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Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00001+++++++++++
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Georg Brandl3ebb6b32011-02-20 10:37:07 +00005What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
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8*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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Martin v. Löwis5e06a5d2011-02-21 16:24:00 +000010Core and Builtins
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12
Antoine Pitrou2be60af2012-01-24 17:44:06 +010013- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
14 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
15
Meador Ingefa21bf02012-01-19 01:08:41 -060016- Issue #12705: A SyntaxError exception is now raised when attempting to
17 compile multiple statements as a single interactive statement.
18
Antoine Pitrou6c40eb72012-01-18 20:16:09 +010019- Fix the builtin module initialization code to store the init function for
20 future reinitialization.
21
Gregory P. Smith9564e4c2012-01-21 14:50:11 -080022- Issue #8052: The posix subprocess module would take a long time closing
23 all possible file descriptors in the child process rather than just open
24 file descriptors. It now closes only the open fds if possible for the
25 default close_fds=True behavior.
26
Meador Inge33880602012-01-15 19:15:36 -060027- Issue #13629: Renumber the tokens in token.h so that they match the indexes
28 into _PyParser_TokenNames.
29
Benjamin Petersond5890c82012-01-14 13:23:30 -050030- Issue #13752: Add a casefold() method to str.
31
Georg Brandlbc3b6822012-01-13 19:41:25 +010032- Issue #13761: Add a "flush" keyword argument to the print() function,
33 used to ensure flushing the output stream.
34
Antoine Pitrou5136ac02012-01-13 18:52:16 +010035- Issue #13645: pyc files now contain the size of the corresponding source
36 code, to avoid timestamp collisions (especially on filesystems with a low
37 timestamp resolution) when checking for freshness of the bytecode.
38
Nick Coghlan1f7ce622012-01-13 21:43:40 +100039- PEP 380, Issue #11682: Add "yield from <x>" to support easy delegation to
40 subgenerators (initial patch by Greg Ewing, integration into 3.3 by
41 Renaud Blanch, Ryan Kelly, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek and Nick Coghlan)
42
Antoine Pitrou3a5d4cb2012-01-12 22:46:19 +010043- Issue #13748: Raw bytes literals can now be written with the ``rb`` prefix
44 as well as ``br``.
45
Benjamin Petersonb2bf01d2012-01-11 18:17:06 -050046- Issue #12736: Use full unicode case mappings for upper, lower, and title case.
47
Charles-François Natalidc3044c2012-01-09 22:40:02 +010048- Issue #12760: Add a create mode to open(). Patch by David Townshend.
49
Antoine Pitrou94f6fa62012-01-08 16:22:46 +010050- Issue #13738: Simplify implementation of bytes.lower() and bytes.upper().
51
Antoine Pitrou5b629422011-12-23 12:40:16 +010052- Issue #13577: Built-in methods and functions now have a __qualname__.
53 Patch by sbt.
54
Antoine Pitrou093ce9c2011-12-16 11:24:27 +010055- Issue #6695: Full garbage collection runs now clear the freelist of set
56 objects. Initial patch by Matthias Troffaes.
57
Antoine Pitroue0e27352011-12-15 14:31:28 +010058- Fix OSError.__init__ and OSError.__new__ so that each of them can be
59 overriden and take additional arguments (followup to issue #12555).
60
Antoine Pitrou2e872082011-12-15 14:15:31 +010061- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
62 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
63 noticing.
64
Alexandre Vassalotti3bfc65a2011-12-13 13:08:09 -050065- Issue #13505: Pickle bytes objects in a way that is compatible with
66 Python 2 when using protocols <= 2.
67
Barry Warsaw9f571352011-12-05 16:45:02 -050068- Issue #11147: Fix an unused argument in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER. (Fix
69 given by Campbell Barton).
70
Antoine Pitroub0e1f8b2011-12-05 20:40:08 +010071- Issue #13503: Use a more efficient reduction format for bytearrays with
72 pickle protocol >= 3. The old reduction format is kept with older protocols
73 in order to allow unpickling under Python 2. Patch by Irmen de Jong.
74
Antoine Pitrou11942a52011-11-28 19:08:36 +010075- Issue #7111: Python can now be run without a stdin, stdout or stderr
76 stream. It was already the case with Python 2. However, the corresponding
77 sys module entries are now set to None (instead of an unusable file object).
78
Antoine Pitrouf0effe62011-11-26 01:11:02 +010079- Issue #11849: Ensure that free()d memory arenas are really released
80 on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings. Patch by
81 Charles-François Natali.
82
Victor Stinnercad939b2011-11-25 20:11:54 +010083- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
Victor Stinner6345be92011-11-25 20:09:01 +010084 different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
85 size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
86
Antoine Pitrou86a36b52011-11-25 18:56:07 +010087- PEP 3155 / issue #13448: Qualified name for classes and functions.
88
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc58e87612011-11-22 21:51:55 +010089- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
90 an invalid integer value.
91
Antoine Pitrouce4a9da2011-11-21 20:46:33 +010092- Issue #13411: memoryview objects are now hashable when the underlying
93 object is hashable.
94
Petri Lehtinen8d40f162011-11-19 22:03:10 +020095- Issue #13338: Handle all enumerations in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER
96 to allow compiling extension modules with -Wswitch-enum on gcc.
97 Initial patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
98
Antoine Pitrouf34a0cd2011-11-18 20:14:34 +010099- Issue #10227: Add an allocation cache for a single slice object. Patch by
100 Stefan Behnel.
101
Antoine Pitrou56a220a2011-11-16 00:56:10 +0100102- Issue #13393: BufferedReader.read1() now asks the full requested size to
103 the raw stream instead of limiting itself to the buffer size.
104
Antoine Pitrou28e401e2011-11-15 19:15:19 +0100105- Issue #13392: Writing a pyc file should now be atomic under Windows as well.
106
Antoine Pitrou5418ee02011-11-15 01:42:21 +0100107- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
108 already accepts them).
109
Antoine Pitrou9a812cb2011-11-15 00:00:12 +0100110- Issue #13389: Full garbage collection passes now clear the freelists for
111 list and dict objects. They already cleared other freelists in the
112 interpreter.
113
Brian Curtin52fbea12011-11-06 13:41:17 -0600114- Issue #13327: Remove the need for an explicit None as the second argument
Brian Curtin304a1652011-11-07 16:30:01 -0600115 to os.utime, os.lutimes, os.futimes, os.futimens, os.futimesat, in
116 order to update to the current time. Also added keyword argument
117 handling to os.utimensat in order to remove the need for explicit None.
Brian Curtin52fbea12011-11-06 13:41:17 -0600118
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc864741b2011-11-06 15:10:48 +0100119- Issue #13350: Simplify some C code by replacing most usages of
120 PyUnicode_Format by PyUnicode_FromFormat.
121
Antoine Pitrou0d776b12011-11-06 00:34:26 +0100122- Issue #13342: input() used to ignore sys.stdin's and sys.stdout's unicode
123 error handler in interactive mode (when calling into PyOS_Readline()).
124
Benjamin Petersond64fc392011-11-05 15:18:51 -0400125- Issue #9896: Add start, stop, and step attributes to range objects.
126
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97c1bef2011-11-04 22:17:45 +0100127- Issue #13343: Fix a SystemError when a lambda expression uses a global
128 variable in the default value of a keyword-only argument:
129 (lambda *, arg=GLOBAL_NAME: None)
130
Ross Lagerwall59142db2011-10-31 20:34:46 +0200131- Issue #12797: Added custom opener parameter to builtin open() and
132 FileIO.open().
133
Petri Lehtinencd06a142011-10-30 20:59:10 +0200134- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
135 setobject.c.
136
Antoine Pitrou8db076c2011-10-30 19:13:55 +0100137- Issue #10363: Deallocate global locks in Py_Finalize().
138
Petri Lehtinena94200e2011-10-24 21:12:58 +0300139- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
140 Patch by Suman Saha.
141
Mark Dickinson36645682011-10-23 19:53:01 +0100142- Issue #13201: Define '==' and '!=' to compare range objects based on
143 the sequence of values they define (instead of comparing based on
144 object identity).
145
Nick Coghlande31b192011-10-23 22:04:16 +1000146- Issue #1294232: In a few cases involving metaclass inheritance, the
147 interpreter would sometimes invoke the wrong metaclass when building a new
148 class object. These cases now behave correctly. Patch by Daniel Urban.
149
Ezio Melotti931b8aa2011-10-21 21:57:36 +0300150- Issue #12753: Add support for Unicode name aliases and named sequences.
151 Both :func:`unicodedata.lookup()` and '\N{...}' now resolve aliases,
152 and :func:`unicodedata.lookup()` resolves named sequences too.
153
Antoine Pitrouac65d962011-10-20 23:54:17 +0200154- Issue #12170: The count(), find(), rfind(), index() and rindex() methods
155 of bytes and bytearray objects now accept an integer between 0 and 255
156 as their first argument. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
157
Senthil Kumaranfdd45752011-10-21 00:29:47 +0800158- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
159 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
160
Victor Stinner3a50e702011-10-18 21:21:00 +0200161- Issue #12281: Rewrite the MBCS codec to handle correctly replace and ignore
162 error handlers on all Windows versions. The MBCS codec is now supporting all
163 error handlers, instead of only replace to encode and ignore to decode.
164
Antoine Pitrou551ba202011-10-18 16:40:50 +0200165- Issue #13188: When called without an explicit traceback argument,
166 generator.throw() now gets the traceback from the passed exception's
167 ``__traceback__`` attribute. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
168
Antoine Pitrou707033a2011-10-17 19:28:44 +0200169- Issue #13146: Writing a pyc file is now atomic under POSIX.
170
Mark Hammond6c58b282011-10-17 11:05:57 +1100171- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
172 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
173 embedded situations.
174
Antoine Pitrou6b4883d2011-10-12 02:54:14 +0200175- PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.
176
Éric Araujod139b992011-10-14 16:58:23 +0200177- Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).
Martin v. Löwisafe55bb2011-10-09 10:38:36 +0200178
Antoine Pitrou586bfe42011-10-07 16:16:31 +0200179- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
180 as "The pipe is being closed") is now mapped to POSIX errno EPIPE
181 (previously EINVAL).
182
Antoine Pitroueeb7eea2011-10-06 18:57:27 +0200183- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge
184 tuples or lists.
185
Martin v. Löwis418170c2011-09-28 08:54:17 +0200186- PEP 393: flexible string representation. Thanks to Torsten Becker for the
187 initial implementation, and Victor Stinner for various bug fixes.
Martin v. Löwisd63a3b82011-09-28 07:41:54 +0200188
Mark Dickinson0d5f6ad2011-09-24 09:14:39 +0100189- Issue #13012: The 'keepends' parameter to str.splitlines may now be passed
190 as a keyword argument: "my_string.splitlines(keepends=True)". The same
191 change also applies to bytes.splitlines and bytearray.splitlines.
192
Victor Stinner53ffdc52011-09-23 18:54:40 +0200193- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a
194 module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g.
195 "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead.
196
Barry Warsaw916048d2011-09-20 14:45:44 -0400197- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path. Thanks to Suman Saha for
198 finding the bug and providing a patch.
199
Mark Dickinsonb2f6bc72011-09-24 08:56:09 +0100200- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
201 list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These bugs
202 caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsonc0420fd2011-09-19 19:18:37 +0100203
Larry Hastings9e3e70b2011-09-08 19:29:07 -0700204- Issue #12904: os.utime, os.futimes, os.lutimes, and os.futimesat now write
205 atime and mtime with nanosecond precision on modern POSIX platforms.
206
Antoine Pitroua7622852011-09-01 21:37:43 +0200207- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
208 mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).
209
Ezio Melotti93e7afc2011-08-22 14:08:38 +0300210- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
211 characters even in narrow Unicode builds.
212
Antoine Pitroua370fcf2011-08-20 14:15:03 +0200213- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
214 an exception.
215
Benjamin Peterson01fc6cd2011-08-17 12:03:47 -0500216- Issue #12773: Make __doc__ mutable on user-defined classes.
217
Éric Araujo81590112011-11-03 00:12:39 +0100218- Issue #12766: Raise a ValueError when creating a class with a class variable
Benjamin Petersonc4085c82011-08-16 18:53:26 -0500219 that conflicts with a name in __slots__.
220
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +0300221- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
222 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
223
Benjamin Petersonf413b802011-08-12 22:17:18 -0500224- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
225 outside the BMP.
226
Benjamin Peterson832bfe22011-08-09 16:15:04 -0500227- Issue #12575: Validate user-generated AST before it is compiled.
228
Benjamin Peterson18d7d7a2011-07-29 18:27:44 -0500229- Make type(None), type(Ellipsis), and type(NotImplemented) callable. They
230 return the respective singleton instances.
Benjamin Petersonc4607ae2011-07-29 18:19:43 -0500231
Benjamin Petersonc7723962011-08-17 12:05:13 -0500232- Forbid summing bytes with sum().
Benjamin Petersonce071ca2011-07-29 14:23:47 -0500233
Benjamin Peterson2193d2b2011-07-22 10:50:23 -0500234- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
235 compiling them.
236
Raymond Hettinger66d2be82011-07-28 09:55:13 -0700237- Issue #12647: The None object now has a __bool__() method that returns False.
238 Formerly, bool(None) returned False only because of special case logic
239 in PyObject_IsTrue().
240
Eric V. Smith12ebefc2011-07-18 14:03:41 -0400241- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
242 format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
243 Julian Berman.
244
Brett Cannone52181c2011-07-17 19:25:50 -0700245- Issue #10271: Allow warnings.showwarning() be any callable.
246
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400247- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
248 non-exception class.
Benjamin Peterson5afa03a2011-07-15 14:09:26 -0500249
Georg Brandlfd164c22011-09-04 08:12:27 +0200250- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
Antoine Pitrou84f1b172011-07-12 21:57:15 +0200251 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
252 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
253 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
254 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
255
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +0200256- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
257
Victor Stinner99b95382011-07-04 14:23:54 +0200258- Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
259 a new HAVE_MBCS define.
260
Victor Stinnerd64e8a72011-07-04 13:48:30 +0200261- Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page
262 on Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if
263 we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
264 instead of using UTF-8.
265
Benjamin Petersonac913412011-07-03 16:25:11 -0500266- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
267 generator.
268
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500269- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
Benjamin Peterson9cf960c2011-07-03 13:49:59 -0500270 caller's frame as they return for the last time.
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500271
Vinay Sajip5bdae3b2011-07-02 16:42:47 +0100272- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream,
273 with other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
274
Benjamin Petersone109c702011-06-24 09:37:26 -0500275- Issue #12356: When required positional or keyword-only arguments are not
276 given, produce a informative error message which includes the name(s) of the
277 missing arguments.
278
Éric Araujo81590112011-11-03 00:12:39 +0100279- Issue #12370: Fix super with no arguments when __class__ is overriden in the
Benjamin Petersonf5ff2232011-06-19 19:42:22 -0500280 class body.
281
Brian Curtind25aef52011-06-13 15:16:04 -0500282- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
283 links when called from any directory.
284
Benjamin Peterson3bbb7222011-06-11 16:12:08 -0500285- Loosen type restrictions on the __dir__ method. __dir__ can now return any
286 sequence, which will be converted to a list and sorted by dir().
287
Benjamin Petersonb204a422011-06-05 22:04:07 -0500288- Issue #12265: Make error messages produced by passing an invalid set of
289 arguments to a function more informative.
290
Benjamin Peterson0bb29912011-05-31 17:11:26 -0500291- Issue #12225: Still allow Python to build if Python is not in its hg repo or
292 mercurial is not installed.
293
Victor Stinner19c52332011-05-30 23:50:04 +0200294- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner4f711012011-05-30 23:46:00 +0200295 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
296 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
297
Benjamin Peterson758888d2011-05-30 11:12:38 -0500298- Issue #12216: Allow unexpected EOF errors to happen on any line of the file.
299
Benjamin Peterson43af12b2011-05-29 11:43:10 -0500300- Issue #12199: The TryExcept and TryFinally and AST nodes have been unified
301 into a Try node.
302
Ned Deily9a7c5242011-05-28 00:19:56 -0700303- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
304 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
305 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
306 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
307
Benjamin Petersonbf1bbc12011-05-27 13:58:08 -0500308- Issue #12106: The use of the multiple-with shorthand syntax is now reflected
309 in the AST.
310
Benjamin Peterson43b06862011-05-27 09:08:01 -0500311- Issue #12190: Try to use the same filename object when compiling unmarshalling
312 a code objects in the same file.
313
Benjamin Peterson82b00c12011-05-24 11:09:06 -0500314- Issue #12166: Move implementations of dir() specialized for various types into
315 the __dir__() methods of those types.
316
Charles-François Natali7b54e752011-05-24 18:23:15 +0200317- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
318
Benjamin Petersonf5fcd332011-05-23 16:22:42 -0500319- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
320 besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
321
Victor Stinner2ec6b172011-05-15 10:21:59 +0200322- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
323 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
324
Gregory P. Smithb6471db2011-05-22 22:47:55 -0700325- Issue #1746656: Added the if_nameindex, if_indextoname, if_nametoindex
326 methods to the socket module.
Gregory P. Smith5ed2e772011-05-15 00:26:45 -0700327
Gregory P. Smith6b657452011-05-11 21:42:08 -0700328- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
329 wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
330 leaving zombie processes around.
331
Victor Stinner4755ab02011-05-10 00:19:53 +0200332- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
333 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
334
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200335- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
336 interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when
337 they try to take the GIL.
338
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200339- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
340 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
341 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner13aaef52011-05-01 23:46:48 +0200342 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200343
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200344- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
345 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
346 by Charles-François Natali.
347
Victor Stinner793b5312011-04-27 00:24:21 +0200348- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
349 subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
350 the ISO-8859-15 codec.
351
Victor Stinnerb90db4c2011-04-26 22:48:24 +0200352- Issue #11918: OS/2 and VMS are no more supported because of the lack of
353 maintainer.
354
Ezio Melottiba42fd52011-04-26 06:09:45 +0300355- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
356 accepted too.
357
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300358- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
359 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
360 chars (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
361
Ezio Melotti982ef4e2011-04-15 08:15:40 +0300362- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
363 compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
364
Reid Kleckner98707c22011-04-10 22:23:08 -0400365- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait,
366 subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and
367 subprocess.check_output. If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout`
368 seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised.
369
Victor Stinner52c950f2011-04-09 15:55:44 +0200370- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
371 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
372 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
373
Victor Stinnerfe7c5b52011-04-05 01:48:03 +0200374- Issue #9319: Include the filename in "Non-UTF8 code ..." syntax error.
375
Victor Stinner7f2fee32011-04-05 00:39:01 +0200376- Issue #10785: Store the filename as Unicode in the Python parser.
377
Victor Stinner2d322272011-04-04 23:05:53 +0200378- Issue #11619: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() doesn't encode the path to bytes
379 on Windows.
380
Éric Araujobe3bd572011-03-26 01:55:15 +0100381- Issue #10998: Remove mentions of -Q, sys.flags.division_warning and
382 Py_DivisionWarningFlag left over from Python 2.
383
Mark Dickinson7c9e8032011-03-23 17:59:37 +0000384- Issue #11244: Remove an unnecessary peepholer check that was preventing
385 negative zeros from being constant-folded properly.
386
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100387- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
388 Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
389 returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if
390 stdout mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less,
391 depending on heap usage).
392
Antoine Pitroue1474842011-03-17 23:40:53 +0100393- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to
Antoine Pitrou819be342011-03-17 23:36:13 +0100394 a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
395
Gregory P. Smith28edfee2011-03-15 16:02:10 -0400396- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
397 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
398 file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
399
Eric V. Smithb9cd3532011-03-12 10:08:48 -0500400- Issue #9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string
401 to be a DeprecationWarning. In 3.2 it was a PendingDeprecationWarning.
402 In 3.4 it will be a TypeError.
403
Antoine Pitrou17b880a2011-03-11 17:27:02 +0100404- Issue #11244: The peephole optimizer is now able to constant-fold
405 arbitrarily complex expressions. This also fixes a 3.2 regression where
406 operations involving negative numbers were not constant-folded.
407
Antoine Pitrou7983d332011-03-09 12:34:41 +0100408- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
409 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
410
Daniel Stutzbach8eda5f72011-03-02 23:37:50 +0000411- Issue #11335: Fixed a memory leak in list.sort when the key function
412 throws an exception.
413
Victor Stinnera5c68c32011-03-02 01:03:14 +0000414- Issue #8923: When a string is encoded to UTF-8 in strict mode, the result is
415 cached into the object. Examples: str.encode(), str.encode('utf-8'),
416 PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
417 NULL).
418
Victor Stinner6d970f42011-03-02 00:04:25 +0000419- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
420
Victor Stinner96865452011-03-01 23:44:09 +0000421- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
422 the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
423
Jesus Ceaa372de82011-09-19 17:11:26 +0200424- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
425
Victor Stinner2512a8b2011-03-01 22:46:52 +0000426- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
427 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
428 Patch written by Ray Allen.
429
Antoine Pitrou5bffa792011-02-24 20:50:49 +0000430- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
431 a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
432
Victor Stinnerc0f1a1a2011-02-23 12:07:37 +0000433- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
434 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
435
Jesus Ceaac451502011-04-20 17:09:23 +0200436- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
437 Patch by Torsten Becker.
438
Victor Stinner5ed8b2c2011-02-21 21:13:44 +0000439- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
440 narrow build.
441
Victor Stinnered4c7112011-02-21 21:05:50 +0000442- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
443 It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
444 undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
445 UnicodeEncodeError on recursion limit.
Martin v. Löwis5e06a5d2011-02-21 16:24:00 +0000446
Victor Stinnerfd34b372011-02-21 20:51:28 +0000447- Issue #11187: Remove bootstrap code (use ASCII) of
448 PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(), it was replaced by a better fallback (use the
449 locale encoding) in PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault().
