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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00007What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-XXX*
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12Core and Builtins
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Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +000015- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
16 used anymore and it was never documented.
17
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +000018- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for
19 invalid integers n (including n = -909).
20
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +000021- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers
22 (instances of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and
23 fractions.Fraction) that makes it easy to maintain the invariant
24 that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have equal value.
25
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +000026- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
27 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
28 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
29 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
30 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
31 in sets or dicts.
32
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +000033- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
34 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
35
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +000036- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
37 encoding and surrogateespace error handler instead of the locale encoding to
38 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
39
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +000040- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace
41 (instead of strict) error handler to escape surrogates
42
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +000043- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
44 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +000045 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
46 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +000047
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +000048- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
49 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict)
50
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +000051- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
52 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
53 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
54
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +000055- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
56 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the
57 right encoding
58
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +000059- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
60
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +000061- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler
62
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +000063- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
64 arguments.
65
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +000066- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
67 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores
68 exceptions (KeyboardInterrupt)
69
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +000070- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
71 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace)
72
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +000073- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept bytearray object anymore,
74 you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes
75
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +000076- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
77 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable
78 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
79 Charles-François Natali.
80
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +000081- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
82 passed to bytes or bytearray.
83
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +000084- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
85
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +000086- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
87 changed.
88
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +000089- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
90 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
91 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
92
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +000093- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
94
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +000095- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
96
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +000097- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
98
Marc-André Lemburg177ab082010-05-05 13:32:59 +000099- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in
100 case it is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +0000101
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +0000102- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
103 is unknown
104
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +0000105- Issue #1583863: An str subclass can now override the __str__ method
106
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +0000107- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
108 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
109
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +0000110- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
111 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
112 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
113 comparisons with complex.
114
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +0000115- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
116 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
117 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
118 module.
119
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +0000120- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
121
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +0000122- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
123 a fatal error in low memory condition.
124
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +0000125- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
126 the BOM check fails.
127
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +0000128- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
129
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +0000130- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule
131 in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
132
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +0000133- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
134 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
135 strings.
136
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +0000137- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
138 0 padding.
139
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +0000140- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
141 complex.__format__. Now it matches other numeric types.
142
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +0000143- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
144 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string
145 and PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original
146 deprecations.
147
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +0000148- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
149 `PyObject_GetBuffer` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
150
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +0000151- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
152 slice with very large step value.
153
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +0000154- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
155 tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
156 structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
157 suite_mask, and product_type.
158
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +0000159- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
160 could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
161 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
162 string instead.
163
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +0000164- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
165 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
166 a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
167 is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
168 executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
169 constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
170 Malcolm.
171
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +0000172- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
173 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
174 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
175
Mark Dickinson45b63652010-01-16 18:10:25 +0000176- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
177 alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
178 occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
179 that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
Mark Dickinsonc4f18682010-01-17 14:39:12 +0000180 strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
181 some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
182 flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +0000183
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +0000184- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
185 consistent with other special methods.
186
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +0000187- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
188 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
189
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +0000190- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
191 AttributeError.
192
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +0000193- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
194 negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
195 described in C99 Annex F.
196
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +0000197- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
198 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
199 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
200 particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
201
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +0000202- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
203 executables on OSX.
204
205 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
206 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
207 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
208
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +0000209- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
210 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
211
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +0000212- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
213 with invalid values.
214
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +0000215- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
216 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
217
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +0000218- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
219 on MacOSX 10.6.
220
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +0000221- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
222
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +0000223- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
224 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
225
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +0000226- Issue #7298: fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration
227 over range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and
228 c fit in C long but the length of the range did not. Also fix
229 several cases where reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and
230 fix a refleak for reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
231
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +0000232- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
233 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
234
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +0000235- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
236 surrogates.
237
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +0000238- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
239
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +0000240- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
241
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +0000242- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
243 disabled since Python 3.0.
244
245- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
246 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
247 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
248
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +0000249- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
250 removed in 3.3. See http://bugs.python.org/issue8606 .
251
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +0000252- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
253
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +0000254- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
255 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
256 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
257
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000258- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +0000259 support.
260
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000261- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
262 crash in GAE.
263
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +0000264- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
265 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
266 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
267
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000268- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +0000269 using byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +0000270
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +0000271- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
272 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
273 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
274 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
275
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +0000276- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
277 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
278
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +0000279- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
280 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
281
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +0000282- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
283
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +0000284- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
285
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +0000286- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
287
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +0000288- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
289
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +0000290- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
291 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
292
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +0000293- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
294
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +0000295- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
296
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +0000297- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
298 occurred in the argument chain.
299
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +0000300- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
301 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
302
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +0000303- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
304
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +0000305- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
306 object, and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the
307 documentation.
308
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +0000309- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
310
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +0000311- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
312 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
313 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
314
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca4aba662009-07-01 00:48:39 +0000315- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +0000316 the 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired
317 surrogates.
318
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +0000319- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
320
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +0000321- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its
322 argument to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
323
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +0000324- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers.
325 These methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
326
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +0000327- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes
328 instances from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses
329 from being pickled properly.
330
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +0000331- Code objects now support weak references.
332
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +0000333- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
334
Ronald Oussoren4cda46a2010-05-08 10:49:43 +0000335- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework
336 builds on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install
337 into "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +0000338
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000339C-API
340-----
341
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +0000342- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
343 embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
344 sys.path. This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
345 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
346
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +0000347- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
348 strings in an efficient manner.
