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Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +00005What's New in Python 3.2.1?
6===========================
7
8*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
9
10Core and Builtins
11-----------------
12
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +000013- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
14 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
15
Victor Stinner659eb842011-02-23 12:14:22 +000016- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
17 narrow build.
18
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +000019- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
20
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +000021Library
22-------
23
Lars Gustäbel9f6cbe02011-02-23 11:52:31 +000024- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
25 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
26 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
27
Brett Cannon45b96d32011-02-22 03:35:18 +000028- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
29
Antoine Pitrou97696cb2011-02-21 23:46:27 +000030- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
31 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
32 32-bit Windows.
33
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +000034- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +000035 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +000036
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +000037- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
38 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
39
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +000040Build
41-----
42
43- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
44 package had previously been installed.
45
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +000046Tests
47-----
48
49- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
50 to open door files.
51
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +000052
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +000053What's New in Python 3.2?
54=========================
55
56*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
57
58Core and Builtins
59-----------------
60
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +000061- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
62
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +000063Build
64-----
65
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +000066- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
67
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +000068- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
69
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +000070- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
71
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +000072Documentation
73-------------
74
75- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
76
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +000077
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +000078What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
79=============================================
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +000080
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +000081*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +000082
83Core and Builtins
84-----------------
85
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +000086- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
87
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +000088- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
89
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +000090- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
91 ABI.
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +000092
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +000093- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
94
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +000095Library
96-------
97
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +000098- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
99 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +0000100
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000101- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
102 compileall.compile_dir().
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +0000103
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +0000104- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
105
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000106- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
107 by Stan Mihai.
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +0000108
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +0000109Build
110-----
111
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000112- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
113 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
114 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
115 framework under share/doc.
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +0000116
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +0000117- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
118
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +0000119Tests
120-----
121
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +0000122- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
123 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +0000124
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +0000125
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000126What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
127=============================================
128
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +0000129*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000130
131Core and Builtins
132-----------------
133
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +0000134- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
135 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
136
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000137Library
138-------
139
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +0000140- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
141 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
142 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
143 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
144 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
145
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +0000146- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
147 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
148 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
149
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +0000150- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
151
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +0000152- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
153 commands.
154
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +0000155- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
156 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
157 obscured.
158
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +0000159- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
160 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
161 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
162
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +0000163- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
164
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +0000165- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
166 conversion.
167
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +0000168- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
169 with a None body.
170
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +0000171- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
172 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
173 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
174
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +0000175- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
176
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +0000177- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
178 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
179
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +0000180- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
181 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
182
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +0000183- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
184
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +0000185- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
186
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +0000187- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +0000188 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
189 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +0000190 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +0000191
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +0000192- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
193
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +0000194- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
195 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
196
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +0000197- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
198 a symbol named FSTAT.
199
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +0000200- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
201 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
202 of HTTP 1.1.
203
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +0000204- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
205 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
206 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
207 both incoming and outgoing direction.
208
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +0000209- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
210 argparse.FileType.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +0000211
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +0000212- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
213 during request handling.
214
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +0000215- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
216 argparse.
217
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +0000218Build
219-----
220
221- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
222 the system-provided Python.
223
224
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000225What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
226============================================
227
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +0000228*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
229
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000230Core and Builtins
231-----------------
232
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +0000233- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000234 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +0000235
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +0000236- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
237 class.
238
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +0000239- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000240 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
241 by Matt Bandy.
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +0000242
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000243- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
244 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
245 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +0000246
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +0000247- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
248
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +0000249- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
250 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
251 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
252
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +0000253- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
254 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to 2^31-1 on Windows.
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +0000255
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +0000256- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
257 can now handle dates after 2038.
258
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +0000259- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
260 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
261 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
262
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +0000263- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
264 encoding instead of UTF-8.
265
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +0000266- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
267
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000268Library
269-------
270
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000271- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
272 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
273 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +0000274
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000275- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
276 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
277 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +0000278
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +0000279- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
280 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +0000281 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
282 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +0000283
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000284- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +0000285
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000286- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
287 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +0000288
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +0000289- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
290
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +0000291- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
292 if available.
293
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000294- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
295 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +0000296
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +0000297- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000298 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
299 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
300 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
301 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +0000302
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +0000303- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
304 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
305
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +0000306- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
307 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
308
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +0000309- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000310 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a Bytes Parser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
311 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +0000312
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +0000313- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding white space when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000314 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
315 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
316 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +0000317
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +0000318- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
319 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
320 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
321 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
322 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
323 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +0000324
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +0000325- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
326 on an existing file.
327
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +0000328- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
329 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
330
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +0000331- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
332 compilation (if the input is a string).
333
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +0000334- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +0000335 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +0000336
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +0000337- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
338 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +0000339
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +0000340- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
341 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
342
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +0000343- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
344 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
345
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +0000346- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
347 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
348 2^32-1 bytes).
349
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000350- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
351 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +0000352
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000353- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
354 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
355 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +0000356
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +0000357- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
358 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
359
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +0000360- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
361 few POSIX semaphores.
362
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +0000363- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
364 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
365
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000366- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
367 filenames.
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +0000368
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +0000369- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
370 David Daniels.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +0000371
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000372- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
373 define __missing__().
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +0000374
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000375- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
376 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
377 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +0000378
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000379- Issue #10753: Characters ';','=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
380 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's request_uri
381 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
382 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +0000383
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +0000384- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +0000385
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +0000386- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +0000387 browsers actually parse cookies.
388
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000389- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
390 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
391 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +0000392
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +0000393- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +0000394
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +0000395- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
396
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +0000397- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
398
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +0000399- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
400 ElementTree register_namespace().
401
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +0000402- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
403
404- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
405
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +0000406- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
407 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
408 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
409
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +0000410- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
411 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
412
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +0000413- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
414 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
415
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +0000416- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
417
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +0000418- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
419 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
420
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +0000421- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
422 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
423
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +0000424- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
425
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +0000426- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000427
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +0000428C-API
429-----
430
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +0000431- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
432 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
433
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000434- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
435 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +0000436
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +0000437Build
438-----
439
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000440- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
441 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
442 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +0000443
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +0000444- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
445 scripts (#10679).
446
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +0000447- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
448 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
449
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +0000450- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
451 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
452
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +0000453- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
454 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
455
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +0000456- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
457 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
458 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
459 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
460
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +0000461Tools/Demos
462-----------
463
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000464- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
465 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
466 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +0000467
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +0000468- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
469 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
470 Tools/demo subdirectory.
471
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +0000472- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000473 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
474 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +0000475
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +0000476Tests
477-----
478
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +0000479- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
480 by Ross Lagerwall.
481
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +0000482- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
483
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +0000484- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
485 Björn Lindqvist.
486
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +0000487- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
488 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
489
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +0000490- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
491 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
492 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +0000493
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +0000494
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000495What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
496================================
497
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +0000498*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000499
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +0000500Core and Builtins
501-----------------
502
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +0000503- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
504 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
505
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +0000506- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
507 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
508 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000509
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +0000510- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
511 Daniel Urban.
512
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000513Library
514-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +0000515
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +0000516- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
517 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
518
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +0000519- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
520
521- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
522 up function.
523
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +0000524- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
525 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
526
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +0000527- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
528 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
529
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +0000530- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
531 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
532
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +0000533- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
534
535- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +0000536 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
537
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +0000538- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
539 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
540
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +0000541- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
542 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
543
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +0000544- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
545 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000546
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +0000547- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
548 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
549
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +0000550- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
551
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +0000552- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
553
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +0000554- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
555 causes debug mode to fail.
556
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +0000557- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
558 that contain non-ascii values.
559
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +0000560- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +0000561 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
562 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
563 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
564 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
565
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +0000566- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
567
568- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +0000569 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
570 error handles are provided.
571
572- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
573 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
574 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +0000575
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +0000576- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
577 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
578 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
579
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +0000580Tests
581-----
582
583- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
584 encountering them.
585
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +0000586Tools/Demos
587-----------
588
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +0000589- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
590 Cocoa AquaTk.
591
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +0000592- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
593
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +0000594- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
595 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
596
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +0000597Build
598-----
599
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +0000600- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +0000601
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +0000602- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
603
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +0000604
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +0000605What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
606================================
607
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000608*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +0000609
610Core and Builtins
611-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000612
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +0000613- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
614 methods.
615
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000616- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
617 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +0000618
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000619- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
620 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +0000621
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +0000622- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
623
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000624- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
625 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +0000626
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +0000627- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
628
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000629- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +0000630
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +0000631- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
632
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000633- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
634 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +0000635
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +0000636- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
637
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000638- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
639 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
640 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +0000641
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000642- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +0000643
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +0000644- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
645 masking all errors.
646
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +0000647Library
648-------
649
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +0000650- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
651
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +0000652- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
653 assertions about logging.
