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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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14
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +000015- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule
16 in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
17
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +000018- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
19 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
20 strings.
21
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +000022- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
23 0 padding.
24
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +000025- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
26 complex.__format__. Now it matches other numeric types.
27
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +000028- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
29 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string
30 and PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original
31 deprecations.
32
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +000033- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
34 `PyObject_GetBuffer` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
35
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +000036- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
37 slice with very large step value.
38
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +000039- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
40 tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
41 structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
42 suite_mask, and product_type.
43
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +000044- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
45 could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
46 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
47 string instead.
48
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +000049- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
50 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
51 a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
52 is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
53 executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
54 constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
55 Malcolm.
56
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +000057- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
58 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
59 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
60
Mark Dickinson45b63652010-01-16 18:10:25 +000061- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
62 alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
63 occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
64 that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
Mark Dickinsonc4f18682010-01-17 14:39:12 +000065 strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
66 some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
67 flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +000068
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +000069- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
70 consistent with other special methods.
71
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +000072- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
73 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
74
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +000075- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
76 AttributeError.
77
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +000078- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
79 negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
80 described in C99 Annex F.
81
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +000082- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
83 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
84 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
85 particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
86
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +000087- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
88 executables on OSX.
89
90 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
91 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
92 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
93
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +000094- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
95 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
96
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +000097- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
98 with invalid values.
99
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +0000100- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
101 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
102
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +0000103- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
104 on MacOSX 10.6.
105
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +0000106- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
107
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +0000108- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
109 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
110
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +0000111- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
112 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
113 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
114 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
115 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
116
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +0000117- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
118 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
119
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +0000120- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
121 surrogates.
122
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +0000123- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
124
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +0000125- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
126
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +0000127- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
128 disabled since Python 3.0.
129
130- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
131 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
132 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
133
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +0000134- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
135
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +0000136- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
137 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
138 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
139
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000140- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +0000141 support.
142
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000143- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
144 crash in GAE.
145
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +0000146- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
147 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
148 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
149
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000150- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000151 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000152
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +0000153- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
154 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
155 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
156 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
157
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000158- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
159 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
160
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000161- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
162 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
163
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000164- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
165
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000166- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
167
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000168- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
169
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000170- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
171
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000172- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
173 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
174
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000175- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
176
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000177- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
178
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000179- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
180 occurred in the argument chain.
181
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000182- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
183 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
184
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000185- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
186
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000187- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
188 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
189 documentation.
190
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000191- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
192
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000193- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
194 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
195 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
196
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000197- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000198 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
199 surrogates.
200
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000201- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
202
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000203- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
204 argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
205
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000206- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
207 These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
208
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +0000209- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes
210 instances from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses
211 from being pickled properly.
212
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000213C-API
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Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +0000216- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added,
217 analogous to PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
218
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +0000219- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
220 has '\0' at the end.
221
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000222- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
223 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
224 PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
225 DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
226 code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
227 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
228
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +0000229- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
230
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000231- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
232 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
233
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000234- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000235 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
236
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000237- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
238 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
239 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
240 using PyDescr_COMMON.
241
242- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000243
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000244- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
245
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000246- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
247 PyCode_Addr2Line().
248
249- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
250 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
251
252- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
253 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
254
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000255- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
256 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
257 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
258 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
259
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000260Library
261-------
262
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +0000263- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
264
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +0000265- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
266 writing.
267
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +0000268- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
269
270- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
271
272- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
273
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +0000274- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
275
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000276- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
Ezio Melotti8b1458b2010-02-24 16:55:43 +0000277 with the cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000278
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +0000279- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
280
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +0000281- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
282 to be ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
283
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +0000284- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
285 Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
286
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +0000287- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
288
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +0000289- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
290 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
291
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +0000292- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
293 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
294
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +0000295- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
296 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
297 and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
298 convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
299 were converted.
300
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +0000301- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
302 interpreter shutdown.
