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Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00001+++++++++++
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00002Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Georg Brandl3ebb6b32011-02-20 10:37:07 +00005What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
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8*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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Martin v. Löwis5e06a5d2011-02-21 16:24:00 +000010Core and Builtins
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Ross Lagerwall59142db2011-10-31 20:34:46 +020013- Issue #12797: Added custom opener parameter to builtin open() and
14 FileIO.open().
15
Petri Lehtinencd06a142011-10-30 20:59:10 +020016- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
17 setobject.c.
18
Antoine Pitrou8db076c2011-10-30 19:13:55 +010019- Issue #10363: Deallocate global locks in Py_Finalize().
20
Petri Lehtinena94200e2011-10-24 21:12:58 +030021- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
22 Patch by Suman Saha.
23
Mark Dickinson36645682011-10-23 19:53:01 +010024- Issue #13201: Define '==' and '!=' to compare range objects based on
25 the sequence of values they define (instead of comparing based on
26 object identity).
27
Nick Coghlande31b192011-10-23 22:04:16 +100028- Issue #1294232: In a few cases involving metaclass inheritance, the
29 interpreter would sometimes invoke the wrong metaclass when building a new
30 class object. These cases now behave correctly. Patch by Daniel Urban.
31
Ezio Melotti931b8aa2011-10-21 21:57:36 +030032- Issue #12753: Add support for Unicode name aliases and named sequences.
33 Both :func:`unicodedata.lookup()` and '\N{...}' now resolve aliases,
34 and :func:`unicodedata.lookup()` resolves named sequences too.
35
Antoine Pitrouac65d962011-10-20 23:54:17 +020036- Issue #12170: The count(), find(), rfind(), index() and rindex() methods
37 of bytes and bytearray objects now accept an integer between 0 and 255
38 as their first argument. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
39
Senthil Kumaranfdd45752011-10-21 00:29:47 +080040- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
41 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
42
Victor Stinner3a50e702011-10-18 21:21:00 +020043- Issue #12281: Rewrite the MBCS codec to handle correctly replace and ignore
44 error handlers on all Windows versions. The MBCS codec is now supporting all
45 error handlers, instead of only replace to encode and ignore to decode.
46
Antoine Pitrou551ba202011-10-18 16:40:50 +020047- Issue #13188: When called without an explicit traceback argument,
48 generator.throw() now gets the traceback from the passed exception's
49 ``__traceback__`` attribute. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
50
Antoine Pitrou707033a2011-10-17 19:28:44 +020051- Issue #13146: Writing a pyc file is now atomic under POSIX.
52
Mark Hammond6c58b282011-10-17 11:05:57 +110053- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
54 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
55 embedded situations.
56
Antoine Pitrou6b4883d2011-10-12 02:54:14 +020057- PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.
58
Éric Araujod139b992011-10-14 16:58:23 +020059- Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).
Martin v. Löwisafe55bb2011-10-09 10:38:36 +020060
Antoine Pitrou586bfe42011-10-07 16:16:31 +020061- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
62 as "The pipe is being closed") is now mapped to POSIX errno EPIPE
63 (previously EINVAL).
64
Antoine Pitroueeb7eea2011-10-06 18:57:27 +020065- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge
66 tuples or lists.
67
Martin v. Löwis418170c2011-09-28 08:54:17 +020068- PEP 393: flexible string representation. Thanks to Torsten Becker for the
69 initial implementation, and Victor Stinner for various bug fixes.
Martin v. Löwisd63a3b82011-09-28 07:41:54 +020070
Mark Dickinson0d5f6ad2011-09-24 09:14:39 +010071- Issue #13012: The 'keepends' parameter to str.splitlines may now be passed
72 as a keyword argument: "my_string.splitlines(keepends=True)". The same
73 change also applies to bytes.splitlines and bytearray.splitlines.
74
Victor Stinner53ffdc52011-09-23 18:54:40 +020075- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a
76 module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g.
77 "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead.
78
Barry Warsaw916048d2011-09-20 14:45:44 -040079- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path. Thanks to Suman Saha for
80 finding the bug and providing a patch.