450
Victor Stinnered4c7112011-02-21 21:05:50 +0000451- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
452
Eli Bendersky4db28d32011-03-03 18:21:02 +0000453- Issue #10516: New copy() and clear() methods for lists and bytearrays.
Eli Benderskycbbaa962011-02-25 05:47:53 +0000454
Eli Bendersky1bc4f192011-03-04 04:55:25 +0000455- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
456 empty, instead of OverflowError.
457
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +0300458- Issue #12380: The rjust, ljust and center methods of bytes and bytearray
459 now accept a bytearray argument.
460
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +0000461Library
462-------
Senthil Kumarande49d642011-10-16 23:54:44 +0800463
Nadeem Vawda61baebd2012-01-25 08:02:05 +0200464- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
465 on a system without internet access.
466
Antoine Pitrou5311c1d2012-01-24 08:59:28 +0100467- Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
468 target's type (file or directory). The detection was buggy and made the
469 call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
470
Senthil Kumaran3800ea92012-01-21 11:52:48 +0800471- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
Meador Inge00c7f852012-01-19 00:44:45 -0600472
Antoine Pitrou1b468af2012-01-18 22:30:21 +0100473- Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs
474 registry.
475
Nadeem Vawda892b0b92012-01-18 09:25:58 +0200476- Issue #13781: Fix GzipFile bug that caused an exception to be raised when
477 opening for writing using a fileobj returned by os.fdopen().
478
Jesus Cea8874fd62012-01-18 03:58:42 +0100479- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
480 in the directory name.
481
Victor Stinnerb94b2662012-01-18 01:50:21 +0100482- Issue #10278: Add time.wallclock() function, monotonic clock.
483
Nadeem Vawda72750a82012-01-18 01:57:14 +0200484- Issue #13809: Fix regression where bz2 module wouldn't work when threads are
485 disabled. Original patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
486
Antoine Pitrou03757ec2012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100487- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
488 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
489
Senthil Kumaranc5c5a142012-01-14 19:09:04 +0800490- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
491 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
492
Senthil Kumaranbcfe56d2012-01-14 18:26:27 +0800493- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
494 tests.
495
Ross Lagerwall66e2fb62012-01-08 08:29:40 +0200496- Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
497 The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
498 the executor had been shut down.
499
Charles-François Natalided03482012-01-07 18:24:56 +0100500- Issue #13502: threading: Fix a race condition in Event.wait() that made it
501 return False when the event was set and cleared right after.
502
Antoine Pitrou0a08d7a2012-01-06 20:16:19 +0100503- Issue #9993: When the source and destination are on different filesystems,
504 and the source is a symlink, shutil.move() now recreates a symlink on the
505 destination instead of copying the file contents. Patch by Jonathan Niehof
506 and Hynek Schlawack.
507
Lars Gustäbeldee45e22012-01-05 18:48:06 +0100508- Issue #12926: Fix a bug in tarfile's link extraction.
509
Senthil Kumaran6497aa32012-01-04 13:46:59 +0800510- Issue #13696: Fix the 302 Relative URL Redirection problem.
511
Antoine Pitrou8f85f902012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100512- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
513 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
514
Antoine Pitrou78091e62011-12-29 18:54:15 +0100515- Issue #12715: Add an optional symlinks argument to shutil functions
516 (copyfile, copymode, copystat, copy, copy2). When that parameter is
517 true, symlinks aren't dereferenced and the operation instead acts on the
518 symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant). Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
519
Benjamin Peterson2fb9ae92011-12-27 15:15:41 -0600520- Add a flags parameter to select.epoll.
521
Senthil Kumaran83194f52011-12-23 11:11:21 +0800522- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
523
Antoine Pitrou0e576f12011-12-22 10:03:38 +0100524- Issue #13626: Add support for SSL Diffie-Hellman key exchange, through the
525 SSLContext.load_dh_params() method and the ssl.OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option.
526
Ross Lagerwall031bf952011-12-22 09:07:30 +0200527- Issue #11006: Don't issue low level warning in subprocess when pipe2() fails.
528
Senthil Kumaranc9095992011-12-21 22:31:36 +0800529- Issue #13620: Support for Chrome browser in webbrowser.py Patch contributed
530 by Arnaud Calmettes.
531
Michael Foord3ba95f82011-12-22 01:13:37 +0000532- Issue #11829: Fix code execution holes in inspect.getattr_static for
533 metaclasses with metaclasses. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
534
Antoine Pitroude911b22011-12-21 11:03:24 +0100535- Issue #12708: Add starmap() and starmap_async() methods (similar to
536 itertools.starmap()) to multiprocessing.Pool. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
537
Antoine Pitrou86a8a9a2011-12-21 09:57:40 +0100538- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
539
Antoine Pitrou08316762011-12-20 13:58:41 +0100540- Issue #13637: "a2b" functions in the binascii module now accept ASCII-only
541 unicode strings.
542
Antoine Pitrou8abdb8a2011-12-20 10:13:40 +0100543- Issue #13634: Add support for querying and disabling SSL compression.
544
Antoine Pitrou923df6f2011-12-19 17:16:51 +0100545- Issue #13627: Add support for SSL Elliptic Curve-based Diffie-Hellman
546 key exchange, through the SSLContext.set_ecdh_curve() method and the
547 ssl.OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE option.
548
Antoine Pitrou6db49442011-12-19 13:27:11 +0100549- Issue #13635: Add ssl.OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE, so that SSL servers
550 choose the cipher based on their own preferences, rather than on the
551 client's.
552
Victor Stinnerd2084162011-12-19 13:42:24 +0100553- Issue #11813: Fix inspect.getattr_static for modules. Patch by Andreas
Michael Foorda51623b2011-12-18 22:01:40 +0000554 Stührk.
555
Antoine Pitrou2bc801c2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100556- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
557 Cédric Krier.
558
Charles-François Natalib055bf62011-12-18 18:45:16 +0100559- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
560 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
561
Charles-François Natalicf53ae22011-12-18 16:05:07 +0100562- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
563 redirection or an error.
564
Victor Stinner1f33f2b2011-12-17 04:45:09 +0100565- Issue #13560: os.strerror() now uses the current locale encoding instead of
566 UTF-8.
567
Victor Stinnerf2ea71f2011-12-17 04:13:41 +0100568- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
569 and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
570 the current locale encoding.
571
Antoine Pitrou6ec29e22011-12-16 14:46:36 +0100572- Issue #8373: The filesystem path of AF_UNIX sockets now uses the filesystem
573 encoding and the surrogateescape error handler, rather than UTF-8. Patch
574 by David Watson.
575
Antoine Pitrouc345ce12011-12-16 12:28:32 +0100576- Issue #10350: Read and save errno before calling a function which might
577 overwrite it. Original patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
578
Benjamin Petersonbfebb7b2011-12-15 15:34:02 -0500579- Issue #11610: Introduce a more general way to declare abstract properties.
580
Meador Ingeb7288a72011-12-14 22:37:48 -0600581- Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
582 to load a module twice.
583
Ned Deily061c0282011-12-14 15:06:50 -0800584- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
585 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
Ned Deilyabbcd082011-12-14 15:14:52 -0800586 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
587
Giampaolo Rodola'556ba042011-12-14 14:38:45 +0100588- Issue #13449 sched.scheduler.run() method has a new "blocking" parameter which
589 when set to False makes run() execute the scheduled events due to expire
590 soonest (if any) and then return. Patch by Giampaolo Rodolà.
591
Giampaolo Rodola'73520d52011-12-14 13:34:26 +0100592- Issue #8684 sched.scheduler class can be safely used in multi-threaded
Giampaolo Rodola'556ba042011-12-14 14:38:45 +0100593 environments. Patch by Josiah Carlson and Giampaolo Rodolà.
Giampaolo Rodola'73520d52011-12-14 13:34:26 +0100594
Benjamin Peterson2122cf72011-12-10 17:50:22 -0500595- Alias resource.error to OSError ala PEP 3151.
596
Lars Gustäbel0a9dd2f2011-12-10 20:38:14 +0100597- Issue #5689: Add support for lzma compression to the tarfile module.
598
Florent Xicluna67317752011-12-10 11:07:42 +0100599- Issue #13248: Turn 3.2's PendingDeprecationWarning into 3.3's
600 DeprecationWarning. It covers 'cgi.escape', 'importlib.abc.PyLoader',
601 'importlib.abc.PyPycLoader', 'nntplib.NNTP.xgtitle', 'nntplib.NNTP.xpath',
602 and private attributes of 'smtpd.SMTPChannel'.
603
Victor Stinnerf2ea71f2011-12-17 04:13:41 +0100604- Issue #5905, #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
605 encoding, instead of UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.
Victor Stinner720f34a2011-12-09 20:19:24 +0100606
Ned Deily2f0ad742011-12-07 01:08:35 -0800607- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
608 Patch by Tal Einat.
609
Antoine Pitrou38d96432011-12-06 22:33:57 +0100610- Issue #13464: Add a readinto() method to http.client.HTTPResponse. Patch
611 by Jon Kuhn.
612
Lars Gustäbeled1ac582011-12-06 12:56:38 +0100613- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
614 other than 900k.
615
Petri Lehtinen9aa20af2011-12-02 21:24:14 +0200616- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
617
Nadeem Vawda3ff069e2011-11-30 00:25:06 +0200618- Issue #6715: Add a module 'lzma' for compression using the LZMA algorithm.
Nadeem Vawda59bb0e02011-12-01 01:18:27 +0200619 Thanks to Per Øyvind Karlsen for the initial implementation.
Nadeem Vawda3ff069e2011-11-30 00:25:06 +0200620
Éric Araujoa74f8ef2011-11-29 16:58:53 +0100621- Issue #13487: Make inspect.getmodule robust against changes done to
622 sys.modules while it is iterating over it.
623
Meador Inge22b9b372011-11-28 09:27:32 -0600624- Issue #12618: Fix a bug that prevented py_compile from creating byte
625 compiled files in the current directory. Initial patch by Sjoerd de Vries.
626
Antoine Pitroud7c8fbf2011-11-26 21:59:36 +0100627- Issue #13444: When stdout has been closed explicitly, we should not attempt
628 to flush it at shutdown and print an error.
629
Victor Stinner0fdfceb2011-11-25 22:10:02 +0100630- Issue #12567: The curses module uses Unicode functions for Unicode arguments
631 when it is linked to the ncurses library. It encodes also Unicode strings to
632 the locale encoding instead of UTF-8.
633
Antoine Pitrou4558bad2011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100634- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
635 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
636 Harring.
637
Antoine Pitrou0e86a582011-11-25 18:03:09 +0100638- Issue #9957: SpooledTemporaryFile.truncate() now accepts an optional size
639 parameter, as other file-like objects. Patch by Ryan Kelly.
640
Antoine Pitrou116d6b92011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100641- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
642 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
643
Victor Stinner60b385e2011-11-22 22:01:28 +0100644- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
645
Giampaolo Rodola'be55d992011-11-22 13:33:34 +0100646- Issue #13245: sched.scheduler class constructor's timefunc and
647 delayfunct parameters are now optional.
648 scheduler.enter and scheduler.enterabs methods gained a new kwargs parameter.
Giampaolo Rodola'bc7ea582011-11-22 13:37:58 +0100649 Patch contributed by Chris Clark.
Giampaolo Rodola'be55d992011-11-22 13:33:34 +0100650
Antoine Pitrou6dd381e2011-11-21 21:26:56 +0100651- Issue #12328: Under Windows, refactor handling of Ctrl-C events and
652 make _multiprocessing.win32.WaitForMultipleObjects interruptible when
653 the wait_flag parameter is false. Patch by sbt.
654
Antoine Pitrou58fcf9f2011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100655- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
656 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
657 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
658 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
659 Patch by sbt.
660
Ezio Melotti15cb4892011-11-18 18:01:49 +0200661- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
662
Ezio Melotti8008f2a2011-11-18 17:34:26 +0200663- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
664 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
665 Kenigsberg.
666
Victor Stinner1ab6c2d2011-11-15 22:27:41 +0100667- Issue #13374: The Windows bytes API has been deprecated in the os module. Use
668 Unicode filenames instead of bytes filenames to not depend on the ANSI code
669 page anymore and to support any filename.
670
Florent Xicluna61665192011-11-15 20:53:25 +0100671- Issue #13297: Use bytes type to send and receive binary data through XMLRPC.
672
Jesus Cead8b9ae62011-11-14 19:07:41 +0100673- Issue #6397: Support "/dev/poll" polling objects in select module,
674 under Solaris & derivatives.
675
Ezio Melottic2fe5772011-11-14 18:53:33 +0200676- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
677 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
678
Antoine Pitrou61093c02011-11-12 01:27:19 +0100679- Issue #13193: Fix distutils.filelist.FileList and
680 packaging.manifest.Manifest under Windows. The "recursive-include"
681 directive now recognizes both legal path separators.
Antoine Pitrou3714c1e2011-11-12 01:22:11 +0100682
Brian Curtin675f6b82011-11-11 09:37:25 -0600683- Issue #13384: Remove unnecessary __future__ import in Lib/random.py
684
Antoine Pitroude20b0b2011-11-10 21:47:38 +0100685- Issue #13149: Speed up append-only StringIO objects.
686
Antoine Pitroua3651132011-11-10 00:37:09 +0100687- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
688 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
689
Petri Lehtinen8c482ee2011-11-05 09:44:59 +0200690- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
691 are read correctly.
692
Petri Lehtinen3c85fe02011-11-04 21:35:07 +0200693- Issue #3067: locale.setlocale() now raises TypeError if the second
Petri Lehtinen395ca722011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200694 argument is an invalid iterable. Its documentation and docstring
695 were also updated. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
Petri Lehtinen3c85fe02011-11-04 21:35:07 +0200696
Florent Xicluna12b66b52011-11-04 10:16:28 +0100697- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
698
Ross Lagerwalldcfde5a2011-11-04 07:09:14 +0200699- Issue #13339: Fix compile error in posixmodule.c due to missing semicolon.
700 Thanks to Robert Xiao.
701
Éric Araujo88080152011-11-03 05:08:28 +0100702- Byte compilation in packaging is now isolated from the calling Python -B or
703 -O options, instead of being disallowed under -B or buggy under -O.
704
Petri Lehtinenfd6b5822011-11-06 09:24:19 +0200705- Issue #10570: curses.putp() and curses.tparm() are now expecting a byte
Victor Stinnerb3bc7e72011-11-03 20:35:40 +0100706 string, instead of a Unicode string.
Victor Stinner26621332011-11-02 23:45:29 +0100707
Ezio Melottica897e92011-11-02 19:33:29 +0200708- Issue #13295: http.server now produces valid HTML 4.01 strict.
709
Florent Xicluna91d51932011-11-01 23:31:09 +0100710- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
711
Éric Araujo81590112011-11-03 00:12:39 +0100712- Issue #13287: urllib.request and urllib.error now contains an __all__
Éric Araujo146f8702011-11-03 16:44:13 +0100713 attribute to expose only relevant classes and functions. Patch by Florent
Éric Araujo81590112011-11-03 00:12:39 +0100714 Xicluna.
Senthil Kumaran6c5bd402011-11-01 23:20:31 +0800715
Ezio Melotti7de56f62011-11-01 14:12:22 +0200716- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
717 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
718
719- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumarance260142011-11-01 01:35:17 +0800720 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
721
Ezio Melotti7de56f62011-11-01 14:12:22 +0200722- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily7aff4512011-10-30 20:01:35 -0700723 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
724
Florent Xicluna75861df2011-10-30 20:39:24 +0100725- Fix the xmlrpc.client user agent to return something similar to
726 urllib.request user agent: "Python-xmlrpc/3.3".
727
Florent Xicluna93dfee12011-10-30 20:22:25 +0100728- Issue #13293: Better error message when trying to marshal bytes using
729 xmlrpc.client.
730
Florent Xicluna3fa29f72011-10-30 20:18:50 +0100731- Issue #13291: NameError in xmlrpc package.
732
Florent Xicluna5d1155c2011-10-28 14:45:05 +0200733- Issue #13258: Use callable() built-in in the standard library.
734
Ezio Melottif50ffa92011-10-28 13:21:09 +0300735- Issue #13273: fix a bug that prevented HTMLParser to properly detect some
736 tags when strict=False.
737
Antoine Pitrou41032a62011-10-27 23:56:55 +0200738- Issue #11183: Add finer-grained exceptions to the ssl module, so that
739 you don't have to inspect the exception's attributes in the common case.
740
Victor Stinner7592d052011-10-27 01:43:48 +0200741- Issue #13216: Add cp65001 codec, the Windows UTF-8 (CP_UTF8).
Victor Stinner2f3ca9f2011-10-27 01:38:56 +0200742
Victor Stinner82a647b2011-10-26 01:42:30 +0200743- Issue #13226: Add RTLD_xxx constants to the os module. These constants can be
Victor Stinner8b905bd2011-10-25 13:34:04 +0200744 used with sys.setdlopenflags().
745
Victor Stinnere0be4232011-10-25 13:06:09 +0200746- Issue #10278: Add clock_getres(), clock_gettime() and CLOCK_xxx constants to
747 the time module. time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC) provides a
748 monotonic clock
749
Charles-François Natalif8859e12011-10-24 18:45:29 +0200750- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
751 before all tasks have completed.
752
Florent Xiclunac45fb252011-10-24 13:14:55 +0200753- Issue #13255: wrong docstrings in array module.
754
Mark Dickinson39411f62011-10-24 10:31:52 +0100755- Issue #8540: Remove deprecated Context._clamp attribute in Decimal module.
756
Vinay Sajip04d5bc02011-10-21 07:33:42 +0100757- Issue #13235: Added PendingDeprecationWarning to warn() method and function.
758
Florent Xicluna711f87c2011-10-20 23:03:43 +0200759- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
760
Senthil Kumaranfdd45752011-10-21 00:29:47 +0800761- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
762 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
763
Raymond Hettingercd9fdfd2011-10-20 08:57:45 -0700764- Issue #13227: functools.lru_cache() now has a option to distinguish
765 calls with different argument types.
766
Senthil Kumaran7e3062b2011-10-20 01:52:41 +0800767- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
768 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
769
Antoine Pitrou1e73a242011-10-18 17:52:24 +0200770- Issue #13150: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h files
771 when imported, instead doing it at build time. This makes importing
772 sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.
773
Ezio Melotti6bfecd12011-10-18 13:20:07 +0300774- Issue #12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
775 in order to display the prompt correctly.
776
Victor Stinner5c267e22011-10-17 20:44:22 +0200777- Issue #12454: The mailbox module is now using ASCII, instead of the locale
778 encoding, to read and write MH mailboxes (.mh_sequences files).
779
Nadeem Vawdabcb86c52011-10-17 19:34:22 +0200780- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
781 now available on Windows.
782
Senthil Kumarande49d642011-10-16 23:54:44 +0800783- issue #1673007: urllib2 to support HEAD request via new method argument.
784 Patch contributions by David Stanek, Patrick Westerhoff and Ezio Melotti.
785
Éric Araujod139b992011-10-14 16:58:23 +0200786- Issue #12386: packaging does not fail anymore when writing the RESOURCES
787 file.
Antoine Pitrou3486a982011-05-12 01:57:53 +0200788
Lars Gustäbelac3d1372011-10-14 12:46:40 +0200789- Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of GNU tar specific base-256 number
790 fields in tarfile.
791
Victor Stinner82ac9bc2011-10-14 03:03:35 +0200792- Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,
793 instead of the locale encoding.
794
Victor Stinnerc1f32ca2011-10-14 02:36:13 +0200795- Issue #10653: On Windows, use strftime() instead of wcsftime() because
796 wcsftime() doesn't format time zone correctly.
797
Antoine Pitrou10a99b02011-10-11 15:45:56 +0200798- Issue #13150: The tokenize module doesn't compile large regular expressions
799 at startup anymore.
800
Éric Araujo8af607b2011-10-09 06:32:38 +0200801- Issue #11171: Fix distutils.sysconfig.get_makefile_filename when Python was
802 configured with different prefix and exec-prefix.
Éric Araujofea2d042011-10-08 01:56:52 +0200803
Éric Araujoa29e4f62011-10-08 04:09:15 +0200804- Issue #11254: Teach distutils and packaging to compile .pyc and .pyo files in
Éric Araujo47a45212011-10-08 00:34:13 +0200805 PEP 3147-compliant __pycache__ directories.
806
Ned Deily7b847a42011-10-06 14:31:14 -0700807- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
808 contents cannot be read.
809
Antoine Pitrou45d9c912011-10-06 15:27:40 +0200810- Issue #3163: The struct module gets new format characters 'n' and 'N'
811 supporting C integer types ``ssize_t`` and ``size_t``, respectively.
812
Antoine Pitrou1665d2c2011-10-04 13:35:28 +0200813- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
814 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
815
Antoine Pitrou1e44fec2011-10-04 12:26:20 +0200816- Issue #13087: BufferedReader.seek() now always raises UnsupportedOperation
817 if the underlying raw stream is unseekable, even if the seek could be
818 satisfied using the internal buffer. Patch by John O'Connor.
819
Antoine Pitrouffd41d92011-10-04 09:23:04 +0200820- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
821 metaclass is registered with copyreg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and Craig
822 Citro.
823
R David Murray791744b2011-10-01 16:19:51 -0400824- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace to text nodes.
825
Antoine Pitroud8c347a2011-10-01 19:20:25 +0200826- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
827 extension could be unreported.