654
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +0000655- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
656
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +0000657- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
658 UnicodeEncodeError.
659
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +0000660- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
661
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000662- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
663 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +0000664
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +0000665- Add the "interact" pdb command.
666
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +0000667- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
668
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +0000669- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
670
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +0000671- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
672 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
673
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +0000674- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
675 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
676 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
677
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +0000678- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
679
680- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +0000681 names for running specific tests.
682
683- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
684 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
685 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
686
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +0000687- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
688 SSLError on socket timeouts.
689
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +0000690- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
691 messages from argparse.
692
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +0000693- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
694
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +0000695- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
696 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
697 current process.
698
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +0000699- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
700
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +0000701- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
702
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +0000703- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
704 Adam.
705
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000706- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
707 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +0000708
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +0000709- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
710
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000711- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
712 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +0000713
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +0000714- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
715 subprocess.
716
717- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
718 module.
719
720- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
721 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
722
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000723- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
724 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +0000725
726- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
727
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000728- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +0000729 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000730
731- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
732 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +0000733
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +0000734- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
735
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +0000736- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
737 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
738
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000739- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
740 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
741 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +0000742
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000743- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
744 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +0000745
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +0000746- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
747
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +0000748- Added itertools.accumulate().
749
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +0000750- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
751 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
752
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +0000753- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
754 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
755
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +0000756- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
757
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000758- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
759 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +0000760
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000761- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
762 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +0000763
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000764- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
765 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
766 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +0000767
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000768- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
769 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +0000770
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000771- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
772 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +0000773
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +0000774- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
775
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000776- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
777 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +0000778 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
779
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +0000780- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
781 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +0000782
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +0000783- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
784
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +0000785- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
786
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +0000787- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +0000788 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
789
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +0000790- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
791 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
792
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +0000793- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
794 when no extra arguments have been provided.
795
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +0000796- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
797 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
798 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
799
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000800- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
801 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +0000802
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +0000803- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
804 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
805
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000806- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
807 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +0000808
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +0000809- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
810
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +0000811- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +0000812
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +0000813- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
814 end of the file.
815
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +0000816- configparser: 100% test coverage.
817
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +0000818- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
819 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +0000820 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
821 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
822
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +0000823- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
824 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
825 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +0000826
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +0000827- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
828 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
829
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +0000830- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
831
832- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
833
834- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
835
836- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
837 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
838
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +0000839- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
840 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
841 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +0000842
843- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
844 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
845 values, and indentation.
846
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +0000847- Issue 10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
848
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +0000849- Issue 9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
850
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000851- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
852 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
853 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +0000854
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +0000855- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
856
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +0000857- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
858 version-specific online reference manual.
859
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +0000860- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
861
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +0000862- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
863
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +0000864- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
865 Patch by Robert Collins.
866
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000867- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
868 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +0000869
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +0000870C-API
871-----
872
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +0000873- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000874 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
875 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +0000876
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +0000877- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
878 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000879 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
880 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +0000881
882- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
883 Schemenauer.
884
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +0000885- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
886
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +0000887- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
888
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +0000889Tests
890-----
891
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000892- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000893 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +0000894
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +0000895- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
896 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +0000897
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +0000898- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
899 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +0000900
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +0000901- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
902 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +0000903
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +0000904Build
905-----
906
907- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
908 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
909
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +0000910Documentation
911-------------
912
913- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
914
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +0000915
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +0000916What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
917=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +0000918
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +0000919*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +0000920
921Core and Builtins
922-----------------
923
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +0000924- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
925 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
926
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000927- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
928 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +0000929 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
930
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +0000931- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +0000932
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +0000933- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
934
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +0000935- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
936 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
937
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000938- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +0000939 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
940
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +0000941- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
942 of the offending line.
943
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000944- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
945 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +0000946
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000947- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
948 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +0000949 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000950 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +0000951 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
952
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000953- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
954 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +0000955 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
956
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +0000957- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
958 resolution.
959
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000960- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
961 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +0000962
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +0000963- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
964 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
965
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000966- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +0000967 descriptor.
968
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +0000969- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
970 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
971
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +0000972- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
973
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +0000974Library
975-------
976
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +0000977- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
978
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +0000979- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
980
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +0000981- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
982
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +0000983- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
984
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000985- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
986 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +0000987
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000988- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
989 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +0000990
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000991- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
992 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +0000993
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000994- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +0000995 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +0000996
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +0000997- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
998 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +0000999
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00001000- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
1001
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001002- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001003 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
1004 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001005 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
1006
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001007- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
1008 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
1009 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
1010 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001011
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001012- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
1013 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00001014
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00001015- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
1016
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001017- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
1018 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00001019
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00001020- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
1021 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
1022
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001023- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
1024 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00001025
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00001026- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
1027 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
1028 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
1029 ASCII.
1030
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00001031- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00001032 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00001033 Belopolsky.
1034
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00001035- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1036 --enable-shared.
1037
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00001038- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1039 Arfrever.
1040
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00001041- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1042
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00001043- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1044 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1045
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00001046- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
1047 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
1048
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001049- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
1050 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00001051
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00001052- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
1053
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00001054- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
1055
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001056- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
1057 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00001058
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00001059- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
1060 response, instead of raising an exception.
1061
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00001062- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
1063 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001064 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
1065 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
1066 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00001067
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001068- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
1069 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00001070
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00001071- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
1072
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001073- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
1074 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00001075
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00001076- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1077
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001078- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
1079 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00001080
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001081- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
1082 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00001083
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00001084- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
1085
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00001086- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
1087
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001088- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
1089 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00001090
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001091- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
1092 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00001093
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001094- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
1095 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00001096
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00001097- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1098 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1099
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001100- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
1101 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00001102
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00001103- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
1104
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00001105- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
1106
1107- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
1108
1109- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
1110
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001111- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
1112 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00001113
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00001114- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001115 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
1116 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00001117
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001118- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
1119 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00001120
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00001121- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
1122
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001123- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
1124 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00001125
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00001126- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1127 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1128 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1129
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00001130- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
1131
1132- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00001133
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00001134- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
1135
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001136- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
1137 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00001138
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00001139- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
1140 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
1141
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001142- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
1143 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
1144 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00001145
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00001146- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
1147
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001148- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00001149
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00001150- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
1151
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00001152- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
1153
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00001154- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
1155
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00001156- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1157
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00001158- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
1159 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
1160
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001161- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
1162 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
1163 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00001164
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00001165- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
1166 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
1167
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00001168- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
1169 switch to python-config for command line access.
1170
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00001171- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1172
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00001173- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1174 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1175
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00001176- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00001177 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00001178
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00001179- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00001180 debugging in doctests.
1181
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001182- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
1183 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00001184
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001185- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
1186 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00001187
1188- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00001189 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001190 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
1191 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00001192
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00001193- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1194 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1195 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1196
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001197- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
1198 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
1199 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00001200
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00001201- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001202 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
1203 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00001204
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00001205- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1206 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1207
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001208- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00001209
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00001210- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
1211
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001212- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1213
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00001214Extension Modules
1215-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001216
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00001217- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
1218 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
1219
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00001220- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
1221
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00001222- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
1223
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00001224- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
1225
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00001226- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
1227
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00001228- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
1229
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00001230- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1231
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001232- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
1233 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00001234
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001235- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
1236 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
1237 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00001238
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00001239- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
1240
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00001241C-API
1242-----
1243
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00001244- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001245 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00001246
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00001247- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
1248 type has been introduced.
1249
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00001250Tools/Demos
1251-----------
1252
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001253- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
1254 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
1255 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00001256
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00001257- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
1258
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00001259Tests
1260-----
1261
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001262- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
1263 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00001264
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00001265- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
1266
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001267- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
1268 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00001269
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00001270Build
1271-----
1272
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00001273- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
1274
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00001275- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
1276
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00001277- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
1278
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00001279- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
1280
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00001281- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
1282
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001283- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
1284 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00001285
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001286
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00001287What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
1288=================================
1289
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00001290*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00001291
1292Core and Builtins
1293-----------------
1294
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00001295- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1296 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1297
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00001298- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001299 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00001300
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001301- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
1302 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
1303 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00001304
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00001305- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
1306 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
1307
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00001308- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
1309
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00001310- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001311 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
1312 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00001313
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00001314- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00001315 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00001316
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00001317- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
1318
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00001319- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
1320 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
1321
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001322- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
1323 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00001324
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00001325- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001326 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00001327
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00001328- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
1329
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00001330- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
1331 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
1332 Py_Initialize().
1333
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001334- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
1335 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00001336
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00001337- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
1338 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
1339
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00001340- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001341 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00001342
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001343- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
1344 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
1345 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
1346 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
1347 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
1348 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00001349
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00001350- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
1351 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
1352 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
1353
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00001354- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
1355 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
1356 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
1357
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001358- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
1359 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00001360
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00001361- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
1362 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
1363 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
1364
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001365- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
1366 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
1367 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
1368 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00001369
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00001370- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
1371 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
1372 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
1373
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00001374- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1375 thread-local storage key.
