
721 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
722
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +0000723- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
724 collation name contains a surrogate character.
725
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +0000726- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
727 the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
728 doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
729
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +0000730- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
731
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000732- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +0000733 shutil.copytree.
734
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +0000735- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
736 from PORT/EPRT commands.
737
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +0000738- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
739
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +0000740- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6
741 (as long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
742
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +0000743- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
744 code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
745
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +0000746- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
747 surrogates.
748
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +0000749- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +0000750 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +0000751
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +0000752- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
753 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
754
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +0000755- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
756 the current working directory.
757
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +0000758- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
759 using backslashreplace error handler
760
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +0000761- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
762 surrogates.
763
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +0000764- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
765 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
766
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +0000767- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
768
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +0000769- Issue #7316: the acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
770 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
771 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait
772 loop.
773
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +0000774- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
775 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
776 Python 2.x and 3.0
777
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +0000778- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
779 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
780 designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
781
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +0000782- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
783 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
784 7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
785
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +0000786- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
787 present before it cleans them.
788
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +0000789- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
790 to cover recent locale changes and additions.
791
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +0000792- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
793 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
794 and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
795
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +0000796- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
797
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +0000798- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
799 directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
800
801 >>> Decimal(1.1)
802 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
803
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +0000804- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
805 instances directly.
806
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +0000807- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
808 signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
809 involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
810 are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
811
812- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
813 instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
814 operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +0000815 the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal). See also
Mark Dickinson9b88b912010-06-11 10:46:57 +0000816 issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +0000817
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +0000818- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
819
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +0000820- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
821 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
822 is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
823 patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
824
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +0000825- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
826 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
827 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
828 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
829
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +0000830- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
831 a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
832 True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
833 int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
834
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +0000835- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore
836 some methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available.
837 Initial patch by Bertrand Janin.
838
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +0000839- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
840 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
841
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +0000842- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
843 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
844 now silenced.
845
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +0000846- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
847 when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
848
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +0000849- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
850 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
851 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +0000852
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +0000853- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
854 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
855 (utf8) encoding.
856
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +0000857- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
858
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +0000859- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
860
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +0000861- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
862
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +0000863- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
864 detected.
865
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +0000866- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
867
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +0000868- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
869 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
870
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +0000871- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
872
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +0000873- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
874 the locale.
875
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +0000876- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
877 by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
878 done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
879
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +0000880- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features.
881 The default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier
882 Python versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored
883 by default in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
884
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +0000885- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
886 cElementTree module is updated too.
887
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +0000888- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
889 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
890 program name
891
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +0000892- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
893
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +0000894- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and
895 the replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
896
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +0000897- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
898 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
899
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +0000900- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
901 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +0000902
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +0000903- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
904 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
905
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +0000906- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
907 class.
908
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +0000909- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
910 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
911
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +0000912- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
913
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +0000914- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
915 writing.
916
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +0000917- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
918
919- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
920
921- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
922
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +0000923- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
924
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000925- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
Ezio Melotti8b1458b2010-02-24 16:55:43 +0000926 with the cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000927
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +0000928- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
929
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +0000930- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
931 to be ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
932
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +0000933- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
934 Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
935
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +0000936- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
937
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +0000938- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
939 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
940
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +0000941- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
942 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
943
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +0000944- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
945 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
946 and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
947 convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
948 were converted.
949
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +0000950- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
951 interpreter shutdown.
952
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +0000953- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
954 in XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
955 allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
956 PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
957
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +0000958- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
959 entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
960 encoding. Patch by Jerry Chen.
961
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +0000962- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
963 specify the compression type.
964
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +0000965- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
966 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
967 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
968 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
969
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +0000970- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
971 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
972 file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
973 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
974
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +0000975- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
976 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
977 an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can
978 be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
979 It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
980 `readline()` give wrong results. Patch by Nir Aides.
981
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +0000982- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
983 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
984 the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
985 replace it.
986
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +0000987- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
988
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +0000989- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +0000990
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +0000991- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
992
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +0000993- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
994 the release file is empty.
995
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +0000996- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
997 module.
998
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +0000999- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
1000 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
1001 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
1002
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00001003- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`.
1004 Patch by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
1005
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00001006- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
1007 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1008
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00001009- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
1010 argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1011
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00001012- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files.