349
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +0000350- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
351 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
352 is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
353
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +0000354- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added,
355 analogous to PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
356
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +0000357- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
358 has '\0' at the end.
359
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +0000360- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
361 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse,
362 PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and PyArg_Parse now raise a
363 DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the 'L' format
364 code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
365 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
366
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +0000367- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
368
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +0000369- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments)
370 in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
371
Mark Dickinson0b2b2322009-12-04 11:32:26 +0000372- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +0000373 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
374
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +0000375- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD
376 in PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be
377 should used for accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures
378 using PyDescr_COMMON.
379
380- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +0000381
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +0000382- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
383
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +0000384- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
385 PyCode_Addr2Line().
386
387- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
388 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
389
390- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
391 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
392
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +0000393- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
394 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
395 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
396 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
397
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +0000398Library
399-------
400
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +0000401- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
402
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +0000403- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
404
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +0000405- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as
406 binary strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
407
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +0000408- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
409 mistake.
410
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +0000411- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding
412 with the output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the
413 tests from 2.x issue 1368247.
414
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +0000415- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
416 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
417
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +0000418- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float
419 and divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest
420 multiple of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even
421 method.
422
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +0000423- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
424 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
425
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +0000426- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
427
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +0000428- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
429 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
430 API
431
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +0000432- Issue #8770: now sysconfig displays information when it's called as
433 a script. Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
434
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +0000435- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
436 Fredrik Håård
437
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +0000438- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
439 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating
440 contexts that correspond to the decimal interchange formats
441 specified in IEEE 754.
442
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +0000443- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
444 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
445 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +0000446
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +0000447- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
448 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler
449
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +0000450- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
451 of files without one.
452
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +0000453- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
454 comparing to a non-mapping.
455
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +0000456- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
457 correct encoding
458
459- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +0000460 several ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively
461 disable protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
462
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +0000463- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
464
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +0000465- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
466 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
467 stdout is not a TTY).
468
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +0000469- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
470 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
471 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
472 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
473
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +0000474- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
475 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
476
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +0000477- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
478 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
479
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +0000480- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
481
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +0000482- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
483 surrogates and bytes for the filename
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +0000484
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +0000485- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
486
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +0000487- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when
488 the zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
489
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +0000490- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater
491 than 2**31 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
492
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +0000493- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
494 class.
495
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +0000496- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
497 given.
498
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +0000499- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
500 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
501
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +0000502- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a
503 chunk larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
504 objects.
505
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +0000506- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
507 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
508 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
509 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +0000510
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +0000511- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
512
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000513- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
514 error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
515 inheritance with the underlying socket object.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +0000516 The cheap inheritance has been deprecated.
517
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +0000518- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
519 Patch by Tres Seaver.
520
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +0000521- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateespace as the default error handler
522 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode)
523
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +0000524- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
525
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +0000526- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
527 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
528
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +0000529- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
530 Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
531 signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which
532 the signals should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't
533 being followed, leading to the wrong Python exception being raised.
534
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +0000535- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
536 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
537 close() several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
538
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +0000539- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
540 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
541
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +0000542- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals,
543 not just SIGCHLD.
544
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +0000545- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +0000546 webbrowser.get("safari").
547
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +0000548- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
549 when mode="w|" is used.
550
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +0000551- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
552 of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
553
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +0000554- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
555
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +0000556- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
557 It should correctly return an empty response now.
558
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +0000559- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
560
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +0000561- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
562 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
563
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +0000564- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
565 and mappings.
566
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +0000567- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
568 where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
569 event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
570 witnessed in test_httpservers.
571
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +0000572- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the
573 original socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout
574 would be turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
575
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +0000576- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
577 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
578
579- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
580 the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
581
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +0000582- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates
583 and bytes strings for environment keys and values
584
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +0000585- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
586 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
587 message
588
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +0000589- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames
590
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +0000591- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of
592 the string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional
593 and keywords.
594
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +0000595- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
596 a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
597 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
598 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
599
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +0000600- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
601 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
602
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +0000603- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
604 collation name contains a surrogate character.
605
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +0000606- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
607 the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
608 doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
609
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +0000610- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
611
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000612- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +0000613 shutil.copytree.
614
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +0000615- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
616 from PORT/EPRT commands.
617
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +0000618- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
619
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +0000620- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6
621 (as long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
622
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +0000623- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
624 code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
625
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +0000626- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
627 surrogates.
628
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +0000629- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +0000630 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +0000631
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +0000632- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
633 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
634
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +0000635- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
636 the current working directory.
637
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +0000638- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
639 using backslashreplace error handler
640
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +0000641- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
642 surrogates.
643
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +0000644- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
645 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
646
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +0000647- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
648
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +0000649- Issue #7316: the acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
650 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
651 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait
652 loop.
653
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +0000654- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
655 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
656 Python 2.x and 3.0
657
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +0000658- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
659 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
660 designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
661
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +0000662- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
663 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
664 7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
665
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +0000666- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
667 present before it cleans them.
668
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +0000669- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
670 to cover recent locale changes and additions.
671
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +0000672- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
673 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
674 and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
675
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +0000676- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
677
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +0000678- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
679 directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
680
681 >>> Decimal(1.1)
682 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
683
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +0000684- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
685 instances directly.
686
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +0000687- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
688 signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
689 involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
690 are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
691
692- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
693 instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
694 operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
695 the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal).