1376
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00001377Library
1378-------
1379
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00001380- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1381
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00001382- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1383
1384- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1385
1386- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1387 not in build_clib.
1388
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00001389- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
1390
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00001391- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
1392 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
1393
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00001394- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
1395 verification for higher-level protocols.
1396
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00001397- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
1398 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
1399
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00001400- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
1401 gettext.
1402
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00001403- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00001404 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001405 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00001406 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
1407 directly.
1408
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00001409- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
1410 gname field.
1411
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001412- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
1413 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00001414
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00001415- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
1416 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
1417
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001418- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
1419 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00001420
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001421- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
1422 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00001423
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001424- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
1425 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
1426 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00001427
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00001428- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
1429
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00001430- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001431 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
1432 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
1433 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00001434
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00001435- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
1436
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00001437- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001438 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
1439 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
1440 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00001441
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00001442- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
1443
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00001444- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
1445
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00001446- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
1447
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00001448- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
1449 in ntpath.
1450
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00001451- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
1452
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001453- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
1454 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00001455
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00001456- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
1457 performance-critical threads.
1458
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00001459- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
1460
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00001461- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
1462
1463- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
1464
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00001465- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
1466
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00001467- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
1468 object, only munmap().
1469
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001470- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
1471 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00001472
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00001473- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
1474 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
1475 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
1476
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00001477- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
1478
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00001479- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001480 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
1481 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00001482
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00001483- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
1484 another kind.
1485
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00001486- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
1487
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001488- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00001489
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001490- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
1491 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00001492
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001493- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
1494 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
1495 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00001496
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001497- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
1498 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00001499
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001500- Issue 9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
1501 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00001502
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00001503- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
1504
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00001505- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00001506
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00001507- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
1508 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
1509
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001510- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
1511 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00001512
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00001513- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001514 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
1515 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00001516 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
1517 in the first place.
1518
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00001519- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
1520 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001521 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00001522
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001523- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
1524 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
1525 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
1526 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00001527
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001528- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
1529 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
1530 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00001531
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001532- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
1533 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00001534
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00001535- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
1536 multiprocessing.
1537
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001538- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
1539 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
1540 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00001541
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00001542- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
1543 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
1544 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
1545
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001546- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
1547 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
1548 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
1549 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00001550
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001551- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
1552 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
1553 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00001554
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00001555- Updates to the random module:
1556
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001557 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
1558 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00001559
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001560 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
1561 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
1562 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00001563
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001564 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
1565 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
1566 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00001567
1568 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00001569
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001570- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
1571 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00001572
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001573- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
1574 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
1575 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00001576
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001577- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
1578 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
1579 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00001580
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00001581- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
1582
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00001583- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001584 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
1585 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00001586
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00001587- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
1588 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
1589 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
1590 algorithms available in the current process.
1591
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00001592- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
1593
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00001594C-API
1595-----
1596
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00001597- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
1598
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00001599- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
1600 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
1601 defined.
1602
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00001603Tools/Demos
1604-----------
1605
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001606- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
1607 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
1608 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00001609
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00001610Tests
1611-----
1612
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00001613- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
1614 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
1615
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001616- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
1617 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00001618
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00001619- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
1620 in test_os)
1621
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00001622- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1623 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1624
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00001625- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
1626
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001627- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
1628 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00001629
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00001630- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
1631
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00001632- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
1633
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00001634- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
1635 case when running profile or trace, for example.
1636
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00001637- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
1638
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00001639Build
1640-----
1641
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00001642- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
1643
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001644- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
1645 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00001646
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00001647- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
1648
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00001649- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
1650
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00001651- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
1652
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001653- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
1654 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00001655
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001656- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
1657 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00001658
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00001659- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
1660 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
1661 defined by PEP 3149.
1662
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00001663- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
1664 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00001665
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00001666- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
1667 Sablé.
1668
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00001669- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
1670 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
1671 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
1672
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00001673
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00001674What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
1675=================================
1676
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00001677*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00001678
1679Core and Builtins
1680-----------------
1681
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001682- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
1683 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
1684 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00001685
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00001686- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
1687 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
1688
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001689- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
1690 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00001691
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001692- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
1693 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00001694
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001695- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
1696 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
1697 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00001698
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00001699- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
1700 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
1701
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001702- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
1703 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00001704
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00001705- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
1706
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00001707- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1708
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001709- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
1710 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00001711
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001712- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
1713 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00001714
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00001715- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
1716 filesystem encoding.
1717
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00001718- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
1719 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
1720 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
1721 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
1722 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
1723
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00001724- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
1725 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
1726 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
1727 function.
1728
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00001729- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
1730
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00001731- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
1732
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001733- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
1734 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00001735
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001736- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
1737 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00001738 sys.stderr.
1739
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00001740- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001741 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
1742 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00001743
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001744- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
1745 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
1746 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00001747
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001748- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
1749 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00001750
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001751- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
1752 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00001753
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001754- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00001755
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001756- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
1757 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00001758
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001759- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
1760 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00001761
1762 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1763 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1764
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00001765Extension Modules
1766-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00001767
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00001768- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
1769 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
1770 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
1771 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
1772 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
1773
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00001774- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
1775 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
1776
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00001777- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
1778 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1779
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001780- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
1781 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00001782
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001783- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
1784 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
1785 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00001786
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001787- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
1788 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
1789 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00001790
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001791- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
1792 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00001793
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00001794- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
1795 Matthew Ahrens.
1796
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001797- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
1798 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00001799
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001800- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
1801 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00001802
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00001803- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
1804
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001805- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
1806 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00001807
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001808- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
1809 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00001810
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00001811- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00001812
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00001813- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1814
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001815- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1816 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00001817
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001818- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
1819 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00001820
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001821- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
1822 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00001823
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001824- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
1825 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00001826
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00001827- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
1828
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001829- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
1830 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00001831
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00001832- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
1833 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
1834
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00001835- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
1836
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001837- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
1838 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00001839
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00001840Library
1841-------
1842
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001843- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
1844 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
1845 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00001846
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001847- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
1848 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00001849
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001850- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00001851
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001852- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
1853 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00001854
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00001855- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1856 ConfigParser.write.
1857
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00001858- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
1859 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001860 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
1861 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00001862
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001863- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
1864 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00001865
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001866- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00001867 circumstances.
1868
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001869- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
1870 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00001871
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001872- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
1873 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00001874
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00001875- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1876 falling into recursion.
1877
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00001878- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1879 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1880
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00001881- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
1882 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00001883
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001884- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
1885 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00001886
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00001887- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001888 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
1889 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00001890
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00001891- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00001892 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00001893
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001894- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1895
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001896- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00001897
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001898- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
1899 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00001900
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00001901- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1902 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1903
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00001904- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
1905
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001906- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
1907 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00001908
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001909- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
1910 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00001911
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001912- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
1913 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00001914 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
1915 structure.
1916
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00001917- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
1918 single keyword arguments.
1919
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001920- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
1921 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00001922
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001923- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
1924 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00001925
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00001926- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001927 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00001928
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001929- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
1930 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00001931
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00001932- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
1933
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00001934- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
1935 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
1936
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00001937- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
1938 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
1939
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00001940- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001941 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
1942 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00001943
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001944- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
1945 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00001946
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001947- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
1948 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
1949 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00001950
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001951- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
1952 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
1953 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00001954
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001955- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
1956 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
1957 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
1958 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00001959
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00001960- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001961 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
1962 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00001963
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00001964- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00001965 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
1966
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001967- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
1968 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00001969
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00001970- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
1971 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
1972
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001973- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
1974 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
1975 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00001976
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00001977- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00001978 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
1979 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00001980
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001981- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
1982 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
1983 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00001984
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00001985- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
1986
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001987- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
1988 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00001989
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001990- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
1991 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00001992
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001993- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
1994 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
1995 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00001996
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00001997- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
1998 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00001999
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002000- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
2001 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00002002
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002003- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
2004 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00002005
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002006- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
2007 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00002008
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002009- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
2010 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00002011
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002012- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
2013 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00002014
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00002015- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
2016 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
2017
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00002018- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2019 across devices.
2020
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00002021- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2022
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00002023- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2024
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00002025- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2026
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00002027- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2028
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00002029- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2030 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00002031
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00002032- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
2033
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00002034- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
2035 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
2036
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002037- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
2038 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00002039
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002040- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
2041 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00002042
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00002043- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
2044
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00002045- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00002046
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00002047Tools/Demos
2048-----------
2049
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00002050- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
2051
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00002052- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
2053 non-ASCII content.