81
Mark Dickinsonb2f6bc72011-09-24 08:56:09 +010082- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
83 list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These bugs
84 caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsonc0420fd2011-09-19 19:18:37 +010085
Larry Hastings9e3e70b2011-09-08 19:29:07 -070086- Issue #12904: os.utime, os.futimes, os.lutimes, and os.futimesat now write
87 atime and mtime with nanosecond precision on modern POSIX platforms.
88
Antoine Pitroua7622852011-09-01 21:37:43 +020089- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
90 mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).
91
Ezio Melotti93e7afc2011-08-22 14:08:38 +030092- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
93 characters even in narrow Unicode builds.
94
Antoine Pitroua370fcf2011-08-20 14:15:03 +020095- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
96 an exception.
97
Benjamin Peterson01fc6cd2011-08-17 12:03:47 -050098- Issue #12773: Make __doc__ mutable on user-defined classes.
99
Benjamin Petersonc4085c82011-08-16 18:53:26 -0500100- Issue #12766: Raise an ValueError when creating a class with a class variable
101 that conflicts with a name in __slots__.
102
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +0300103- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
104 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
105
Benjamin Petersonf413b802011-08-12 22:17:18 -0500106- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
107 outside the BMP.
108
Benjamin Peterson832bfe22011-08-09 16:15:04 -0500109- Issue #12575: Validate user-generated AST before it is compiled.
110
Benjamin Peterson18d7d7a2011-07-29 18:27:44 -0500111- Make type(None), type(Ellipsis), and type(NotImplemented) callable. They
112 return the respective singleton instances.
Benjamin Petersonc4607ae2011-07-29 18:19:43 -0500113
Benjamin Petersonc7723962011-08-17 12:05:13 -0500114- Forbid summing bytes with sum().
Benjamin Petersonce071ca2011-07-29 14:23:47 -0500115
Benjamin Peterson2193d2b2011-07-22 10:50:23 -0500116- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
117 compiling them.
118
Raymond Hettinger66d2be82011-07-28 09:55:13 -0700119- Issue #12647: The None object now has a __bool__() method that returns False.
120 Formerly, bool(None) returned False only because of special case logic
121 in PyObject_IsTrue().
122
Eric V. Smith12ebefc2011-07-18 14:03:41 -0400123- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
124 format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
125 Julian Berman.
126
Brett Cannone52181c2011-07-17 19:25:50 -0700127- Issue #10271: Allow warnings.showwarning() be any callable.
128
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400129- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
130 non-exception class.
Benjamin Peterson5afa03a2011-07-15 14:09:26 -0500131
Georg Brandlfd164c22011-09-04 08:12:27 +0200132- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
Antoine Pitrou84f1b172011-07-12 21:57:15 +0200133 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
134 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
135 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
136 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
137
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +0200138- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
139
Victor Stinner99b95382011-07-04 14:23:54 +0200140- Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
141 a new HAVE_MBCS define.
142
Victor Stinnerd64e8a72011-07-04 13:48:30 +0200143- Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page
144 on Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if
145 we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
146 instead of using UTF-8.
147
Benjamin Petersonac913412011-07-03 16:25:11 -0500148- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
149 generator.
150
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500151- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
Benjamin Peterson9cf960c2011-07-03 13:49:59 -0500152 caller's frame as they return for the last time.
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500153
Vinay Sajip5bdae3b2011-07-02 16:42:47 +0100154- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream,
155 with other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
156
Benjamin Petersone109c702011-06-24 09:37:26 -0500157- Issue #12356: When required positional or keyword-only arguments are not
158 given, produce a informative error message which includes the name(s) of the
159 missing arguments.
160
Benjamin Petersonf5ff2232011-06-19 19:42:22 -0500161- Issue #12370: Fix super with not arguments when __class__ is overriden in the
162 class body.
163
Brian Curtind25aef52011-06-13 15:16:04 -0500164- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
165 links when called from any directory.
166
Benjamin Peterson3bbb7222011-06-11 16:12:08 -0500167- Loosen type restrictions on the __dir__ method. __dir__ can now return any
168 sequence, which will be converted to a list and sorted by dir().