696
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +0000697- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
698
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +0000699- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
700 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
701 is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
702 patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
703
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +0000704- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
705 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
706 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
707 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
708
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +0000709- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
710 a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
711 True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
712 int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
713
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +0000714- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore
715 some methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available.
716 Initial patch by Bertrand Janin.
717
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +0000718- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
719 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
720
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +0000721- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
722 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
723 now silenced.
724
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +0000725- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
726 when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
727
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +0000728- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
729 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
730 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +0000731
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +0000732- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
733 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
734 (utf8) encoding.
735
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +0000736- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
737
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +0000738- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
739
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +0000740- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
741
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +0000742- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
743 detected.
744
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +0000745- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
746
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +0000747- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
748 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
749
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +0000750- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
751
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +0000752- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
753 the locale.
754
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +0000755- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
756 by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
757 done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
758
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +0000759- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features.
760 The default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier
761 Python versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored
762 by default in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
763
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +0000764- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
765 cElementTree module is updated too.
766
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +0000767- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
768 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
769 program name
770
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +0000771- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
772
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +0000773- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and
774 the replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
775
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +0000776- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
777 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
778
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +0000779- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
780 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +0000781
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +0000782- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
783 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
784
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +0000785- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
786 class.
787
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +0000788- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
789 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
790
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +0000791- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
792
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +0000793- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
794 writing.
795
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +0000796- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
797
798- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
799
800- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
801
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +0000802- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
803
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000804- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
Ezio Melotti8b1458b2010-02-24 16:55:43 +0000805 with the cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +0000806
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +0000807- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
808
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +0000809- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
810 to be ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
811
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +0000812- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
813 Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
814
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +0000815- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
816
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +0000817- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
818 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
819
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +0000820- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
821 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
822
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +0000823- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the
824 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int
825 and long wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly
826 convert that argument to Decimal. Previously only some arguments
827 were converted.
828
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +0000829- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
830 interpreter shutdown.
831
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +0000832- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
833 in XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are
834 allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
835 PHP code in a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
836
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +0000837- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
838 entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
839 encoding. Patch by Jerry Chen.
840
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +0000841- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
842 specify the compression type.
843
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +0000844- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
845 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
846 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
847 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
848
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +0000849- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
850 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
851 file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
852 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
853
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +0000854- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
855 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
856 an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can
857 be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
858 It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
859 `readline()` give wrong results. Patch by Nir Aides.
860
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +0000861- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
862 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
863 the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
864 replace it.
865
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +0000866- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
867
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +0000868- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +0000869
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +0000870- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
871
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +0000872- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
873 the release file is empty.
874
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +0000875- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
876 module.
877
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +0000878- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
879 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
880 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
881
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +0000882- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`.
883 Patch by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
884
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +0000885- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
886 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
887
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +0000888- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
889 argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
890
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +0000891- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files.
892 Patch by Brian Curtin.
893
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +0000894- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
895
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +0000896- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
897 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
898 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
899
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +0000900- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
901 gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
902 by Arfrever.
903
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +0000904- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
905 the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
906
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +0000907- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by
908 Victor Stinner.
909
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +0000910- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
911 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
912 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
913
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +0000914- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
915 and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
916 speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
917
918- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +0000919 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
920
921- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
922
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +0000923- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager.
924 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
925
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000926- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000927 MSVC XML Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +0000928 in regular expressions.
929
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +0000930- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
931 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
932 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
933
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +0000934- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
935 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
936
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +0000937- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
938 raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
939 object). Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
940
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +0000941- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
942 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
943 the same as passing no argument.
944
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +0000945- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
946 default.
947
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +0000948- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server
949 in imaplib.
950
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +0000951- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +0000952
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +0000953- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
954
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +0000955- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
956 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
957
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000958- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +0000959 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
960
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000961- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
962 TLS with authentication credentials.
963
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +0000964- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +0000965 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
966
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +0000967- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
968 msvc9compiler.
969
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +0000970- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
971 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
972 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
973
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +0000974- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
975 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
976 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
977
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +0000978- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
979 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as
980 built-in exception printing.
981
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +0000982- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
983 Robert Collins.
984
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000985- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
986
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +0000987- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
988 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
989 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
990
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +0000991- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
992 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
993 Brian Quinlan.
994
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +0000995- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
996
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +0000997- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
998
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +0000999- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1000 raises ReadError on empty files.
1001
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001002- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00001003 be 2.
1004
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00001005- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
1006 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00001007
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00001008- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
1009 case of an error.
1010
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00001011- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
1012 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
1013
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00001014- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
1015 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
1016
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00001017- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
1018
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00001019- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
1020 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
1021
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00001022- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
1023 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
1024 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
1025 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
1026 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1027
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00001028- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
1029 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
1030 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
1031 local connections.
1032
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00001033- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
1034 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
1035 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1036
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00001037- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1038 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1039 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001040
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00001041- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
1042 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
1043
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00001044- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001045 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00001046 recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
1047 they were slower by 10x to 15x).
1048
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00001049- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
1050 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
1051 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
1052
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00001053- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
1054 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
1055
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00001056- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1057 which are part of a reference cycle.
1058
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00001059- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
1060 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
1061
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00001062- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
1063 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
1064 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
1065
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00001066- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
1067 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
1068 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
1069 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
1070 OSes such as Solaris.
1071
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00001072- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
1073 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
1074 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
1075 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
1076
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00001077- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1078 header as required by RFC 1952.