1013 Patch by Brian Curtin.
1014
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00001015- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
1016
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00001017- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
1018 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
1019 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
1020
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00001021- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
1022 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
1023 by Arfrever.
1024
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00001025- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
1026 the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
1027
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00001028- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
1029 Victor Stinner.
1030
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00001031- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
1032 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
1033 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
1034
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00001035- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
1036 and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
1037 speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
1038
1039- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00001040 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
1041
1042- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
1043
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00001044- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
1045 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
1046
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00001047- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001048 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00001049 in regular expressions.
1050
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00001051- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
1052 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
1053 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
1054
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00001055- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
1056 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
1057
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00001058- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
1059 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
1060 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
1061
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00001062- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
1063 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
1064 the same as passing no argument.
1065
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00001066- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
1067 default.
1068
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00001069- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
1070 in imaplib.
1071
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00001072- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00001073
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00001074- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
1075
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00001076- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
1077 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1078
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001079- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00001080 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
1081
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00001082- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
1083 TLS with authentication credentials.
1084
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001085- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00001086 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
1087
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00001088- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1089 msvc9compiler.
1090
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00001091- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
1092 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
1093 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
1094
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00001095- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1096 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1097 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1098
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00001099- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
1100 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
1101 built-in exception printing.
1102
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00001103- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
1104 Robert Collins.
1105
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001106- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1107
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00001108- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
1109 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
1110 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1111
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00001112- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
1113 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
1114 Brian Quinlan.
1115
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00001116- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
1117
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00001118- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
1119
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00001120- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1121 raises ReadError on empty files.
1122
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001123- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00001124 be 2.
1125
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00001126- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
1127 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00001128
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00001129- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
1130 case of an error.
1131
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00001132- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
1133 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
1134
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00001135- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
1136 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
1137
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00001138- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
1139
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00001140- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
1141 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
1142
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00001143- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
1144 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
1145 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
1146 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
1147 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1148
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00001149- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
1150 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
1151 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
1152 local connections.
1153
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00001154- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
1155 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
1156 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1157
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00001158- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1159 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1160 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001161
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00001162- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
1163 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
1164
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00001165- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001166 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00001167 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
1168 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
1169
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00001170- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
1171 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
1172 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
1173
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00001174- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
1175 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
1176
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00001177- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1178 which are part of a reference cycle.
1179
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00001180- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
1181 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
1182
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00001183- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
1184 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
1185 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
1186
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00001187- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
1188 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
1189 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
1190 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
1191 OSes such as Solaris.
1192
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00001193- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
1194 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
1195 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
1196 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
1197
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00001198- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1199 header as required by RFC 1952.
1200
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00001201- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1202 Distutils.
1203
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00001204- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1205 an uppercase.
1206
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00001207- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
1208 several threads at once.
1209
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001210- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1211
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00001212- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1213 larger than emax.
1214
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00001215- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
1216 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
1217
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00001218- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
1219 GNU readline library version 6.0.
1220
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001221- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00001222
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001223- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1224 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001225
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00001226- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
1227 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
1228
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00001229- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
1230 builtin tokenizer.
1231
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00001232- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
1233 is too large to fit in the current precision.
1234
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00001235- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00001236 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00001237
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00001238- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
1239 does now always result in NULL.
1240
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00001241- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
1242 with base class positional arguments.
1243
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00001244- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
1245
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00001246- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1247
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00001248- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1249
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00001250- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
1251
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00001252- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
1253 instances.
1254
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00001255- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
1256 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
1257 in long(Decimal('nan')).
1258
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00001259- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
1260 with no type specifier.
1261
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00001262- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
1263
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00001264- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
1265 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
1266 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
1267 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
1268
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00001269- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
1270 should be raised, not AttributeError.
1271
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00001272- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
1273 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
1274
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00001275- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
1276 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
1277 AttributeError before).
1278
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00001279- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
1280
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00001281- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
1282
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00001283- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1284
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00001285- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1286 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1287
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00001288- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
1289
1290- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
1291
1292- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1293
1294- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1295 ScrolledText.
1296
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00001297- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1298
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00001299- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
1300 the xview* and yview* methods.