169
Benjamin Petersonb204a422011-06-05 22:04:07 -0500170- Issue #12265: Make error messages produced by passing an invalid set of
171 arguments to a function more informative.
172
Benjamin Peterson0bb29912011-05-31 17:11:26 -0500173- Issue #12225: Still allow Python to build if Python is not in its hg repo or
174 mercurial is not installed.
175
Victor Stinner19c52332011-05-30 23:50:04 +0200176- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner4f711012011-05-30 23:46:00 +0200177 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
178 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
179
Benjamin Peterson758888d2011-05-30 11:12:38 -0500180- Issue #12216: Allow unexpected EOF errors to happen on any line of the file.
181
Benjamin Peterson43af12b2011-05-29 11:43:10 -0500182- Issue #12199: The TryExcept and TryFinally and AST nodes have been unified
183 into a Try node.
184
Ned Deily9a7c5242011-05-28 00:19:56 -0700185- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
186 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
187 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
188 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
189
Benjamin Petersonbf1bbc12011-05-27 13:58:08 -0500190- Issue #12106: The use of the multiple-with shorthand syntax is now reflected
191 in the AST.
192
Benjamin Peterson43b06862011-05-27 09:08:01 -0500193- Issue #12190: Try to use the same filename object when compiling unmarshalling
194 a code objects in the same file.
195
Benjamin Peterson82b00c12011-05-24 11:09:06 -0500196- Issue #12166: Move implementations of dir() specialized for various types into
197 the __dir__() methods of those types.
198
Charles-François Natali7b54e752011-05-24 18:23:15 +0200199- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
200
Benjamin Petersonf5fcd332011-05-23 16:22:42 -0500201- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
202 besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
203
Victor Stinner2ec6b172011-05-15 10:21:59 +0200204- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
205 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
206
Gregory P. Smithb6471db2011-05-22 22:47:55 -0700207- Issue #1746656: Added the if_nameindex, if_indextoname, if_nametoindex
208 methods to the socket module.
Gregory P. Smith5ed2e772011-05-15 00:26:45 -0700209
Gregory P. Smith6b657452011-05-11 21:42:08 -0700210- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
211 wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
212 leaving zombie processes around.
213
Victor Stinner4755ab02011-05-10 00:19:53 +0200214- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
215 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
216
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200217- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
218 interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when
219 they try to take the GIL.
220
Antoine Pitrou6f26be02011-05-03 18:18:59 +0200221- Issue #11849: Make it more likely for the system allocator to release
222 free()d memory arenas on glibc-based systems. Patch by Charles-François
223 Natali.
224
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200225- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
226 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
227 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner13aaef52011-05-01 23:46:48 +0200228 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200229
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200230- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
231 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
232 by Charles-François Natali.
233
Victor Stinner793b5312011-04-27 00:24:21 +0200234- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
235 subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
236 the ISO-8859-15 codec.
237
Victor Stinnerb90db4c2011-04-26 22:48:24 +0200238- Issue #11918: OS/2 and VMS are no more supported because of the lack of
239 maintainer.
240
Ezio Melottiba42fd52011-04-26 06:09:45 +0300241- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
242 accepted too.
243
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300244- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
245 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
246 chars (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
247
Ezio Melotti982ef4e2011-04-15 08:15:40 +0300248- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
249 compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
250
Reid Kleckner98707c22011-04-10 22:23:08 -0400251- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait,
252 subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and
253 subprocess.check_output. If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout`
254 seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised.
255
Victor Stinner52c950f2011-04-09 15:55:44 +0200256- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
257 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
258 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
259
Victor Stinnerfe7c5b52011-04-05 01:48:03 +0200260- Issue #9319: Include the filename in "Non-UTF8 code ..." syntax error.
261
Victor Stinner7f2fee32011-04-05 00:39:01 +0200262- Issue #10785: Store the filename as Unicode in the Python parser.
263
Victor Stinner2d322272011-04-04 23:05:53 +0200264- Issue #11619: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() doesn't encode the path to bytes
265 on Windows.