1079
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00001080- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1081 Distutils.
1082
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00001083- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1084 an uppercase.
1085
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00001086- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
1087 several threads at once.
1088
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001089- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1090
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00001091- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1092 larger than emax.
1093
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00001094- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
1095 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
1096
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00001097- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
1098 GNU readline library version 6.0.
1099
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001100- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00001101
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001102- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1103 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001104
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00001105- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
1106 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
1107
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00001108- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
1109 builtin tokenizer.
1110
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00001111- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
1112 is too large to fit in the current precision.
1113
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00001114- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00001115 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00001116
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00001117- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
1118 does now always result in NULL.
1119
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00001120- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly
1121 with base class positional arguments.
1122
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00001123- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
1124
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00001125- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1126
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00001127- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1128
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00001129- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
1130
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00001131- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
1132 instances.
1133
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00001134- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
1135 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
1136 in long(Decimal('nan')).
1137
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00001138- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
1139 with no type specifier.
1140
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00001141- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
1142
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00001143- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
1144 repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
1145 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
1146 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
1147
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00001148- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
1149 should be raised, not AttributeError.
1150
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00001151- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
1152 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
1153
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00001154- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
1155 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
1156 AttributeError before).
1157
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00001158- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
1159
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00001160- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
1161
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00001162- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1163
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00001164- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1165 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1166
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00001167- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
1168
1169- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
1170
1171- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1172
1173- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1174 ScrolledText.
1175
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00001176- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1177
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00001178- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
1179 the xview* and yview* methods.
1180
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00001181- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
1182 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1183 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1184 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1185
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00001186- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before
1187 assignment" bug in POP3.apop.
1188
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00001189- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
1190
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00001191- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
1192 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
1193 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
1194
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00001195- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
1196 DO/DONT correctly.
1197
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00001198- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
1199 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
1200 Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00001201
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00001202- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
1203 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader
1204 and PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in
1205 relation to other methods required by the ABCs.
1206
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00001207- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
1208 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
1209 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
1210
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00001211- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
1212 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
1213 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
1214
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00001215- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00001216
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00001217- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
1218 reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
1219
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00001220- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
1221 syntax error.
1222
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00001223- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
1224 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
1225
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00001226- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
1227
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00001228- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
1229
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00001230- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
1231
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001232- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
1233 sys.path.
1234
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00001235- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
1236
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00001237- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will
1238 be searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
1239
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00001240- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
1241 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
1242
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00001243- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
1244 os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
1245
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00001246- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
1247
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00001248- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1249
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00001250- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
1251 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
1252
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001253Extension Modules
1254-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00001255
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00001256- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
1257 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
1258
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00001259- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive
1260 algorithm with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer
1261 multiplications and allows many of the multiplications to be
1262 performed using plain C integer arithmetic instead of PyLong
1263 arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small arguments.
1264
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00001265- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
1266 overflow checks in the audioop module.
1267
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00001268- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
1269 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
1270 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to td /
1271 timedelta(seconds=1).
1272
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00001273- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta:
1274 timedelta / timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta
1275 and divmod(timedelta, timedelta) are all supported.
1276
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00001277- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
1278
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00001279- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
1280 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
1281 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
1282 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
1283
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00001284- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
1285
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00001286- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
1287
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00001288- Issue #6544: fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
1289 handling.
1290
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00001291- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1292 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
1293
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00001294- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
1295
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00001296- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1297
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00001298- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00001299
Ronald Oussoren2efd9242009-09-20 14:53:22 +00001300- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the
1301 libedit readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001302
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00001303- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1304
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00001305- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
1306
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00001307- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1308 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1309 matched characters with category 'No'.
1310
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00001311- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00001312 failing due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported
1313 buffers.
1314
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00001315- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1316
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00001317- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1318 (CVE_2009_3560).
1319
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00001320- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
1321 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1322 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1323
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00001324- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
1325 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
1326
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00001327- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
1328
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00001329- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a
1330 bug in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
1331
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00001332Build
1333-----
1334
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00001335- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
1336 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00001337
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00001338- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with
1339 gcc. (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc
1340 --with-pydebug builds as a result of the issue #1628484 fix,
1341 combined with autoconf's strange choice of default CFLAGS produced
1342 by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
1343
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00001344- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into
1345 your home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
1346
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00001347- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
1348
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00001349- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
1350 give false warnings.
1351
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00001352- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
1353 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
1354 when building a shared library.
1355
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00001356- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
Martin v. Löwis4ad70df2010-03-16 16:19:47 +00001357 Exclude 2to3 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00001358
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00001359- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00001360
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00001361- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
1362 private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
1363 PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
1364
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00001365- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1366
1367- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
1368 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
1369
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00001370- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
1371 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
1372 Python.
1373
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00001374- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1375 found.
1376
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00001377- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00001378
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00001379- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
1380 icc or suncc.
1381
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00001382- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1383 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1384 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1385
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00001386- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1387
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00001388- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1389
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00001390- Issue 4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
1391 directories.
1392
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00001393- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1394 extensions are installed.
1395
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001396- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1397 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00001398
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00001399- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1400
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00001401- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
1402
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00001403- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
1404
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00001405
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00001406Documentation
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001407------------
1408
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00001409- A small wsgi server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
1410 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
1411
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00001412- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
1413 -J and -X options.