303
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +0000304- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
305 in XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
306 allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
307 PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
308
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +0000309- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
310 entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
311 encoding. Patch by Jerry Chen.
312
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +0000313- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
314 specify the compression type.
315
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +0000316- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
317 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
318 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
319 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
320
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +0000321- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
322 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
323 file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
324 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
325
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +0000326- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
327 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
328 an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can
329 be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
330 It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
331 `readline()` give wrong results. Patch by Nir Aides.
332
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +0000333- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
334 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
335 the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
336 replace it.
337
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +0000338- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
339
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +0000340- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +0000341
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +0000342- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
343
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +0000344- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
345 the release file is empty.
346
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +0000347- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
348 module.
349
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +0000350- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
351 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
352 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
353
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +0000354- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`.
355 Patch by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
356
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +0000357- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
358 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
359
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +0000360- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
361 argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
362
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +0000363- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files.
364 Patch by Brian Curtin.
365
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +0000366- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
367
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +0000368- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
369 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
370 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
371
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +0000372- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
373 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
374 by Arfrever.
375
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +0000376- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
377 the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
378
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +0000379- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
380 Victor Stinner.
381
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +0000382- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
383 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
384 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
385
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +0000386- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
387 and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
388 speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
389
390- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +0000391 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
392
393- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
394
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +0000395- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
396 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
397
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000398- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
399 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
400 in regular expressions.
401
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +0000402- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
403 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
404 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
405
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +0000406- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
407 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
408
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +0000409- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
410 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
411 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
412
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +0000413- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
414 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
415 the same as passing no argument.
416
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +0000417- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
418 default.
419
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +0000420- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
421 in imaplib.
422
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +0000423- Add a reverse() method to collections.deque().
424
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +0000425- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
426
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +0000427- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
428 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
429
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +0000430- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
431 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
432
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000433- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
434 TLS with authentication credentials.
435
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +0000436- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
437 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
438
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +0000439- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
440 msvc9compiler.
441
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +0000442- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
443 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
444 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
445
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +0000446- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
447 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
448 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
449
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +0000450- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
451 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
452 built-in exception printing.
453
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +0000454- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
455 Robert Collins.
456
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000457- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
458
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +0000459- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
460 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
461 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
462
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +0000463- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
464 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
465 Brian Quinlan.
466
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +0000467- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
468
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +0000469- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
470
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +0000471- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
472 raises ReadError on empty files.
473
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +0000474- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
475 be 2.
476
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +0000477- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
478 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +0000479
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +0000480- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
481 case of an error.
482
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +0000483- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
484 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
485
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +0000486- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
487 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
488
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +0000489- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
490
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +0000491- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
492 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
493
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +0000494- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
495 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
496 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
497 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
498 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
499
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +0000500- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
501 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
502 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
503 local connections.
504
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +0000505- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
506 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
507 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
508
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +0000509- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
510 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
511 class to be used without having to subclass.
512
513- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
514 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
515
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +0000516- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
517 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
518 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
519 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
520
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +0000521- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
522 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
523 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
524
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +0000525- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
526 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
527
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +0000528- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
529 which are part of a reference cycle.
530
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +0000531- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
532 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
533
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +0000534- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
535 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
536 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
537
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +0000538- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
539 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
540 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
541 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
542 OSes such as Solaris.
543
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +0000544- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
545 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
546 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
547 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
548
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +0000549- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
550 header as required by RFC 1952.
551
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +0000552- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
553 Distutils.
554
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +0000555- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
556 an uppercase.
557
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +0000558- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
559 several threads at once.
560
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000561- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
562
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +0000563- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
564 larger than emax.
565
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000566- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
567 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
568
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +0000569- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
570 GNU readline library version 6.0.
571
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000572- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +0000573
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000574- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
575 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000576
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +0000577- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
578 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
579
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +0000580- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
581 builtin tokenizer.
582
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +0000583- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
584 is too large to fit in the current precision.