2054
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00002055Tests
2056-----
2057
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00002058- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
2059
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00002060- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2061
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00002062- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2063
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00002064- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2065
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00002066- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2067 Michele Orrù.
2068
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00002069- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
2070
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00002071Build
2072-----
2073
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00002074- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
2075
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00002076- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
2077
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002078- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
2079 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00002080
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00002081- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
2082 Sébastien Sablé.
2083
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00002084- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
2085
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002086
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00002087What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
2088=================================
2089
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002090*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00002091
2092Core and Builtins
2093-----------------
2094
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00002095- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
2096
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00002097- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
2098 compiler.
2099
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00002100- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
2101
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00002102- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002103 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
2104 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
2105 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
2106 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
2107 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
2108 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00002109
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002110- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
2111 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00002112
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00002113- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
2114
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00002115- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
2116 objects, as described in the documentation.
2117
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00002118- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002119 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00002120 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00002121
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002122- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
2123 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
2124 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00002125
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00002126- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002127 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00002128 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002129 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00002130
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00002131- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
2132 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
2133
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00002134- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002135 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00002136 string formats.
2137
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002138- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00002139 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
2140 location of the raised exception.
2141
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00002142- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
2143 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
2144
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00002145- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2146
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002147- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
2148 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
2149 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00002150
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002151- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
2152 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
2153 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
2154 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00002155
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00002156- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
2157 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
2158 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
2159
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002160- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
2161 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00002162
2163- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002164 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00002165 like bytearray.
2166
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002167- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00002168 used anymore and it was never documented.
2169
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002170- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00002171
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002172- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
2173 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00002174
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002175- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
2176 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
2177 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
2178 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00002179
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00002180- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2181 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002182 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
2183 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
2184 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
2185 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00002186
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00002187- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
2188 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
2189
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00002190- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00002191 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002192 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00002193
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002194- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
2195 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00002196
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00002197- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
2198 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002199 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00002200 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00002201
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00002202- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002203 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00002204
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00002205- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002206 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00002207 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
2208
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00002209- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002210 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
2211 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00002212
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00002213- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2214
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002215- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00002216
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00002217- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
2218 arguments.
2219
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00002220- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002221 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
2222 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00002223
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00002224- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002225 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00002226
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002227- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
2228 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00002229
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00002230- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002231 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
2232 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
2233 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00002234
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00002235- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2236 passed to bytes or bytearray.
2237
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00002238- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2239
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00002240- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2241 changed.
2242
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002243- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
2244 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
2245 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00002246
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00002247- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2248
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00002249- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
2250
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00002251- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2252
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002253- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2254 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00002255
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00002256- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002257 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00002258
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002259- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00002260
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00002261- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002262 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00002263
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00002264- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
2265 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
2266 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
2267 comparisons with complex.
2268
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00002269- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
2270 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002271 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00002272
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00002273- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
2274
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002275- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2276 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00002277
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002278- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2279 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00002280
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00002281- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
2282
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002283- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
2284 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00002285
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00002286- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002287 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00002288
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002289- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2290 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00002291
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002292- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
2293 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00002294
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00002295- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002296 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
2297 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00002298
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002299- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
2300 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00002301
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002302- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
2303 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00002304
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002305- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
2306 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
2307 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
2308 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00002309
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002310- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
2311 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
2312 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00002313
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00002314- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002315 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
2316 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
2317 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
2318 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
2319 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00002320
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002321- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
2322 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
2323 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00002324
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002325- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
2326 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
2327 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
2328 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
2329 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
2330 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00002331
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00002332- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
2333 consistent with other special methods.
2334
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00002335- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
2336 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2337
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00002338- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
2339 AttributeError.
2340
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002341- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
2342 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00002343
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002344- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
2345 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
2346 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
2347 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00002348
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00002349- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
2350 executables on OSX.
2351
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002352 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
2353 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
2354 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00002355
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002356- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
2357 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00002358
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00002359- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
2360 with invalid values.
2361
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00002362- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
2363 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
2364
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002365- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
2366 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00002367
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00002368- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
2369
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00002370- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
2371 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
2372
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002373- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
2374 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
2375 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
2376 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
2377 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00002378
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002379- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
2380 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00002381
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00002382- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
2383 surrogates.
2384
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00002385- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
2386
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00002387- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
2388
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00002389- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
2390 disabled since Python 3.0.
2391
2392- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
2393 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
2394 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
2395
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00002396- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002397 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00002398
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00002399- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
2400
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00002401- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
2402 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
2403 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
2404
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00002405- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00002406 support.
2407
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002408- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
2409 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002410
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002411- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
2412 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
2413 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00002414
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002415- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
2416 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00002417
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00002418- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
2419 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
2420 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
2421 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
2422
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002423- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
2424 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00002425
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002426- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
2427 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00002428
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00002429- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
2430
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00002431- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
2432
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00002433- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
2434
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00002435- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
2436
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002437- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
2438 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00002439
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00002440- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
2441
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00002442- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
2443
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00002444- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
2445 occurred in the argument chain.
2446
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002447- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
2448 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00002449
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00002450- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
2451
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002452- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
2453 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00002454
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00002455- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
2456
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002457- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
2458 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
2459 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00002460
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002461- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
2462 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00002463
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00002464- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
2465
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002466- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
2467 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00002468
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002469- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
2470 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00002471
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002472- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
2473 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
2474 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00002475
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00002476- Code objects now support weak references.
2477
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002478- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00002479
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002480- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00002481 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
2482 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00002483
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00002484C-API
2485-----
2486
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00002487- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
2488 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
2489 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
2490
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00002491- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
2492 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
2493 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
2494
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002495- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
2496 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
2497 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00002498 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2499
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00002500- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
2501 strings in an efficient manner.
2502
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00002503- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002504 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2505 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00002506
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002507- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
2508 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00002509
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00002510- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
2511 has '\0' at the end.
2512
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00002513- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002514 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
2515 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
2516 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00002517 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
2518
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002519- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00002520
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002521- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
2522 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00002523
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002524- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
2525 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00002526
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002527- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
2528 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
2529 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00002530
2531- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00002532
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00002533- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
2534
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00002535- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
2536 PyCode_Addr2Line().
2537
2538- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
2539 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
2540
2541- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
2542 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
2543
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002544- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
2545 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
2546 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
2547 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00002548
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00002549Library
2550-------
2551
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002552- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
2553 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00002554
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002555- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
2556 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
2557 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00002558
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002559- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
2560 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00002561
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002562- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
2563 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00002564
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002565- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
2566 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00002567
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002568- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
2569 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00002570
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002571- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
2572 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00002573
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002574- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
2575 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00002576
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002577- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
2578 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00002579
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002580- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
2581 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00002582
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002583- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
2584 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00002585
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00002586- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
2587
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002588- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
2589 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
2590 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00002591
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002592- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
2593 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00002594
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00002595- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00002596 entries, consider the first one.
2597
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00002598- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
2599 string.Template class.
2600
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002601- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
2602 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00002603
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002604- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
2605 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00002606
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00002607- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
2608
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00002609- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
2610
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002611- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
2612 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00002613
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00002614- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002615 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
2616 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00002617
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002618- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00002619
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002620- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
2621 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00002622 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
2623 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002624 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
2625 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00002626
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00002627- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
2628
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002629- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00002630 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
2631 XML-RPC request.
2632
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002633- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
2634 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
2635 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00002636
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002637- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
2638 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
2639 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
2640 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
2641 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
2642 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00002643
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002644- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00002645
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002646- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
2647 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00002648
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002649- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
2650 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00002651
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00002652- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
2653 parameters.
2654
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002655- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
2656 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00002657
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002658- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
2659 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00002660
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00002661- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
2662
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00002663- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
2664
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002665- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
2666 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00002667
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00002668- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
2669
2670- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00002671
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00002672- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
2673
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002674- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
2675 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
2676 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00002677
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002678- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
2679 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
2680 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00002681
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00002682- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
2683
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00002684- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
2685
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00002686- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
2687
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002688- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
2689 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
2690 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00002691
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00002692- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
2693 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
2694
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002695- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2696 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00002697
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002698- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
2699 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00002700
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00002701- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
2702 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
2703
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00002704- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00002705 raises an exception.
2706
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00002707- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002708 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
2709 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00002710
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00002711- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
2712 for removal in Python 3.4.
2713
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002714- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
2715 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00002716
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002717- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
2718 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00002719
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002720- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
2721 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00002722
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002723- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
2724 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00002725 deallocation while the object is still being used.
2726
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00002727- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002728 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00002729 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
2730
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002731- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00002732 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2733
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002734- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
2735 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00002736
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002737- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
2738 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00002739
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00002740- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
2741
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00002742- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
2743 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
2744
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002745- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
2746 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
2747 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
2748 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
2749 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00002750
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002751- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
2752 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00002753
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00002754- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00002755
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00002756- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2757
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002758- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
2759 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00002760
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00002761- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2762 mistake.