1414
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00001415- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
1416 ImportError.
1417
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001418- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1419 for Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00001420
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00001421- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
1422 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00001423
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001424Tests
1425-----
1426
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00001427- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
1428
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00001429- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be
1430 handled by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete
1431 uncompressed data).
1432
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00001433- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
1434 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding)
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00001435
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00001436- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
1437 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
1438
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00001439- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
1440 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
1441
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00001442- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling
1443 of SSL shutdowns.
1444
Victor Stinner534db4e2010-04-23 20:33:55 +00001445- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch
1446 written by Dave Malcolm
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00001447
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00001448- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
1449 if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
1450
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00001451- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1452
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00001453- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1454
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00001455- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1456 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1457
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00001458- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1459 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00001460
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001461- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1462 from the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00001463
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00001464- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
1465 effectively raised.
1466
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00001467- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1468 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1469
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00001470- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using
1471 the --verbose flag.
1472
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00001473- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
1474 filesystem encoding.
1475
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00001476- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
1477 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1478
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00001479- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
1480 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
1481 The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
1482 Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
1483
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00001484- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
1485 test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
1486 wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.
1487
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00001488- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
1489 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00001490
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00001491- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
1492 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1493
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00001494- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
1495
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00001496- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00001497 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1498
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00001499- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00001500 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
1501 user running the tests.
1502
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00001503- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1504 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1505
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00001506- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1507 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1508
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00001509- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
1510 the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
1511 the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
1512 to empty global variables.
1513
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00001514- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1515
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00001516- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1517 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1518
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00001519- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
1520 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
1521 between concurrent executions on the same system.
1522
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00001523- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
1524 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
1525 calling methods on the object.
1526
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00001527- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1528 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1529 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1530 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1531 :func:`_thread._count()`.
1532
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00001533- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1534 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1535
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00001536- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1537 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1538
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00001539- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1540 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1541 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00001542
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00001543- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1544
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00001545- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
1546 the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
1547 object bytecode.
1548
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00001549- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
1550 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
1551
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00001552Tools/Demos
1553-----------
1554
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00001555- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
1556
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00001557- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
1558 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the
1559 sandbox.
1560
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00001561
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001562What's New in Python 3.1?
1563=========================
1564
1565*Release date: 27-June-2009*
1566
1567Core and Builtins
1568-----------------
1569
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00001570- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
1571 large arguments.
1572
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00001573- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1574 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1575
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001576Library
1577-------
1578
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00001579- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
1580
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001581- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001582
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00001583- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
1584
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00001585- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
1586 io.UnsupportedOperation.
1587
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00001588- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00001589 (On Unix)
1590
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00001591- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
1592 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
1593
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00001594Extension Modules
1595-----------------
1596
1597- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
1598
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00001599
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00001600What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
1601=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001602
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00001603*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001604
1605Core and Builtins
1606-----------------
1607
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00001608- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
1609
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00001610- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
1611 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
1612
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00001613- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
1614 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
1615
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001616- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00001617 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00001618
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001619Library
1620-------
1621
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001622- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00001623 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00001624 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
1625
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00001626- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1627
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00001628- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
1629 binary files.
1630
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001631- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
1632 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1633
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00001634- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
1635 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
1636 are always None now.
1637
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00001638- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
1639 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
1640 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
1641 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
1642
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00001643- Removed the ipaddr module.
1644
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00001645- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
1646 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
1647 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
1648
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00001649- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
1650
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00001651- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
1652
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00001653- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
1654 parameters.
1655
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001656Windows
1657-------
1658
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00001659- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
1660
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00001661- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
1662
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00001663C-API
1664-----
1665
1666- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
1667 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
1668 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
1669
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00001670
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001671Build
1672-----
1673
1674- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
1675 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
1676
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00001677- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1678 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1679
1680
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00001681
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00001682What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
1683=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001684
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00001685*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001686
1687Core and Builtins
1688-----------------
1689
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00001690- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
1691 of the command line.
1692
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00001693- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
1694
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00001695- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
1696 that would raise SystemError.
1697
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00001698- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
1699 function with __func__.
1700
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00001701- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
1702 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00001703
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00001704- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
1705 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
1706 and imaginary literals.
1707
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00001708- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1709
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00001710- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
1711
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00001712- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
1713 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
1714 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
1715 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
1716 didn't match that of float('-nan').
1717
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001718Library
1719-------
1720
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00001721- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
1722
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00001723- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
1724
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00001725- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
1726 argument to the 'help' function.
1727
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00001728- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
1729 arguments for strings with a space in them.
1730
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00001731- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
1732 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
1733
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00001734- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1735 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1736
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00001737- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
1738 the directory already exists.
1739
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00001740- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1741 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1742 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1743
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00001744- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
1745 IO objects.
1746
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00001747- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
1748 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
1749
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00001750- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
1751 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
1752 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
1753
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00001754- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1755 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1756
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00001757- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1758 deepcopy()ing.
1759
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00001760- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1761
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00001762- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1763
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00001764- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
1765
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00001766- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
1767 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
1768 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
1769 empty.
1770
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00001771- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1772 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
1773 corrects a pydoc regression.
1774
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00001775- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
1776 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
1777
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00001778Installation
1779------------
1780
1781- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
1782 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00001783
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00001784- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
1785
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001786Extension Modules
1787-----------------
1788
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00001789- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00001790
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00001791- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1792
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00001793- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
1794
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00001795- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
1796 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00001797
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00001798Build
1799-----
1800
1801- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1802 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1803 Clinton Roy.