1301
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00001302- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
1303 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1304 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1305 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1306
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00001307- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
1308 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
1309
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00001310- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
1311
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00001312- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
1313 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
1314 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
1315
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00001316- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
1317 DO/DONT correctly.
1318
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00001319- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
1320 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
1321 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00001322
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00001323- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
1324 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
1325 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
1326 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
1327
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00001328- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
1329 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
1330 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
1331
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00001332- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
1333 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
1334 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
1335
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00001336- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00001337
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00001338- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
1339 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
1340
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00001341- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
1342 syntax error.
1343
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00001344- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
1345 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
1346
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00001347- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
1348
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00001349- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
1350
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00001351- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
1352
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001353- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
1354 sys.path.
1355
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00001356- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
1357
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00001358- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will
1359 be searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
1360
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00001361- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
1362 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
1363
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00001364- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
1365 os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
1366
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00001367- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
1368
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00001369- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1370
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00001371- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
1372 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
1373
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001374Extension Modules
1375-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00001376
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00001377- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year
1378 10,000. Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple()
1379 could produce tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is
1380 raised in these edge cases.
1381
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00001382- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the
1383 ``%z`` directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the
1384 format string, an aware ``datetime`` object is returned with
1385 ``tzinfo`` bound to a ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed
1386 from the parsed offset. If both ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the
1387 data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone name, but ``%Z`` data
1388 without ``%z`` is discarded.
1389
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00001390- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
1391 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new
1392 class, ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from
1393 their ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)``
1394 method always returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains
1395 an instance representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe
1396 Kaplan.
1397
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00001398- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that
1399 help(struct) includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
1400
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00001401- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00001402 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00001403 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00001404
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00001405- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
1406 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
1407 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
1408
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00001409- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
1410 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
1411
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00001412- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive
1413 algorithm with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer
1414 multiplications and allows many of the multiplications to be
1415 performed using plain C integer arithmetic instead of PyLong
1416 arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small arguments.
1417
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00001418- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
1419 overflow checks in the audioop module.
1420
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00001421- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
1422 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
1423 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to td /
1424 timedelta(seconds=1).
1425
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00001426- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta:
1427 timedelta / timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta
1428 and divmod(timedelta, timedelta) are all supported.
1429
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00001430- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
1431
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00001432- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
1433 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
1434 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
1435 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
1436
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00001437- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
1438
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00001439- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
1440
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00001441- Issue #6544: fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
1442 handling.
1443
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00001444- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1445 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
1446
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00001447- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
1448
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00001449- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1450
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00001451- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00001452
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +00001453- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
1454 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001455
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00001456- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1457
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00001458- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
1459
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00001460- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1461 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1462 matched characters with category 'No'.
1463
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00001464- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001465 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
1466 buffers.
1467
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00001468- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1469
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00001470- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1471 (CVE_2009_3560).
1472
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00001473- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
1474 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1475 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1476
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00001477- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
1478 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
1479
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00001480- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
1481
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00001482- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a
1483 bug in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
1484
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00001485Build
1486-----
1487
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00001488- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
1489
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00001490- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
1491 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00001492
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00001493- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with
1494 gcc. (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc
1495 --with-pydebug builds as a result of the issue #1628484 fix,
1496 combined with autoconf's strange choice of default CFLAGS produced
1497 by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
1498
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00001499- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into
1500 your home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
1501
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00001502- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
1503
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00001504- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
1505 give false warnings.
1506
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00001507- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
1508 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
1509 when building a shared library.
1510
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00001511- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
Martin v. Löwis4ad70df2010-03-16 16:19:47 +00001512 Exclude 2to3 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00001513
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00001514- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00001515
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00001516- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
1517 private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
1518 PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
1519
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00001520- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1521
1522- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
1523 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
1524
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00001525- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
1526 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
1527 Python.
1528
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00001529- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1530 found.
1531
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00001532- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00001533
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00001534- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
1535 icc or suncc.
1536
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00001537- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1538 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1539 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1540
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00001541- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1542
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00001543- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1544
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00001545- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
1546 directories.
1547
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00001548- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1549 extensions are installed.
1550
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001551- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1552 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00001553
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00001554- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1555
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00001556- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
1557
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00001558- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
1559
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00001560
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00001561Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001562------------
1563
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00001564- A small wsgi server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
1565 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
1566
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00001567- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
1568 -J and -X options.
1569
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00001570- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
1571 ImportError.
1572
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001573- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1574 for Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00001575
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00001576- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
1577 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001578
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00001579- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
1580 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
1581
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001582Tests
1583-----
1584
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00001585- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
1586
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00001587- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be
1588 handled by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete
1589 uncompressed data).