2763
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002764- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
2765 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00002766 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00002767
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00002768- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
2769 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
2770
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002771- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
2772 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
2773 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00002774
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00002775- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2776 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2777
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00002778- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
2779
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00002780- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
2781 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002782 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00002783
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002784- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
2785 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00002786
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00002787- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002788 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00002789
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00002790- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002791 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
2792 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00002793
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00002794- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2795 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2796 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00002797
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00002798- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002799 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00002800
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00002801- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2802 of files without one.
2803
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00002804- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
2805 comparing to a non-mapping.
2806
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00002807- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002808 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00002809
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002810- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
2811 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
2812 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00002813
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00002814- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
2815
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00002816- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
2817 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
2818 stdout is not a TTY).
2819
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00002820- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
2821 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
2822 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
2823 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
2824
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00002825- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
2826 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
2827
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00002828- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
2829 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
2830
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00002831- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2832
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00002833- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002834 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00002835
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00002836- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
2837
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002838- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2839 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00002840
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002841- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
2842 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00002843
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00002844- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
2845 class.
2846
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00002847- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
2848 given.
2849
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00002850- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
2851 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
2852
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002853- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2854 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00002855
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00002856- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
2857 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
2858 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
2859 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00002860
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00002861- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
2862
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002863- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2864 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2865 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2866 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00002867
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00002868- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
2869 Patch by Tres Seaver.
2870
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00002871- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002872 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00002873
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00002874- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2875
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002876- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
2877 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00002878
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002879- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2880 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2881 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2882 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2883 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00002884
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00002885- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002886 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
2887 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00002888
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00002889- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2890 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2891
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002892- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2893 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00002894
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00002895- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00002896 webbrowser.get("safari").
2897
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002898- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2899 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00002900
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002901- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2902 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00002903
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00002904- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
2905
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00002906- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
2907 It should correctly return an empty response now.
2908
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00002909- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
2910
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00002911- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
2912 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2913
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00002914- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
2915 and mappings.
2916
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002917- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2918 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2919 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2920 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00002921
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002922- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
2923 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
2924 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00002925
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00002926- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2927 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2928
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002929- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2930 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00002931
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002932- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
2933 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00002934
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00002935- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
2936 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002937 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00002938
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002939- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00002940
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002941- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2942 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2943 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00002944
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002945- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2946 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00002947 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2948 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2949
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00002950- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
2951 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2952
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00002953- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
2954 collation name contains a surrogate character.
2955
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002956- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2957 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2958 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00002959
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00002960- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
2961
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002962- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00002963
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00002964- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
2965 from PORT/EPRT commands.
2966
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00002967- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
2968
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002969- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
2970 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00002971
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002972- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2973 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00002974
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00002975- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
2976 surrogates.
2977
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00002978- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00002979 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00002980
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00002981- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2982 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2983
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00002984- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
2985 the current working directory.
2986
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00002987- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002988 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00002989
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002990- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00002991
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00002992- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
2993 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2994
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00002995- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
2996
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002997- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00002998 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00002999 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00003000
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00003001- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
3002 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003003 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00003004
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00003005- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003006 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
3007 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00003008
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00003009- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003010 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
3011 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00003012
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00003013- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
3014 present before it cleans them.
3015
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003016- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
3017 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00003018
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00003019- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003020 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
3021 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00003022
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00003023- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
3024
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003025- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
3026 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00003027
3028 >>> Decimal(1.1)
3029 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
3030
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003031- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
3032 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00003033
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003034- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
3035 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
3036 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
3037 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00003038
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003039- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
3040 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
3041 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
3042 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
3043 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00003044
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00003045- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
3046
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00003047- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003048 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
3049 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
3050 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00003051
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00003052- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
3053 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003054 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00003055
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003056- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
3057 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
3058 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
3059 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00003060
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003061- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
3062 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
3063 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00003064
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00003065- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
3066 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
3067
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00003068- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003069 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
3070 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00003071
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003072- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
3073 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00003074
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00003075- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
3076 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
3077 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00003078
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00003079- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
3080 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
3081 (utf8) encoding.
3082
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00003083- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
3084
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00003085- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
3086
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00003087- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
3088
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00003089- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
3090 detected.
3091
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00003092- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
3093
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00003094- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
3095 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
3096
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003097- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00003098
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003099- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
3100 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00003101
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003102- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
3103 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
3104 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00003105
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003106- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
3107 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
3108 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
3109 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00003110
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00003111- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
3112 cElementTree module is updated too.
3113
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00003114- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003115 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
3116 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00003117
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00003118- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
3119
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003120- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
3121 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00003122
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00003123- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
3124 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
3125
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00003126- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
3127 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00003128
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00003129- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
3130 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
3131
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00003132- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
3133 class.
3134
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00003135- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
3136 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
3137
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00003138- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
3139
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00003140- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
3141 writing.
3142
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00003143- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
3144
3145- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
3146
3147- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3148
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00003149- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
3150
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003151- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
3152 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00003153
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00003154- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
3155
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003156- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
3157 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00003158
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003159- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
3160 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00003161
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00003162- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
3163
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00003164- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
3165 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
3166
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00003167- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
3168 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
3169
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003170- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
3171 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
3172 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
3173 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00003174
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00003175- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3176 interpreter shutdown.
3177
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003178- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
3179 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
3180 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
3181 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00003182
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003183- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
3184 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
3185 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00003186
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003187- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
3188 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00003189
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00003190- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
3191 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003192 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
3193 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00003194
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003195- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
3196 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3197 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00003198 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3199
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00003200- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003201 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
3202 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
3203 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
3204 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
3205 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00003206
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00003207- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003208 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3209 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00003210
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00003211- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3212
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00003213- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00003214
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00003215- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
3216
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00003217- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
3218 the release file is empty.
3219
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00003220- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
3221 module.
3222
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003223- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
3224 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
3225 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00003226
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003227- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
3228 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00003229
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003230- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
3231 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00003232
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003233- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3234 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00003235
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003236- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3237 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00003238
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00003239- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
3240
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00003241- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
3242 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
3243 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
3244
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003245- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3246 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00003247
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003248- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
3249 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00003250
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003251- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3252 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00003253
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00003254- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003255 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
3256 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00003257
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003258- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3259 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
3260 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00003261
3262- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00003263 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3264
3265- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
3266
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003267- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
3268 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00003269
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003270- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
3271 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
3272 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00003273
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003274- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3275 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3276 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00003277
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00003278- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3279 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
3280
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003281- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
3282 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
3283 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00003284
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00003285- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3286 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3287 the same as passing no argument.
3288
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003289- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00003290
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003291- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
3292 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00003293
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00003294- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00003295
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00003296- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3297
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003298- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3299 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00003300
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00003301- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00003302 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
3303
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003304- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
3305 TLS with authentication credentials.
3306
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003307- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3308 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00003309
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00003310- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3311 msvc9compiler.
3312
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00003313- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003314 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3315 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00003316
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00003317- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3318 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3319 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3320
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00003321- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003322 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
3323 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00003324
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003325- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3326 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00003327
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003328- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3329
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00003330- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
3331 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
3332 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3333
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003334- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
3335 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3336 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00003337
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00003338- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
3339
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003340- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00003341
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00003342- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3343 raises ReadError on empty files.
3344
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003345- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00003346
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00003347- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
3348 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00003349
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003350- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
3351 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00003352
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00003353- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
3354 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
3355
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003356- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
3357 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00003358
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003359- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00003360
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003361- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
3362 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00003363
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003364- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
3365 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
3366 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
3367 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00003368 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
3369
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003370- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
3371 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
3372 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00003373
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00003374- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003375 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00003376 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
3377
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00003378- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
3379 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
3380 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00003381
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003382- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00003383 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
3384
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00003385- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003386 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
3387 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
3388 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00003389
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003390- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
3391 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00003392 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
3393
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00003394- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
3395 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
3396
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00003397- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
3398 which are part of a reference cycle.
3399
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00003400- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
3401 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
3402
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003403- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
3404 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
3405 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00003406
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003407- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
3408 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
3409 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
3410 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00003411
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003412- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
3413 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
3414 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
3415 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00003416
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00003417- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
3418 header as required by RFC 1952.
3419
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00003420- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
3421 Distutils.
3422
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00003423- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
3424 an uppercase.
3425
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00003426- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
3427 several threads at once.
3428
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00003429- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
3430
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00003431- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
3432 larger than emax.
3433
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00003434- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
3435 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
3436
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003437- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
3438 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00003439
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003440- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00003441
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00003442- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
3443 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003444
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003445- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
3446 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00003447
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00003448- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
3449 builtin tokenizer.