585
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000586- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +0000587 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +0000588
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +0000589- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
590 does now always result in NULL.
591
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +0000592- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
593 with base class positional arguments.
594
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +0000595- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
596
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +0000597- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
598
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +0000599- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
600
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +0000601- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
602
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +0000603- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
604 instances.
605
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +0000606- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
607 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
608 in long(Decimal('nan')).
609
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +0000610- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
611 with no type specifier.
612
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +0000613- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
614
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +0000615- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
616 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
617 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
618 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
619
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +0000620- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
621 should be raised, not AttributeError.
622
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +0000623- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
624 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
625
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +0000626- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
627 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
628 AttributeError before).
629
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +0000630- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
631
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +0000632- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
633
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +0000634- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
635
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +0000636- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
637 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
638
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +0000639- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
640
641- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
642
643- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
644
645- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
646 ScrolledText.
647
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +0000648- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
649
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +0000650- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
651 the xview* and yview* methods.
652
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +0000653- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
654 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
655 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
656 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
657
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +0000658- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
659 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
660
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +0000661- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
662
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +0000663- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
664 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
665 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
666
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +0000667- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
668 DO/DONT correctly.
669
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +0000670- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
671 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
672 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +0000673
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +0000674- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
675 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
676 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
677 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
678
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +0000679- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
680 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
681 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
682
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +0000683- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
684 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
685 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
686
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +0000687- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +0000688
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +0000689- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
690 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
691
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +0000692- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
693 syntax error.
694
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +0000695- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
696 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
697
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +0000698- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
699
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +0000700- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
701
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +0000702- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
703
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000704- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
705 sys.path.
706
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +0000707- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
708
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +0000709- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will
710 be searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
711
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000712Extension Modules
713-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000714
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +0000715- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
716 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
717
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +0000718- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
719
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +0000720- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
721
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +0000722- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +0000723
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +0000724- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
725 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000726
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +0000727- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
728
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +0000729- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
730
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +0000731- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
732 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
733 matched characters with category 'No'.
734
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000735- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +0000736 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
737 buffers.
738
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +0000739- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
740
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +0000741- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
742 (CVE_2009_3560).
743
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000744Build
745-----
746
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +0000747- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +0000748
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +0000749- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
750 private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
751 PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
752
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +0000753- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
754
755- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
756 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
757
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +0000758- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
759 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
760 Python.
761
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +0000762- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
763 found.
764
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +0000765- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +0000766
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +0000767- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
768 icc or suncc.
769
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +0000770- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
771 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
772 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
773
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +0000774- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
775
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +0000776- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
777
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +0000778- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
779 directories.
780
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +0000781- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
782 extensions are installed.
783
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +0000784- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the compiler might
785 use the wrong library.
786
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +0000787Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000788------------
789
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +0000790- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
791 -J and -X options.
792
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +0000793- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
794 ImportError.
795
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000796- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
797 for Windows.
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +0000798
799- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
800 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +0000801
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000802Tests
803-----
804
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +0000805- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
806 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
807
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +0000808- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
809 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
810 The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
811 Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
812
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +0000813- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
814 test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
815 wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.
816
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +0000817- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use test_support.bind_port
818 instead of a hard coded port.
819
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +0000820- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
821 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
822
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +0000823- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
824
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +0000825- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +0000826 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
827
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +0000828- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
829 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
830 user running the tests.
831
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +0000832- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
833 catch the case of an option with no handler.
834
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +0000835- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
836 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
837
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +0000838- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
839 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
840 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
841 to empty global variables.
842
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +0000843- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
844
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +0000845- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
846 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
847
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +0000848- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
849 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
850 between concurrent executions on the same system.
851
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +0000852- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
853 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
854 calling methods on the object.
855
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +0000856- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
857 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
858 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
859 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
860 :func:`_thread._count()`.