1590
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00001591- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
1592 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding)
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00001593
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00001594- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
1595 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
1596
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00001597- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
1598 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
1599
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00001600- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling
1601 of SSL shutdowns.
1602
Victor Stinner534db4e2010-04-23 20:33:55 +00001603- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch
1604 written by Dave Malcolm
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00001605
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00001606- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
1607 if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
1608
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00001609- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1610
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00001611- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1612
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00001613- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1614 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1615
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00001616- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1617 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00001618
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001619- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1620 from the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00001621
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00001622- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
1623 effectively raised.
1624
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00001625- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1626 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1627
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00001628- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using
1629 the --verbose flag.
1630
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00001631- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
1632 filesystem encoding.
1633
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00001634- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
1635 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1636
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00001637- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
1638 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
1639 The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
1640 Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
1641
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00001642- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
1643 test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
1644 wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.
1645
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001646- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
1647 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00001648
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00001649- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
1650 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1651
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00001652- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
1653
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00001654- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00001655 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1656
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001657- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00001658 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
1659 user running the tests.
1660
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00001661- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1662 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1663
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00001664- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1665 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1666
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00001667- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
1668 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
1669 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
1670 to empty global variables.
1671
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00001672- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1673
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00001674- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1675 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1676
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00001677- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
1678 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
1679 between concurrent executions on the same system.
1680
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00001681- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
1682 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
1683 calling methods on the object.
1684
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00001685- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1686 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1687 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1688 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1689 :func:`_thread._count()`.
1690
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00001691- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1692 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1693
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00001694- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1695 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1696
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00001697- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1698 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1699 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00001700
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00001701- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1702
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00001703- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
1704 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
1705 object bytecode.
1706
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001707- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
1708 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
1709
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00001710Tools/Demos
1711-----------
1712
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00001713- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
1714
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00001715- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
1716 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the
1717 sandbox.
1718
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00001719
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001720What's New in Python 3.1?
1721=========================
1722
1723*Release date: 27-June-2009*
1724
1725Core and Builtins
1726-----------------
1727
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00001728- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
1729 large arguments.
1730
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00001731- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1732 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1733
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001734Library
1735-------
1736
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00001737- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
1738
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001739- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001740
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00001741- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
1742
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00001743- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
1744 io.UnsupportedOperation.
1745
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001746- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00001747 (On Unix)
1748
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00001749- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
1750 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
1751
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00001752Extension Modules
1753-----------------
1754
1755- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
1756
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001757
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00001758What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
1759=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001760
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00001761*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001762
1763Core and Builtins
1764-----------------
1765
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00001766- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
1767
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00001768- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
1769 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
1770
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00001771- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
1772 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
1773
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001774- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00001775 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001776
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001777Library
1778-------
1779
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001780- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001781 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001782 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
1783
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00001784- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1785
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00001786- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
1787 binary files.
1788
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001789- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
1790 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1791
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00001792- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
1793 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
1794 are always None now.
1795
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00001796- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
1797 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
1798 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
1799 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
1800
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00001801- Removed the ipaddr module.
1802
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00001803- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
1804 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
1805 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
1806
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00001807- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
1808
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00001809- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
1810
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00001811- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
1812 parameters.
1813
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001814Windows
1815-------
1816
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00001817- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
1818
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001819- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
1820
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00001821C-API
1822-----
1823
1824- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
1825 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
1826 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
1827
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001828
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001829Build
1830-----
1831
1832- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
1833 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
1834
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00001835- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1836 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1837
1838
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001839
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00001840What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
1841=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001842
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00001843*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001844
1845Core and Builtins
1846-----------------
1847
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00001848- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
1849 of the command line.
1850
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00001851- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
1852
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00001853- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
1854 that would raise SystemError.
1855
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00001856- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
1857 function with __func__.
1858
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00001859- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
1860 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00001861
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00001862- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
1863 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
1864 and imaginary literals.
1865
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00001866- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1867
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00001868- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
1869
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00001870- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
1871 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
1872 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
1873 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
1874 didn't match that of float('-nan').
1875
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001876Library
1877-------
1878
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00001879- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
1880
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00001881- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
1882
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00001883- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
1884 argument to the 'help' function.
1885
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00001886- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
1887 arguments for strings with a space in them.