266
Éric Araujobe3bd572011-03-26 01:55:15 +0100267- Issue #10998: Remove mentions of -Q, sys.flags.division_warning and
268 Py_DivisionWarningFlag left over from Python 2.
269
Mark Dickinson7c9e8032011-03-23 17:59:37 +0000270- Issue #11244: Remove an unnecessary peepholer check that was preventing
271 negative zeros from being constant-folded properly.
272
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100273- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
274 Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
275 returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if
276 stdout mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less,
277 depending on heap usage).
278
Antoine Pitroue1474842011-03-17 23:40:53 +0100279- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to
Antoine Pitrou819be342011-03-17 23:36:13 +0100280 a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
281
Éric Araujo765e94f2011-06-03 17:26:59 +0200282- _ast.__version__ is now a Mercurial hex revision.
Benjamin Peterson6cb2b922011-03-12 18:28:16 -0600283
Gregory P. Smith28edfee2011-03-15 16:02:10 -0400284- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
285 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
286 file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
287
Eric V. Smithb9cd3532011-03-12 10:08:48 -0500288- Issue #9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string
289 to be a DeprecationWarning. In 3.2 it was a PendingDeprecationWarning.
290 In 3.4 it will be a TypeError.
291
Antoine Pitrou17b880a2011-03-11 17:27:02 +0100292- Issue #11244: The peephole optimizer is now able to constant-fold
293 arbitrarily complex expressions. This also fixes a 3.2 regression where
294 operations involving negative numbers were not constant-folded.
295
Antoine Pitrou7983d332011-03-09 12:34:41 +0100296- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
297 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
298
Daniel Stutzbach8eda5f72011-03-02 23:37:50 +0000299- Issue #11335: Fixed a memory leak in list.sort when the key function
300 throws an exception.
301
Victor Stinnera5c68c32011-03-02 01:03:14 +0000302- Issue #8923: When a string is encoded to UTF-8 in strict mode, the result is
303 cached into the object. Examples: str.encode(), str.encode('utf-8'),
304 PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
305 NULL).
306
Victor Stinner6d970f42011-03-02 00:04:25 +0000307- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
308
Victor Stinner96865452011-03-01 23:44:09 +0000309- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
310 the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
311
Jesus Ceaa372de82011-09-19 17:11:26 +0200312- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
313
Victor Stinner2512a8b2011-03-01 22:46:52 +0000314- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
315 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
316 Patch written by Ray Allen.
317
Antoine Pitrou5bffa792011-02-24 20:50:49 +0000318- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
319 a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
320
Victor Stinnerc0f1a1a2011-02-23 12:07:37 +0000321- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
322 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
323
Jesus Ceaac451502011-04-20 17:09:23 +0200324- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
325 Patch by Torsten Becker.
326
Victor Stinner5ed8b2c2011-02-21 21:13:44 +0000327- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
328 narrow build.
329
Victor Stinnered4c7112011-02-21 21:05:50 +0000330- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
331 It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
332 undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
333 UnicodeEncodeError on recursion limit.
Martin v. Löwis5e06a5d2011-02-21 16:24:00 +0000334
Victor Stinnerfd34b372011-02-21 20:51:28 +0000335- Issue #11187: Remove bootstrap code (use ASCII) of
336 PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(), it was replaced by a better fallback (use the
337 locale encoding) in PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault().
338
Victor Stinnered4c7112011-02-21 21:05:50 +0000339- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
340
Eli Bendersky4db28d32011-03-03 18:21:02 +0000341- Issue #10516: New copy() and clear() methods for lists and bytearrays.
Eli Benderskycbbaa962011-02-25 05:47:53 +0000342
Eli Bendersky1bc4f192011-03-04 04:55:25 +0000343- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
344 empty, instead of OverflowError.
345
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +0300346- Issue #12380: The rjust, ljust and center methods of bytes and bytearray
347 now accept a bytearray argument.