1804
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00001805Tests
1806-----
1807
1808- Issue 5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
1809 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
1810 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
1811 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
1812
1813
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001814What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
1815================================
1816
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00001817*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001818
1819Core and Builtins
1820-----------------
1821
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00001822- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
1823 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
1824
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001825- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
1826 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
1827 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
1828
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00001829- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
1830 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
1831 a PendingDeprecation warning.
1832
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00001833- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
1834 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
1835 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
1836 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
1837 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
1838 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
1839 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
1840 the same way.
1841
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00001842- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
1843
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00001844- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
1845 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
1846 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
1847
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00001848- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
1849 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
1850
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00001851- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00001852
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00001853- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
1854 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
1855 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
1856
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00001857- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
1858 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
1859 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
1860 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00001861
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00001862- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00001863 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
1864
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00001865- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
1866 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
1867
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00001868- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
1869 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
1870
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00001871- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
1872
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00001873- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
1874 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
1875
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00001876- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1877
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00001878- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
1879 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
1880
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00001881- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00001882
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00001883- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
1884 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
1885 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
1886 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
1887
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00001888- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
1889 some builtin types.
1890
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001891- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
1892
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00001893- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
1894 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00001895
1896- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
1897 floats.
1898
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001899- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001900 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
1901 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
1902 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
1903 long time.)
1904
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001905- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
1906 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
1907 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
1908 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00001909 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
1910 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
1911 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00001912
1913 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
1914 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
1915 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
1916 reason or another.
1917
1918 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
1919 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
1920 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
1921 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
1922 correctly rounded on these platforms.
1923
1924 See issue 1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
1925 this change does not apply.
1926
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00001927- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1928
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00001929- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
1930 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
1931 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
1932 methods available on the str class.
1933
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00001934- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
1935 its clarity and its speed.
1936
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00001937- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1938 to avoid compiler warnings.
1939
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00001940- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1941 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1942
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00001943Installation
1944------------
1945
1946- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
1947
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00001948Library
1949-------
1950
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00001951- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
1952 specific Python version.
1953
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00001954- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1955 whitespace.
1956
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00001957- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00001958 the right type checkings anymore.
1959
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00001960- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
1961 return directories.
1962
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00001963- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1964
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00001965- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1966 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1967
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00001968- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
1969 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
1970
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00001971- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
1972 extracting a file to the root directory.
1973
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00001974- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
1975
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00001976- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1977 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1978 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1979
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00001980- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
1981
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00001982- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1983 Contributed by Google.
1984
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00001985- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1986 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1987
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00001988- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
1989
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00001990- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1991
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00001992- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1993 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1994 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1995
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00001996- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1997 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1998 initialized before.
1999
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002000- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
2001 names which should not be exported.
2002
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00002003- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
2004 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
2005
2006- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
2007
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00002008- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
2009 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
2010 instances.
2011
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00002012- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
2013 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
2014 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
2015
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00002016- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
2017 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
2018
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00002019- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
2020 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
2021 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
2022 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
2023 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
2024
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00002025- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
2026 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
2027
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00002028- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2029 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2030 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2031
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00002032Extension Modules
2033-----------------
2034
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00002035- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
2036 pwd.
2037
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00002038- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
2039 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
2040 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
2041 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
2042
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00002043- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
2044 using Berkley-DB.
2045
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00002046Tests
2047-----
2048
2049- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
2050 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
2051 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
2052 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
2053 can be adjusted to use it over time.
2054
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00002055- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2056 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2057 incorrectly on __exit__.
2058
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00002059C-API
2060-----
2061
2062- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
2063
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00002064
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002065What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
2066=================================
2067
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00002068*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002069
2070Core and Builtins
2071-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00002072
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00002073- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
2074 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002075
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00002076- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
2077
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00002078- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
2079 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
2080
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00002081- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2082 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2083
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00002084- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
2085
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002086- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
2087 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
2088
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00002089- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
2090 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
2091 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
2092
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00002093- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
2094
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00002095- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
2096 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
2097
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00002098- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
2099 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
2100 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
2101 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
2102
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00002103- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
2104 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
2105 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
2106
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00002107- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
2108 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
2109 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
2110 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
2111 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
2112 the internal format.
2113
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00002114- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
2115 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
2116 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
2117
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00002118- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
2119 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
2120
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00002121- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
2122 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
2123
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00002124- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
2125 short file names.
2126
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002127Library
2128-------
2129
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002130- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00002131 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2132
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00002133- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
2134 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
2135 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
2136
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00002137- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
2138 the -T argument.
2139
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00002140- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2141
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00002142- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
2143
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00002144- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
2145
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00002146- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
2147 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
2148
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00002149- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
2150
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00002151- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2152
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00002153- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
2154 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
2155
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00002156- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
2157 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
2158
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00002159- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
2160 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
2161 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
2162
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00002163- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
2164
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00002165- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
2166 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
2167
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00002168- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
2169 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
2170
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00002171- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
2172 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
2173 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
2174 partial bzip2 compressed data.
2175
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00002176- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
2177 specifier to Decimal.__format__
2178
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00002179- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
2180 '>' alignment characters.
2181
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00002182- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
2183 value, and report it as -1 instead.
2184
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00002185- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
2186 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
2187
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002188Extension Modules
2189-----------------
2190
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00002191- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
2192
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002193- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
2194 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00002195 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
2196 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
2197 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00002198
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00002199
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00002200What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00002201================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002202
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00002203*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002204
2205Core and Builtins
2206-----------------
2207
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00002208- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
2209
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00002210- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
2211
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00002212- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
2213 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
2214
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00002215- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
2216 contained non ascii character on windows.