828
Ned Deily86ca04c2011-09-14 14:56:32 -0700829- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
830 with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
831 (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
832
Nadeem Vawda64d25dd2011-09-12 00:04:13 +0200833- Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
834 ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
835
Benjamin Petersonc92f6222011-09-11 12:55:34 -0400836- Issue #12959: Add collections.ChainMap to collections.__all__.
Victor Stinnera1fe1f82011-09-23 18:59:08 +0200837
Éric Araujoe6db7a32011-09-10 05:22:48 +0200838- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files and packaging's METADATA files will
839 now correctly report Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or
840 Download-URL field is present.
Benjamin Petersonc92f6222011-09-11 12:55:34 -0400841
Victor Stinner71e44cb2011-09-06 01:53:03 +0200842- Issue #12567: Add curses.unget_wch() function. Push a character so the next
843 get_wch() will return it.
844
Victor Stinnerd4d8ae52011-09-06 00:11:13 +0200845- Issue #9561: distutils and packaging now writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
Victor Stinnere01aa532011-09-05 23:46:05 +0200846 instead of the locale encoding.
847
Éric Araujocfbd6302011-09-03 00:42:04 +0200848- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
849 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
850
Lars Gustäbel24757852011-09-05 16:59:44 +0200851- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
852 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
853 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
854 information was lost.
855
Ezio Melottid9e0b062011-09-05 17:11:06 +0300856- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
857 more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.
858
Benjamin Petersonf6f3a352011-09-03 09:26:20 -0400859- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
860
Victor Stinner979482a2011-09-02 01:00:40 +0200861- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
862
Victor Stinnerc15c88c2011-09-01 23:45:04 +0200863- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
864 getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
865 read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
866
Benjamin Peterson8f8cc8b2011-08-31 22:21:44 -0400867- Issue #12720: Expose low-level Linux extended file attribute functions in os.
868
Éric Araujofbe37df2011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200869- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
Éric Araujob9fe54c2011-08-30 01:42:50 +0200870 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist. The packaging commands
871 were fixed too.
Éric Araujofbe37df2011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200872
Antoine Pitrou55549ec2011-08-30 00:27:10 +0200873- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
874 the C pickle implementation.
875
Antoine Pitrou82be19f2011-08-29 23:09:33 +0200876- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
877 (more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
878
Charles-François Nataliac7e9e02011-08-28 18:10:27 +0200879- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
880 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
881
Nadeem Vawda44c6ef52011-08-28 11:29:35 +0200882- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
883 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
884
Nick Coghlan20937302011-08-28 00:17:31 +1000885- Issue #9923: The mailcap module now correctly uses the platform path
886 separator for the MAILCAP environment variable on non-POSIX platforms.
887
Nick Coghlan513886a2011-08-28 00:00:27 +1000888- Issue #12835: Follow up to #6560 that unconditionally prevents use of the
889 unencrypted sendmsg/recvmsg APIs on SSL wrapped sockets. Patch by David
890 Watson.
891
Antoine Pitrou4fd1e6a2011-08-25 14:39:44 +0200892- Issue #12803: SSLContext.load_cert_chain() now accepts a password argument
893 to be used if the private key is encrypted. Patch by Adam Simpkins.
894
Antoine Pitrou162fee12011-08-23 19:48:34 +0200895- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
896 Pipe.
897
Nick Coghlanc4a28712011-08-22 16:19:19 +1000898- Issue #12811: tabnanny.check() now promptly closes checked files. Patch by
899 Anthony Briggs.
900
Nick Coghlan96fe56a2011-08-22 11:55:57 +1000901- Issue #6560: The sendmsg/recvmsg API is now exposed by the socket module
902 when provided by the underlying platform, supporting processing of
Nick Coghlan5c7f5c62011-08-22 16:27:46 +1000903 ancillary data in pure Python code. Patch by David Watson and Heiko Wundram.
Nick Coghlan96fe56a2011-08-22 11:55:57 +1000904
Victor Stinnerff3d9392011-08-20 23:39:26 +0200905- Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
906 anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending
907 on the Linux version used to build Python.
908
Antoine Pitroue8bb1a02011-08-20 14:52:04 +0200909- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
910 could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
911
Antoine Pitroudf7fc9d2011-08-19 18:03:14 +0200912- Issue #12778: Reduce memory consumption when JSON-encoding a large
913 container of many small objects.
914
Charles-François Natali558639f2011-08-18 19:11:29 +0200915- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
916 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
917
Antoine Pitrou3c7e9282011-08-13 20:15:19 +0200918- Issue #12744: Fix inefficient representation of integers between 2**31 and
919 2**63 on systems with a 64-bit C "long".
920
Nadeem Vawda1c385462011-08-13 15:22:40 +0200921- Issue #12646: Add an 'eof' attribute to zlib.Decompress, to make it easier to
922 detect truncated input streams.
923
Georg Brandl3abb3722011-08-13 11:48:12 +0200924- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
925 the file cannot be opened.
926
Antoine Pitrouf6c7a852011-08-11 21:04:02 +0200927- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
928 (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.
929
Senthil Kumaran9dc4cad2011-08-11 09:24:37 +0800930- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
931
Ned Deilye5cad232011-08-02 18:47:13 -0700932- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
933 in os.kill().
934
Raymond Hettingerfcb393c2011-08-09 13:00:40 -0700935- Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter().
Éric Araujo3764a962011-10-21 15:52:10 +0200936 Issue #13121: Also add support for inplace math operators.
Raymond Hettingerfcb393c2011-08-09 13:00:40 -0700937
Senthil Kumaran2a157d22011-08-03 18:37:22 +0800938- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
939 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
940
Benjamin Peterson94b580d2011-08-02 17:30:04 -0500941- Issue #12655: Expose functions from sched.h in the os module: sched_yield(),
942 sched_setscheduler(), sched_getscheduler(), sched_setparam(),
943 sched_get_min_priority(), sched_get_max_priority(), sched_rr_get_interval(),
944 sched_getaffinity(), sched_setaffinity().
945
Benjamin Peterson28da7b82011-08-02 17:45:00 -0500946- Add ThreadError to threading.__all__.
947
Éric Araujoab7c1b32011-07-31 04:06:12 +0200948- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
949 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
950
Senthil Kumaran3d23fd62011-07-30 10:56:50 +0800951- Issue #11281: smtplib.STMP gets source_address parameter, which adds the
952 ability to bind to specific source address on a machine with multiple
953 interfaces. Patch by Paulo Scardine.
954
Charles-François Natalidef35432011-07-29 18:59:24 +0200955- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
956 symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
957
Éric Araujoe64e51b2011-07-29 17:03:55 +0200958- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
959 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
960
Éric Araujo0cdd4452011-07-28 00:28:28 +0200961- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading. The public names (Thread,
962 Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
963 classes (_Thread, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
964 code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible to
965 inherit from Thread and other classes, without having to import the private
966 underscored names like multiprocessing did.
967
Éric Araujo9bce3112011-07-27 18:29:31 +0200968- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
969 lines.
970
Charles-François Natali27c4e882011-07-27 19:40:02 +0200971- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
972
Raymond Hettinger3a081f52011-07-29 00:02:04 -0700973- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
974 collections when it is done.
975
Ross Lagerwalld98646e2011-07-27 07:16:31 +0200976- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
977 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
978
Ned Deilyf25e3d52011-07-26 18:17:33 -0700979- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
980 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
981
Senthil Kumaran1299a8f2011-07-27 08:05:58 +0800982- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
983 Connection:close header.
984
Ross Lagerwall59c01ed2011-07-25 07:12:43 +0200985- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
986 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
987
Charles-François Natali749400a2011-07-24 22:41:18 +0200988- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
989
Antoine Pitroucf9d3c02011-07-24 02:27:04 +0200990- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
991
Antoine Pitrouab85ff32011-07-23 22:03:45 +0200992- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
993 module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
994
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200995- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
Antoine Pitroud42c1d02011-07-23 21:50:21 +0200996 a read1() method), and add a *write_through* parameter to mandate
997 unbuffered writes.
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200998
Nadeem Vawdace7e51e2011-07-23 15:16:23 +0200999- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
1000
Charles-François Natali54ef40b2011-07-22 23:52:02 +02001001- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
1002
Charles-François Natali996f6062011-07-21 19:45:31 +02001003- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
1004
Antoine Pitroud6494802011-07-21 01:11:30 +02001005- Issue #12551: Provide a get_channel_binding() method on SSL sockets so as
1006 to get channel binding data for the current SSL session (only the
1007 "tls-unique" channel binding is implemented). This allows the implementation
1008 of certain authentication mechanisms such as SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS. Patch by
1009 Jacek Konieczny.
1010
R David Murray875048b2011-07-20 11:41:21 -04001011- Issue #665194: email.utils now has format_datetime and parsedate_to_datetime
1012 functions, allowing for round tripping of RFC2822 format dates.
1013
Antoine Pitrouc57ed912011-07-20 00:26:23 +02001014- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
1015 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
1016 Linux 3.0.
1017
R David Murray46346762011-07-18 21:38:54 -04001018- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
1019 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
1020
Benjamin Petersonddddcab2011-07-15 21:11:35 -05001021- Issue #12273: Remove ast.__version__. AST changes can be accounted for by
1022 checking sys.version_info or sys._mercurial.
1023
Antoine Pitroudc19c242011-07-16 01:51:58 +02001024- Silence spurious "broken pipe" tracebacks when shutting down a
1025 ProcessPoolExecutor.
1026
Antoine Pitroud06a0652011-07-16 01:13:34 +02001027- Fix potential resource leaks in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
1028 by joining all queues and processes when shutdown() is called.
1029
Antoine Pitrou8cdc40e2011-07-15 21:15:07 +02001030- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
1031 Andreas Stührk.
1032
Antoine Pitrou8391cf42011-07-15 21:01:21 +02001033- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
1034 embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
1035
Victor Stinnera7878b72011-07-14 23:07:44 +02001036- Issue #6755: Add get_wch() method to curses.window class. Patch by Iñigo
1037 Serna.
1038
Victor Stinnerd33344a2011-07-14 22:28:36 +02001039- Add cgi.closelog() function to close the log file.
1040
Charles-François Natalif64f9e92011-07-14 20:00:49 +02001041- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
1042
Victor Stinner66361212011-07-13 21:43:18 +02001043- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
1044 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
1045
Antoine Pitroucb4ae812011-07-13 21:07:49 +02001046- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
1047 TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
1048
Éric Araujo4468e552011-07-08 17:22:19 +02001049- Issue #12504: Close file handles in a timely manner in packaging.database.
1050 This fixes a bug with the remove (uninstall) feature on Windows.
1051
Éric Araujoce5fe832011-07-08 16:27:12 +02001052- Issues #12169 and #10510: Factor out code used by various packaging commands
1053 to make HTTP POST requests, and make sure it uses CRLF.
1054
Victor Stinner2cded9c2011-07-08 01:45:13 +02001055- Issue #12016: Multibyte CJK decoders now resynchronize faster. They only
1056 ignore the first byte of an invalid byte sequence. For example,
1057 b'\xff\n'.decode('gb2312', 'replace') gives '\ufffd\n' instead of '\ufffd'.
1058
Victor Stinner7f53a502011-07-05 22:00:25 +02001059- Issue #12459: time.sleep() now raises a ValueError if the sleep length is
1060 negative, instead of an infinite sleep on Windows or raising an IOError on
1061 Linux for example, to have the same behaviour on all platforms.
1062
Victor Stinnerd7772bc2011-07-05 14:31:28 +02001063- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
1064 Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
1065 of the script).
1066
Victor Stinner2cfb6f32011-07-05 14:00:56 +02001067- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
1068 if the process has only one pipe.
1069
Victor Stinner8b0508e2011-07-04 02:43:09 +02001070- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
1071 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
1072
Victor Stinnere975af62011-07-04 02:08:50 +02001073- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
1074 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
1075
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +02001076- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
1077 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
1078 than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
1079
Victor Stinner3663aba2011-07-04 01:27:37 +02001080- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
1081 of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
1082
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -04001083- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
1084 conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent- headers.
1085
Charles-François Natali778db492011-07-02 14:35:49 +02001086- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
1087 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
1088
Victor Stinner48b1ce52011-07-01 13:50:09 +02001089- Issue #12462: time.sleep() now calls immediatly the (Python) signal handler
1090 if it is interrupted by a signal, instead of having to wait until the next
1091 instruction.
1092
Giampaolo Rodola'210e7ca2011-07-01 13:55:36 +02001093- Issue #12442: new shutil.disk_usage function, providing total, used and free
1094 disk space statistics.
1095
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +02001096- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
1097 UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
1098 also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode
1099 to avoid encoding issues.
1100
Victor Stinner12b8d142011-06-30 17:35:55 +02001101- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file
1102 anymore to avoid encoding issues.
1103
Victor Stinnere6c910e2011-06-30 15:55:43 +02001104- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available,
1105 to read the Python script from the right encoding.
1106
Victor Stinnerdc9b1ea2011-06-30 15:40:22 +02001107- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
1108 encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
1109
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -07001110- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
1111 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
1112 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
1113 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
1114 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
1115 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
1116 still possible to globally override the default by setting
1117 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
1118 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
Ned Deily044369f2011-06-28 20:08:34 -07001119 was built. Also, implement the same handling in packaging.
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -07001120
Benjamin Petersone90ec362011-06-27 16:22:46 -05001121- Issue #12422: In the copy module, don't store objects that are their own copy
1122 in the memo dict.
1123
Ross Lagerwallbc808222011-06-25 12:13:40 +02001124- Issue #12303: Add sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait() to the signal module.
1125
Ross Lagerwalldbfb9b82011-06-25 10:02:37 +02001126- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
1127 Kitada.
1128
R David Murray749073a2011-06-22 13:47:53 -04001129- Issue #1874: email now detects and reports as a defect the presence of
1130 any CTE other than 7bit, 8bit, or binary on a multipart.
1131
Victor Stinnerf1512a22011-06-21 17:18:38 +02001132- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
1133 variables, start with an empty environment.
1134
Éric Araujo3e425ac2011-06-19 21:23:43 +02001135- Issue #11637: Fix support for importing packaging setup hooks from the
1136 project directory.
1137
1138- Issue #6771: Moved the curses.wrapper function from the single-function
R David Murrayafc9a5e2011-06-18 20:21:09 -04001139 wrapper module into __init__, eliminating the module. Since __init__ was
1140 already importing the function to curses.wrapper, there is no API change.
1141
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -04001142- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header
R David Murraye5e366c2011-06-18 12:57:28 -04001143 passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail
1144 if given binary unknown-8bit input.
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -04001145
R David Murrayc88bce12011-06-17 22:24:05 -04001146- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
1147 times without error.
1148
R David Murray05ff9902011-06-17 12:54:56 -04001149- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
1150
Victor Stinnerf073dc22011-06-17 14:02:18 +02001151- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
1152 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
1153 written by Ezio Melotti.
1154
Éric Araujo643cb732011-06-11 00:33:38 +02001155- Issue #12240: Allow multiple setup hooks in packaging's setup.cfg files.
1156 Original patch by Erik Bray.
1157
Benjamin Peterson703f7c42011-06-11 15:56:46 -05001158- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
1159 functions.
1160
Éric Araujo36050302011-06-10 23:52:26 +02001161- Issue #11595: Fix assorted bugs in packaging.util.cfg_to_args, a
1162 compatibility helper for the distutils-packaging transition. Original patch
1163 by Erik Bray.
1164
Charles-François Natalia5293082011-06-11 18:58:24 +02001165- Issue #12287: In ossaudiodev, check that the device isn't closed in several
1166 methods.
1167
Benjamin Peterson9aa68e42011-06-10 12:29:40 -05001168- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
1169
Éric Araujofa6cfbc2011-06-10 18:31:40 +02001170- Issue #12246: Warn and fail when trying to install a third-party project from
1171 an uninstalled Python (built in a source checkout). Original patch by
1172 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe.
1173
R David Murray51fcb812011-06-09 15:52:31 -04001174- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
1175
R David Murray0a9f16b2011-06-09 15:21:02 -04001176- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
1177
R David Murrayf97c59a2011-06-09 12:34:07 -04001178- Issue #10424: Argparse now includes the names of the missing required
1179 arguments in the missing arguments error message.
1180
Vinay Sajip8168d102011-06-09 16:50:49 +01001181- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
1182 a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
1183
Brian Curtin9a82eaa2011-06-08 18:43:57 -05001184- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
1185 instead of os.stat.
1186
Charles-François Natali4dd453c2011-06-08 19:18:14 +02001187- Issue #12021: Make mmap's read() method argument optional. Patch by Petri
1188 Lehtinen.
1189
Antoine Pitroudd696492011-06-08 17:21:55 +02001190- Issue #9205: concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor now detects killed
1191 children and raises BrokenProcessPool in such a situation. Previously it
1192 would reliably freeze/deadlock.
1193
Antoine Pitrou176f07d2011-06-06 19:35:31 +02001194- Issue #12040: Expose a new attribute ``sentinel`` on instances of
1195 :class:`multiprocessing.Process`. Also, fix Process.join() to not use
1196 polling anymore, when given a timeout.
1197
Antoine Pitrouf068ab82011-06-06 19:17:09 +02001198- Issue #11893: Remove obsolete internal wrapper class ``SSLFakeFile`` in the
1199 smtplib module. Patch by Catalin Iacob.
1200
Mark Dickinson7ce0fa82011-06-04 18:14:23 +01001201- Issue #12080: Fix a Decimal.power() case that took an unreasonably long time
1202 to compute.
1203
Benjamin Peterson8c6f88e2011-05-31 20:52:17 -05001204- Issue #12221: Remove __version__ attributes from pyexpat, pickle, tarfile,
1205 pydoc, tkinter, and xml.parsers.expat. This were useless version constants
1206 left over from the Mercurial transition
1207
Raymond Hettinger22cc1182011-06-02 23:49:44 -07001208- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
1209
Victor Stinner1b5b9d72011-06-01 00:58:57 +02001210- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
1211 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
1212 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
1213
Victor Stinner2a129742011-05-30 23:02:52 +02001214- Issue #12028: Make threading._get_ident() public, rename it to
Victor Stinner58ab7662011-05-30 23:23:50 +02001215 threading.get_ident() and document it. This function was already used using
Victor Stinner2a129742011-05-30 23:02:52 +02001216 _thread.get_ident().
1217
Victor Stinnere15dce32011-05-30 22:56:00 +02001218- Issue #12171: IncrementalEncoder.reset() of CJK codecs (multibytecodec) calls
1219 encreset() instead of decreset().
1220
Tarek Ziade371df052011-05-30 18:55:32 +02001221- Issue #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.
1222
Victor Stinnere15dce32011-05-30 22:56:00 +02001223- Issue #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module.
Charles-François Natalidaafdd52011-05-29 20:07:40 +02001224
Ned Deily59a33382011-05-28 03:09:33 -07001225- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
1226 Patch by Mher Movsisyan.
1227
Nadeem Vawda55b43382011-05-27 01:52:15 +02001228- Issue #1625: BZ2File and bz2.decompress() now support multi-stream files.
1229 Initial patch by Nir Aides.
1230
Victor Stinnerb57f1082011-05-26 00:19:38 +02001231- Issue #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.
1232
Victor Stinnere9d44ccb2011-05-26 00:16:44 +02001233- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size
1234 once.
1235
Victor Stinnera80987f2011-05-25 22:47:16 +02001236- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
1237
Victor Stinnerb79f28c2011-05-25 22:09:03 +02001238- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
1239 if the file is closed.
1240
Victor Stinnerd2780ae2011-05-25 22:51:16 +02001241- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
1242 class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Wark.
1243
1244- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
1245 ctypes.util._get_soname(). Patch by Sijin Joseph.
Senthil Kumaran656ce502011-05-26 00:24:38 +08001246
Victor Stinner6daa33c2011-05-25 01:41:22 +02001247- Issue #10818: Remove the Tk GUI and the serve() function of the pydoc module,
1248 pydoc -g has been deprecated in Python 3.2 and it has a new enhanced web
1249 server.
Victor Stinner383c3fc2011-05-25 01:35:05 +02001250
Charles-François Natali1f4560c2011-05-24 23:47:49 +02001251- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, read the data in one chunk to speed up large
1252 reads and simplify code.
1253
Victor Stinner1273b7c2011-05-24 23:37:07 +02001254- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
1255 correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
1256
Victor Stinnereb734f72011-05-24 22:24:11 +02001257- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
1258 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
1259 final argument is True.
1260
Victor Stinner99c8b162011-05-24 12:05:19 +02001261- Issue #12049: Add RAND_bytes() and RAND_pseudo_bytes() functions to the ssl
1262 module.
1263
Victor Stinner7870bdf2011-05-23 18:12:52 +02001264- Issue #6501: os.device_encoding() returns None on Windows if the application
1265 has no console.
1266
Charles-François Natali1e045b12011-05-22 20:42:32 +02001267- Issue #12105: Add O_CLOEXEC to the os module.
1268
Mark Dickinsonb455e582011-05-22 12:53:18 +01001269- Issue #12079: Decimal('Infinity').fma(Decimal('0'), (3.91224318126786e+19+0j))
1270 now raises TypeError (reflecting the invalid type of the 3rd argument) rather
1271 than Decimal.InvalidOperation.
1272
Victor Stinner21809a62011-05-20 00:22:39 +02001273- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
1274 to be able to unload the module.
1275
Éric Araujo765e94f2011-06-03 17:26:59 +02001276- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as
1277 distutils2).
Tarek Ziadeebbb14c2011-05-19 19:56:12 +02001278
Antoine Pitrou7a616f22011-05-18 18:52:20 +02001279- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
1280 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
1281
Antoine Pitroue0650202011-05-18 18:03:09 +02001282- Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
1283 passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
1284 Patch by Kasun Herath.
1285
Ronald Oussoren5ee05672011-05-17 14:48:40 +02001286- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
1287 with Tk 8.5.