1888
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00001889- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
1890 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
1891
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00001892- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1893 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1894
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00001895- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
1896 the directory already exists.
1897
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00001898- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1899 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1900 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1901
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00001902- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
1903 IO objects.
1904
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00001905- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
1906 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
1907
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00001908- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
1909 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
1910 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
1911
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00001912- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1913 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1914
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00001915- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1916 deepcopy()ing.
1917
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00001918- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1919
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00001920- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1921
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00001922- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1923
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00001924- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
1925 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
1926 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
1927 empty.
1928
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00001929- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1930 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
1931 corrects a pydoc regression.
1932
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00001933- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
1934 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
1935
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00001936Installation
1937------------
1938
1939- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
1940 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001941
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00001942- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
1943
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001944Extension Modules
1945-----------------
1946
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00001947- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00001948
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00001949- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1950
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001951- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
1952
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00001953- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
1954 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00001955
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00001956Build
1957-----
1958
1959- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1960 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1961 Clinton Roy.
1962
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00001963Tests
1964-----
1965
1966- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
1967 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
1968 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
1969 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
1970
1971
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001972What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
1973================================
1974
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00001975*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001976
1977Core and Builtins
1978-----------------
1979
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00001980- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
1981 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
1982
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001983- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
1984 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
1985 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
1986
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00001987- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
1988 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
1989 a PendingDeprecation warning.
1990
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00001991- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
1992 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
1993 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
1994 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
1995 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
1996 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
1997 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
1998 the same way.
1999
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00002000- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
2001
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00002002- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
2003 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
2004 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
2005
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00002006- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
2007 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
2008
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00002009- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00002010
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00002011- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
2012 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
2013 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
2014
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00002015- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
2016 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
2017 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
2018 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00002019
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00002020- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00002021 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
2022
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00002023- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
2024 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
2025
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00002026- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
2027 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
2028
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00002029- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
2030
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00002031- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
2032 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
2033
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00002034- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
2035
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00002036- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
2037 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
2038
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00002039- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00002040
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00002041- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
2042 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
2043 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
2044 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
2045
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00002046- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
2047 some builtin types.
2048
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00002049- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
2050
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00002051- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
2052 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00002053
2054- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
2055 floats.
2056
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00002057- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00002058 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
2059 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
2060 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
2061 long time.)
2062
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00002063- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
2064 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
2065 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
2066 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00002067 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
2068 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
2069 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00002070
2071 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
2072 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
2073 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
2074 reason or another.
2075
2076 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
2077 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
2078 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
2079 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
2080 correctly rounded on these platforms.
2081
2082 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
2083 this change does not apply.
2084
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00002085- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
2086
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00002087- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
2088 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
2089 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
2090 methods available on the str class.
2091
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00002092- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
2093 its clarity and its speed.
2094
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00002095- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
2096 to avoid compiler warnings.
2097
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00002098- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
2099 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
2100
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00002101Installation
2102------------
2103
2104- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
2105
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00002106Library
2107-------
2108
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00002109- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
2110
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00002111- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
2112 specific Python version.
2113
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00002114- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
2115 whitespace.
2116
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002117- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00002118 the right type checkings anymore.
2119
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00002120- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
2121 return directories.
2122
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00002123- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
2124
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00002125- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
2126 looking for files given by a relative filename.
2127
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00002128- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
2129 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
2130
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00002131- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
2132 extracting a file to the root directory.
2133
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00002134- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
2135
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00002136- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
2137 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
2138 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
2139
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00002140- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
2141
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00002142- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
2143 Contributed by Google.
2144
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00002145- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
2146 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
2147
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00002148- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
2149
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00002150- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
2151
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00002152- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
2153 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
2154 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
2155
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00002156- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
2157 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
2158 initialized before.
2159
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002160- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
2161 names which should not be exported.
2162
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00002163- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
2164 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
2165
2166- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
2167
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00002168- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
2169 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
2170 instances.
2171
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00002172- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
2173 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
2174 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
2175
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00002176- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
2177 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
2178
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00002179- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
2180 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
2181 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
2182 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
2183 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
2184
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00002185- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
2186 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
2187
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00002188- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2189 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2190 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2191
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00002192Extension Modules
2193-----------------
2194
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00002195- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
2196 pwd.
2197
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00002198- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
2199 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
2200 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
2201 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
2202
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00002203- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
2204 using Berkley-DB.