861
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +0000862- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
863 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
864
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +0000865- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
866 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
867
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +0000868- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
869 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
870 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +0000871
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +0000872- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
873
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +0000874- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
875 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
876 object bytecode.
877
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +0000878- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
879 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
880
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +0000881Tools/Demos
882-----------
883
884- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
885 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the
886 sandbox.
887
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000888
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000889What's New in Python 3.1?
890=========================
891
892*Release date: 27-June-2009*
893
894Core and Builtins
895-----------------
896
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +0000897- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
898 large arguments.
899
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +0000900- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
901 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
902
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000903Library
904-------
905
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +0000906- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
907
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +0000908- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +0000909
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +0000910- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
911
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +0000912- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
913 io.UnsupportedOperation.
914
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +0000915- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +0000916 (On Unix)
917
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +0000918- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
919 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
920
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +0000921Extension Modules
922-----------------
923
924- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
925
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +0000926
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +0000927What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
928=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000929
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +0000930*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000931
932Core and Builtins
933-----------------
934
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +0000935- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
936
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +0000937- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
938 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
939
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +0000940- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
941 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
942
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +0000943- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +0000944 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +0000945
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000946Library
947-------
948
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +0000949- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +0000950 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +0000951 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
952
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +0000953- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
954
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +0000955- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
956 binary files.
957
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +0000958- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
959 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
960
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +0000961- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
962 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
963 are always None now.
964
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +0000965- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
966 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
967 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
968 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
969
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +0000970- Removed the ipaddr module.
971
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +0000972- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
973 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
974 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
975
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +0000976- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
977
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +0000978- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
979
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +0000980- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
981 parameters.
982
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +0000983Windows
984-------
985
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +0000986- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
987
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +0000988- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
989
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +0000990C-API
991-----
992
993- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
994 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
995 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
996
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +0000997
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +0000998Build
999-----
1000
1001- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
1002 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
1003
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00001004- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1005 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1006
1007
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001008
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00001009What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
1010=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001011
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00001012*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001013
1014Core and Builtins
1015-----------------
1016
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00001017- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
1018 of the command line.
1019
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00001020- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
1021
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00001022- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
1023 that would raise SystemError.
1024
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00001025- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
1026 function with __func__.
1027
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00001028- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
1029 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00001030
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00001031- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
1032 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
1033 and imaginary literals.
1034
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00001035- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1036
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00001037- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
1038
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00001039- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
1040 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
1041 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
1042 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
1043 didn't match that of float('-nan').
1044
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001045Library
1046-------
1047
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00001048- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
1049
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00001050- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
1051
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00001052- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
1053 argument to the 'help' function.
1054
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00001055- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
1056 arguments for strings with a space in them.
1057
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00001058- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
1059 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
1060
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00001061- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1062 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1063
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00001064- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
1065 the directory already exists.
1066
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00001067- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1068 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1069 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1070
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00001071- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
1072 IO objects.
1073
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00001074- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
1075 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
1076
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00001077- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
1078 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
1079 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
1080
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00001081- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1082 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1083
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00001084- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1085 deepcopy()ing.
1086
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00001087- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1088
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00001089- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1090
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00001091- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1092
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00001093- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
1094 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
1095 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
1096 empty.
1097
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00001098- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1099 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
1100 corrects a pydoc regression.
1101
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00001102- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
1103 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
1104
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00001105Installation
1106------------
1107
1108- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
1109 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001110
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00001111- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
1112
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001113Extension Modules
1114-----------------
1115
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00001116- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00001117
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00001118- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1119
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001120- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
1121
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00001122- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
1123 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00001124
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00001125Build
1126-----
1127
1128- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1129 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1130 Clinton Roy.
1131
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00001132Tests
1133-----
1134
1135- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
1136 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
1137 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
1138 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
1139
1140
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001141What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
1142================================
1143
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00001144*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001145
1146Core and Builtins
1147-----------------
1148
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00001149- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
1150 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
1151
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001152- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
1153 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
1154 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
1155
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00001156- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
1157 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
1158 a PendingDeprecation warning.