2217
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00002218- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
2219 source has already been decoded into str.
2220
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00002221- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2222 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2223
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00002224- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
2225 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
2226
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00002227- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
2228 returns a non-number type.
2229
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00002230- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
2231
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00002232- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
2233 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00002234 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
2235 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00002236
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002237- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00002238 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
2239
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00002240- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
2241 Previously it returned a float.
2242
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00002243- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
2244 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
2245 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
2246 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
2247
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00002248- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
2249
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00002250- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
2251 from a string.
2252
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00002253- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
2254
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00002255- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
2256 optional module state data.
2257
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00002258- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
2259 type to (void *).
2260
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00002261- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
2262 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
2263 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
2264
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00002265- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2266 __next__ method.
2267
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00002268- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
2269 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
2270 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
2271
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00002272- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2273
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00002274- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2275
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00002276- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
2277 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
2278 amount of loop unrolling.
2279
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00002280- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2281 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2282 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
2283 Martin von Löwis at
2284 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2285
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002286- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00002287 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
2288 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
2289
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00002290- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
2291 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
2292 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
2293 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
2294
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00002295- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
2296 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
2297 Python's overall memory).
2298
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00002299- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
2300 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
2301 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
2302 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
2303 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
2304
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00002305- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
2306 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
2307 items, rather than the size in bytes.
2308
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002309- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
2310
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00002311- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
2312 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
2313
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00002314- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
Hirokazu Yamamoto8ed9a802009-01-01 16:09:52 +00002315 file with `bytes' filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00002316
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00002317- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
2318 did not get collected.
2319
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00002320- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
2321 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
2322
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00002323- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
2324 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
2325
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00002326- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
2327 fail.
2328
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00002329- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
2330
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00002331- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
2332 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
2333
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00002334- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
2335 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
2336 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
2337
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00002338- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
2339
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00002340- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
2341 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
2342 failures on OS X.
2343
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00002344- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
2345 exceptions.
2346
2347- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00002348 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
2349
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00002350- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
2351 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
2352 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
2353 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
2354
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00002355- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
2356 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
2357 Python 2.x.
2358
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00002359- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
2360 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
2361
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002362- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
2363 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
2364 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
2365 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00002366
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00002367- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
2368 larger than 1.
2369
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00002370- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
2371
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00002372- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
2373
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00002374- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
2375 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
2376 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
2377 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
2378
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002379Library
2380-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002381
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00002382- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2383 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2384
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00002385- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00002386 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2387
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002388- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00002389 Distutils.
2390
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00002391- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2392
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00002393- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
2394 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
2395 Michael Haubenwallner.
2396
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00002397- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2398
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00002399- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2400 opening an empty or very small file.
2401
2402- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00002403 behavior is similar when used with -O.
2404
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00002405- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2406
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00002407- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
2408 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
2409 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
2410 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
2411
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00002412- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
2413
2414- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2415
2416- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2417 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2418
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002419- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00002420
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002421- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00002422 attribute.
2423
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00002424- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2425
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00002426- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2427
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00002428- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
2429 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
2430 descriptor errors
2431
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002432- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00002433 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2434
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00002435- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00002436 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2437
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00002438- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2439 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2440
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00002441- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2442
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00002443- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2444
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00002445- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
2446 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2447 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2448
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00002449- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
2450 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2451
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00002452- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2453
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002454- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00002455 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
2456
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00002457- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2458
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00002459- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
2460 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
2461
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002462- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00002463 subcommand.
2464
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00002465- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
2466 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
2467
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00002468- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
2469 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
2470
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00002471- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
2472 for old-style extensions.
2473
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00002474- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
2475
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00002476- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
2477 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
2478 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
2479 Cournapeau.
2480
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00002481- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
2482
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002483- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00002484 anymore.
2485
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002486- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00002487 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
2488
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00002489- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2490
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00002491- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2492
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00002493- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
2494
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00002495- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
2496 a value in SafeConfigParser.
2497
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00002498- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
2499
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002500- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00002501 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
2502
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00002503- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
2504 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
2505
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00002506- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
2507 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
2508
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002509- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00002510
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002511- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00002512
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00002513- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2514 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2515 threads.
2516
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00002517- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
2518 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2519 that it was failing to do localization.
2520
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00002521- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
2522 Brandl.
2523
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00002524- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
2525 character.
2526
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00002527- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
2528 Tim Golden.
2529
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00002530- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
2531
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00002532- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
2533 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
2534 window flashing.
2535
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00002536- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
2537 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
2538 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
2539
2540- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2541
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00002542- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
2543 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2544
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00002545- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
2546
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00002547- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2548
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00002549- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2550
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00002551- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
2552
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00002553- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2554
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00002555- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2556
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00002557- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2558 import guess_extension`` was used.
2559
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00002560- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
2561 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
2562
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00002563- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2564 overrun.
2565
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00002566- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2567 bdist_rpm command.
2568
2569- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
2570
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00002571- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
2572
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00002573- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
2574 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00002575
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002576- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2577 IronPython.
2578
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00002579- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
2580 The file was resized to wrong size.
2581
2582- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2583
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002584- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00002585 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
2586
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002587- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00002588 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2589
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00002590- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2591 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2592
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00002593- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
2594
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00002595- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2596 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
2597 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
2598
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00002599- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
2600 encoding.