3450
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003451- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
3452 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00003453
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003454- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
3455 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00003456
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003457- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
3458 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00003459
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003460- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
3461 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00003462
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00003463- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
3464
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00003465- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
3466
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00003467- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3468
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00003469- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
3470
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003471- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00003472
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003473- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
3474 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
3475 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00003476
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003477- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
3478 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00003479
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00003480- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
3481
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003482- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
3483 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
3484 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
3485 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00003486
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00003487- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
3488 should be raised, not AttributeError.
3489
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00003490- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
3491 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
3492
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00003493- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003494 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00003495
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00003496- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
3497
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00003498- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
3499
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00003500- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
3501
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00003502- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
3503 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
3504
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00003505- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
3506
3507- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
3508
3509- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
3510
3511- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
3512 ScrolledText.
3513
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00003514- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
3515
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003516- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
3517 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00003518
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00003519- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
3520 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
3521 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
3522 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
3523
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003524- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
3525 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00003526
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00003527- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
3528
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003529- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
3530 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
3531 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00003532
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00003533- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
3534 DO/DONT correctly.
3535
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00003536- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003537 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
3538 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00003539
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00003540- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003541 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
3542 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
3543 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00003544
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00003545- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
3546 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
3547 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
3548
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003549- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
3550 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
3551 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00003552
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00003553- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00003554
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003555- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
3556 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00003557
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003558- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
3559 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00003560
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00003561- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
3562 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
3563
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00003564- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
3565
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00003566- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
3567
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00003568- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
3569
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00003570- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
3571 sys.path.
3572
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00003573- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
3574
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003575- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
3576 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00003577
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00003578- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
3579 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
3580
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003581- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
3582 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00003583
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00003584- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
3585
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00003586- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
3587
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003588- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
3589 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00003590
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00003591- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
3592 for tracing methods.
3593
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00003594Extension Modules
3595-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00003596
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00003597- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
3598 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
3599
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00003600- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
3601
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00003602- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003603 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
3604 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
3605 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
3606 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00003607
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00003608- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
3609
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003610- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
3611 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
3612 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00003613
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003614- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
3615 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00003616
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003617- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
3618 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00003619
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003620- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
3621 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00003622
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00003623- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
3624 object in the '?' format.
3625
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00003626- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
3627
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00003628- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
3629 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00003630
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003631- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
3632 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
3633 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
3634 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00003635
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003636- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
3637 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
3638 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
3639 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
3640 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
3641 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00003642
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00003643- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003644 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
3645 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
3646 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
3647 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
3648 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00003649
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003650- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
3651 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00003652
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00003653- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00003654 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00003655 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00003656
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003657- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
3658 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
3659 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00003660
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003661- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
3662 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00003663
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003664- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
3665 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
3666 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
3667 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
3668 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00003669
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00003670- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
3671 overflow checks in the audioop module.
3672
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00003673- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
3674 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003675 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
3676 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00003677
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003678- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
3679 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
3680 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00003681
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00003682- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
3683
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00003684- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
3685 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
3686 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
3687 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
3688
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00003689- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
3690
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00003691- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
3692
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003693- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00003694 handling.
3695
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00003696- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
3697 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
3698
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00003699- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
3700
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00003701- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
3702
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00003703- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00003704
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003705- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
3706 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00003707
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00003708- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
3709
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00003710- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
3711
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003712- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
3713 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
3714 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00003715
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003716- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
3717 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00003718
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00003719- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
3720
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00003721- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3722 (CVE_2009_3560).
3723
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003724- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
3725 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
3726 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00003727
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00003728- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
3729 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
3730
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00003731- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
3732
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003733- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
3734 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00003735
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003736- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00003737
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00003738Build
3739-----
3740
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00003741- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
3742
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00003743- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
3744
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003745- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
3746 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
3747 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
3748 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
3749 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00003750
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00003751- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
3752
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00003753- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
3754 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00003755
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003756- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
3757 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
3758 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
3759 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00003760
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003761- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
3762 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00003763
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00003764- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
3765
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00003766- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
3767 give false warnings.
3768
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003769- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
3770 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
3771 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00003772
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003773- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
3774 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00003775
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00003776- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00003777
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003778- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3779 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3780 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00003781
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00003782- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3783
3784- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
3785 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
3786
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00003787- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
3788 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
3789 Python.
3790
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00003791- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3792 found.
3793
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00003794- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00003795
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00003796- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
3797 icc or suncc.
3798
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003799- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
3800 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
3801 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00003802
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003803- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00003804
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00003805- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
3806
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003807- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00003808 directories.
3809
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003810- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003811 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00003812
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003813- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00003814 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00003815
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00003816- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
3817
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00003818- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
3819
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00003820- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
3821
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00003822Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003823-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00003824
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00003825- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
3826 to Doc/license.rst.
3827
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00003828- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
3829 with os.kill.
3830
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003831- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00003832 only.
3833
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003834- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00003835 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
3836
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003837- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
3838 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00003839
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00003840- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
3841 ImportError.
3842
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003843- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
3844 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00003845
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00003846- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
3847 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00003848
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00003849- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
3850 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
3851
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00003852Tests
3853-----
3854
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003855- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
3856 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00003857
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00003858- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
3859
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003860- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00003861
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003862- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
3863 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
3864 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00003865
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00003866- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003867 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00003868
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00003869- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
3870 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
3871
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00003872- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
3873 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
3874
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003875- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
3876 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00003877
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003878- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
3879 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00003880
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003881- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
3882 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00003883
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00003884- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
3885
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00003886- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
3887
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00003888- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
3889 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
3890
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00003891- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
3892 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00003893
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003894- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
3895 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00003896
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00003897- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
3898 effectively raised.
3899
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003900- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
3901 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00003902
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003903- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
3904 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00003905
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00003906- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
3907 filesystem encoding.
3908
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003909- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
3910 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00003911
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003912- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
3913 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
3914 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
3915 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00003916
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003917- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
3918 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
3919 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00003920
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00003921- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
3922 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00003923
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003924- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00003925 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3926
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00003927- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
3928
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00003929- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00003930 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3931
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003932- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
3933 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
3934 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00003935
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003936- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
3937 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00003938
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003939- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
3940 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00003941
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003942- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
3943 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
3944 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
3945 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00003946
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00003947- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
3948
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00003949- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
3950 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
3951
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00003952- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
3953 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
3954 between concurrent executions on the same system.
3955
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00003956- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
3957 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
3958 calling methods on the object.
3959
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00003960- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003961 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
3962 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
3963 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00003964 :func:`_thread._count()`.
3965
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003966- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
3967 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00003968
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00003969- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
3970 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
3971
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00003972- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003973 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
3974 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00003975
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00003976- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
3977
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003978- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
3979 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
3980 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00003981
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00003982- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003983 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00003984
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00003985Tools/Demos
3986-----------
3987
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00003988- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00003989
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00003990- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003991 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00003992
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003993
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00003994What's New in Python 3.1?
3995=========================
3996
3997*Release date: 27-June-2009*
3998
3999Core and Builtins
4000-----------------
4001
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00004002- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
4003 large arguments.
4004
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00004005- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
4006 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
4007
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004008Library
4009-------
4010
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00004011- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
4012
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004013- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00004014
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00004015- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
4016
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00004017- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
4018 io.UnsupportedOperation.
4019
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00004020- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00004021 (On Unix)
4022
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00004023- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
4024 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
4025
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00004026Extension Modules
4027-----------------
4028
4029- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
4030
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004031
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00004032What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
4033=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004034
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00004035*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004036
4037Core and Builtins
4038-----------------
4039
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00004040- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
4041
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00004042- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
4043 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
4044
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00004045- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
4046 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
4047
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00004048- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00004049 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00004050
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004051Library
4052-------
4053
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00004054- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004055 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00004056 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
4057
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00004058- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4059
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00004060- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
4061 binary files.
4062
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004063- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
4064 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4065
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00004066- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
4067 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
4068 are always None now.
4069
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00004070- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
4071 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
4072 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
4073 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
4074
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00004075- Removed the ipaddr module.
4076
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00004077- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
4078 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
4079 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
4080
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00004081- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
4082
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00004083- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
4084
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00004085- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
4086 parameters.
4087
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00004088Windows
4089-------
4090
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00004091- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
4092
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00004093- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
4094
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00004095C-API
4096-----
4097
4098- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
4099 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
4100 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
4101
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004102
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00004103Build
4104-----
4105
4106- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
4107 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
4108
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00004109- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
4110 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
4111
4112
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00004113
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00004114What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
4115=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004116
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00004117*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004118
4119Core and Builtins
4120-----------------
4121
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00004122- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
4123 of the command line.
4124
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00004125- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
4126
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00004127- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
4128 that would raise SystemError.
4129
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00004130- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
4131 function with __func__.
4132
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00004133- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
4134 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00004135
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00004136- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
4137 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
4138 and imaginary literals.