1159
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00001160- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
1161 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
1162 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
1163 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
1164 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
1165 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
1166 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
1167 the same way.
1168
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00001169- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
1170
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00001171- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
1172 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
1173 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
1174
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00001175- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
1176 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
1177
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00001178- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00001179
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00001180- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
1181 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
1182 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
1183
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00001184- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
1185 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
1186 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
1187 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00001188
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001189- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00001190 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
1191
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00001192- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
1193 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
1194
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00001195- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
1196 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
1197
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00001198- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
1199
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00001200- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
1201 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
1202
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00001203- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1204
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00001205- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
1206 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
1207
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00001208- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00001209
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00001210- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
1211 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
1212 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
1213 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
1214
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00001215- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
1216 some builtin types.
1217
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001218- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
1219
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00001220- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
1221 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001222
1223- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1224 floats.
1225
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001226- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001227 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
1228 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
1229 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
1230 long time.)
1231
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001232- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
1233 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
1234 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
1235 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001236 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
1237 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
1238 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001239
1240 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
1241 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
1242 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
1243 reason or another.
1244
1245 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
1246 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
1247 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
1248 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
1249 correctly rounded on these platforms.
1250
1251 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
1252 this change does not apply.
1253
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00001254- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1255
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00001256- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
1257 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
1258 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
1259 methods available on the str class.
1260
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00001261- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
1262 its clarity and its speed.
1263
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00001264- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1265 to avoid compiler warnings.
1266
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00001267- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1268 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1269
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00001270Installation
1271------------
1272
1273- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
1274
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001275Library
1276-------
1277
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00001278- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
1279 specific Python version.
1280
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00001281- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1282 whitespace.
1283
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001284- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00001285 the right type checkings anymore.
1286
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00001287- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
1288 return directories.
1289
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00001290- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1291
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00001292- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1293 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1294
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00001295- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
1296 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
1297
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00001298- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
1299 extracting a file to the root directory.
1300
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00001301- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
1302
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00001303- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1304 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1305 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1306
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00001307- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
1308
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00001309- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1310 Contributed by Google.
1311
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00001312- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1313 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1314
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00001315- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
1316
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00001317- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1318
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00001319- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1320 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1321 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1322
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00001323- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1324 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1325 initialized before.
1326
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001327- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1328 names which should not be exported.
1329
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00001330- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
1331 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
1332
1333- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1334
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00001335- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
1336 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
1337 instances.
1338
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00001339- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
1340 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
1341 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
1342
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00001343- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
1344 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
1345
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00001346- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
1347 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
1348 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
1349 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
1350 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
1351
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00001352- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1353 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1354
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00001355- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1356 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1357 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1358
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001359Extension Modules
1360-----------------
1361
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00001362- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
1363 pwd.
1364
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00001365- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
1366 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
1367 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
1368 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
1369
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00001370- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
1371 using Berkley-DB.
1372
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00001373Tests
1374-----
1375
1376- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1377 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1378 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1379 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1380 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1381
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00001382- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1383 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1384 incorrectly on __exit__.
1385
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00001386C-API
1387-----
1388
1389- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
1390
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001391
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001392What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
1393=================================
1394
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00001395*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001396
1397Core and Builtins
1398-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001399
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00001400- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1401 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001402
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00001403- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
1404
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00001405- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
1406 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
1407
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00001408- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1409 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1410
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00001411- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1412
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00001413- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
1414 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
1415
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00001416- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
1417 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
1418 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
1419
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00001420- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
1421
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00001422- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
1423 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
1424
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00001425- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
1426 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
1427 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
1428 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
1429
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00001430- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
1431 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
1432 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
1433
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00001434- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
1435 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
1436 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
1437 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
1438 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
1439 the internal format.
1440
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00001441- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
1442 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
1443 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
1444
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00001445- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
1446 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
1447
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00001448- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
1449 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
1450
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00001451- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
1452 short file names.