2601
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00002602- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2603 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2604
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00002605- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2606 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2607
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00002608- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
2609 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
2610 ctime of the files involved.
2611
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00002612- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2613 deadlock.
2614
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00002615- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
2616 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
2617 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
2618
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00002619- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2620
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00002621- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
2622 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
2623
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00002624- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
2625 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
2626 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
2627 Vajda.
2628
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00002629- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
2630 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
2631 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
2632 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
2633
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00002634- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
2635 Ross Light.
2636
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002637- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00002638 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2639
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00002640- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2641 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2642
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002643- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00002644 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2645
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00002646- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2647
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00002648- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
2649
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00002650- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
2651 items being passed through ord().
2652
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00002653- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
2654 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
2655 "src.new").
2656
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00002657- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2658
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00002659- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
2660 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
2661 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
2662
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002663- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00002664 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2665
2666- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
2667 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
2668
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00002669- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
2670 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
2671
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00002672- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2673
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00002674- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
2675 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00002676
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002677- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00002678 allowed non-integer arguments.
2679
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00002680- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
2681 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
2682 examples.
2683
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00002684- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
2685 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2686
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00002687- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
2688 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
2689
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00002690- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
2691 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
2692
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00002693- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00002694 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
2695 be disabled, and not compiled.
2696
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00002697- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
2698 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
2699 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
2700 traditional 2.x file object.
2701
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002702- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2703 parameter was set.
2704
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00002705- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
2706 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
2707
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00002708- Add the importlib package.
2709
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00002710- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2711 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2712
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00002713- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002714 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00002715
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00002716- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
2717 without defaults.
2718
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00002719- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
2720 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
2721 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
2722
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00002723- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2724 in sharedctypes.py.
2725
2726- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2727 __getattr__.
2728
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00002729- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
2730 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
2731 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
2732
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00002733- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
2734 counting.
2735
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00002736- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2737
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00002738- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
2739 function without defining argtypes.
2740
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00002741- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
2742 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2743 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
2744 Jacques Frechet.
2745
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00002746- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2747
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00002748- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
2749 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
2750
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002751- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
2752 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00002753 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
2754
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00002755- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
2756 to the decimal module.
2757
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002758- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
2759 cast as floats.
2760
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00002761- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
2762 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
2763
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00002764- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00002765 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
2766
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002767- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2768 the function is not a generator.
2769
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002770- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
2771 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00002772
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00002773- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00002774 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
2775
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00002776- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2777
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00002778- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2779
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00002780- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
2781 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
2782
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00002783- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
2784 works as expected in the interactive environment.
2785
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00002786- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2787 Gabriel Genellina.
2788
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00002789- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
2790 boundary.
2791
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00002792- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
2793 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
2794 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2795
2796- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
2797 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
2798 Alexander Belopolsky.
2799
2800- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
2801 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
2802 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
2803 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
2804 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
2805 Alexander Belopolsky.
2806
2807- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
2808 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
2809 Alexander Belopolsky.
2810
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00002811- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
2812 a non-ASCII letter.
2813
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00002814- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2815
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00002816- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
2817 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
2818
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00002819- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
2820 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
2821 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
2822
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00002823- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
2824 libs.
2825
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00002826- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
2827 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2828
2829- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2830 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2831 Content-Disposition headers.
2832
2833- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
2834 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
2835 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
2836 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
2837 doesn't configure logging.
2838
2839- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2840 exception.
2841
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00002842- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
2843 statements.
2844
2845- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2846 not a malformed option.
2847
2848- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
2849 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
2850
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00002851- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
2852 the corresponding tests now pass.
2853
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00002854- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
2855 it was calling the wrong open() function.
2856
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00002857- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2858 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2859 Content-Disposition headers.
2860
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00002861- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
2862 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
2863
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00002864- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
2865 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
2866 and getservbyport().
2867
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00002868- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2869
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002870Tools/Demos
2871-----------
2872
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00002873- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
2874 and make it 2.6-compatible.
2875
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00002876- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
2877
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00002878- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
2879
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002880
2881Build
2882-----
2883
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00002884- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2885
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00002886- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2887
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00002888- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
2889 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
2890
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002891- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00002892 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00002893
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00002894- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2895
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00002896- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2897
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00002898- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2899
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00002900- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2901
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002902- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
2903
2904- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2905
2906- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2907
2908- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2909
2910- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2911
2912- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2913
2914- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2915
2916- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2917
2918- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
2919
2920- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2921
2922
2923C-API
2924-----
2925
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00002926- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
2927 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
2928
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00002929- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
2930 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
2931
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002932- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2933
2934- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
2935 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
2936
2937- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2938 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
2939
2940
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002941Extension Modules
2942-----------------
2943
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00002944- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2945 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
2946 implementations or external openssl library).
2947
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00002948- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
2949
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00002950- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2951
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00002952- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
2953 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
2954 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
2955
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00002956- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2957
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00002958- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
2959 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
2960 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
2961
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00002962- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2963
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00002964- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2965
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00002966- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2967 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00002968
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00002969- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
2970 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
2971 buffer.
2972
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00002973
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00002974- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2975
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002976Tests
2977-----
2978
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00002979- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2980 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2981
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00002982- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2983 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
2984 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
2985 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
2986
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002987- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00002988 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00002989 from test support, which does the conversion.
2990
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00002991- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2992
2993
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00002994Docs
2995----
2996
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00002997
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002998**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**