2205
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00002206Tests
2207-----
2208
2209- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
2210 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
2211 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
2212 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
2213 can be adjusted to use it over time.
2214
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00002215- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2216 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2217 incorrectly on __exit__.
2218
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00002219C-API
2220-----
2221
2222- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
2223
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00002224
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002225What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
2226=================================
2227
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00002228*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002229
2230Core and Builtins
2231-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00002232
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00002233- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
2234 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002235
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00002236- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
2237
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00002238- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
2239 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
2240
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00002241- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2242 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2243
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00002244- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
2245
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002246- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
2247 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
2248
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00002249- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
2250 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
2251 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
2252
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00002253- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
2254
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00002255- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
2256 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
2257
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00002258- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
2259 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
2260 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
2261 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
2262
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00002263- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
2264 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
2265 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
2266
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00002267- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
2268 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
2269 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
2270 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
2271 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
2272 the internal format.
2273
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00002274- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
2275 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
2276 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
2277
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00002278- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
2279 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
2280
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00002281- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
2282 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
2283
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00002284- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
2285 short file names.
2286
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002287Library
2288-------
2289
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002290- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00002291 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2292
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00002293- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
2294 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
2295 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
2296
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00002297- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
2298 the -T argument.
2299
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00002300- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2301
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00002302- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
2303
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00002304- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
2305
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00002306- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
2307 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
2308
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00002309- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
2310
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00002311- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2312
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00002313- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
2314 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
2315
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00002316- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
2317 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
2318
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00002319- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
2320 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
2321 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
2322
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00002323- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
2324
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00002325- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
2326 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
2327
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00002328- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
2329 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
2330
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00002331- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
2332 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
2333 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
2334 partial bzip2 compressed data.
2335
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00002336- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
2337 specifier to Decimal.__format__
2338
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00002339- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
2340 '>' alignment characters.
2341
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00002342- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
2343 value, and report it as -1 instead.
2344
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00002345- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
2346 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
2347
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002348Extension Modules
2349-----------------
2350
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00002351- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
2352
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002353- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
2354 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00002355 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
2356 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
2357 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002358
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002359
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00002360What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00002361================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002362
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00002363*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002364
2365Core and Builtins
2366-----------------
2367
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00002368- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
2369
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00002370- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
2371
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00002372- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
2373 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
2374
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00002375- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
2376 contained non ascii character on windows.
2377
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00002378- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
2379 source has already been decoded into str.
2380
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00002381- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2382 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2383
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00002384- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
2385 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
2386
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00002387- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
2388 returns a non-number type.
2389
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00002390- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
2391
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00002392- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
2393 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00002394 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
2395 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00002396
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002397- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00002398 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
2399
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00002400- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
2401 Previously it returned a float.
2402
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00002403- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
2404 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
2405 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
2406 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
2407
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00002408- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
2409
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00002410- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
2411 from a string.
2412
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00002413- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
2414
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00002415- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
2416 optional module state data.
2417
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00002418- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
2419 type to (void *).
2420
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00002421- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
2422 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
2423 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
2424
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00002425- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2426 __next__ method.
2427
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00002428- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
2429 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
2430 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
2431
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00002432- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2433
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00002434- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2435
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00002436- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
2437 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
2438 amount of loop unrolling.
2439
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00002440- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2441 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2442 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
2443 Martin von Löwis at
2444 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2445
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002446- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00002447 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
2448 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
2449
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00002450- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
2451 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
2452 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
2453 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
2454
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00002455- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
2456 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
2457 Python's overall memory).
2458
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00002459- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
2460 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
2461 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
2462 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
2463 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
2464
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00002465- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
2466 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
2467 items, rather than the size in bytes.
2468
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002469- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
2470
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00002471- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
2472 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
2473
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00002474- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00002475 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00002476
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00002477- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
2478 did not get collected.
2479
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00002480- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
2481 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
2482
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00002483- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
2484 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
2485
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00002486- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
2487 fail.
2488
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00002489- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
2490
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00002491- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
2492 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
2493
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00002494- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
2495 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
2496 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
2497
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00002498- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
2499
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00002500- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
2501 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
2502 failures on OS X.
2503
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00002504- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
2505 exceptions.