1453
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001454Library
1455-------
1456
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001457- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00001458 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1459
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00001460- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
1461 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
1462 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
1463
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00001464- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
1465 the -T argument.
1466
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00001467- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1468
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00001469- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
1470
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00001471- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
1472
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00001473- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1474 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1475
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00001476- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1477
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00001478- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1479
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00001480- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1481 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1482
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00001483- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
1484 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
1485
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00001486- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
1487 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1488 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1489
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00001490- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
1491
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00001492- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
1493 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
1494
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00001495- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
1496 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
1497
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00001498- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1499 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1500 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1501 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1502
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00001503- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1504 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1505
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00001506- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1507 '>' alignment characters.
1508
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00001509- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
1510 value, and report it as -1 instead.
1511
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00001512- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
1513 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1514
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001515Extension Modules
1516-----------------
1517
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00001518- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
1519
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001520- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
1521 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00001522 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
1523 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
1524 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00001525
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00001526
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001527What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00001528================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001529
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00001530*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001531
1532Core and Builtins
1533-----------------
1534
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00001535- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
1536
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00001537- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
1538
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00001539- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
1540 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
1541
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00001542- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
1543 contained non ascii character on windows.
1544
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00001545- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
1546 source has already been decoded into str.
1547
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00001548- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1549 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1550
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00001551- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
1552 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
1553
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00001554- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
1555 returns a non-number type.
1556
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00001557- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
1558
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00001559- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
1560 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00001561 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
1562 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00001563
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001564- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00001565 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
1566
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00001567- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
1568 Previously it returned a float.
1569
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00001570- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
1571 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
1572 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
1573 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
1574
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00001575- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
1576
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00001577- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
1578 from a string.
1579
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00001580- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
1581
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00001582- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
1583 optional module state data.
1584
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00001585- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
1586 type to (void *).
1587
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00001588- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
1589 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
1590 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
1591
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00001592- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1593 __next__ method.
1594
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00001595- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
1596 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
1597 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
1598
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00001599- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1600
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00001601- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1602
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00001603- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
1604 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
1605 amount of loop unrolling.
1606
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00001607- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1608 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1609 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
1610 Martin von Löwis at
1611 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1612
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00001613- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00001614 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
1615 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
1616
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00001617- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
1618 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
1619 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
1620 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
1621
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00001622- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
1623 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
1624 Python's overall memory).
1625
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00001626- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
1627 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
1628 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
1629 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
1630 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
1631
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00001632- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
1633 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
1634 items, rather than the size in bytes.
1635
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00001636- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
1637
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00001638- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
1639 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
1640
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001641- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00001642 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00001643
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00001644- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1645 did not get collected.
1646
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00001647- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
1648 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
1649
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00001650- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
1651 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
1652
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00001653- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1654 fail.
1655
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00001656- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
1657
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00001658- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
1659 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
1660
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00001661- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
1662 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
1663 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
1664
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00001665- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
1666
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00001667- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
1668 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
1669 failures on OS X.
1670
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00001671- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
1672 exceptions.
1673
1674- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00001675 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
1676
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00001677- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
1678 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
1679 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
1680 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
1681
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00001682- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
1683 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
1684 Python 2.x.
1685
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00001686- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
1687 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
1688
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00001689- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
1690 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
1691 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
1692 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00001693
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00001694- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
1695 larger than 1.
1696
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00001697- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1698
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00001699- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1700
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00001701- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1702 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1703 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1704 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1705
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001706Library
1707-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001708
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00001709- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1710 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1711
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00001712- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
1713 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1714
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001715- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00001716 Distutils.
1717
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00001718- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1719
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00001720- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
1721 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
1722 Michael Haubenwallner.
1723
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00001724- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1725
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00001726- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1727 opening an empty or very small file.
1728
1729- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00001730 behavior is similar when used with -O.