1288
Ronald Oussorenf4542eb2011-05-15 17:13:47 +02001289- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Ronald Oussoren447fcfb2011-05-15 16:50:28 +02001290 is set in shell.
1291
Nadeem Vawda0c3d96a2011-05-15 00:19:50 +02001292- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
1293 their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
1294 larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
1295 an incorrect result.
1296
Nadeem Vawda7619e882011-05-14 14:05:20 +02001297- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
1298 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
1299
Antoine Pitrou7c404892011-05-13 00:13:33 +02001300- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
1301 on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
1302 writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
1303 data, and writing again).
1304
Antoine Pitrou3486a982011-05-12 01:57:53 +02001305- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
1306 Patch by John O'Connor.
1307
Kurt B. Kaisere1478062011-05-11 12:24:17 -04001308- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
1309 With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
1310 IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +00001311
Senthil Kumaran4de00a22011-05-11 21:17:57 +08001312- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
1313 when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
1314 by Yuval Greenfield.
1315
Victor Stinner19474772011-05-11 00:14:28 +02001316- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
1317 non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
1318 binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
1319 encoding of the script.
1320
Antoine Pitrou1be815a2011-05-10 19:16:29 +02001321- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
1322 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
1323
Victor Stinner388196e2011-05-10 17:13:00 +02001324- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
1325 instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.
1326
Senthil Kumaranc7ae19b2011-05-09 23:25:02 +08001327- Issue #3709: a flush_headers method to BaseHTTPRequestHandler which manages
1328 the sending of headers to output stream and flushing the internal headers
1329 buffer. Patch contribution by Andrew Schaaf
1330
Antoine Pitrou87cf2202011-05-09 17:04:27 +02001331- Issue #11743: Rewrite multiprocessing connection classes in pure Python.
1332
Martin v. Löwis2f48d892011-05-09 08:05:43 +02001333- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
1334
Victor Stinnerfa0e3d52011-05-09 01:01:09 +02001335- Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark
1336 Dickinson.
1337
Victor Stinner3de49192011-05-09 00:42:58 +02001338- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
1339
Victor Stinnerd49b1f12011-05-08 02:03:15 +02001340- Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
1341 instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to
1342 wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.
1343
Victor Stinnerb3e72192011-05-08 01:46:11 +02001344- Issue #8407: Add pthread_kill(), sigpending() and sigwait() functions to the
1345 signal module.
1346
Antoine Pitrouc1d52062011-05-07 19:39:37 +02001347- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
1348 by Kasun Herath.
1349
Giampaolo Rodola'24befa82011-05-07 19:09:34 +02001350- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
1351
Ezio Melotti43432b82011-05-08 20:01:36 +03001352- Issue #11916: Add a number of MacOSX specific definitions to the errno module.
Ronald Oussoren97c3eb42011-05-07 09:59:03 +02001353 Patch by Pierre Carrier.
1354
Ezio Melotti1c3fd582011-05-08 19:58:08 +03001355- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murraycaed7fe2011-05-06 22:07:19 -04001356 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1357 previous value of the mtime.
1358
Giampaolo Rodola'd78def92011-05-06 19:49:08 +02001359- Issue #11072: added MLSD command (RFC-3659) support to ftplib.
1360
Antoine Pitrou08728162011-05-06 18:49:52 +02001361- Issue #8808: The IMAP4_SSL constructor now allows passing an SSLContext
1362 parameter to control parameters of the secure channel. Patch by Sijin
1363 Joseph.
1364
Ronald Oussoren6355c162011-05-06 17:11:07 +02001365- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
1366 file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
1367
Antoine Pitrou1c86b442011-05-06 15:19:49 +02001368- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any
1369 dNSName entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName.
1370 Patch by Nicolas Bareil.
1371
Ezio Melottib4dc2502011-05-06 15:01:41 +03001372- Issue #10775: assertRaises, assertRaisesRegex, assertWarns, and
1373 assertWarnsRegex now accept a keyword argument 'msg' when used as context
1374 managers. Initial patch by Winston Ewert.
1375
Ronald Oussoren136148e2011-05-06 11:17:40 +02001376- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1377 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1378 for the case.
1379
Nick Coghlan0ded3e32011-05-05 23:49:25 +10001380- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support
1381 more than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch
1382 by Ysj Ray.
1383
Alexander Belopolsky5611a1c2011-05-02 14:14:48 -04001384- Issue #11930: Removed deprecated time.accept2dyear variable.
1385 Removed year >= 1000 restriction from datetime.strftime.
1386
Victor Stinnercafa2ef2011-05-02 16:11:28 +02001387- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
1388
Raymond Hettinger003be522011-05-03 11:01:32 -07001389- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
1390
Victor Stinnera6cd0cf2011-05-02 01:05:37 +02001391- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1392 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1393
Victor Stinnera9293352011-04-30 15:21:58 +02001394- Issue #8407: Add signal.pthread_sigmask() function to fetch and/or change the
1395 signal mask of the calling thread.
1396
Łukasz Langa90759a22011-04-30 09:36:35 +02001397- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
1398 names.
1399
1400- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
1401
Antoine Pitrou15399c32011-04-28 19:23:55 +02001402- Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible. Patch
1403 by Charles-François Natali.
1404
Ezio Melotti935a5882011-04-27 10:17:34 +03001405- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1406 strings are too long.
1407
Senthil Kumaran72387f92011-04-26 21:09:49 +08001408- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1409
Antoine Pitrouf6454512011-04-25 19:16:06 +02001410- Issue #11856: Speed up parsing of JSON numbers.
1411
Victor Stinner762f8d12011-04-24 23:45:23 +02001412- Issue #11005: threading.RLock()._release_save() raises a RuntimeError if the
Victor Stinnerc2824d42011-04-24 23:41:33 +02001413 lock was not acquired.
1414
Antoine Pitrou8c520272011-04-23 17:51:04 +02001415- Issue #11258: Speed up ctypes.util.find_library() under Linux by a factor
1416 of 5 to 10. Initial patch by Jonas H.
1417
Antoine Pitrou877509a2011-04-23 17:21:13 +02001418- Issue #11382: Trivial system calls, such as dup() or pipe(), needn't
1419 release the GIL. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1420
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001421- Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about
1422 the thread implementation.
1423
R David Murray3edd22a2011-04-18 13:59:37 -04001424- Issue #11731: simplify/enhance email parser/generator API by introducing
1425 policy objects.
1426
Victor Stinner6c9b35b2011-04-18 16:25:56 +02001427- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1428 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1429 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1430
R David Murray01581ee2011-04-18 10:04:34 -04001431- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
1432
Vinay Sajipe723e962011-04-15 22:27:17 +01001433- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
1434
Raymond Hettinger019a97c2011-04-19 10:21:27 -07001435- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1436 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1437
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +03001438- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
Senthil Kumaran397eb442011-04-15 18:20:24 +08001439 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1440
Raymond Hettinger1c746c22011-04-15 13:16:46 -07001441- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1442
Senthil Kumaran2d2ea1b2011-04-14 13:16:30 +08001443- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1444 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1445
R David Murrayb35c8502011-04-13 16:46:05 -04001446- Issue #11684: complete email.parser bytes API by adding BytesHeaderParser.
1447
Nadeem Vawdaccb16cb2011-04-13 07:35:29 +02001448- The bz2 module now handles 4GiB+ input buffers correctly.
1449
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +03001450- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1451 _json is not available.
Alexander Belopolsky1a20c122011-04-12 23:03:39 -04001452
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +03001453- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +03001454
1455- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +08001456 url contains #fragment.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +03001457
R David Murray3dd02d62011-04-12 21:02:45 -04001458- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1459 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1460
Victor Stinner4d652242011-04-12 23:41:50 +02001461- Issue #11186: pydoc ignores a module if its name contains a surrogate
1462 character in the index of modules.
1463
Antoine Pitroub7877f22011-04-12 17:58:11 +02001464- Issue #11815: Use a light-weight SimpleQueue for the result queue in
1465 concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
1466
brian.curtinf7eac1f2011-04-11 18:18:20 -05001467- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1468 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1469
Vinay Sajip4a0a31d2011-04-11 08:42:07 +01001470- logging.basicConfig now supports an optional 'handlers' argument taking an
1471 iterable of handlers to be added to the root logger. Additional parameter
1472 checks were also added to basicConfig.
1473
Antoine Pitroubed9a5b2011-04-11 00:20:23 +02001474- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
1475
Raymond Hettinger49353d02011-04-11 12:40:58 -07001476- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
1477 difflib.unified_diff().
1478
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +02001479- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1480 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1481 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1482
Ezio Melotti88fdeb42011-04-10 12:59:16 +03001483- Issue #2650: re.escape() no longer escapes the '_'.
1484
Antoine Pitrou131a6412011-04-09 23:49:58 +02001485- Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative timeout
1486 is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised). Patch
1487 by Charles-François Natali.
1488
Ezio Melotti2e3607c2011-04-07 22:03:31 +03001489- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
1490
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001491- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001492 multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001493 bytes.
R David Murrayc5c14722011-04-06 08:13:02 -04001494
Éric Araujof7d08e82011-05-29 18:13:51 +02001495- Issue #1690608: email.util.formataddr is now RFC 2047 aware: it now has a
1496 charset parameter that defaults to utf-8 and is used as the charset for RFC
R David Murray8debacb2011-04-06 09:35:57 -04001497 2047 encoding when the realname contains non-ASCII characters.
1498
Ross Lagerwall4f61b022011-04-05 15:34:00 +02001499- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1500
Antoine Pitrou4ec4b0c2011-04-04 21:00:37 +02001501- Issue #10791: Implement missing method GzipFile.read1(), allowing GzipFile
1502 to be wrapped in a TextIOWrapper. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1503
Raymond Hettinger7ab9e222011-04-05 02:33:54 -07001504- Issue #11707: Added a fast C version of functools.cmp_to_key().
1505 Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
1506
Antoine Pitrou5bfa0622011-04-04 00:12:04 +02001507- Issue #11688: Add sqlite3.Connection.set_trace_callback(). Patch by
1508 Torsten Landschoff.
1509
Antoine Pitrou9c254862011-04-03 18:15:34 +02001510- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
1511 private keys.
1512
Antoine Pitrou37dc5f82011-04-03 17:05:46 +02001513- Issue #5863: Rewrite BZ2File in pure Python, and allow it to accept
1514 file-like objects using a new ``fileobj`` constructor argument. Patch by
1515 Nadeem Vawda.
1516
Ezio Melotti0f535012011-04-03 18:02:13 +03001517- unittest.TestCase.assertSameElements has been removed.
1518
Victor Stinner27181ac2011-03-31 13:39:03 +02001519- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
1520 called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
1521
Victor Stinner024e37a2011-03-31 01:31:06 +02001522- Issue #11393: Add the new faulthandler module.
1523
Antoine Pitrou7899acf2011-03-31 01:00:32 +02001524- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
1525
R David Murray86cc82e2011-03-29 11:32:35 -04001526- Removed the 'strict' argument to email.parser.Parser, which has been
1527 deprecated since Python 2.4.
1528
Benjamin Peterson6a2638b2011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001529- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1530 arguments.
1531
Martin v. Löwisf8d887e2011-03-27 21:05:51 +02001532- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1533
Raymond Hettinger5d446132011-03-27 18:52:10 -07001534- itertools.accumulate now supports an optional *func* argument for
1535 a user-supplied binary function.
1536
Ross Lagerwallf382ab22011-03-27 17:34:22 +02001537- Issue #11692: Remove unnecessary demo functions in subprocess module.
1538
Mark Dickinson92b60d52011-03-27 16:25:40 +01001539- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1540 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1541
Mark Dickinsonccd22832011-03-27 15:46:32 +01001542- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1543 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1544 documentation.
1545
Martin v. Löwisa6e0b4f2011-03-27 10:14:57 +02001546- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
Martin v. Löwis9bad3a92011-03-27 10:12:07 +02001547
Ross Lagerwallb8a57692011-03-26 21:19:57 +02001548- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
1549 Patch by Ben Hayden.
1550
Antoine Pitrouc13d4542011-03-26 19:29:44 +01001551- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
1552 concurrent.futures.
1553
Brett Cannon442c9b92011-03-23 16:14:42 -07001554- Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
1555 to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
1556 object originally came from.
1557
Brett Cannona7468bc2011-03-23 16:06:00 -07001558- Issue #8754: Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.
1559
Éric Araujoc09fca62011-03-23 02:06:24 +01001560- Issue #11591: Prevent "import site" from modifying sys.path when python
1561 was started with -S.
1562
Raymond Hettinger28dff612011-03-23 13:05:02 -07001563- collections.namedtuple() now adds a _source attribute to the generated
1564 class. This make the source more accessible than the outdated
1565 "verbose" option which prints to stdout but doesn't make the source
1566 string available.
1567
Éric Araujoeda55832011-03-21 00:09:07 +01001568- Issue #11371: Mark getopt error messages as localizable. Patch by Filip
1569 Gruszczyński.
1570
Raymond Hettingerc46759a2011-03-22 11:46:25 -07001571- Issue #11333: Add __slots__ to collections ABCs.
1572
Éric Araujoc09fca62011-03-23 02:06:24 +01001573- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__.
Raymond Hettingera0d1d962011-03-21 17:50:28 -07001574
Raymond Hettinger1103d052011-03-25 14:15:24 -07001575- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1576 that start with a leading underscore.
1577
Guido van Rossum20d2ab42011-03-29 12:58:29 -07001578- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
1579 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
1580
Victor Stinner628225c2011-03-21 02:38:51 +01001581- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
1582 httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
1583
Éric Araujo6a1454f2011-03-20 19:59:25 +01001584- Issue #4391: Use proper gettext plural forms in optparse.
1585
Antoine Pitrou6d58d642011-03-20 23:56:36 +01001586- Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.
1587
Senthil Kumaran799c6692011-03-20 09:26:57 +08001588- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
1589 class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
1590 contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
1591
Antoine Pitrou877766d2011-03-19 17:00:37 +01001592- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
1593 unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
1594
Antoine Pitrou5e981412011-03-17 22:38:37 +01001595- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
1596 arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001597
Ross Lagerwall7807c352011-03-17 20:20:30 +02001598- Issue #10812: Add some extra posix functions to the os module.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001599
1600- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1601 setup and teardown.
1602
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001603- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
1604
R David Murraya2150232011-03-16 21:11:23 -04001605- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
1606 the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
1607
R David Murrayde912762011-03-16 18:26:23 -04001608- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
1609 relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
1610
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -04001611- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
1612 which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line
1613 of the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
1614
Nick Coghlan35ec8a42011-03-16 14:18:29 -04001615- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001616 parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1617
Ross Lagerwallba102ec2011-03-16 18:40:25 +02001618- Issue #5870: Add `subprocess.DEVNULL` constant.
1619
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001620- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
Benjamin Petersona78e4e62011-03-16 10:29:19 -05001621 execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001622
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -04001623- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1624 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1625 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1626
Antoine Pitrou2c50a092011-03-15 21:02:59 +01001627- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
1628 not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
1629 the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
1630
Barry Warsaw1f5c9582011-03-15 15:04:44 -04001631- Issue #11289: `smtp.SMTP` class becomes a context manager so it can be used
1632 in a `with` statement. Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola.
1633
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001634- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
1635 encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
1636
briancurtin2ef76982011-03-15 11:51:28 -04001637- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
1638 Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
1639
Michael Foord1341bb02011-03-14 19:01:46 -04001640- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
1641 Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
1642
Antoine Pitroue8706232011-03-15 21:05:36 +01001643- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
Antoine Pitrou0e63f592011-03-15 21:08:50 +01001644 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussorenf2db4de2011-03-14 18:46:50 -04001645
briancurtin525c25d2011-03-14 16:03:54 -04001646- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with
1647 the "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches
1648 the documentation and general logic.
1649
Éric Araujof7d08e82011-05-29 18:13:51 +02001650- Issue #1162477: Postel Principle adjustment to email date parsing: handle the
R David Murrayaccd1c02011-03-13 20:06:23 -04001651 fact that some non-compliant MUAs use '.' instead of ':' in time specs.
1652
Mark Dickinson37a79fb2011-03-12 11:12:52 +00001653- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus
1654 operations when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1655
Antoine Pitrou16c4ce12011-03-11 21:30:43 +01001656- Issue #9935: Speed up pickling of instances of user-defined classes.
1657
Ned Deilyd2853182011-03-09 02:36:51 -08001658- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1659 initialization fails.
1660
Antoine Pitrou125d5c82011-03-06 08:40:35 +01001661- Issue #11408: In threading.Lock.acquire(), only call gettimeofday() when
1662 really necessary. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1663
Antoine Pitrou16a0a0b2011-03-06 01:11:03 +01001664- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1665 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1666 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1667
Giampaolo Rodolà3a9559b2011-03-04 12:54:34 +00001668- Issue #9795: add context manager protocol support for nntplib.NNTP class.
1669
R. David Murray91221f22011-03-03 18:03:36 +00001670- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1671 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1672 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1673
Giampaolo Rodolà1bc75c62011-03-03 13:57:47 +00001674- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1675 on accept(), send() and recv().
1676
Victor Stinner1dfd3802011-03-03 12:54:07 +00001677- Issue #11377: Deprecate platform.popen() and reimplement it with os.popen().
1678
Victor Stinner7b3b20a2011-03-03 12:54:05 +00001679- Issue #8513: On UNIX, subprocess supports bytes command string.
1680
Antoine Pitrou061cfb52011-02-28 22:25:22 +00001681- Issue #10866: Add socket.sethostname(). Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1682
Antoine Pitroufcf81fd2011-02-28 22:03:34 +00001683- Issue #11140: Lock.release() now raises a RuntimeError when attempting
1684 to release an unacquired lock, as claimed in the threading documentation.
Antoine Pitrou8d0f2572011-02-28 22:06:48 +00001685 The _thread.error exception is now an alias of RuntimeError. Patch by
Antoine Pitrou819c40f2011-03-01 23:05:42 +00001686 Filip Gruszczyński. Patch for _dummy_thread by Aymeric Augustin.
Antoine Pitroufcf81fd2011-02-28 22:03:34 +00001687
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001688- Issue #8594: ftplib now provides a source_address parameter to specify which
Giampaolo Rodolà396ff062011-02-28 19:19:51 +00001689 (address, port) to bind to before connecting.
1690
Antoine Pitroue93bf7a2011-02-26 23:24:06 +00001691- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1692 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1693
Raymond Hettinger9fe1ccf2011-02-26 01:02:51 +00001694- Issue #11297: Add collections.ChainMap().
1695
Antoine Pitrou8250e232011-02-25 23:41:16 +00001696- Issue #10755: Add the posix.fdlistdir() function. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1697
Antoine Pitrouf65132d2011-02-25 23:25:17 +00001698- Issue #4761: Add the *at() family of functions (openat(), etc.) to the posix
1699 module. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1700
Antoine Pitrou68e5c042011-02-25 23:07:44 +00001701- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
1702 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
1703
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001704- Issue #11291: poplib.POP no longer suppresses errors on quit().
Giampaolo Rodolà95bcb932011-02-25 22:28:24 +00001705
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001706- Issue #11177: asyncore's create_socket() arguments can now be omitted.
Giampaolo Rodolà103a6d62011-02-25 22:21:22 +00001707
Antoine Pitrou0bd4deb2011-02-25 22:07:43 +00001708- Issue #6064: Add a ``daemon`` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
1709 and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
1710 default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
1711 thread/process.
1712
Antoine Pitrou707ce822011-02-25 21:24:11 +00001713- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1714 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1715
Giampaolo Rodolà7e1b9af2011-02-25 21:00:10 +00001716- Issue #10784: New os.getpriority() and os.setpriority() functions.
1717
Antoine Pitrou211b81d2011-02-25 20:27:33 +00001718- Issue #11114: Fix catastrophic performance of tell() on text files (up
1719 to 1000x faster in some cases). It is still one to two order of magnitudes
1720 slower than binary tell().
1721
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001722- Issue #10882: Add os.sendfile function.
Giampaolo Rodolàc9c2c8b2011-02-25 14:39:16 +00001723
Éric Araujo6c3787c2011-02-24 18:03:10 +00001724- Issue #10868: Allow usage of the register method of an ABC as a class
1725 decorator.
1726
Lars Gustäbeldd071042011-02-23 11:42:22 +00001727- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
1728 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
1729 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
1730
Sean Reifscheidere2dfefb2011-02-22 10:55:44 +00001731- Issue #10924: Adding salt and Modular Crypt Format to crypt library.
1732 Moved old C wrapper to _crypt, and added a Python wrapper with
1733 enhanced salt generation and simpler API for password generation.
1734
Brett Cannonf3042782011-02-22 03:25:12 +00001735- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
1736
Raymond Hettinger158c9c22011-02-22 00:41:50 +00001737- Issue #11085: Moved collections abstract base classes into a separate
1738 module called collections.abc, following the pattern used by importlib.abc.
1739 For backwards compatibility, the names are imported into the collections
1740 module.
1741
Antoine Pitrouecc26922011-02-21 23:41:12 +00001742- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1743 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1744 32-bit Windows.
1745
Victor Stinner441cc012011-02-21 20:58:02 +00001746- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
1747 escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
1748
Raymond Hettingerddb52402011-02-21 19:42:11 +00001749- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinnerfd34b372011-02-21 20:51:28 +00001750 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingerddb52402011-02-21 19:42:11 +00001751
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +00001752- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
1753 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1754
Eli Bendersky9479d1a2011-03-04 05:34:58 +00001755- Issue #11388: Added a clear() method to MutableSequence
1756
Steven Bethard0331e902011-03-26 14:48:04 +01001757- Issue #11174: Add argparse.MetavarTypeHelpFormatter, which uses type names
1758 for the names of optional and positional arguments in help messages.