2506
2507- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00002508 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
2509
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00002510- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
2511 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
2512 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
2513 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
2514
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00002515- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
2516 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
2517 Python 2.x.
2518
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00002519- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
2520 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
2521
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002522- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
2523 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
2524 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
2525 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00002526
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00002527- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
2528 larger than 1.
2529
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00002530- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
2531
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00002532- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
2533
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00002534- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
2535 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
2536 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
2537 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
2538
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002539Library
2540-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002541
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00002542- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2543 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2544
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00002545- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00002546 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2547
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002548- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00002549 Distutils.
2550
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00002551- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2552
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00002553- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
2554 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
2555 Michael Haubenwallner.
2556
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00002557- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2558
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00002559- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2560 opening an empty or very small file.
2561
2562- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00002563 behavior is similar when used with -O.
2564
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00002565- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2566
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00002567- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
2568 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
2569 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
2570 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
2571
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00002572- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
2573
2574- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2575
2576- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2577 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2578
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002579- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00002580
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002581- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00002582 attribute.
2583
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00002584- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2585
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00002586- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2587
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00002588- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
2589 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
2590 descriptor errors
2591
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002592- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00002593 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2594
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002595- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00002596 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2597
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00002598- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2599 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2600
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00002601- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2602
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00002603- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2604
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00002605- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
2606 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2607 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2608
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00002609- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
2610 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2611
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00002612- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2613
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002614- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00002615 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
2616
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00002617- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2618
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00002619- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
2620 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
2621
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002622- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00002623 subcommand.
2624
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00002625- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
2626 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
2627
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00002628- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
2629 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
2630
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00002631- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
2632 for old-style extensions.
2633
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00002634- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
2635
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00002636- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
2637 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
2638 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
2639 Cournapeau.
2640
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00002641- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
2642
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002643- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00002644 anymore.
2645
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002646- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00002647 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
2648
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00002649- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2650
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00002651- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2652
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00002653- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
2654
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00002655- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
2656 a value in SafeConfigParser.
2657
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00002658- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
2659
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002660- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00002661 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
2662
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00002663- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
2664 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
2665
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00002666- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
2667 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
2668
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002669- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00002670
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002671- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00002672
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00002673- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2674 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2675 threads.
2676
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00002677- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
2678 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2679 that it was failing to do localization.
2680
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00002681- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
2682 Brandl.
2683
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00002684- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
2685 character.
2686
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00002687- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
2688 Tim Golden.
2689
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00002690- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
2691
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00002692- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
2693 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
2694 window flashing.
2695
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00002696- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
2697 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
2698 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
2699
2700- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2701
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00002702- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
2703 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2704
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00002705- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
2706
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00002707- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2708
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00002709- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2710
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00002711- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
2712
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00002713- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2714
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00002715- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2716
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00002717- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2718 import guess_extension`` was used.
2719
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00002720- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
2721 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
2722
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00002723- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2724 overrun.
2725
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00002726- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2727 bdist_rpm command.
2728
2729- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
2730
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002731- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
2732
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00002733- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
2734 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002735
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002736- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2737 IronPython.
2738
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00002739- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
2740 The file was resized to wrong size.
2741
2742- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2743
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002744- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00002745 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
2746
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002747- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00002748 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2749
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00002750- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2751 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2752
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00002753- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
2754
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00002755- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2756 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
2757 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
2758
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00002759- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
2760 encoding.
2761
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00002762- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2763 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2764
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00002765- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2766 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2767
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00002768- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
2769 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
2770 ctime of the files involved.
2771
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00002772- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2773 deadlock.
2774
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00002775- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
2776 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
2777 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
2778
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00002779- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2780
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00002781- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
2782 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
2783
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00002784- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
2785 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
2786 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
2787 Vajda.
2788
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00002789- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
2790 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
2791 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
2792 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
2793
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00002794- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
2795 Ross Light.
2796
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002797- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00002798 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2799
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00002800- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2801 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2802
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002803- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00002804 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2805
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00002806- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2807
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00002808- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
2809
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00002810- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
2811 items being passed through ord().
2812
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00002813- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
2814 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
2815 "src.new").
2816
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00002817- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2818
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00002819- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
2820 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
2821 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
2822
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002823- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00002824 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2825
2826- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
2827 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
2828
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00002829- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
2830 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
2831
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00002832- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2833
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00002834- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
2835 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00002836
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002837- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00002838 allowed non-integer arguments.
2839
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00002840- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
2841 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
2842 examples.