4139
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00004140- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
4141
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00004142- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
4143
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00004144- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
4145 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
4146 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
4147 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
4148 didn't match that of float('-nan').
4149
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004150Library
4151-------
4152
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00004153- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
4154
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00004155- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
4156
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00004157- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
4158 argument to the 'help' function.
4159
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00004160- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
4161 arguments for strings with a space in them.
4162
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00004163- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
4164 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
4165
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00004166- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4167 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4168
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00004169- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
4170 the directory already exists.
4171
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00004172- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4173 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4174 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4175
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00004176- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
4177 IO objects.
4178
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00004179- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
4180 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
4181
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00004182- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
4183 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
4184 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
4185
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00004186- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4187 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4188
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00004189- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4190 deepcopy()ing.
4191
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00004192- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
4193
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00004194- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4195
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00004196- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
4197
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00004198- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
4199 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
4200 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
4201 empty.
4202
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00004203- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4204 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
4205 corrects a pydoc regression.
4206
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004207- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00004208 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
4209
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00004210Installation
4211------------
4212
4213- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
4214 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00004215
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00004216- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
4217
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00004218Extension Modules
4219-----------------
4220
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00004221- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00004222
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00004223- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
4224
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00004225- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
4226
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00004227- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
4228 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00004229
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00004230Build
4231-----
4232
4233- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
4234 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
4235 Clinton Roy.
4236
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00004237Tests
4238-----
4239
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004240- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00004241 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
4242 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
4243 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
4244
4245
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00004246What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
4247================================
4248
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00004249*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00004250
4251Core and Builtins
4252-----------------
4253
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00004254- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
4255 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
4256
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00004257- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
4258 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
4259 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
4260
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00004261- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
4262 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
4263 a PendingDeprecation warning.
4264
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00004265- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
4266 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
4267 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
4268 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
4269 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
4270 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
4271 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
4272 the same way.
4273
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00004274- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
4275
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00004276- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
4277 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
4278 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
4279
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00004280- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
4281 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
4282
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00004283- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00004284
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00004285- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
4286 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
4287 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
4288
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00004289- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
4290 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
4291 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
4292 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00004293
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00004294- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00004295 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
4296
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00004297- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
4298 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
4299
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00004300- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
4301 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
4302
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00004303- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
4304
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00004305- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
4306 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
4307
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00004308- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
4309
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00004310- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
4311 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
4312
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00004313- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00004314
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00004315- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
4316 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
4317 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
4318 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
4319
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00004320- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
4321 some builtin types.
4322
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00004323- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
4324
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00004325- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
4326 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00004327
4328- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
4329 floats.
4330
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00004331- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00004332 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
4333 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
4334 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
4335 long time.)
4336
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00004337- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
4338 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
4339 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
4340 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00004341 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
4342 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
4343 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00004344
4345 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
4346 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
4347 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
4348 reason or another.
4349
4350 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
4351 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
4352 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
4353 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
4354 correctly rounded on these platforms.
4355
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004356 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00004357 this change does not apply.
4358
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00004359- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
4360
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00004361- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
4362 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
4363 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
4364 methods available on the str class.
4365
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00004366- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
4367 its clarity and its speed.
4368
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004369- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00004370 to avoid compiler warnings.
4371
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00004372- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
4373 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
4374
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00004375Installation
4376------------
4377
4378- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
4379
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00004380Library
4381-------
4382
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00004383- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
4384
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00004385- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
4386 specific Python version.
4387
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00004388- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4389 whitespace.
4390
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004391- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00004392 the right type checkings anymore.
4393
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00004394- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
4395 return directories.
4396
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00004397- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4398
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00004399- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4400 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4401
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00004402- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
4403 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
4404
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00004405- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
4406 extracting a file to the root directory.
4407
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00004408- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
4409
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00004410- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4411 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
4412 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
4413
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00004414- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
4415
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00004416- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4417 Contributed by Google.
4418
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00004419- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4420 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4421
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00004422- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
4423
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00004424- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4425
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00004426- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
4427 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
4428 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4429
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00004430- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
4431 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4432 initialized before.
4433
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00004434- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4435 names which should not be exported.
4436
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00004437- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
4438 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
4439
4440- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4441
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00004442- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
4443 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
4444 instances.
4445
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00004446- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
4447 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
4448 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
4449
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00004450- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
4451 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
4452
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00004453- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
4454 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
4455 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
4456 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
4457 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
4458
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00004459- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
4460 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
4461
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00004462- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4463 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4464 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4465
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00004466Extension Modules
4467-----------------
4468
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00004469- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
4470 pwd.
4471
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00004472- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
4473 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
4474 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
4475 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
4476
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00004477- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
4478 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00004479
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00004480Tests
4481-----
4482
4483- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
4484 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
4485 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
4486 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
4487 can be adjusted to use it over time.
4488
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00004489- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
4490 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
4491 incorrectly on __exit__.
4492
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00004493C-API
4494-----
4495
4496- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
4497
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00004498
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00004499What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
4500=================================
4501
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00004502*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00004503
4504Core and Builtins
4505-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00004506
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00004507- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
4508 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00004509
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00004510- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
4511
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00004512- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
4513 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
4514
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00004515- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
4516 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
4517
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00004518- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
4519
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00004520- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
4521 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
4522
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00004523- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
4524 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
4525 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
4526
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00004527- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
4528
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00004529- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
4530 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
4531
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00004532- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
4533 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
4534 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
4535 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
4536
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00004537- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
4538 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
4539 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
4540
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00004541- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
4542 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
4543 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
4544 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
4545 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
4546 the internal format.
4547
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00004548- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
4549 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
4550 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
4551
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00004552- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
4553 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
4554
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00004555- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
4556 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
4557
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00004558- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
4559 short file names.
4560
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00004561Library
4562-------
4563
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00004564- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00004565 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4566
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00004567- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
4568 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
4569 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
4570
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00004571- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
4572 the -T argument.
4573
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00004574- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4575
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00004576- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
4577
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00004578- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
4579
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00004580- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
4581 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
4582
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00004583- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
4584
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00004585- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4586
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00004587- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
4588 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
4589
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00004590- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
4591 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
4592
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00004593- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
4594 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
4595 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
4596
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00004597- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
4598
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00004599- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
4600 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
4601
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00004602- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
4603 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
4604
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00004605- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
4606 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
4607 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
4608 partial bzip2 compressed data.
4609
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00004610- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
4611 specifier to Decimal.__format__
4612
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00004613- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
4614 '>' alignment characters.
4615
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00004616- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
4617 value, and report it as -1 instead.
4618
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00004619- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
4620 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
4621
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00004622Extension Modules
4623-----------------
4624
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00004625- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
4626
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00004627- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
4628 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00004629 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
4630 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
4631 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00004632
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00004633
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00004634What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00004635================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00004636
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00004637*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00004638
4639Core and Builtins
4640-----------------
4641
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00004642- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
4643
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00004644- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
4645
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00004646- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
4647 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
4648
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00004649- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
4650 contained non ascii character on windows.
4651
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00004652- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
4653 source has already been decoded into str.
4654
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00004655- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
4656 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
4657
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00004658- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
4659 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
4660
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00004661- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
4662 returns a non-number type.
4663
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00004664- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
4665
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00004666- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
4667 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00004668 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
4669 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00004670
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00004671- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00004672 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
4673
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00004674- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
4675 Previously it returned a float.
4676
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00004677- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
4678 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
4679 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
4680 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
4681
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00004682- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
4683
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00004684- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
4685 from a string.
4686
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00004687- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
4688
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00004689- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
4690 optional module state data.
4691
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00004692- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004693 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00004694
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00004695- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
4696 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
4697 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
4698
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00004699- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
4700 __next__ method.
4701
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00004702- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
4703 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
4704 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
4705
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00004706- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
4707
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00004708- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
4709
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00004710- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
4711 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
4712 amount of loop unrolling.
4713
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00004714- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
4715 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
4716 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
4717 Martin von Löwis at
4718 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
4719
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00004720- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00004721 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
4722 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
4723
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00004724- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
4725 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
4726 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
4727 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
4728
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00004729- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
4730 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
4731 Python's overall memory).
4732
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00004733- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
4734 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
4735 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
4736 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
4737 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
4738
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00004739- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
4740 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
4741 items, rather than the size in bytes.
4742
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00004743- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
4744
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00004745- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
4746 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
4747
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004748- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
4749 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00004750
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00004751- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
4752 did not get collected.
4753
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00004754- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
4755 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
4756
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00004757- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
4758 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
4759
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00004760- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
4761 fail.
4762
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00004763- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
4764
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00004765- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
4766 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
4767
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00004768- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
4769 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
4770 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
4771
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00004772- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
4773
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00004774- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
4775 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
4776 failures on OS X.
4777
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00004778- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
4779 exceptions.