348
Florent Xiclunaf70fd702011-10-30 20:24:40 +0100349
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +0000350Library
351-------
Senthil Kumarande49d642011-10-16 23:54:44 +0800352
Senthil Kumaran6c5bd402011-11-01 23:20:31 +0800353- Issue #13287: urllib.request and urllib.error now contains a __all__ and
354 exposes only relevant Classes, Functions. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
355
Ezio Melotti7de56f62011-11-01 14:12:22 +0200356- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
357 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
358
359- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumarance260142011-11-01 01:35:17 +0800360 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
361
Ezio Melotti7de56f62011-11-01 14:12:22 +0200362- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily7aff4512011-10-30 20:01:35 -0700363 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
364
Florent Xicluna75861df2011-10-30 20:39:24 +0100365- Fix the xmlrpc.client user agent to return something similar to
366 urllib.request user agent: "Python-xmlrpc/3.3".
367
Florent Xicluna93dfee12011-10-30 20:22:25 +0100368- Issue #13293: Better error message when trying to marshal bytes using
369 xmlrpc.client.
370
Florent Xicluna3fa29f72011-10-30 20:18:50 +0100371- Issue #13291: NameError in xmlrpc package.
372
Florent Xicluna5d1155c2011-10-28 14:45:05 +0200373- Issue #13258: Use callable() built-in in the standard library.
374
Ezio Melottif50ffa92011-10-28 13:21:09 +0300375- Issue #13273: fix a bug that prevented HTMLParser to properly detect some
376 tags when strict=False.
377
Antoine Pitrou41032a62011-10-27 23:56:55 +0200378- Issue #11183: Add finer-grained exceptions to the ssl module, so that
379 you don't have to inspect the exception's attributes in the common case.
380
Victor Stinner7592d052011-10-27 01:43:48 +0200381- Issue #13216: Add cp65001 codec, the Windows UTF-8 (CP_UTF8).
Victor Stinner2f3ca9f2011-10-27 01:38:56 +0200382
Victor Stinner82a647b2011-10-26 01:42:30 +0200383- Issue #13226: Add RTLD_xxx constants to the os module. These constants can be
Victor Stinner8b905bd2011-10-25 13:34:04 +0200384 used with sys.setdlopenflags().
385
Victor Stinnere0be4232011-10-25 13:06:09 +0200386- Issue #10278: Add clock_getres(), clock_gettime() and CLOCK_xxx constants to
387 the time module. time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC) provides a
388 monotonic clock
389
Charles-François Natalif8859e12011-10-24 18:45:29 +0200390- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
391 before all tasks have completed.
392
Florent Xiclunac45fb252011-10-24 13:14:55 +0200393- Issue #13255: wrong docstrings in array module.
394
Mark Dickinson39411f62011-10-24 10:31:52 +0100395- Issue #8540: Remove deprecated Context._clamp attribute in Decimal module.
396
Vinay Sajip04d5bc02011-10-21 07:33:42 +0100397- Issue #13235: Added PendingDeprecationWarning to warn() method and function.
398
Florent Xicluna711f87c2011-10-20 23:03:43 +0200399- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
400
Senthil Kumaranfdd45752011-10-21 00:29:47 +0800401- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
402 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
403
Raymond Hettingercd9fdfd2011-10-20 08:57:45 -0700404- Issue #13227: functools.lru_cache() now has a option to distinguish
405 calls with different argument types.
406
Senthil Kumaran7e3062b2011-10-20 01:52:41 +0800407- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
408 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
409
Antoine Pitrou1e73a242011-10-18 17:52:24 +0200410- Issue #13150: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h files
411 when imported, instead doing it at build time. This makes importing
412 sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.
413
Ezio Melotti6bfecd12011-10-18 13:20:07 +0300414- Issue #12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
415 in order to display the prompt correctly.
416
Victor Stinner5c267e22011-10-17 20:44:22 +0200417- Issue #12454: The mailbox module is now using ASCII, instead of the locale
418 encoding, to read and write MH mailboxes (.mh_sequences files).
419
Nadeem Vawdabcb86c52011-10-17 19:34:22 +0200420- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
421 now available on Windows.
422
Senthil Kumarande49d642011-10-16 23:54:44 +0800423- issue #1673007: urllib2 to support HEAD request via new method argument.
424 Patch contributions by David Stanek, Patrick Westerhoff and Ezio Melotti.
425
Éric Araujod139b992011-10-14 16:58:23 +0200426- Issue #12386: packaging does not fail anymore when writing the RESOURCES
427 file.