1731
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00001732- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1733
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00001734- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
1735 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
1736 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
1737 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
1738
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001739- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
1740
1741- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1742
1743- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1744 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1745
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001746- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00001747
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001748- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00001749 attribute.
1750
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00001751- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1752
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00001753- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1754
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00001755- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
1756 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
1757 descriptor errors
1758
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001759- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00001760 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1761
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001762- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00001763 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1764
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00001765- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1766 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1767
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00001768- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1769
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00001770- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1771
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00001772- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
1773 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1774 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1775
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00001776- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
1777 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1778
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00001779- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1780
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001781- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00001782 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1783
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00001784- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1785
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00001786- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
1787 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
1788
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001789- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00001790 subcommand.
1791
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00001792- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
1793 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1794
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00001795- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
1796 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
1797
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00001798- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
1799 for old-style extensions.
1800
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00001801- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1802
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00001803- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
1804 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1805 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
1806 Cournapeau.
1807
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00001808- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1809
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001810- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00001811 anymore.
1812
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001813- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00001814 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
1815
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00001816- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1817
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00001818- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1819
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00001820- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
1821
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00001822- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
1823 a value in SafeConfigParser.
1824
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00001825- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
1826
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00001827- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00001828 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
1829
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00001830- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
1831 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
1832
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00001833- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
1834 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
1835
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001836- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00001837
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001838- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00001839
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00001840- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1841 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1842 threads.
1843
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00001844- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
1845 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1846 that it was failing to do localization.
1847
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00001848- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
1849 Brandl.
1850
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00001851- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1852 character.
1853
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00001854- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1855 Tim Golden.
1856
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00001857- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1858
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00001859- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1860 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1861 window flashing.
1862
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00001863- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1864 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1865 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1866
1867- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1868
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00001869- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1870 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1871
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00001872- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
1873
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00001874- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1875
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00001876- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1877
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00001878- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1879
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00001880- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1881
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00001882- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1883
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00001884- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1885 import guess_extension`` was used.
1886
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00001887- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1888 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1889
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00001890- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1891 overrun.
1892
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00001893- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1894 bdist_rpm command.
1895
1896- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1897
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00001898- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1899
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00001900- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1901 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00001902
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001903- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1904 IronPython.
1905
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00001906- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1907 The file was resized to wrong size.
1908
1909- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1910
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001911- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00001912 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1913
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001914- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00001915 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1916
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00001917- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1918 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1919
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00001920- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1921
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00001922- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1923 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
1924 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
1925
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00001926- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
1927 encoding.
1928
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00001929- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1930 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1931
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00001932- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1933 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1934
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00001935- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1936 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1937 ctime of the files involved.
1938
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00001939- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1940 deadlock.
1941
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00001942- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1943 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1944 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1945
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00001946- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1947
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00001948- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1949 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1950
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00001951- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1952 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
1953 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1954 Vajda.
1955
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00001956- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1957 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1958 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1959 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
1960
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00001961- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1962 Ross Light.
1963
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001964- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00001965 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1966
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00001967- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1968 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1969
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00001970- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00001971 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1972
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00001973- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1974
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00001975- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
1976
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00001977- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
1978 items being passed through ord().
1979
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00001980- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1981 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1982 "src.new").
1983
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00001984- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1985
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00001986- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
1987 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
1988 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
1989
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00001990- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00001991 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1992
1993- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1994 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1995
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00001996- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1997 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1998
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00001999- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2000
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00002001- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
2002 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00002003
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002004- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00002005 allowed non-integer arguments.
2006
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00002007- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
2008 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
2009 examples.
2010
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00002011- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
2012 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2013
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00002014- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
2015 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
2016
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00002017- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
2018 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
2019
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002020- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00002021 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
2022 be disabled, and not compiled.
2023
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00002024- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
2025 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
2026 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
2027 traditional 2.x file object.
2028
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002029- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2030 parameter was set.
2031
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00002032- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
2033 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
2034
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00002035- Add the importlib package.