1759
Steven Bethard006ba5c2011-03-26 18:29:48 +01001760- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1761
Steven Bethardd8f2d502011-03-26 19:50:06 +01001762- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1763
Steven Bethardd186f992011-03-26 21:49:00 +01001764- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1765 their children.
1766
Steven Bethard8a6a1982011-03-27 13:53:53 +02001767- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1768
Steven Bethard7cb20a82011-04-04 01:53:02 +02001769- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1770
Sandro Tosid902a142011-08-22 23:28:27 +02001771- Issue #12191: Added shutil.chown() to change user and/or group owner of a
1772 given path also specifying their names.
1773
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001774Build
1775-----
1776
Petri Lehtinen6ab96e42011-11-05 21:23:48 +02001777- Issue #13326: Clean __pycache__ directories correctly on OpenBSD.
1778
Éric Araujo5043f092011-10-05 01:04:18 +02001779- PEP 393: the configure option --with-wide-unicode is removed.
1780
Victor Stinner14d098d2011-09-07 22:29:43 +02001781- Issue #12852: Set _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700, instead of 600, to get POSIX 2008
1782 functions on OpenBSD (e.g. fdopendir).
1783
Antoine Pitrou37009202011-07-08 23:47:50 +02001784- Issue #11863: Remove support for legacy systems deprecated in Python 3.2
1785 (following PEP 11). These systems are systems using Mach C Threads,
1786 SunOS lightweight processes, GNU pth threads and IRIX threads.
1787
Ned Deily8b56c4b2011-06-28 00:13:01 -07001788- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1789 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1790 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1791 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1792
Éric Araujof5949b52011-06-09 14:10:07 +02001793- Issue #10645: Installing Python does no longer create a
1794 Python-X.Y.Z-pyX.Y.egg-info file in the lib-dynload directory.
1795
Brett Cannonc5011fe2011-06-06 20:09:10 -07001796- Do not accidentally include the directory containing sqlite.h twice when
1797 building sqlite3.
1798
Ned Deilye4eed062011-05-28 06:04:02 -07001799- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1800 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1801 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1802
Martin v. Löwis8ffaa102011-05-09 07:42:28 +02001803- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
Martin v. Löwis48e14d32011-05-09 07:37:45 +02001804
Thomas Wouters6b103432011-03-06 11:51:24 -08001805- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1806
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001807- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1808 package had previously been installed.
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001809
Jesus Cea736e7fc2011-03-14 17:36:54 +01001810- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001811
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001812
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001813IDLE
1814----
1815
1816- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1817 file in a package.
Jesus Cea736e7fc2011-03-14 17:36:54 +01001818
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001819Tools/Demos
1820-----------
1821
Victor Stinnerd9743932011-12-19 13:47:10 +01001822- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
1823 traceback if Python is optimized.
1824
Victor Stinnere670c882011-05-13 17:40:15 +02001825- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
1826 add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
1827
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001828- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
1829
Jason R. Coombs1322bd42011-07-26 11:57:08 -04001830- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1831 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
Jason R. Coombs76eec3d2011-07-26 11:38:04 -04001832 "--newline" option added to specify new line character.
Jason R. Coombs1322bd42011-07-26 11:57:08 -04001833
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001834Extension Modules
1835-----------------
1836
Charles-François Natali42663332012-01-02 15:57:30 +01001837- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
1838 Vilmos Nebehaj.
1839
Charles-François Natali10b8cf42011-11-10 19:21:37 +01001840- Issue #7777: socket: Add Reliable Datagram Sockets (PF_RDS) support.
1841
Nadeem Vawda72d6a132011-10-13 13:38:14 +02001842- Issue #13159: FileIO and BZ2Compressor/BZ2Decompressor now use a linear-time
1843 buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic-time one.
1844
Charles-François Natali47413c12011-10-06 19:47:44 +02001845- Issue #10141: socket: Add SocketCAN (PF_CAN) support. Initial patch by
1846 Matthias Fuchs, updated by Tiago Gonçalves.
1847
Charles-François Natalib619bb22011-10-05 19:55:56 +02001848- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
1849 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
1850 writer got cleared by the GC.
1851
Meador Inge29f43f72011-10-03 21:48:30 -05001852- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
1853
Charles-François Natali9624a762011-09-29 19:49:37 +02001854- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
1855 Thomas Jarosch.
1856
Meador Inge48d49492011-09-27 20:52:04 -05001857- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
1858 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
1859
Jesus Cea41c98a32011-09-21 03:56:05 +02001860- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
1861 file descriptor was actually received.
1862
Meador Inge1c9f0c92011-09-20 19:55:51 -05001863- Issue #1172711: Add 'long long' support to the array module.
1864 Initial patch by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1865
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc65604b52011-09-12 21:09:12 +02001866- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
1867 object triggers the garbage collector.
1868
Jesus Cea9af32cc2011-09-10 04:40:13 +02001869- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
1870 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
1871
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9b20e272011-09-02 20:43:59 +02001872- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
1873 a string.
1874
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdd2f8b02011-08-30 22:07:20 +02001875- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
1876
1877- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
1878 some functions like file.write().
1879
Barry Warsaw2ebada42011-07-19 19:23:56 -04001880- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1881 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1882 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1883
Ezio Melotti13672652011-05-11 01:02:56 +03001884- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1885 objects using the C accelerations.
1886
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001887- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1888 objects using the C accelerations.
Benjamin Peterson1a07f072011-03-26 18:17:05 -05001889
1890- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1891 to an instance of the class.
1892
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001893Tests
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001894-----
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001895
Meador Inge94d5a712012-01-14 11:54:43 -06001896- Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.
1897
Meador Inged61fdc12012-01-14 09:56:42 -06001898- Issue #13725: Fix regrtest to recognize the documented -d flag.
1899 Patch by Erno Tukia.
1900
Ned Deilyd61f9d12011-10-31 16:22:53 -07001901- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
1902 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
1903
Charles-François Natalid4621192011-10-29 12:45:56 +02001904- Issue #5661: Add a test for ECONNRESET/EPIPE handling to test_asyncore. Patch
1905 by Xavier de Gaye.
1906
Barry Warsawc21a81b2011-10-28 17:08:12 -04001907- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
1908
Barry Warsawcb9c5ba2011-10-07 15:14:53 -04001909- Re-enable lib2to3's test_parser.py tests, though with an expected failure
1910 (see issue 13125).
1911
Charles-François Natalie78cbec2011-08-24 23:24:05 +02001912- Issue #12656: Add tests for IPv6 and Unix sockets to test_asyncore.
1913
Nick Coghlan029ba2b2011-08-22 16:05:44 +10001914- Issue #6484: Add unit tests for mailcap module (patch by Gregory Nofi)
1915
Nadeem Vawda3c01d162011-08-01 23:48:26 +02001916- Issue #11651: Improve the Makefile test targets to run more of the test suite
1917 more quickly. The --multiprocess option is now enabled by default, reducing
1918 the amount of time needed to run the tests. "make test" and "make quicktest"
1919 now include some resource-intensive tests, but no longer run the test suite
1920 twice to check for bugs in .pyc generation. Tools/scripts/run_test.py provides
Éric Araujo4f996442011-10-19 06:02:24 +02001921 an easy platform-independent way to run test suite with sensible defaults.
Nadeem Vawda3c01d162011-08-01 23:48:26 +02001922
Éric Araujob85b9662011-07-31 20:47:47 +02001923- Issue #12331: The test suite for the packaging module can now run from an
1924 installed Python.
1925
Éric Araujoad548b82011-07-31 18:33:00 +02001926- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1927 Python.
1928
Antoine Pitrouf83e4ac2011-07-29 23:57:10 +02001929- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
1930 with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
1931 using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
1932 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
1933
Antoine Pitrou8dbd8572011-07-23 22:37:52 +02001934- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
1935 running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
1936 (or ``-G``) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
1937 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
1938
Ned Deilydac7de32011-07-19 16:18:11 -07001939- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
1940 (Patch by Robert Xiao)
1941
Antoine Pitrou428bc6c2011-07-15 22:15:38 +02001942- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
1943
Ned Deily07b35372011-07-13 15:09:49 -07001944- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1945 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1946
Antoine Pitrou13d7db12011-07-09 02:32:36 +02001947- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1948 failure in name resolution.
1949
Jesus Cea6e533f02011-11-08 16:39:26 +01001950- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
1951 in test_telnetlib.py.
1952
Jesus Cea0fd66b82011-11-08 16:34:22 +01001953- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
1954
Antoine Pitrou4a183b42011-07-08 19:44:55 +02001955- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1956 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1957 Web site.
1958
Antoine Pitrou88fcf1b2011-07-08 19:22:31 +02001959- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1960 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1961 is now skipped instead.
1962
Antoine Pitrou7128f952011-07-08 18:49:07 +02001963- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
1964 reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
1965 rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
1966
Brian Curtin6a4ffd72011-07-05 19:14:16 -05001967- Issue #11512: Add a test suite for the cgitb module. Patch by Robbie Clemons.
1968
Ned Deily368ff102011-07-04 19:11:14 -07001969- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
1970 tests.
1971
1972- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
Ned Deily4bd3e5d2011-07-04 17:51:48 -07001973 testcase failure in test_ssl.
1974
Victor Stinnerd554cdf2011-07-04 17:49:40 +02001975- Issue #12469: Run wakeup and pending signal tests in a subprocess to run the
1976 test in a fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal
1977 handling of the parent process.
1978
Ned Deilyefa384a2011-07-03 22:27:16 -07001979- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1980 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1981 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1982
Antoine Pitrou61600cb2011-06-30 20:04:06 +02001983- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
1984
Victor Stinnere2185d72011-06-29 13:04:35 +02001985- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
1986 the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
1987 error twice anymore if there is only one error.
1988
Ned Deily4a1ec122011-06-28 00:53:54 -07001989- Issue #12141: Install copies of template C module file so that
1990 test_build_ext of test_distutils and test_command_build_ext of
1991 test_packaging are no longer silently skipped when
1992 run outside of a build directory.
1993
Ned Deily8b56c4b2011-06-28 00:13:01 -07001994- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1995 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1996
Ned Deilyf6837aa2011-06-27 23:18:45 -07001997- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1998 2.8 + on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1999
Victor Stinner1eb6d272011-05-31 00:03:07 +02002000- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
2001 iso2022_kr).
2002
Victor Stinner5f3b1c42011-05-18 00:20:18 +02002003- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
2004 written by Charles-François Natali.
2005
Victor Stinner118ed712011-05-16 16:35:35 +02002006- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
2007 Andreas Stührk.
2008
Ezio Melotti6b60fb92011-05-14 06:47:51 +03002009- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
2010
Antoine Pitrou606c3f52011-05-09 21:17:02 +02002011- Issue #12041: Make test_wait3 more robust.
2012
R David Murray66a18fd2011-05-05 11:52:44 -04002013- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
2014 when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
2015
Victor Stinnerc90e19d2011-05-01 01:23:03 +02002016- Issue #11958: Fix FTP tests for IPv6, bind to "::1" instead of "localhost".
2017 Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali.
2018
Victor Stinnera9293352011-04-30 15:21:58 +02002019- Issue #8407, #11859: Fix tests of test_io using threads and an alarm: use
2020 pthread_sigmask() to ensure that the SIGALRM signal is received by the main
2021 thread.
2022
Antoine Pitrou9c39f3c2011-04-28 19:18:10 +02002023- Issue #11811: Factor out detection of IPv6 support on the current host
2024 and make it available as ``test.support.IPV6_ENABLED``. Patch by
2025 Charles-François Natali.
2026
Antoine Pitrou72562d02011-04-25 21:22:04 +02002027- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
2028
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02002029- Issue #11223: Skip test_lock_acquire_interruption() and
2030 test_rlock_acquire_interruption() of test_threadsignals if a thread lock is
2031 implemented using a POSIX mutex and a POSIX condition variable. A POSIX
2032 condition variable cannot be interrupted by a signal (e.g. on Linux, the
2033 futex system call is restarted).
2034
Antoine Pitrouf25a8de2011-04-16 21:02:01 +02002035- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
2036
Antoine Pitrouee429342011-04-16 18:53:59 +02002037- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
2038
Ross Lagerwall226580e2011-04-09 20:05:04 +02002039- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
2040 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
2041
Victor Stinnerd7edf3b2011-04-03 23:46:42 +02002042- Issue #11727: Add a --timeout option to regrtest: if a test takes more than
2043 TIMEOUT seconds, dumps the traceback of all threads and exits.
Victor Stinner0cc8d592011-03-31 18:10:13 +02002044
Antoine Pitroue44b1252011-03-23 23:02:31 +01002045- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
2046
R David Murray9aaba782011-03-21 17:17:06 -04002047- The email test suite now lives in the Lib/test/test_email package. The test
2048 harness code has also been modernized to allow use of new unittest features.
2049
2050- regrtest now discovers test packages as well as test modules.
2051
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04002052- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
2053
Nick Coghlan49cb9592011-03-16 20:23:58 -04002054- New test_crashers added to exercise the scripts in the Lib/test/crashers
2055 directory and confirm they fail as expected
2056
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02002057- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
R David Murraya88da672011-03-16 17:32:27 -04002058
Michael Foord07926f02011-03-16 17:19:16 -04002059- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
2060
Nick Coghlan62ecb6a2011-05-31 19:40:11 +10002061- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py, increases granularity of
2062 string.Formatter tests. Initial patch by Alicia Arlen.
Nick Coghlan7462fa62011-03-16 14:30:45 -04002063
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04002064- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
2065 Evan Dandrea.
2066
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04002067- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
2068
Nick Coghlan252183e2011-03-16 14:37:06 -04002069- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
2070 Arlen
Nick Coghland25fd4d2011-03-15 08:54:37 +10002071
R David Murray384069c2011-03-13 22:26:53 -04002072- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
2073 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
2074
Antoine Pitroud3cccd22011-03-13 19:14:21 +01002075- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
2076 non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
2077
Victor Stinner096f1a82011-03-01 23:08:36 +00002078- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
2079 Pierre Quentel.
2080
Antoine Pitroud20a5f62011-02-26 15:58:05 +00002081- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
2082 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2083
Brett Cannoneeb114b2011-02-22 03:14:12 +00002084- Issue #10512: Properly close sockets under test.test_cgi.
2085
Brett Cannon7a540732011-02-22 03:04:06 +00002086- Issue #10992: Make tests pass under coverage.
2087
Antoine Pitrouce58dc72011-02-21 21:55:48 +00002088- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
2089 to open door files.
2090
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00002091- Issue #10990: Prevent tests from clobbering a set trace function.
2092
Benjamin Peterson485119e2011-03-15 15:07:20 -05002093C-API
2094-----
2095
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5e8260b2012-01-17 21:31:50 +01002096- Issue #13727: Add 3 macros to access PyDateTime_Delta members:
2097 PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_DAYS, PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_SECONDS,
2098 PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_MICROSECONDS.
2099
Ezio Melotti8c9375b2011-08-22 20:03:25 +03002100- Issue #10542: Add 4 macros to work with surrogates: Py_UNICODE_IS_SURROGATE,
2101 Py_UNICODE_IS_HIGH_SURROGATE, Py_UNICODE_IS_LOW_SURROGATE,
2102 Py_UNICODE_JOIN_SURROGATES.
2103
Brian Curtin0275fc12011-08-10 20:32:10 -05002104- Issue #12724: Add Py_RETURN_NOTIMPLEMENTED macro for returning NotImplemented.
2105
Benjamin Peterson8a021002011-05-25 09:27:43 -05002106- PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION has been removed, since it's meaningless with
2107 Mercurial.
Benjamin Peterson485119e2011-03-15 15:07:20 -05002108
Benjamin Peterson04778a82011-05-25 09:29:00 -05002109- Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const
Benjamin Petersonc556e102011-05-26 17:49:57 -05002110 char *` instead of `char *`.
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00002111
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +03002112- Issue #12380: PyArg_ParseTuple now accepts a bytearray for the 'c' format.
2113
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +02002114Documentation
2115-------------
2116
Meador Inge2396c0a2012-01-19 22:24:55 -06002117- Issue #12949: Document the kwonlyargcount argument for the PyCode_New
2118 C API function.
2119
Meador Inge80c219b2011-12-03 12:50:18 -06002120- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
2121 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
2122
Nick Coghlan217f05b2011-11-08 22:11:21 +10002123- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
2124 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
2125
Florent Xiclunae9126b52011-10-23 22:44:19 +02002126- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for socketserver examples.
2127
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +02002128- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
2129
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00002130
2131What's New in Python 3.2?
2132=========================
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +00002133
2134*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00002135
2136Core and Builtins
2137-----------------
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +00002138
2139- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +00002140
2141Build
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00002142-----
2143
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +00002144- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
2145
2146- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
2147
2148- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00002149
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00002150Documentation
2151-------------
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00002152
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00002153- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00002154
2155
2156What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
2157=============================================
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +00002158
2159*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +00002160
2161Core and Builtins
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00002162-----------------
2163
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +00002164- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +00002165
2166- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00002167
2168- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
2169 ABI.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00002170
2171- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +00002172
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00002173Library
2174-------
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +00002175
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +00002176- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
2177 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00002178
2179- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +00002180 compileall.compile_dir().
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00002181
2182- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
2183
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00002184- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
2185 by Stan Mihai.
2186
2187Build
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +00002188-----
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00002189
2190- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00002191 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
2192 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
2193 framework under share/doc.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00002194
2195- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00002196
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00002197Tests
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00002198-----
2199
2200- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +00002201 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00002202
2203
2204What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
2205=============================================
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +00002206
2207*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
2208
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00002209Core and Builtins
2210-----------------
2211
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +00002212- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
2213 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2214
2215Library
2216-------
2217
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +00002218- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
2219 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
2220 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
2221 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +00002222 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
2223
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +00002224- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
2225 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
2226 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +00002227
2228- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
2229
2230- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +00002231 commands.
2232
2233- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
2234 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +00002235 obscured.
2236
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +00002237- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
2238 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
2239 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +00002240
2241- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
2242
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +00002243- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
2244 conversion.
2245
2246- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +00002247 with a None body.
2248
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +00002249- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
2250 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
2251 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +00002252
2253- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
2254
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +00002255- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
2256 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +00002257
2258- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +00002259 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00002260
2261- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +00002262
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00002263- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +00002264
2265- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +00002266 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
2267 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
2268 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +00002269
2270- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
2271
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +00002272- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
2273 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2274
2275- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +00002276 a symbol named FSTAT.
2277
2278- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
2279 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
2280 of HTTP 1.1.
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +00002281
2282- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00002283 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +00002284 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
2285 both incoming and outgoing direction.
2286
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +00002287- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
2288 argparse.FileType.
2289
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +00002290- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
2291 during request handling.
2292
2293- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
2294 argparse.
2295
2296Build
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00002297-----
2298
2299- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +00002300 the system-provided Python.
2301
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00002302
2303What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
2304============================================
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00002305
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002306*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00002307
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +00002308Core and Builtins
2309-----------------
2310
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00002311- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002312 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
2313
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00002314- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002315 class.
2316
2317- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +00002318 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +00002319 by Matt Bandy.
2320
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +00002321- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
2322 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
2323 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
2324
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +00002325- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
2326
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +00002327- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +00002328 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
2329 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
2330
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00002331- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +02002332 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00002333
2334- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +00002335 can now handle dates after 2038.
2336
2337- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +00002338 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
2339 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00002340
2341- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
2342 encoding instead of UTF-8.
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +00002343
2344- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
2345
Benjamin Peterson62f8bcb2011-04-12 18:34:30 -05002346- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a
2347 SyntaxError.
2348
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00002349Library
2350-------
2351
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002352- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
2353 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
2354 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +00002355
Ronald Oussoren6edd8c12011-05-17 13:03:54 +02002356- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
2357 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
2358
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002359- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
2360 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
2361 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +00002362
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00002363- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
2364 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +00002365 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
2366 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00002367
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002368- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +00002369
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002370- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
2371 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +00002372
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +00002373- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
2374
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +00002375- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
2376 if available.
2377
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002378- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
2379 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +00002380
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00002381- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002382 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
2383 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
2384 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
2385 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00002386
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +00002387- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
2388 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
2389
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +00002390- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
2391 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
2392
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00002393- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02002394 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a BytesParser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002395 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00002396
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02002397- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding whitespace when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002398 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
2399 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
2400 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +00002401
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +00002402- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
2403 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
2404 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
2405 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
2406 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
2407 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +00002408
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +00002409- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
2410 on an existing file.
2411
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +00002412- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
2413 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
2414
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +00002415- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
2416 compilation (if the input is a string).
2417
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00002418- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +00002419 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00002420
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +00002421- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
2422 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +00002423
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +00002424- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
2425 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
2426
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +00002427- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
2428 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
2429
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +00002430- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
2431 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
2432 2^32-1 bytes).
2433
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002434- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
2435 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +00002436
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002437- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
2438 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
2439 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +00002440
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +00002441- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
2442 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
2443
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +00002444- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
2445 few POSIX semaphores.
2446
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +00002447- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
2448 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
2449
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002450- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
2451 filenames.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +00002452
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +00002453- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
2454 David Daniels.
2455
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002456- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
2457 define __missing__().
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00002458
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002459- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
2460 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
2461 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00002462
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002463- Issue #10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
2464 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's request_uri
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002465 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
2466 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +00002467
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00002468- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +00002469
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00002470- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +00002471 browsers actually parse cookies.