Antoine Pitrou3486a982011-05-12 01:57:53 +0200428
Lars Gustäbelac3d1372011-10-14 12:46:40 +0200429- Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of GNU tar specific base-256 number
430 fields in tarfile.
431
Victor Stinner82ac9bc2011-10-14 03:03:35 +0200432- Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,
433 instead of the locale encoding.
434
Victor Stinnerc1f32ca2011-10-14 02:36:13 +0200435- Issue #10653: On Windows, use strftime() instead of wcsftime() because
436 wcsftime() doesn't format time zone correctly.
437
Antoine Pitrou10a99b02011-10-11 15:45:56 +0200438- Issue #13150: The tokenize module doesn't compile large regular expressions
439 at startup anymore.
440
Éric Araujo8af607b2011-10-09 06:32:38 +0200441- Issue #11171: Fix distutils.sysconfig.get_makefile_filename when Python was
442 configured with different prefix and exec-prefix.
Éric Araujofea2d042011-10-08 01:56:52 +0200443
Éric Araujoa29e4f62011-10-08 04:09:15 +0200444- Issue #11254: Teach distutils and packaging to compile .pyc and .pyo files in
Éric Araujo47a45212011-10-08 00:34:13 +0200445 PEP 3147-compliant __pycache__ directories.
446
Ned Deily7b847a42011-10-06 14:31:14 -0700447- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
448 contents cannot be read.
449
Antoine Pitrou45d9c912011-10-06 15:27:40 +0200450- Issue #3163: The struct module gets new format characters 'n' and 'N'
451 supporting C integer types ``ssize_t`` and ``size_t``, respectively.
452
Antoine Pitrou1665d2c2011-10-04 13:35:28 +0200453- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
454 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
455
Antoine Pitrou1e44fec2011-10-04 12:26:20 +0200456- Issue #13087: BufferedReader.seek() now always raises UnsupportedOperation
457 if the underlying raw stream is unseekable, even if the seek could be
458 satisfied using the internal buffer. Patch by John O'Connor.
459
Antoine Pitrouffd41d92011-10-04 09:23:04 +0200460- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
461 metaclass is registered with copyreg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and Craig
462 Citro.
463
R David Murray791744b2011-10-01 16:19:51 -0400464- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace to text nodes.
465
Antoine Pitroud8c347a2011-10-01 19:20:25 +0200466- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
467 extension could be unreported.
468
Ned Deily86ca04c2011-09-14 14:56:32 -0700469- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
470 with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
471 (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
472
Nadeem Vawda64d25dd2011-09-12 00:04:13 +0200473- Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
474 ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
475
Benjamin Petersonc92f6222011-09-11 12:55:34 -0400476- Issue #12959: Add collections.ChainMap to collections.__all__.
Victor Stinnera1fe1f82011-09-23 18:59:08 +0200477
Éric Araujoe6db7a32011-09-10 05:22:48 +0200478- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files and packaging's METADATA files will
479 now correctly report Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or
480 Download-URL field is present.
Benjamin Petersonc92f6222011-09-11 12:55:34 -0400481
Victor Stinner71e44cb2011-09-06 01:53:03 +0200482- Issue #12567: Add curses.unget_wch() function. Push a character so the next
483 get_wch() will return it.
484
Victor Stinnerd4d8ae52011-09-06 00:11:13 +0200485- Issue #9561: distutils and packaging now writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
Victor Stinnere01aa532011-09-05 23:46:05 +0200486 instead of the locale encoding.
487
Éric Araujocfbd6302011-09-03 00:42:04 +0200488- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
489 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
490
Lars Gustäbel24757852011-09-05 16:59:44 +0200491- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
492 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
493 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
494 information was lost.
495
Ezio Melottid9e0b062011-09-05 17:11:06 +0300496- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
497 more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.
498
Benjamin Petersonf6f3a352011-09-03 09:26:20 -0400499- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
500
Victor Stinner979482a2011-09-02 01:00:40 +0200501- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
502
Victor Stinnerc15c88c2011-09-01 23:45:04 +0200503- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
504 getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
505 read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
506
Benjamin Peterson8f8cc8b2011-08-31 22:21:44 -0400507- Issue #12720: Expose low-level Linux extended file attribute functions in os.