2843
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00002844- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
2845 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2846
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00002847- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
2848 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
2849
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00002850- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
2851 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
2852
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002853- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00002854 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
2855 be disabled, and not compiled.
2856
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00002857- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
2858 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
2859 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
2860 traditional 2.x file object.
2861
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002862- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2863 parameter was set.
2864
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00002865- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
2866 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
2867
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00002868- Add the importlib package.
2869
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00002870- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2871 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2872
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00002873- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002874 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00002875
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00002876- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
2877 without defaults.
2878
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00002879- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
2880 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
2881 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
2882
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00002883- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2884 in sharedctypes.py.
2885
2886- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2887 __getattr__.
2888
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00002889- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
2890 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
2891 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
2892
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00002893- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
2894 counting.
2895
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00002896- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2897
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00002898- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
2899 function without defining argtypes.
2900
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00002901- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
2902 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2903 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
2904 Jacques Frechet.
2905
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00002906- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2907
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00002908- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
2909 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
2910
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002911- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
2912 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00002913 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
2914
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00002915- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
2916 to the decimal module.
2917
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002918- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
2919 cast as floats.
2920
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00002921- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
2922 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
2923
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002924- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002925 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
2926
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002927- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2928 the function is not a generator.
2929
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002930- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
2931 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00002932
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002933- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00002934 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
2935
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00002936- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2937
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00002938- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2939
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00002940- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
2941 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
2942
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00002943- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
2944 works as expected in the interactive environment.
2945
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00002946- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2947 Gabriel Genellina.
2948
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00002949- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
2950 boundary.
2951
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00002952- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
2953 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
2954 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2955
2956- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
2957 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
2958 Alexander Belopolsky.
2959
2960- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
2961 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
2962 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
2963 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
2964 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
2965 Alexander Belopolsky.
2966
2967- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
2968 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
2969 Alexander Belopolsky.
2970
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00002971- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
2972 a non-ASCII letter.
2973
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00002974- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2975
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00002976- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
2977 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
2978
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00002979- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
2980 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
2981 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
2982
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00002983- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
2984 libs.
2985
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002986- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
2987 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2988
2989- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2990 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2991 Content-Disposition headers.
2992
2993- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
2994 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
2995 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
2996 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
2997 doesn't configure logging.
2998
2999- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
3000 exception.
3001
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00003002- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
3003 statements.
3004
3005- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
3006 not a malformed option.
3007
3008- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
3009 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
3010
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00003011- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
3012 the corresponding tests now pass.
3013
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00003014- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
3015 it was calling the wrong open() function.
3016
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00003017- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
3018 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
3019 Content-Disposition headers.
3020
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00003021- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
3022 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
3023
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00003024- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
3025 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
3026 and getservbyport().
3027
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00003028- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
3029
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00003030Tools/Demos
3031-----------
3032
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00003033- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
3034 and make it 2.6-compatible.
3035
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00003036- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
3037
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00003038- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
3039
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00003040
3041Build
3042-----
3043
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00003044- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
3045
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00003046- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
3047
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00003048- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
3049 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
3050
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00003051- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00003052 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00003053
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00003054- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
3055
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00003056- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
3057
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00003058- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
3059
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00003060- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
3061
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00003062- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
3063
3064- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
3065
3066- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
3067
3068- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
3069
3070- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
3071
3072- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
3073
3074- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
3075
3076- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
3077
3078- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
3079
3080- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
3081
3082
3083C-API
3084-----
3085
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00003086- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
3087 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
3088
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00003089- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
3090 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
3091
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00003092- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
3093
3094- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
3095 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
3096
3097- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
3098 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
3099
3100
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00003101Extension Modules
3102-----------------
3103
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00003104- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
3105 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
3106 implementations or external openssl library).
3107
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00003108- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
3109
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00003110- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
3111
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00003112- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
3113 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
3114 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
3115
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00003116- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
3117
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00003118- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
3119 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
3120 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
3121
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00003122- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
3123
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00003124- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
3125
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00003126- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
3127 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00003128
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00003129- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
3130 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
3131 buffer.
3132
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00003133
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00003134- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
3135
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00003136Tests
3137-----
3138
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00003139- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
3140 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
3141
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00003142- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
3143 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
3144 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
3145 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
3146
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00003147- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00003148 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00003149 from test support, which does the conversion.
3150
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00003151- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
3152
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Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00003154Docs
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