2472
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002473- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
2474 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
2475 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +00002476
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +00002477- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +00002478
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00002479- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
2480
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +00002481- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
2482
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +00002483- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
2484 ElementTree register_namespace().
2485
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +00002486- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
2487
2488- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
2489
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +00002490- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
2491 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
2492 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
2493
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +00002494- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
2495 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
2496
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +00002497- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
2498 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
2499
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +00002500- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
2501
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +00002502- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
2503 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
2504
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +00002505- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
2506 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
2507
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +00002508- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
2509
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +00002510- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00002511
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00002512C-API
2513-----
2514
Nick Coghlan138f4652012-01-14 16:45:48 +10002515- PyObject_CallMethod now passes along any underlying AttributeError from
2516 PyObject_GetAttr, instead of replacing it with something less informative
2517
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +00002518- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
2519 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
2520
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002521- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
2522 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00002523
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00002524Build
2525-----
2526
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002527- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
2528 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
2529 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +00002530
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +00002531- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
2532 scripts (#10679).
2533
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +00002534- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
2535 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
2536
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +00002537- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
2538 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
2539
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00002540- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
2541 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
2542
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +00002543- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
2544 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
2545 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
2546 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
2547
Ronald Oussoren25032492011-03-14 10:11:59 -04002548- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
2549 using GCC 4.0.
2550
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00002551Tools/Demos
2552-----------
2553
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002554- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
2555 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
2556 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +00002557
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00002558- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
2559 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
2560 Tools/demo subdirectory.
2561
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00002562- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002563 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
2564 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00002565
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00002566Tests
2567-----
2568
Ezio Melotti8269a442011-05-09 07:15:04 +03002569- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
2570
Nadeem Vawda58de6ee2011-04-19 01:38:47 +02002571- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
2572
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +00002573- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
2574 by Ross Lagerwall.
2575
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +00002576- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
2577
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +00002578- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
2579 Björn Lindqvist.
2580
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +00002581- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
2582 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
2583
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002584- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
2585 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
2586 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00002587
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00002588
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002589What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
2590================================
2591
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +00002592*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002593
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00002594Core and Builtins
2595-----------------
2596
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +00002597- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
2598 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
2599
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00002600- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
2601 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
2602 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002603
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +00002604- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
2605 Daniel Urban.
2606
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002607Library
2608-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00002609
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +00002610- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
2611 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
2612
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00002613- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
2614
2615- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
2616 up function.
2617
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +00002618- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
2619 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
2620
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +00002621- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
2622 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
2623
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +00002624- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
2625 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
2626
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +00002627- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
2628
2629- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +00002630 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
2631
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +00002632- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
2633 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
2634
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00002635- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
2636 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
2637
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +00002638- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
2639 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002640
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +00002641- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
2642 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2643
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +00002644- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
2645
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +00002646- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
2647
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +00002648- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
2649 causes debug mode to fail.
2650
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +00002651- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
2652 that contain non-ascii values.
2653
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00002654- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +00002655 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
2656 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
2657 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
2658 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
2659
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00002660- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
2661
2662- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +00002663 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
2664 error handles are provided.
2665
2666- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
2667 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
2668 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002669
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +00002670- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
2671 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
2672 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
2673
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00002674Tests
2675-----
2676
2677- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
2678 encountering them.
2679
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00002680Tools/Demos
2681-----------
2682
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +00002683- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
2684 Cocoa AquaTk.
2685
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +00002686- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
2687
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00002688- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
2689 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
2690
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00002691Build
2692-----
2693
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +00002694- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00002695
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +00002696- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
2697
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00002698
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002699What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
2700================================
2701
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002702*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002703
2704Core and Builtins
2705-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002706
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +00002707- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
2708 methods.
2709
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002710- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
2711 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +00002712
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002713- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
2714 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +00002715
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00002716- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
2717
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002718- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
2719 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +00002720
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +00002721- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
2722
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002723- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002724
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +00002725- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
2726
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002727- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
2728 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +00002729
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00002730- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
2731
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002732- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
2733 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
2734 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +00002735
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002736- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +00002737
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +00002738- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
2739 masking all errors.
2740
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002741Library
2742-------
2743
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +00002744- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
2745
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +00002746- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
2747 assertions about logging.
2748
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +00002749- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
2750
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +00002751- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
2752 UnicodeEncodeError.
2753
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +00002754- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
2755
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002756- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
2757 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +00002758
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +00002759- Add the "interact" pdb command.
2760
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +00002761- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
2762
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +00002763- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
2764
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00002765- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
2766 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
2767
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +00002768- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2769 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2770 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2771
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +00002772- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
2773
2774- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +00002775 names for running specific tests.
2776
2777- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
2778 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
2779 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
2780
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +00002781- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
2782 SSLError on socket timeouts.
2783
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +00002784- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
2785 messages from argparse.
2786
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +00002787- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
2788
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +00002789- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2790 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2791 current process.
2792
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +00002793- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
2794
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +00002795- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2796
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +00002797- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
2798 Adam.
2799
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002800- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
2801 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +00002802
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +00002803- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2804
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002805- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
2806 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +00002807
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002808- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
2809 subprocess.
2810
2811- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
2812 module.
2813
2814- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
2815 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2816
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002817- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
2818 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002819
2820- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
2821
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002822- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002823 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002824
2825- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
2826 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +00002827
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +00002828- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
2829
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +00002830- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
2831 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
2832
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002833- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
2834 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
2835 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +00002836
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002837- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
2838 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +00002839
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +00002840- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2841
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +00002842- Added itertools.accumulate().
2843
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +00002844- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
2845 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
2846
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +00002847- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
2848 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
2849
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +00002850- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
2851
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002852- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
2853 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +00002854
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002855- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
2856 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +00002857
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002858- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
2859 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
2860 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +00002861
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002862- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
2863 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +00002864
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002865- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
2866 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +00002867
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +00002868- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2869
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002870- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
2871 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +00002872 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
2873
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00002874- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
2875 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +00002876
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +00002877- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
2878
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +00002879- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
2880
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +00002881- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +00002882 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2883
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +00002884- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2885 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2886
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +00002887- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
2888 when no extra arguments have been provided.
2889
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +00002890- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
2891 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
2892 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
2893
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002894- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
2895 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +00002896
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +00002897- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
2898 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
2899
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002900- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
2901 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +00002902
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +00002903- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
2904
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +00002905- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +00002906
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +00002907- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2908 end of the file.
2909
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002910- configparser: 100% test coverage.
2911
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002912- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
2913 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +00002914 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
2915 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
2916
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002917- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
2918 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
2919 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00002920
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002921- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
2922 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
2923
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002924- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
2925
2926- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
2927
2928- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
2929
2930- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
2931 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
2932
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002933- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
2934 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
2935 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002936
2937- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
2938 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
2939 values, and indentation.
2940
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002941- Issue #10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +00002942
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002943- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +00002944
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002945- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
2946 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
2947 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +00002948
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +00002949- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
2950
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +00002951- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
2952 version-specific online reference manual.
2953
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +00002954- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
2955
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +00002956- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
2957
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +00002958- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
2959 Patch by Robert Collins.
2960
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002961- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
2962 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +00002963
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002964C-API
2965-----
2966
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002967- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002968 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
2969 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002970
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002971- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
2972 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002973 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
2974 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002975
2976- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
2977 Schemenauer.
2978
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +00002979- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
2980
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002981- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
2982
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002983Tests
2984-----
2985
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002986- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002987 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +00002988
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002989- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
2990 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +00002991
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002992- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
2993 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +00002994
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002995- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
2996 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002997
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +00002998Build
2999-----
3000
3001- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
3002 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
3003
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00003004Documentation
3005-------------
3006
3007- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
3008
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00003009
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +00003010What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
3011=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00003012
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +00003013*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00003014
3015Core and Builtins
3016-----------------
3017
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +00003018- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
3019 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
3020
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003021- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
3022 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +00003023 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
3024
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00003025- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +00003026
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +00003027- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
3028
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +00003029- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
3030 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
3031
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003032- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +00003033 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
3034
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +00003035- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
3036 of the offending line.
3037
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003038- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
3039 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +00003040
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003041- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
3042 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00003043 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003044 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00003045 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
3046
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003047- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
3048 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00003049 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
3050
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +00003051- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
3052 resolution.
3053
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003054- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
3055 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +00003056
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +00003057- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
3058 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
3059
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003060- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +00003061 descriptor.
3062
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00003063- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
3064 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
3065
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00003066- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
3067
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00003068Library
3069-------
3070
Meador Inge14c0f032011-10-07 08:53:38 -05003071- Issue #12943: python -m tokenize support has been added to tokenize.
3072
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00003073- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
3074
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00003075- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
3076
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00003077- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
3078
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00003079- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
3080
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003081- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
3082 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00003083
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003084- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
3085 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00003086
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003087- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
3088 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00003089
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003090- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00003091 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00003092
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003093- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
3094 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00003095
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00003096- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
3097
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00003098- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003099 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
3100 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00003101 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
3102
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003103- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
3104 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
3105 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
3106 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00003107
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003108- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
3109 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00003110
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00003111- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
3112
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003113- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
3114 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00003115
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00003116- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
3117 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
3118
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003119- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
3120 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00003121
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00003122- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
3123 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
3124 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
3125 ASCII.
3126
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00003127- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00003128 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00003129 Belopolsky.
3130
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00003131- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
3132 --enable-shared.
3133
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00003134- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
3135 Arfrever.
3136
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00003137- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
3138
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00003139- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
3140 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
3141
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00003142- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
3143 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
3144
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003145- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
3146 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00003147
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00003148- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
3149
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00003150- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
3151
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003152- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
3153 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00003154
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00003155- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
3156 response, instead of raising an exception.
3157
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00003158- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
3159 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003160 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
3161 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
3162 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00003163
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003164- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
3165 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00003166
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00003167- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
3168
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003169- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
3170 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00003171
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00003172- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
3173
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003174- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
3175 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00003176
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003177- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
3178 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00003179
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00003180- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
3181
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00003182- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
3183
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003184- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
3185 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00003186
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003187- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
3188 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00003189
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003190- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
3191 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00003192
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00003193- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
3194 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
3195
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003196- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
3197 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00003198
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00003199- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
3200
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00003201- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
3202
3203- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
3204
3205- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
3206
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003207- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
3208 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00003209
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00003210- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003211 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
3212 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00003213
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003214- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
3215 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00003216
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00003217- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
3218
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003219- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
3220 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00003221
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00003222- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
3223 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
3224 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
3225
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00003226- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
3227
3228- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00003229
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00003230- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
3231
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003232- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
3233 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00003234
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00003235- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
3236 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
3237
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003238- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
3239 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
3240 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00003241
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00003242- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
3243
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003244- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00003245
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00003246- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
3247
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00003248- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
3249
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00003250- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
3251
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00003252- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
3253
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00003254- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
3255 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
3256
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003257- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
3258 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
3259 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00003260
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00003261- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
3262 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
3263
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00003264- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
3265 switch to python-config for command line access.
3266
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00003267- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
3268
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00003269- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
3270 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
3271
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00003272- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00003273 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00003274
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00003275- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00003276 debugging in doctests.
3277
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003278- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
3279 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00003280
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003281- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
3282 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00003283
3284- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00003285 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003286 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
3287 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00003288
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00003289- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
3290 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
3291 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
3292
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003293- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
3294 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
3295 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00003296
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00003297- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003298 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
3299 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00003300
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00003301- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
3302 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
3303
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003304- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00003305
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00003306- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
3307
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00003308- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
3309
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00003310Extension Modules
3311-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00003312
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00003313- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
3314 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
3315
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00003316- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
3317
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00003318- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
3319
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00003320- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
3321
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00003322- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
3323
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00003324- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
3325
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00003326- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
3327
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003328- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
3329 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00003330
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003331- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
3332 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
3333 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00003334
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00003335- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
3336
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00003337C-API
3338-----
3339
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00003340- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003341 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00003342
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00003343- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
3344 type has been introduced.
3345
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00003346Tools/Demos
3347-----------
3348
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003349- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
3350 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
3351 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00003352
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00003353- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
3354
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00003355Tests
3356-----
3357
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003358- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
3359 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00003360
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00003361- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
3362
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003363- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
3364 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00003365
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00003366Build
3367-----
3368
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00003369- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
3370
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00003371- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
3372
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00003373- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
3374
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00003375- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
3376
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00003377- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
3378
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00003379- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
3380 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00003381
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00003382
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00003383What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
3384=================================
3385
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00003386*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00003387
3388Core and Builtins
3389-----------------
3390
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00003391- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
3392 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
3393
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00003394- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003395 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00003396
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003397- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
3398 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
3399 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00003400
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00003401- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
3402 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
3403
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00003404- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
3405
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00003406- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003407 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
3408 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00003409
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00003410- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00003411 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00003412
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00003413- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
3414
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00003415- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
3416 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
3417
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003418- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
3419 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00003420
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00003421- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003422 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00003423
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00003424- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
3425
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00003426- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
3427 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
3428 Py_Initialize().
3429
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003430- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
3431 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00003432
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00003433- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
3434 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
3435
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00003436- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003437 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00003438
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003439- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
3440 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
3441 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
3442 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
3443 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
3444 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00003445
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00003446- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
3447 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
3448 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
3449
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00003450- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
3451 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
3452 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
3453
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003454- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
3455 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00003456
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00003457- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
3458 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
3459 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
3460
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003461- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
3462 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
3463 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
3464 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00003465
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00003466- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
3467 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
3468 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
3469
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00003470- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
3471 thread-local storage key.
3472
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00003473Library
3474-------
3475
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00003476- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
3477
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00003478- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
3479
3480- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
3481
3482- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
3483 not in build_clib.
3484
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00003485- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
3486
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00003487- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
3488 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
3489
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00003490- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
3491 verification for higher-level protocols.
3492
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00003493- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
3494 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
3495
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00003496- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
3497 gettext.
3498
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00003499- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00003500 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003501 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00003502 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
3503 directly.
3504
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00003505- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
3506 gname field.
3507
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003508- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
3509 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00003510
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00003511- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
3512 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
3513
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003514- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
3515 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00003516
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003517- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
3518 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00003519
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003520- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
3521 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
3522 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00003523
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00003524- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
3525
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00003526- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003527 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
3528 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
3529 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00003530
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00003531- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
3532
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00003533- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003534 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
3535 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
3536 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00003537
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00003538- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
3539
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00003540- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
3541
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00003542- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
3543
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00003544- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
3545 in ntpath.
3546
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00003547- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
3548
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003549- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
3550 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00003551
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00003552- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
3553 performance-critical threads.
3554
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00003555- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
3556
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00003557- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
3558
3559- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
3560
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00003561- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
3562
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00003563- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
3564 object, only munmap().
3565
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003566- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
3567 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00003568
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00003569- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
3570 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
3571 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
3572
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00003573- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
3574
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00003575- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003576 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
3577 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00003578
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00003579- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
3580 another kind.
3581
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00003582- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
3583
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003584- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00003585
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003586- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
3587 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00003588
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003589- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
3590 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
3591 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00003592
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003593- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
3594 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00003595
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01003596- Issue #9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003597 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00003598
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00003599- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
3600
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00003601- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00003602
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00003603- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
3604 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
3605
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003606- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
3607 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00003608
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00003609- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003610 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
3611 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00003612 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
3613 in the first place.
3614
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00003615- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
3616 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003617 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00003618
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003619- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
3620 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
3621 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
3622 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00003623
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003624- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
3625 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
3626 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00003627
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003628- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
3629 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00003630
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00003631- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
3632 multiprocessing.
3633
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003634- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
3635 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
3636 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00003637
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00003638- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
3639 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
3640 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
3641
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003642- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
3643 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
3644 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
3645 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00003646
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003647- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
3648 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
3649 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00003650
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00003651- Updates to the random module:
3652
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003653 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
3654 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00003655
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003656 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
3657 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
3658 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00003659
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003660 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
3661 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
3662 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00003663
3664 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00003665
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003666- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
3667 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00003668
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003669- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
3670 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
3671 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00003672
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003673- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
3674 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
3675 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00003676
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00003677- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
3678
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00003679- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003680 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
3681 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00003682
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00003683- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
3684 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
3685 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
3686 algorithms available in the current process.
3687
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00003688- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
3689
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00003690C-API
3691-----
3692
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00003693- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
3694
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00003695- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
3696 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
3697 defined.
3698
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00003699Tools/Demos
3700-----------
3701
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003702- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
3703 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
3704 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00003705
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00003706Tests
3707-----
3708
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00003709- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
3710 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
3711
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003712- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
3713 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00003714
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00003715- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
3716 in test_os)
3717
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00003718- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
3719 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
3720
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00003721- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
3722
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003723- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
3724 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00003725
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00003726- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
3727
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00003728- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
3729
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00003730- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
3731 case when running profile or trace, for example.
3732
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00003733- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
3734
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00003735Build
3736-----
3737
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00003738- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
3739
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003740- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
3741 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00003742
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00003743- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
3744
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00003745- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
3746
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00003747- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
3748
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003749- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
3750 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00003751
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003752- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
3753 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00003754
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00003755- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
3756 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
3757 defined by PEP 3149.
3758
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003759- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
3760 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00003761
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00003762- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
3763 Sablé.
3764
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00003765- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
3766 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
3767 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
3768
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00003769
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003770What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
3771=================================
3772
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00003773*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003774
3775Core and Builtins
3776-----------------
3777
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003778- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
3779 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
3780 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00003781
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00003782- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
3783 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
3784
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003785- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
3786 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00003787
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003788- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
3789 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00003790
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003791- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
3792 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
3793 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00003794
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00003795- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
3796 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
3797
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003798- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
3799 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00003800
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00003801- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
3802
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00003803- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
3804
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003805- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
3806 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00003807
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003808- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
3809 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00003810
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00003811- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
3812 filesystem encoding.
3813
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00003814- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
3815 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
3816 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
3817 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
3818 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
3819
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00003820- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
3821 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
3822 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
3823 function.
3824
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00003825- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
3826
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00003827- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
3828
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003829- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
3830 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00003831
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003832- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
3833 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00003834 sys.stderr.
3835
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003836- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003837 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
3838 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003839
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003840- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
3841 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
3842 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00003843
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003844- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
3845 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003846
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003847- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
3848 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00003849
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003850- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00003851
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003852- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
3853 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00003854
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003855- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
3856 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00003857
3858 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
3859 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
3860
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00003861Extension Modules
3862-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003863
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00003864- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
3865 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
3866 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
3867 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
3868 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
3869
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00003870- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
3871 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
3872
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00003873- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
3874 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3875
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003876- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
3877 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00003878
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003879- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
3880 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
3881 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00003882
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003883- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
3884 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
3885 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00003886
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003887- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
3888 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00003889
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00003890- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
3891 Matthew Ahrens.
3892
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003893- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
3894 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00003895
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003896- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
3897 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00003898
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00003899- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
3900
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003901- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
3902 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00003903
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003904- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
3905 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00003906
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00003907- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00003908
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00003909- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
3910
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003911- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
3912 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00003913
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003914- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
3915 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00003916
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003917- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
3918 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00003919
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003920- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
3921 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00003922
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00003923- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
3924
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003925- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
3926 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00003927
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00003928- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
3929 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
3930
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00003931- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
3932
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003933- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
3934 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003935
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003936Library
3937-------
3938
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003939- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
3940 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
3941 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00003942
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003943- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
3944 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00003945
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003946- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00003947
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003948- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
3949 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00003950
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00003951- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
3952 ConfigParser.write.
3953
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003954- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
3955 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003956 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
3957 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003958
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003959- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
3960 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00003961
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003962- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00003963 circumstances.
3964
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003965- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
3966 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00003967
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003968- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
3969 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00003970
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00003971- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
3972 falling into recursion.
3973
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00003974- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
3975 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
3976
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00003977- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
3978 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00003979
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003980- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
3981 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00003982
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003983- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003984 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
3985 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003986
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003987- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003988 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003989
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00003990- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
3991
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003992- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00003993
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003994- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
3995 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00003996
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00003997- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
3998 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
3999
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00004000- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
4001
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004002- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
4003 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00004004
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004005- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
4006 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00004007
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004008- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
4009 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00004010 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
4011 structure.
4012
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00004013- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
4014 single keyword arguments.
4015
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004016- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
4017 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00004018
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004019- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
4020 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00004021
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00004022- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004023 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00004024
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004025- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
4026 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00004027
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00004028- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
4029
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00004030- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
4031 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
4032
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00004033- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
4034 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
4035
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00004036- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004037 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
4038 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00004039
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004040- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
4041 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00004042
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004043- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
4044 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
4045 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00004046
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004047- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
4048 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
4049 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00004050
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004051- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
4052 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
4053 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
4054 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00004055
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00004056- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004057 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
4058 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00004059
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00004060- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00004061 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
4062
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004063- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
4064 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00004065
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00004066- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
4067 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
4068
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004069- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
4070 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
4071 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00004072
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00004073- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00004074 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
4075 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00004076
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004077- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
4078 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
4079 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00004080
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00004081- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
4082
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004083- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
4084 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00004085
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004086- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
4087 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00004088
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004089- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
4090 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
4091 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00004092
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004093- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
4094 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00004095
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004096- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
4097 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00004098
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004099- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
4100 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00004101
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004102- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
4103 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00004104
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004105- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
4106 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00004107
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004108- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
4109 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00004110
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00004111- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
4112 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
4113
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00004114- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
4115 across devices.
4116
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00004117- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
4118
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00004119- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
4120
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00004121- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
4122
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00004123- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
4124
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00004125- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
4126 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00004127
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00004128- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
4129
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00004130- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
4131 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
4132
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004133- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
4134 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00004135
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004136- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
4137 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00004138
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00004139- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
4140
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00004141- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00004142
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00004143Tools/Demos
4144-----------
4145
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00004146- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
4147
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00004148- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
4149 non-ASCII content.