508
Éric Araujofbe37df2011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200509- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
Éric Araujob9fe54c2011-08-30 01:42:50 +0200510 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist. The packaging commands
511 were fixed too.
Éric Araujofbe37df2011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200512
Antoine Pitrou55549ec2011-08-30 00:27:10 +0200513- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
514 the C pickle implementation.
515
Antoine Pitrou82be19f2011-08-29 23:09:33 +0200516- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
517 (more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
518
Charles-François Nataliac7e9e02011-08-28 18:10:27 +0200519- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
520 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
521
Nadeem Vawda44c6ef52011-08-28 11:29:35 +0200522- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
523 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
524
Nick Coghlan20937302011-08-28 00:17:31 +1000525- Issue #9923: The mailcap module now correctly uses the platform path
526 separator for the MAILCAP environment variable on non-POSIX platforms.
527
Nick Coghlan513886a2011-08-28 00:00:27 +1000528- Issue #12835: Follow up to #6560 that unconditionally prevents use of the
529 unencrypted sendmsg/recvmsg APIs on SSL wrapped sockets. Patch by David
530 Watson.
531
Antoine Pitrou4fd1e6a2011-08-25 14:39:44 +0200532- Issue #12803: SSLContext.load_cert_chain() now accepts a password argument
533 to be used if the private key is encrypted. Patch by Adam Simpkins.
534
Antoine Pitrou162fee12011-08-23 19:48:34 +0200535- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
536 Pipe.
537
Nick Coghlanc4a28712011-08-22 16:19:19 +1000538- Issue #12811: tabnanny.check() now promptly closes checked files. Patch by
539 Anthony Briggs.
540
Nick Coghlan96fe56a2011-08-22 11:55:57 +1000541- Issue #6560: The sendmsg/recvmsg API is now exposed by the socket module
542 when provided by the underlying platform, supporting processing of
Nick Coghlan5c7f5c62011-08-22 16:27:46 +1000543 ancillary data in pure Python code. Patch by David Watson and Heiko Wundram.
Nick Coghlan96fe56a2011-08-22 11:55:57 +1000544
Victor Stinnerff3d9392011-08-20 23:39:26 +0200545- Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
546 anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending
547 on the Linux version used to build Python.
548
Antoine Pitroue8bb1a02011-08-20 14:52:04 +0200549- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
550 could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
551
Antoine Pitroudf7fc9d2011-08-19 18:03:14 +0200552- Issue #12778: Reduce memory consumption when JSON-encoding a large
553 container of many small objects.
554
Charles-François Natali558639f2011-08-18 19:11:29 +0200555- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
556 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
557
Antoine Pitrou3c7e9282011-08-13 20:15:19 +0200558- Issue #12744: Fix inefficient representation of integers between 2**31 and
559 2**63 on systems with a 64-bit C "long".
560
Nadeem Vawda1c385462011-08-13 15:22:40 +0200561- Issue #12646: Add an 'eof' attribute to zlib.Decompress, to make it easier to
562 detect truncated input streams.
563
Georg Brandl3abb3722011-08-13 11:48:12 +0200564- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
565 the file cannot be opened.
566
Antoine Pitrouf6c7a852011-08-11 21:04:02 +0200567- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
568 (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.
569
Senthil Kumaran9dc4cad2011-08-11 09:24:37 +0800570- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
571
Ned Deilye5cad232011-08-02 18:47:13 -0700572- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
573 in os.kill().
574
Raymond Hettingerfcb393c2011-08-09 13:00:40 -0700575- Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter().
Éric Araujo3764a962011-10-21 15:52:10 +0200576 Issue #13121: Also add support for inplace math operators.