4780
4781- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00004782 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
4783
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00004784- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
4785 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
4786 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
4787 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
4788
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00004789- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
4790 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
4791 Python 2.x.
4792
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00004793- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
4794 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
4795
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00004796- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
4797 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
4798 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
4799 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00004800
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00004801- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
4802 larger than 1.
4803
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00004804- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
4805
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00004806- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
4807
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00004808- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
4809 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
4810 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
4811 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
4812
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00004813Library
4814-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00004815
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00004816- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
4817 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
4818
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004819- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00004820 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
4821
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004822- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00004823 Distutils.
4824
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00004825- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
4826
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00004827- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
4828 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
4829 Michael Haubenwallner.
4830
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00004831- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
4832
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00004833- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4834 opening an empty or very small file.
4835
4836- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00004837 behavior is similar when used with -O.
4838
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00004839- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4840
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00004841- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
4842 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
4843 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
4844 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
4845
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00004846- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
4847
4848- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4849
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00004850- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00004851 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4852
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004853- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00004854
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004855- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00004856 attribute.
4857
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00004858- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4859
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00004860- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4861
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00004862- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
4863 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
4864 descriptor errors
4865
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004866- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00004867 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4868
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004869- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00004870 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
4871
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00004872- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4873 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4874
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00004875- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4876
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00004877- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4878
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00004879- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
4880 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4881 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
4882
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00004883- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
4884 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
4885
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00004886- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4887
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004888- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00004889 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4890
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00004891- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
4892
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00004893- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
4894 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
4895
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004896- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00004897 subcommand.
4898
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00004899- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
4900 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4901
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00004902- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
4903 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
4904
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00004905- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
4906 for old-style extensions.
4907
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00004908- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4909
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00004910- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
4911 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4912 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
4913 Cournapeau.
4914
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00004915- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4916
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00004917- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00004918 anymore.
4919
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00004920- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00004921 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
4922
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00004923- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4924
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00004925- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4926
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00004927- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
4928
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00004929- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
4930 a value in SafeConfigParser.
4931
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00004932- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
4933
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00004934- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00004935 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
4936
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00004937- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
4938 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
4939
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00004940- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
4941 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
4942
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00004943- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00004944
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00004945- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00004946
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00004947- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4948 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4949 threads.
4950
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00004951- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
4952 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4953 that it was failing to do localization.
4954
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00004955- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
4956 Brandl.
4957
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00004958- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
4959 character.
4960
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00004961- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
4962 Tim Golden.
4963
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00004964- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
4965
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00004966- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
4967 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
4968 window flashing.
4969
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00004970- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
4971 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
4972 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
4973
4974- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4975
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00004976- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
4977 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4978
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00004979- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
4980
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00004981- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4982
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00004983- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4984
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00004985- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
4986
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00004987- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4988
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00004989- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4990
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00004991- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4992 import guess_extension`` was used.
4993
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00004994- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
4995 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
4996
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00004997- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4998 overrun.
4999
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005000- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00005001 bdist_rpm command.
5002
5003- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
5004
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00005005- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
5006
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00005007- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
5008 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005009
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005010- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
5011 IronPython.
5012
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00005013- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
5014 The file was resized to wrong size.
5015
5016- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
5017
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005018- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00005019 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
5020
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005021- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00005022 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
5023
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00005024- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
5025 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
5026
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00005027- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
5028
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00005029- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
5030 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
5031 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
5032
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00005033- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
5034 encoding.
5035
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00005036- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
5037 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
5038
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00005039- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
5040 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
5041
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00005042- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
5043 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
5044 ctime of the files involved.
5045
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00005046- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
5047 deadlock.
5048
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00005049- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
5050 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
5051 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
5052
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00005053- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
5054
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00005055- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
5056 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
5057
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00005058- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
5059 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
5060 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
5061 Vajda.
5062
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00005063- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
5064 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
5065 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
5066 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
5067
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00005068- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
5069 Ross Light.
5070
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005071- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00005072 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
5073
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00005074- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
5075 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
5076
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005077- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00005078 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
5079
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00005080- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
5081
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00005082- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
5083
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00005084- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
5085 items being passed through ord().
5086
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00005087- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
5088 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
5089 "src.new").
5090
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00005091- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
5092
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00005093- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
5094 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
5095 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
5096
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005097- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00005098 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
5099
5100- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
5101 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
5102
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00005103- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
5104 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
5105
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00005106- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
5107
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00005108- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
5109 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00005110
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005111- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00005112 allowed non-integer arguments.
5113
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00005114- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
5115 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
5116 examples.
5117
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00005118- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
5119 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
5120
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00005121- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
5122 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
5123
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00005124- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
5125 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
5126
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005127- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00005128 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
5129 be disabled, and not compiled.
5130
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00005131- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
5132 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
5133 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
5134 traditional 2.x file object.
5135
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005136- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
5137 parameter was set.
5138
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00005139- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
5140 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
5141
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00005142- Add the importlib package.
5143
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00005144- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5145 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5146
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00005147- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005148 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00005149
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00005150- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
5151 without defaults.
5152
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005153- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
5154 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00005155 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
5156
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00005157- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
5158 in sharedctypes.py.
5159
5160- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
5161 __getattr__.
5162
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00005163- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
5164 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
5165 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
5166
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00005167- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
5168 counting.
5169
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00005170- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
5171
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00005172- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
5173 function without defining argtypes.
5174
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00005175- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
5176 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
5177 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
5178 Jacques Frechet.
5179
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00005180- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
5181
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00005182- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
5183 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
5184
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005185- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
5186 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00005187 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
5188
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00005189- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
5190 to the decimal module.
5191
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00005192- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
5193 cast as floats.
5194
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00005195- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
5196 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
5197
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005198- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00005199 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
5200
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005201- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
5202 the function is not a generator.
5203
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005204- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
5205 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00005206
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005207- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00005208 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
5209
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00005210- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
5211
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00005212- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
5213
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00005214- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
5215 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
5216
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00005217- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
5218 works as expected in the interactive environment.
5219
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00005220- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
5221 Gabriel Genellina.
5222
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00005223- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
5224 boundary.
5225
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00005226- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
5227 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
5228 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
5229
5230- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
5231 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
5232 Alexander Belopolsky.
5233
5234- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
5235 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
5236 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
5237 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
5238 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
5239 Alexander Belopolsky.
5240
5241- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
5242 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
5243 Alexander Belopolsky.
5244
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00005245- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
5246 a non-ASCII letter.
5247
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00005248- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
5249
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00005250- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
5251 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
5252
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00005253- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
5254 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
5255 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
5256
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00005257- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
5258 libs.
5259
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00005260- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
5261 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
5262
5263- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5264 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5265 Content-Disposition headers.
5266
5267- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
5268 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
5269 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
5270 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
5271 doesn't configure logging.
5272
5273- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
5274 exception.
5275
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00005276- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
5277 statements.
5278
5279- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
5280 not a malformed option.
5281
5282- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
5283 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
5284
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00005285- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
5286 the corresponding tests now pass.
5287
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00005288- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
5289 it was calling the wrong open() function.
5290
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00005291- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5292 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5293 Content-Disposition headers.
5294
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00005295- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
5296 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
5297
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00005298- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
5299 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
5300 and getservbyport().
5301
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00005302- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
5303
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00005304Tools/Demos
5305-----------
5306
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00005307- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
5308 and make it 2.6-compatible.
5309
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00005310- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
5311
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00005312- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
5313
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005314
5315Build
5316-----
5317
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00005318- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
5319
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00005320- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
5321
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00005322- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
5323 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
5324
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00005325- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005326 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00005327
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00005328- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
5329
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00005330- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
5331
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00005332- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
5333
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00005334- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
5335
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005336- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
5337
5338- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
5339
5340- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
5341
5342- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
5343
5344- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
5345
5346- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
5347
5348- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
5349
5350- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
5351
5352- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
5353
5354- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
5355
5356
5357C-API
5358-----
5359
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00005360- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
5361 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
5362
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00005363- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
5364 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
5365
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005366- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
5367
5368- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
5369 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
5370
5371- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
5372 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
5373
5374
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00005375Extension Modules
5376-----------------
5377
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00005378- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
5379 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
5380 implementations or external openssl library).
5381
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00005382- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
5383
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00005384- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
5385
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00005386- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
5387 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
5388 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
5389
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00005390- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
5391
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00005392- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
5393 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
5394 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
5395
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00005396- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
5397
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00005398- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
5399
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00005400- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
5401 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00005402
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00005403- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
5404 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
5405 buffer.
5406
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00005407
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00005408- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
5409
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00005410Tests
5411-----
5412
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00005413- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
5414 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5415
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00005416- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
5417 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
5418 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
5419 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
5420
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00005421- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005422 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00005423 from test support, which does the conversion.
5424
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00005425- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5426
5427
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00005428Docs
5429----
5430
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00005431
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00005432**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**