4150
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00004151Tests
4152-----
4153
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00004154- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
4155
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00004156- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
4157
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00004158- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
4159
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00004160- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
4161
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00004162- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
4163 Michele Orrù.
4164
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00004165- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
4166
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00004167Build
4168-----
4169
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00004170- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
4171
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00004172- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
4173
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00004174- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
4175 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00004176
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00004177- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
4178 Sébastien Sablé.
4179
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00004180- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
4181
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00004182
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00004183What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
4184=================================
4185
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004186*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00004187
4188Core and Builtins
4189-----------------
4190
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00004191- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
4192
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00004193- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
4194 compiler.
4195
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00004196- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
4197
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00004198- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004199 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
4200 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
4201 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
4202 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
4203 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
4204 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00004205
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004206- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
4207 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00004208
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00004209- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
4210
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00004211- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
4212 objects, as described in the documentation.
4213
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00004214- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004215 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00004216 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00004217
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004218- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
4219 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
4220 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00004221
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00004222- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004223 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00004224 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004225 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00004226
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00004227- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
4228 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
4229
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00004230- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004231 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00004232 string formats.
4233
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004234- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00004235 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
4236 location of the raised exception.
4237
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00004238- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
4239 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
4240
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00004241- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
4242
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004243- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
4244 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
4245 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00004246
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004247- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
4248 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
4249 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
4250 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00004251
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00004252- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
4253 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
4254 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
4255
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004256- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
4257 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00004258
4259- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004260 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00004261 like bytearray.
4262
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004263- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00004264 used anymore and it was never documented.
4265
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004266- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00004267
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004268- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
4269 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00004270
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004271- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
4272 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
4273 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
4274 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00004275
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00004276- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
4277 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004278 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
4279 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
4280 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
4281 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00004282
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00004283- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
4284 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
4285
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00004286- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00004287 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004288 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00004289
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004290- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
4291 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00004292
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00004293- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
4294 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004295 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00004296 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00004297
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00004298- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004299 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00004300
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00004301- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004302 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00004303 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
4304
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00004305- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004306 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
4307 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00004308
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00004309- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
4310
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004311- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00004312
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00004313- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
4314 arguments.
4315
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00004316- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004317 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
4318 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00004319
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00004320- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004321 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00004322
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004323- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
4324 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00004325
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00004326- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004327 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
4328 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
4329 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00004330
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00004331- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
4332 passed to bytes or bytearray.
4333
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00004334- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
4335
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00004336- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
4337 changed.
4338
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004339- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
4340 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
4341 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00004342
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00004343- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
4344
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00004345- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
4346
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00004347- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
4348
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004349- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
4350 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00004351
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00004352- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004353 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00004354
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004355- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00004356
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00004357- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004358 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00004359
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00004360- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
4361 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
4362 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
4363 comparisons with complex.
4364
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00004365- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
4366 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004367 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00004368
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00004369- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
4370
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004371- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
4372 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00004373
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004374- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
4375 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00004376
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00004377- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
4378
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004379- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
4380 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00004381
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00004382- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004383 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00004384
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004385- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
4386 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00004387
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004388- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
4389 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00004390
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00004391- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004392 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
4393 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00004394
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004395- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
4396 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00004397
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004398- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
4399 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00004400
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004401- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
4402 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
4403 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
4404 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00004405
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004406- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
4407 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
4408 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00004409
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00004410- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004411 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
4412 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
4413 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
4414 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
4415 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00004416
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004417- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
4418 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
4419 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00004420
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004421- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
4422 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
4423 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
4424 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
4425 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
4426 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00004427
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00004428- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
4429 consistent with other special methods.
4430
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00004431- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
4432 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4433
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00004434- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
4435 AttributeError.
4436
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004437- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
4438 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00004439
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004440- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
4441 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
4442 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
4443 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00004444
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00004445- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
4446 executables on OSX.
4447
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004448 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
4449 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
4450 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00004451
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004452- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
4453 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00004454
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00004455- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
4456 with invalid values.
4457
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00004458- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
4459 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
4460
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004461- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
4462 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00004463
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00004464- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
4465
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00004466- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
4467 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
4468
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004469- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
4470 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
4471 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
4472 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
4473 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00004474
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004475- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
4476 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00004477
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00004478- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
4479 surrogates.
4480
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00004481- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
4482
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00004483- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
4484
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00004485- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
4486 disabled since Python 3.0.
4487
4488- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
4489 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
4490 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
4491
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00004492- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004493 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00004494
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00004495- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
4496
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00004497- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
4498 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
4499 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
4500
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00004501- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00004502 support.
4503
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004504- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
4505 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004506
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004507- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
4508 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
4509 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00004510
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004511- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
4512 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00004513
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00004514- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
4515 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
4516 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
4517 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
4518
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004519- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
4520 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00004521
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004522- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
4523 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00004524
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00004525- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
4526
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00004527- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
4528
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00004529- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
4530
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00004531- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
4532
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004533- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
4534 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00004535
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00004536- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
4537
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00004538- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
4539
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00004540- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
4541 occurred in the argument chain.
4542
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004543- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
4544 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00004545
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00004546- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
4547
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004548- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
4549 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00004550
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00004551- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
4552
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004553- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
4554 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
4555 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00004556
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004557- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
4558 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00004559
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00004560- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
4561
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004562- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
4563 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00004564
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004565- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
4566 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00004567
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004568- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
4569 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
4570 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00004571
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00004572- Code objects now support weak references.
4573
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004574- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00004575
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004576- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004577 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
4578 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00004579
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00004580C-API
4581-----
4582
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00004583- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
4584 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
4585 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
4586
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00004587- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
4588 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
4589 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
4590
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004591- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
4592 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
4593 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00004594 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
4595
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00004596- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
4597 strings in an efficient manner.
4598
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00004599- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004600 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
4601 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00004602
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004603- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
4604 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00004605
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00004606- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
4607 has '\0' at the end.
4608
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00004609- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004610 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
4611 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
4612 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00004613 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
4614
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004615- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00004616
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004617- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
4618 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00004619
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004620- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4621 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00004622
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004623- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
4624 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
4625 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00004626
4627- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00004628
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00004629- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
4630
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00004631- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4632 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4633
4634- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4635 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4636
4637- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4638 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4639
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004640- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
4641 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
4642 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
4643 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00004644
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00004645Library
4646-------
4647
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004648- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
4649 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00004650
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004651- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
4652 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
4653 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00004654
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004655- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
4656 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004657
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004658- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
4659 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004660
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004661- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
4662 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004663
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004664- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
4665 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00004666
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004667- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
4668 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00004669
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004670- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
4671 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00004672
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004673- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
4674 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00004675
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004676- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
4677 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00004678
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004679- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
4680 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00004681
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00004682- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
4683
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004684- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
4685 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
4686 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00004687
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004688- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
4689 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00004690
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004691- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00004692 entries, consider the first one.
4693
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00004694- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
4695 string.Template class.
4696
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004697- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
4698 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00004699
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004700- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
4701 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00004702
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00004703- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
4704
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00004705- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
4706
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004707- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
4708 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00004709
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00004710- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004711 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
4712 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00004713
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004714- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00004715
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004716- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
4717 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00004718 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
4719 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004720 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
4721 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00004722
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00004723- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
4724
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004725- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00004726 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
4727 XML-RPC request.
4728
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004729- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
4730 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
4731 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00004732
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004733- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
4734 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
4735 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
4736 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
4737 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
4738 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00004739
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004740- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00004741
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004742- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
4743 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00004744
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004745- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
4746 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00004747
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00004748- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
4749 parameters.
4750
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004751- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
4752 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00004753
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004754- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
4755 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00004756
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00004757- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
4758
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00004759- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
4760
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004761- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
4762 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00004763
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00004764- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
4765
4766- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00004767
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00004768- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
4769
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004770- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
4771 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
4772 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00004773
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004774- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
4775 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
4776 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00004777
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00004778- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
4779
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00004780- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
4781
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00004782- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
4783
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004784- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
4785 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
4786 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00004787
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00004788- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
4789 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
4790
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004791- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
4792 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004793
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004794- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
4795 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00004796
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00004797- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
4798 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
4799
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004800- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00004801 raises an exception.
4802
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004803- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004804 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
4805 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004806
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00004807- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
4808 for removal in Python 3.4.
4809
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004810- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
4811 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00004812
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004813- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
4814 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00004815
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004816- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
4817 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00004818
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004819- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
4820 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00004821 deallocation while the object is still being used.
4822
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004823- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004824 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004825 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
4826
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004827- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00004828 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
4829
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004830- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
4831 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00004832
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004833- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
4834 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00004835
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00004836- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
4837
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004838- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
4839 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
4840
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004841- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
4842 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
4843 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
4844 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
4845 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00004846
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004847- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
4848 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00004849
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00004850- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00004851
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00004852- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
4853
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004854- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
4855 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00004856
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00004857- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
4858 mistake.
4859
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004860- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
4861 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004862 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00004863
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00004864- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
4865 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
4866
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004867- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
4868 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
4869 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00004870
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00004871- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
4872 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
4873
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00004874- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
4875
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004876- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
4877 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004878 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004879
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004880- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
4881 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00004882
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004883- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004884 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004885
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004886- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004887 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
4888 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004889
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00004890- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
4891 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
4892 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00004893
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004894- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004895 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004896
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00004897- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
4898 of files without one.
4899
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00004900- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
4901 comparing to a non-mapping.
4902
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004903- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004904 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004905
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004906- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
4907 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
4908 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00004909
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00004910- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
4911
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00004912- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
4913 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
4914 stdout is not a TTY).
4915
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00004916- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
4917 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
4918 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
4919 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
4920
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00004921- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
4922 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
4923
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00004924- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
4925 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
4926
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00004927- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
4928
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00004929- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004930 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00004931
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00004932- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
4933
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004934- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
4935 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00004936
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004937- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
4938 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00004939
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00004940- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
4941 class.
4942
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00004943- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
4944 given.
4945
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00004946- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
4947 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
4948
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004949- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
4950 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00004951
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00004952- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
4953 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
4954 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
4955 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00004956
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004957- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
4958
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004959- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
4960 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
4961 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
4962 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004963
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00004964- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
4965 Patch by Tres Seaver.
4966
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00004967- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004968 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00004969
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00004970- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
4971
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004972- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
4973 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00004974
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004975- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
4976 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
4977 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
4978 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
4979 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00004980
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004981- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004982 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
4983 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004984
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00004985- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
4986 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
4987
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004988- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
4989 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00004990
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00004991- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00004992 webbrowser.get("safari").
4993
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004994- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
4995 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00004996
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004997- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
4998 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00004999
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00005000- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
5001
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00005002- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
5003 It should correctly return an empty response now.
5004
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00005005- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
5006
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00005007- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
5008 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
5009
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00005010- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
5011 and mappings.
5012
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005013- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
5014 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
5015 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
5016 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00005017
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005018- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
5019 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
5020 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00005021
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00005022- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
5023 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
5024
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005025- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
5026 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00005027
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005028- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
5029 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00005030
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00005031- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
5032 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005033 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00005034
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005035- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00005036
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005037- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
5038 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
5039 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00005040
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005041- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
5042 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00005043 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
5044 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
5045
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00005046- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
5047 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
5048
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00005049- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
5050 collation name contains a surrogate character.
5051
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005052- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
5053 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
5054 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00005055
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00005056- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
5057
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005058- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00005059
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00005060- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
5061 from PORT/EPRT commands.
5062
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00005063- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
5064
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005065- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
5066 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00005067
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005068- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
5069 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00005070
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00005071- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
5072 surrogates.
5073
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00005074- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00005075 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00005076
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00005077- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
5078 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
5079
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00005080- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
5081 the current working directory.
5082
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00005083- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005084 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00005085
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005086- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00005087
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00005088- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
5089 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
5090
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00005091- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
5092
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005093- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00005094 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005095 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00005096
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00005097- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
5098 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005099 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00005100
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00005101- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005102 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
5103 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00005104
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00005105- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005106 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
5107 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00005108
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00005109- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
5110 present before it cleans them.
5111
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005112- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
5113 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00005114
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00005115- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005116 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
5117 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00005118
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00005119- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
5120
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005121- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
5122 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00005123
5124 >>> Decimal(1.1)
5125 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
5126
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005127- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
5128 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00005129
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005130- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
5131 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
5132 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
5133 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00005134
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005135- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
5136 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
5137 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
5138 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
5139 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00005140
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00005141- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
5142
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00005143- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005144 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
5145 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
5146 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00005147
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00005148- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
5149 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005150 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00005151
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005152- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
5153 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
5154 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
5155 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00005156
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005157- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
5158 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
5159 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00005160
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00005161- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
5162 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
5163
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00005164- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005165 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
5166 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00005167
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005168- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
5169 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00005170
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00005171- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
5172 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
5173 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00005174
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00005175- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
5176 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
5177 (utf8) encoding.
5178
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00005179- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
5180
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00005181- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
5182
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00005183- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
5184
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00005185- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
5186 detected.
5187
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00005188- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
5189
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00005190- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
5191 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
5192
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005193- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00005194
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005195- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
5196 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00005197
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005198- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
5199 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
5200 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00005201
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005202- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
5203 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
5204 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
5205 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00005206
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00005207- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
5208 cElementTree module is updated too.
5209
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00005210- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005211 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
5212 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00005213
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00005214- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
5215
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005216- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
5217 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00005218
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00005219- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
5220 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
5221
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00005222- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
5223 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00005224
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00005225- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
5226 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
5227
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00005228- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
5229 class.
5230
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00005231- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
5232 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
5233
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00005234- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
5235
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00005236- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
5237 writing.
5238
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00005239- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
5240
5241- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
5242
5243- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
5244
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00005245- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
5246
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005247- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
5248 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00005249
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00005250- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
5251
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005252- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
5253 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00005254
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005255- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
5256 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00005257
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00005258- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
5259
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00005260- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
5261 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
5262
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00005263- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
5264 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
5265
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005266- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
5267 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
5268 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
5269 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00005270
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00005271- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
5272 interpreter shutdown.
5273
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005274- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
5275 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
5276 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
5277 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00005278
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005279- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
5280 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
5281 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00005282
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005283- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
5284 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00005285
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00005286- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
5287 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005288 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
5289 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00005290
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005291- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
5292 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
5293 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00005294 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
5295
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00005296- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005297 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
5298 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
5299 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
5300 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
5301 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00005302
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00005303- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005304 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
5305 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00005306
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00005307- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
5308
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00005309- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00005310
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00005311- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
5312
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00005313- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
5314 the release file is empty.
5315
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00005316- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
5317 module.
5318
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005319- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
5320 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
5321 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00005322
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005323- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
5324 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00005325
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005326- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
5327 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00005328
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005329- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
5330 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00005331
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005332- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
5333 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00005334
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00005335- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
5336
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00005337- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
5338 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
5339 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
5340
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005341- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
5342 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00005343
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005344- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
5345 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00005346
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005347- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
5348 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00005349
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00005350- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005351 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
5352 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00005353
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005354- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
5355 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
5356 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00005357
5358- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00005359 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
5360
5361- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
5362
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005363- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
5364 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00005365
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005366- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
5367 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
5368 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00005369
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005370- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
5371 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
5372 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00005373
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00005374- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
5375 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
5376
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005377- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
5378 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
5379 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00005380
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00005381- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
5382 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
5383 the same as passing no argument.
5384
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005385- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00005386
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005387- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
5388 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00005389
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00005390- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00005391
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00005392- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
5393
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005394- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
5395 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00005396
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00005397- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00005398 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
5399
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00005400- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
5401 TLS with authentication credentials.
5402
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005403- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
5404 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00005405
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00005406- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
5407 msvc9compiler.
5408
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00005409- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005410 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
5411 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00005412
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00005413- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
5414 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
5415 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
5416
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00005417- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005418 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
5419 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00005420
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005421- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
5422 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00005423
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00005424- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
5425
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00005426- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
5427 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
5428 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
5429
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005430- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
5431 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
5432 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00005433
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00005434- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
5435
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005436- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00005437
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00005438- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
5439 raises ReadError on empty files.
5440
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005441- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00005442
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00005443- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
5444 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00005445
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005446- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
5447 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00005448
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00005449- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
5450 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
5451
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005452- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
5453 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00005454
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005455- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00005456
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005457- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
5458 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00005459
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005460- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
5461 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
5462 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
5463 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00005464 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
5465
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005466- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
5467 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
5468 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00005469
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00005470- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005471 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00005472 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
5473
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00005474- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
5475 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
5476 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00005477
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005478- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00005479 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
5480
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00005481- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005482 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
5483 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
5484 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00005485
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005486- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
5487 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00005488 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
5489
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00005490- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
5491 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
5492
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00005493- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
5494 which are part of a reference cycle.
5495
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00005496- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
5497 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
5498
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005499- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
5500 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
5501 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00005502
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005503- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
5504 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
5505 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
5506 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00005507
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005508- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
5509 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
5510 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
5511 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00005512
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00005513- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
5514 header as required by RFC 1952.
5515
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00005516- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
5517 Distutils.
5518
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00005519- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
5520 an uppercase.
5521
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00005522- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
5523 several threads at once.
5524
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00005525- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
5526
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00005527- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
5528 larger than emax.
5529
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00005530- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
5531 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
5532
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005533- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
5534 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00005535
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005536- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00005537
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00005538- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
5539 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005540
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005541- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
5542 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00005543
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00005544- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
5545 builtin tokenizer.
5546
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005547- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
5548 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00005549
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005550- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
5551 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00005552
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005553- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
5554 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00005555
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005556- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
5557 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00005558
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00005559- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
5560
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00005561- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
5562
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00005563- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
5564
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00005565- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
5566
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005567- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00005568
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005569- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
5570 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
5571 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00005572
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005573- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
5574 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00005575
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00005576- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
5577
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005578- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
5579 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
5580 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
5581 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00005582
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00005583- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
5584 should be raised, not AttributeError.
5585
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00005586- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
5587 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
5588
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00005589- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005590 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00005591
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00005592- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
5593
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00005594- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
5595
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00005596- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
5597
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00005598- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
5599 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
5600
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00005601- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
5602
5603- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
5604
5605- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
5606
5607- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
5608 ScrolledText.
5609
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00005610- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
5611
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005612- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
5613 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00005614
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00005615- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
5616 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
5617 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
5618 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
5619
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005620- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
5621 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00005622
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00005623- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
5624
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005625- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
5626 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
5627 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00005628
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00005629- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
5630 DO/DONT correctly.
5631
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00005632- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005633 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
5634 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00005635
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00005636- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005637 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
5638 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
5639 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00005640
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00005641- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
5642 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
5643 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
5644
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005645- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
5646 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
5647 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00005648
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00005649- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00005650
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005651- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
5652 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00005653
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005654- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
5655 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00005656
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00005657- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
5658 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
5659
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00005660- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
5661
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00005662- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
5663
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00005664- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
5665
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005666- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
5667 sys.path.
5668
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00005669- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
5670
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005671- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
5672 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00005673
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00005674- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
5675 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
5676
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005677- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
5678 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00005679
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00005680- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
5681
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00005682- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
5683
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005684- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
5685 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00005686
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00005687- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
5688 for tracing methods.
5689
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005690Extension Modules
5691-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005692
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00005693- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
5694 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
5695
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00005696- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
5697
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00005698- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005699 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
5700 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
5701 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
5702 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00005703
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00005704- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
5705
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005706- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
5707 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
5708 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00005709
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005710- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
5711 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00005712
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005713- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
5714 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00005715
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005716- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
5717 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00005718
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00005719- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
5720 object in the '?' format.
5721
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00005722- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
5723
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00005724- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
5725 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00005726
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005727- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
5728 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
5729 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
5730 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00005731
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005732- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
5733 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
5734 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
5735 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
5736 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
5737 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00005738
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00005739- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005740 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
5741 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
5742 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
5743 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
5744 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00005745
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005746- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
5747 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00005748
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00005749- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00005750 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00005751 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00005752
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005753- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
5754 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
5755 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00005756
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005757- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
5758 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00005759
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005760- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
5761 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
5762 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
5763 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
5764 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00005765
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00005766- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
5767 overflow checks in the audioop module.
5768
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00005769- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
5770 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005771 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
5772 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00005773
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005774- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
5775 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
5776 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00005777
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00005778- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
5779
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00005780- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
5781 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
5782 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
5783 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
5784
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00005785- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
5786
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00005787- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
5788
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005789- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00005790 handling.
5791
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00005792- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
5793 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
5794
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00005795- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5796
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00005797- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5798
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00005799- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005800
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005801- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
5802 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005803
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00005804- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5805
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00005806- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
5807
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005808- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5809 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5810 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00005811
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005812- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
5813 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005814
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00005815- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5816
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00005817- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
5818 (CVE_2009_3560).
5819
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005820- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
5821 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
5822 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00005823
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00005824- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
5825 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
5826
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00005827- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
5828
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005829- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
5830 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00005831
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005832- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00005833
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005834Build
5835-----
5836
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00005837- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
5838
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00005839- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
5840
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005841- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
5842 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
5843 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
5844 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
5845 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00005846
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00005847- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
5848
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00005849- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
5850 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00005851
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005852- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
5853 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
5854 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
5855 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00005856
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005857- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
5858 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00005859
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00005860- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
5861
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00005862- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
5863 give false warnings.
5864
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005865- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
5866 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
5867 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00005868
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005869- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
5870 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00005871
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00005872- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00005873
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005874- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
5875 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
5876 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00005877
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00005878- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
5879
5880- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
5881 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
5882
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00005883- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
5884 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
5885 Python.
5886
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00005887- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
5888 found.
5889
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00005890- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00005891
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00005892- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
5893 icc or suncc.
5894
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005895- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5896 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5897 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00005898
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005899- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00005900
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00005901- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5902
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005903- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00005904 directories.
5905
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005906- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005907 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005908
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005909- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005910 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00005911
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00005912- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
5913
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00005914- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
5915
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00005916- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
5917
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00005918Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005919-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005920
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00005921- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
5922 to Doc/license.rst.