2036
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00002037- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2038 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2039
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00002040- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002041 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00002042
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00002043- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
2044 without defaults.
2045
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00002046- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
2047 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
2048 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
2049
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00002050- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2051 in sharedctypes.py.
2052
2053- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2054 __getattr__.
2055
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00002056- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
2057 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
2058 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
2059
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00002060- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
2061 counting.
2062
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00002063- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2064
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00002065- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
2066 function without defining argtypes.
2067
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00002068- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
2069 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2070 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
2071 Jacques Frechet.
2072
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00002073- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2074
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00002075- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
2076 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
2077
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002078- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
2079 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00002080 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
2081
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00002082- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
2083 to the decimal module.
2084
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002085- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
2086 cast as floats.
2087
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00002088- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
2089 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
2090
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002091- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002092 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
2093
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002094- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2095 the function is not a generator.
2096
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002097- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
2098 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00002099
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002100- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00002101 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
2102
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00002103- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2104
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00002105- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2106
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00002107- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
2108 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
2109
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00002110- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
2111 works as expected in the interactive environment.
2112
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00002113- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2114 Gabriel Genellina.
2115
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00002116- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
2117 boundary.
2118
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00002119- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
2120 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
2121 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2122
2123- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
2124 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
2125 Alexander Belopolsky.
2126
2127- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
2128 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
2129 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
2130 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
2131 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
2132 Alexander Belopolsky.
2133
2134- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
2135 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
2136 Alexander Belopolsky.
2137
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00002138- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
2139 a non-ASCII letter.
2140
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00002141- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2142
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00002143- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
2144 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
2145
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00002146- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
2147 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
2148 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
2149
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00002150- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
2151 libs.
2152
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002153- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
2154 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2155
2156- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2157 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2158 Content-Disposition headers.
2159
2160- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
2161 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
2162 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
2163 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
2164 doesn't configure logging.
2165
2166- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2167 exception.
2168
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00002169- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
2170 statements.
2171
2172- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2173 not a malformed option.
2174
2175- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
2176 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2177
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00002178- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
2179 the corresponding tests now pass.
2180
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00002181- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
2182 it was calling the wrong open() function.
2183
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00002184- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2185 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2186 Content-Disposition headers.
2187
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00002188- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
2189 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
2190
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00002191- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
2192 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
2193 and getservbyport().
2194
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00002195- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2196
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002197Tools/Demos
2198-----------
2199
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00002200- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
2201 and make it 2.6-compatible.
2202
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00002203- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
2204
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002205- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
2206
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002207
2208Build
2209-----
2210
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00002211- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2212
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00002213- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2214
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00002215- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
2216 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2217
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002218- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002219 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002220
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00002221- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2222
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00002223- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2224
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00002225- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2226
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00002227- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2228
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002229- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
2230
2231- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2232
2233- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2234
2235- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2236
2237- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2238
2239- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2240
2241- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2242
2243- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2244
2245- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
2246
2247- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2248
2249
2250C-API
2251-----
2252
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00002253- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
2254 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
2255
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00002256- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
2257 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
2258
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002259- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2260
2261- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
2262 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
2263
2264- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2265 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
2266
2267
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002268Extension Modules
2269-----------------
2270
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00002271- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2272 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
2273 implementations or external openssl library).
2274
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00002275- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
2276
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00002277- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2278
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00002279- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
2280 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
2281 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
2282
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002283- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2284
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00002285- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
2286 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
2287 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
2288
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002289- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2290
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00002291- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2292
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002293- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2294 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00002295
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00002296- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
2297 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
2298 buffer.
2299
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00002300
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00002301- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2302
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002303Tests
2304-----
2305
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00002306- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2307 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2308
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00002309- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2310 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
2311 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
2312 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
2313
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002314- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002315 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002316 from test support, which does the conversion.
2317
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002318- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2319
2320
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00002321Docs
2322----
2323
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00002324
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002325**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**