5923
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00005924- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
5925 with os.kill.
5926
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005927- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00005928 only.
5929
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005930- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00005931 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
5932
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005933- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
5934 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00005935
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00005936- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
5937 ImportError.
5938
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005939- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5940 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005941
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00005942- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
5943 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005944
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00005945- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
5946 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
5947
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005948Tests
5949-----
5950
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005951- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
5952 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00005953
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00005954- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
5955
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005956- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00005957
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005958- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
5959 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
5960 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00005961
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00005962- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005963 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00005964
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00005965- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
5966 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
5967
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00005968- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
5969 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
5970
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005971- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
5972 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00005973
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005974- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
5975 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00005976
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005977- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
5978 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00005979
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00005980- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
5981
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00005982- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
5983
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00005984- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
5985 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
5986
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00005987- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
5988 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00005989
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005990- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
5991 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005992
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00005993- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
5994 effectively raised.
5995
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005996- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
5997 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00005998
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005999- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
6000 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00006001
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00006002- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
6003 filesystem encoding.
6004
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006005- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
6006 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00006007
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006008- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
6009 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
6010 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
6011 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00006012
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006013- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
6014 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
6015 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00006016
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00006017- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
6018 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00006019
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006020- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00006021 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
6022
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00006023- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
6024
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00006025- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00006026 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
6027
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006028- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
6029 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
6030 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00006031
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006032- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
6033 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00006034
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006035- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
6036 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00006037
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006038- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
6039 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
6040 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
6041 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00006042
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00006043- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
6044
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00006045- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
6046 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
6047
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00006048- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
6049 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
6050 between concurrent executions on the same system.
6051
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00006052- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
6053 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
6054 calling methods on the object.
6055
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00006056- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006057 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
6058 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
6059 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00006060 :func:`_thread._count()`.
6061
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006062- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
6063 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00006064
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00006065- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
6066 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
6067
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00006068- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006069 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
6070 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00006071
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00006072- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
6073
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006074- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
6075 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
6076 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00006077
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00006078- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006079 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00006080
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00006081Tools/Demos
6082-----------
6083
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00006084- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00006085
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00006086- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00006087 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00006088
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00006089
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00006090What's New in Python 3.1?
6091=========================
6092
6093*Release date: 27-June-2009*
6094
6095Core and Builtins
6096-----------------
6097
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00006098- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
6099 large arguments.
6100
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00006101- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
6102 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
6103
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00006104Library
6105-------
6106
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00006107- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
6108
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006109- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00006110
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00006111- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
6112
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00006113- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
6114 io.UnsupportedOperation.
6115
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00006116- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00006117 (On Unix)
6118
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00006119- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
6120 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
6121
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00006122Extension Modules
6123-----------------
6124
6125- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
6126
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00006127
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00006128What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
6129=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00006130
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00006131*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00006132
6133Core and Builtins
6134-----------------
6135
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00006136- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
6137
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00006138- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
6139 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
6140
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00006141- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
6142 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
6143
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00006144- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00006145 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00006146
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00006147Library
6148-------
6149
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00006150- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006151 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00006152 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
6153
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00006154- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
6155
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00006156- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
6157 binary files.
6158
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006159- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
6160 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
6161
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00006162- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
6163 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
6164 are always None now.
6165
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00006166- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
6167 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
6168 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
6169 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
6170
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00006171- Removed the ipaddr module.
6172
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00006173- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
6174 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
6175 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
6176
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00006177- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
6178
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00006179- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
6180
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00006181- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
6182 parameters.
6183
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00006184Windows
6185-------
6186
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00006187- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
6188
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00006189- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
6190
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00006191C-API
6192-----
6193
6194- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
6195 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
6196 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
6197
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00006198
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00006199Build
6200-----
6201
6202- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
6203 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
6204
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00006205- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
6206 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
6207
6208
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00006209
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00006210What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
6211=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00006212
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00006213*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00006214
6215Core and Builtins
6216-----------------
6217
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00006218- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
6219 of the command line.
6220
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00006221- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
6222
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00006223- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
6224 that would raise SystemError.
6225
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00006226- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
6227 function with __func__.
6228
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00006229- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
6230 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00006231
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00006232- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
6233 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
6234 and imaginary literals.
6235
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00006236- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
6237
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00006238- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
6239
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00006240- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
6241 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
6242 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
6243 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
6244 didn't match that of float('-nan').
6245
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00006246Library
6247-------
6248
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00006249- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
6250
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00006251- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
6252
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00006253- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
6254 argument to the 'help' function.
6255
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00006256- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
6257 arguments for strings with a space in them.
6258
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00006259- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
6260 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
6261
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00006262- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
6263 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
6264
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00006265- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
6266 the directory already exists.
6267
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00006268- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
6269 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
6270 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
6271
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00006272- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
6273 IO objects.
6274
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00006275- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
6276 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
6277
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00006278- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
6279 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
6280 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
6281
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00006282- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
6283 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
6284
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00006285- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
6286 deepcopy()ing.
6287
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00006288- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
6289
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00006290- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
6291
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00006292- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
6293
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00006294- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
6295 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
6296 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
6297 empty.
6298
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00006299- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
6300 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
6301 corrects a pydoc regression.
6302
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00006303- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00006304 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
6305
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00006306Installation
6307------------
6308
6309- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
6310 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00006311
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00006312- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
6313
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00006314Extension Modules
6315-----------------
6316
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00006317- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00006318
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00006319- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
6320
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00006321- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
6322
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00006323- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
6324 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00006325
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00006326Build
6327-----
6328
6329- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
6330 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
6331 Clinton Roy.
6332
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00006333Tests
6334-----
6335
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00006336- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00006337 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
6338 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
6339 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
6340
6341
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00006342What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
6343================================
6344
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00006345*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00006346
6347Core and Builtins
6348-----------------
6349
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00006350- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
6351 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
6352
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00006353- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
6354 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
6355 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
6356
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00006357- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
6358 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
6359 a PendingDeprecation warning.
6360
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00006361- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
6362 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
6363 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
6364 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
6365 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
6366 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
6367 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
6368 the same way.
6369
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00006370- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
6371
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00006372- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
6373 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
6374 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
6375
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00006376- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
6377 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
6378
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00006379- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00006380
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00006381- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
6382 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
6383 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
6384
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00006385- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
6386 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
6387 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
6388 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00006389
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00006390- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00006391 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
6392
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00006393- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
6394 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
6395
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00006396- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
6397 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
6398
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00006399- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
6400
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00006401- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
6402 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
6403
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00006404- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
6405
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00006406- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
6407 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
6408
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00006409- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00006410
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00006411- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
6412 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
6413 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
6414 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
6415
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00006416- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
6417 some builtin types.
6418
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00006419- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
6420
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00006421- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
6422 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00006423
6424- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
6425 floats.
6426
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00006427- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00006428 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
6429 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
6430 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
6431 long time.)
6432
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00006433- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
6434 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
6435 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
6436 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00006437 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
6438 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
6439 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00006440
6441 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
6442 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
6443 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
6444 reason or another.
6445
6446 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
6447 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
6448 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
6449 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
6450 correctly rounded on these platforms.
6451
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00006452 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00006453 this change does not apply.
6454
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00006455- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
6456
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00006457- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
6458 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
6459 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
6460 methods available on the str class.
6461
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00006462- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
6463 its clarity and its speed.
6464
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006465- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00006466 to avoid compiler warnings.
6467
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00006468- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
6469 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
6470
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00006471Installation
6472------------
6473
6474- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
6475
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00006476Library
6477-------
6478
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00006479- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
6480
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00006481- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
6482 specific Python version.
6483
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00006484- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
6485 whitespace.
6486
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006487- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00006488 the right type checkings anymore.
6489
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00006490- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
6491 return directories.
6492
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00006493- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
6494
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00006495- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
6496 looking for files given by a relative filename.
6497
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00006498- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
6499 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
6500
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00006501- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
6502 extracting a file to the root directory.
6503
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00006504- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
6505
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00006506- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
6507 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
6508 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
6509
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00006510- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
6511
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00006512- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
6513 Contributed by Google.
6514
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00006515- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
6516 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
6517
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00006518- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
6519
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00006520- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
6521
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00006522- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
6523 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
6524 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
6525
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00006526- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
6527 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
6528 initialized before.
6529
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006530- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
6531 names which should not be exported.
6532
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00006533- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
6534 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
6535
6536- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
6537
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00006538- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
6539 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
6540 instances.
6541
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00006542- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
6543 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
6544 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
6545
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00006546- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
6547 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
6548
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00006549- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
6550 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
6551 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
6552 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
6553 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
6554
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00006555- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
6556 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
6557
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00006558- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
6559 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
6560 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
6561
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00006562Extension Modules
6563-----------------
6564
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00006565- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
6566 pwd.
6567
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00006568- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
6569 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
6570 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
6571 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
6572
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00006573- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
6574 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00006575
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00006576Tests
6577-----
6578
6579- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
6580 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
6581 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
6582 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
6583 can be adjusted to use it over time.
6584
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00006585- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
6586 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
6587 incorrectly on __exit__.
6588
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00006589C-API
6590-----
6591
6592- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
6593
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00006594
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006595What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
6596=================================
6597
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00006598*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006599
6600Core and Builtins
6601-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00006602
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00006603- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
6604 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006605
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00006606- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
6607
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00006608- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
6609 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
6610
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00006611- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
6612 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
6613
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00006614- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
6615
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00006616- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
6617 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
6618
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00006619- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
6620 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
6621 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
6622
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00006623- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
6624
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00006625- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
6626 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
6627
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00006628- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
6629 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
6630 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
6631 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
6632
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00006633- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
6634 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
6635 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
6636
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00006637- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
6638 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
6639 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
6640 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
6641 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
6642 the internal format.
6643
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00006644- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
6645 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
6646 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
6647
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00006648- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
6649 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
6650
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00006651- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
6652 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
6653
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00006654- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
6655 short file names.
6656
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006657Library
6658-------
6659
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006660- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00006661 mailbox.MH.get_message().
6662
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00006663- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
6664 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
6665 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
6666
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00006667- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
6668 the -T argument.
6669
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00006670- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
6671
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00006672- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
6673
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00006674- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
6675
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00006676- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
6677 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
6678
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00006679- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
6680
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00006681- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
6682
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00006683- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
6684 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
6685
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00006686- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
6687 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
6688
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00006689- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
6690 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
6691 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
6692
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00006693- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
6694
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00006695- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
6696 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
6697
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00006698- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
6699 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
6700
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00006701- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
6702 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
6703 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
6704 partial bzip2 compressed data.
6705
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00006706- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
6707 specifier to Decimal.__format__
6708
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00006709- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
6710 '>' alignment characters.
6711
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00006712- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
6713 value, and report it as -1 instead.
6714
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00006715- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
6716 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
6717
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006718Extension Modules
6719-----------------
6720
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00006721- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
6722
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006723- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
6724 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00006725 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
6726 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
6727 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006728
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006729
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00006730What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00006731================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006732
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00006733*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006734
6735Core and Builtins
6736-----------------
6737
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00006738- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
6739
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00006740- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
6741
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00006742- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
6743 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
6744
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00006745- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
6746 contained non ascii character on windows.
6747
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00006748- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
6749 source has already been decoded into str.
6750
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00006751- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
6752 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
6753
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00006754- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
6755 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
6756
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00006757- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
6758 returns a non-number type.
6759
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00006760- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
6761
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00006762- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
6763 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00006764 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
6765 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00006766
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006767- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00006768 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
6769
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00006770- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
6771 Previously it returned a float.
6772
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00006773- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
6774 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
6775 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
6776 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
6777
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00006778- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
6779
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00006780- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
6781 from a string.
6782
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00006783- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
6784
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00006785- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
6786 optional module state data.
6787
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006788- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006789 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006790
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00006791- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
6792 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
6793 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
6794
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00006795- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
6796 __next__ method.
6797
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00006798- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
6799 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
6800 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
6801
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00006802- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
6803
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00006804- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
6805
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00006806- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
6807 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
6808 amount of loop unrolling.
6809
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00006810- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
6811 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
6812 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
6813 Martin von Löwis at
6814 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
6815
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006816- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00006817 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
6818 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
6819
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00006820- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
6821 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
6822 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
6823 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
6824
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00006825- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
6826 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
6827 Python's overall memory).
6828
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00006829- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
6830 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
6831 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
6832 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
6833 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
6834
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00006835- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
6836 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
6837 items, rather than the size in bytes.
6838
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006839- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
6840
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00006841- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
6842 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
6843
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006844- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
6845 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00006846
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00006847- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
6848 did not get collected.
6849
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00006850- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
6851 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
6852
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00006853- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
6854 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
6855
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00006856- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
6857 fail.
6858
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00006859- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
6860
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00006861- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
6862 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
6863
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00006864- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
6865 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
6866 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
6867
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00006868- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
6869
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00006870- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
6871 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
6872 failures on OS X.
6873
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00006874- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
6875 exceptions.
6876
6877- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00006878 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
6879
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00006880- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
6881 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
6882 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
6883 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
6884
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00006885- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
6886 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
6887 Python 2.x.
6888
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00006889- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
6890 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
6891
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006892- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
6893 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
6894 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
6895 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00006896
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00006897- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
6898 larger than 1.
6899
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00006900- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
6901
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00006902- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
6903
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00006904- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
6905 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
6906 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
6907 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
6908
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006909Library
6910-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006911
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00006912- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
6913 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
6914
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00006915- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00006916 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
6917
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00006918- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00006919 Distutils.
6920
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00006921- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
6922
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00006923- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
6924 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
6925 Michael Haubenwallner.
6926
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00006927- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
6928
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00006929- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
6930 opening an empty or very small file.
6931
6932- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00006933 behavior is similar when used with -O.
6934
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00006935- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
6936
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00006937- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
6938 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
6939 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
6940 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
6941
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006942- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
6943
6944- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
6945
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00006946- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006947 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
6948
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006949- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00006950
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006951- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00006952 attribute.
6953
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00006954- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
6955
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00006956- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
6957
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006958- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
6959 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
6960 descriptor errors
6961
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006962- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00006963 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
6964
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006965- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00006966 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
6967
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00006968- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
6969 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
6970
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00006971- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
6972
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00006973- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
6974
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00006975- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
6976 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
6977 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6978
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00006979- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
6980 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6981
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00006982- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
6983
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006984- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00006985 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
6986
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00006987- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6988
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00006989- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
6990 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
6991
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006992- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00006993 subcommand.
6994
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00006995- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
6996 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
6997
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00006998- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
6999 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
7000
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00007001- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
7002 for old-style extensions.
7003
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00007004- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
7005
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00007006- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
7007 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
7008 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
7009 Cournapeau.
7010
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00007011- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
7012
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00007013- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00007014 anymore.
7015
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00007016- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00007017 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
7018
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00007019- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
7020
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00007021- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
7022
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00007023- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
7024
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00007025- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
7026 a value in SafeConfigParser.
7027
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00007028- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
7029
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00007030- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00007031 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
7032
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00007033- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
7034 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
7035
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00007036- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
7037 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
7038
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00007039- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00007040
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00007041- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00007042
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00007043- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
7044 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
7045 threads.
7046
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00007047- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
7048 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
7049 that it was failing to do localization.
7050
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00007051- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
7052 Brandl.
7053
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00007054- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
7055 character.
7056
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00007057- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
7058 Tim Golden.
7059
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00007060- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
7061
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00007062- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
7063 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
7064 window flashing.
7065
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00007066- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
7067 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
7068 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
7069
7070- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
7071
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00007072- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
7073 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
7074
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00007075- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
7076
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00007077- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
7078
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00007079- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
7080
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00007081- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
7082
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00007083- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
7084
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00007085- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
7086
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00007087- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
7088 import guess_extension`` was used.
7089
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00007090- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
7091 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
7092
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00007093- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
7094 overrun.
7095
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00007096- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00007097 bdist_rpm command.
7098
7099- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
7100
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00007101- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
7102
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00007103- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
7104 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00007105
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00007106- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
7107 IronPython.
7108
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00007109- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
7110 The file was resized to wrong size.
7111
7112- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
7113
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00007114- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00007115 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
7116
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00007117- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00007118 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
7119
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00007120- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
7121 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
7122
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00007123- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
7124
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00007125- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
7126 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
7127 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
7128
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00007129- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
7130 encoding.
7131
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00007132- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
7133 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
7134
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00007135- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
7136 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
7137
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00007138- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
7139 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
7140 ctime of the files involved.
7141
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00007142- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
7143 deadlock.
7144
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00007145- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
7146 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
7147 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
7148
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00007149- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
7150
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00007151- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
7152 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
7153
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00007154- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
7155 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
7156 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
7157 Vajda.
7158
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00007159- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
7160 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
7161 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
7162 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
7163
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00007164- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
7165 Ross Light.
7166
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00007167- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00007168 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
7169
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00007170- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
7171 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
7172
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00007173- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00007174 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
7175
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00007176- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
7177
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00007178- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
7179
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00007180- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
7181 items being passed through ord().
7182
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00007183- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
7184 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
7185 "src.new").
7186
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00007187- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
7188
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00007189- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
7190 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
7191 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
7192
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00007193- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00007194 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
7195
7196- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
7197 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
7198
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00007199- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
7200 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
7201
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00007202- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
7203
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00007204- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
7205 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00007206
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00007207- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00007208 allowed non-integer arguments.
7209
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00007210- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
7211 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
7212 examples.
7213
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00007214- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
7215 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
7216
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00007217- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
7218 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
7219
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00007220- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
7221 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
7222
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00007223- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00007224 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
7225 be disabled, and not compiled.
7226
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00007227- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
7228 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
7229 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
7230 traditional 2.x file object.
7231
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00007232- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
7233 parameter was set.
7234
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00007235- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
7236 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
7237
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00007238- Add the importlib package.
7239
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00007240- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
7241 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
7242
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00007243- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00007244 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00007245
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00007246- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
7247 without defaults.
7248
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00007249- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
7250 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00007251 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
7252
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00007253- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
7254 in sharedctypes.py.
7255
7256- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
7257 __getattr__.
7258
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00007259- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
7260 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
7261 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
7262
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00007263- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
7264 counting.
7265
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00007266- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
7267
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00007268- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
7269 function without defining argtypes.
7270
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00007271- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
7272 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
7273 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
7274 Jacques Frechet.
7275
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00007276- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
7277
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00007278- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
7279 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
7280
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00007281- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
7282 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00007283 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
7284
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00007285- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
7286 to the decimal module.
7287
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00007288- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
7289 cast as floats.
7290
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00007291- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
7292 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
7293
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00007294- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00007295 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
7296
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00007297- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
7298 the function is not a generator.
7299
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00007300- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
7301 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00007302
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00007303- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00007304 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
7305
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00007306- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
7307
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00007308- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
7309
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00007310- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
7311 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
7312
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00007313- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
7314 works as expected in the interactive environment.
7315
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00007316- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
7317 Gabriel Genellina.
7318
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00007319- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
7320 boundary.
7321
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00007322- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
7323 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
7324 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
7325
7326- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
7327 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
7328 Alexander Belopolsky.
7329
7330- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
7331 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
7332 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
7333 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
7334 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
7335 Alexander Belopolsky.
7336
7337- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
7338 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
7339 Alexander Belopolsky.
7340
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00007341- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
7342 a non-ASCII letter.
7343
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00007344- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
7345
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00007346- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
7347 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
7348
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00007349- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
7350 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
7351 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
7352
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00007353- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
7354 libs.
7355
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00007356- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
7357 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
7358
7359- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
7360 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
7361 Content-Disposition headers.
7362
7363- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
7364 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
7365 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
7366 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
7367 doesn't configure logging.
7368
7369- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
7370 exception.
7371
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00007372- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
7373 statements.
7374
7375- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
7376 not a malformed option.
7377
7378- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
7379 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
7380
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00007381- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
7382 the corresponding tests now pass.
7383
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00007384- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
7385 it was calling the wrong open() function.
7386
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00007387- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
7388 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
7389 Content-Disposition headers.
7390
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00007391- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
7392 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
7393
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00007394- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
7395 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
7396 and getservbyport().
7397
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00007398- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
7399
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00007400Tools/Demos
7401-----------
7402
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00007403- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
7404 and make it 2.6-compatible.
7405
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00007406- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
7407
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00007408- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
7409
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00007410
7411Build
7412-----
7413
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00007414- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
7415
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00007416- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
7417
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00007418- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
7419 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
7420
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00007421- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00007422 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00007423
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00007424- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
7425
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00007426- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
7427
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00007428- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
7429
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00007430- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
7431
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00007432- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
7433
7434- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
7435
7436- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
7437
7438- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
7439
7440- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
7441
7442- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
7443
7444- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
7445
7446- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
7447
7448- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
7449
7450- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
7451
7452
7453C-API
7454-----
7455
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00007456- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
7457 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
7458
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00007459- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
7460 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
7461
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00007462- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
7463
7464- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
7465 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
7466
7467- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
7468 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
7469
7470
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00007471Extension Modules
7472-----------------
7473
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00007474- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
7475 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
7476 implementations or external openssl library).
7477
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00007478- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
7479
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00007480- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
7481
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00007482- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
7483 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
7484 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
7485
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00007486- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
7487
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00007488- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
7489 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
7490 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
7491
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00007492- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
7493
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00007494- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
7495
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00007496- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
7497 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00007498
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00007499- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
7500 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
7501 buffer.
7502
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00007503
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00007504- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
7505
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00007506Tests
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Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00007509- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
7510 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
7511
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00007512- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
7513 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
7514 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
7515 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
7516
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00007517- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00007518 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00007519 from test support, which does the conversion.
7520
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00007521- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
7522
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Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00007524Docs
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Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00007527
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +03007528**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**