Raymond Hettingerfcb393c2011-08-09 13:00:40 -0700577
Senthil Kumaran2a157d22011-08-03 18:37:22 +0800578- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
579 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
580
Benjamin Peterson94b580d2011-08-02 17:30:04 -0500581- Issue #12655: Expose functions from sched.h in the os module: sched_yield(),
582 sched_setscheduler(), sched_getscheduler(), sched_setparam(),
583 sched_get_min_priority(), sched_get_max_priority(), sched_rr_get_interval(),
584 sched_getaffinity(), sched_setaffinity().
585
Benjamin Peterson28da7b82011-08-02 17:45:00 -0500586- Add ThreadError to threading.__all__.
587
Éric Araujoab7c1b32011-07-31 04:06:12 +0200588- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
589 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
590
Senthil Kumaran3d23fd62011-07-30 10:56:50 +0800591- Issue #11281: smtplib.STMP gets source_address parameter, which adds the
592 ability to bind to specific source address on a machine with multiple
593 interfaces. Patch by Paulo Scardine.
594
Charles-François Natalidef35432011-07-29 18:59:24 +0200595- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
596 symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
597
Éric Araujoe64e51b2011-07-29 17:03:55 +0200598- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
599 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
600
Éric Araujo0cdd4452011-07-28 00:28:28 +0200601- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading. The public names (Thread,
602 Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
603 classes (_Thread, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
604 code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible to
605 inherit from Thread and other classes, without having to import the private
606 underscored names like multiprocessing did.
607
Éric Araujo9bce3112011-07-27 18:29:31 +0200608- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
609 lines.
610
Charles-François Natali27c4e882011-07-27 19:40:02 +0200611- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
612
Raymond Hettinger3a081f52011-07-29 00:02:04 -0700613- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
614 collections when it is done.
615
Ross Lagerwalld98646e2011-07-27 07:16:31 +0200616- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
617 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
618
Ned Deilyf25e3d52011-07-26 18:17:33 -0700619- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
620 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
621
Senthil Kumaran1299a8f2011-07-27 08:05:58 +0800622- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
623 Connection:close header.
624
Ross Lagerwall59c01ed2011-07-25 07:12:43 +0200625- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
626 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
627
Charles-François Natali749400a2011-07-24 22:41:18 +0200628- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
629
Antoine Pitroucf9d3c02011-07-24 02:27:04 +0200630- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
631
Antoine Pitrouab85ff32011-07-23 22:03:45 +0200632- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
633 module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
634
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200635- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
Antoine Pitroud42c1d02011-07-23 21:50:21 +0200636 a read1() method), and add a *write_through* parameter to mandate
637 unbuffered writes.
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200638
Nadeem Vawdace7e51e2011-07-23 15:16:23 +0200639- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
640
Charles-François Natali54ef40b2011-07-22 23:52:02 +0200641- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
642
Charles-François Natali996f6062011-07-21 19:45:31 +0200643- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
644
Antoine Pitroud6494802011-07-21 01:11:30 +0200645- Issue #12551: Provide a get_channel_binding() method on SSL sockets so as
646 to get channel binding data for the current SSL session (only the
647 "tls-unique" channel binding is implemented). This allows the implementation
648 of certain authentication mechanisms such as SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS. Patch by
649 Jacek Konieczny.
650
R David Murray875048b2011-07-20 11:41:21 -0400651- Issue #665194: email.utils now has format_datetime and parsedate_to_datetime
652 functions, allowing for round tripping of RFC2822 format dates.
653
Antoine Pitrouc57ed912011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200654- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
655 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
656 Linux 3.0.
657
R David Murray46346762011-07-18 21:38:54 -0400658- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
659 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
660
Benjamin Petersonddddcab2011-07-15 21:11:35 -0500661- Issue #12273: Remove ast.__version__. AST changes can be accounted for by
662 checking sys.version_info or sys._mercurial.
663
Antoine Pitroudc19c242011-07-16 01:51:58 +0200664- Silence spurious "broken pipe" tracebacks when shutting down a
665 ProcessPoolExecutor.
666
Antoine Pitroud06a0652011-07-16 01:13:34 +0200667- Fix potential resource leaks in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
668 by joining all queues and processes when shutdown() is called.
669
Antoine Pitrou8cdc40e2011-07-15 21:15:07 +0200670- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
671 Andreas Stührk.
672
Antoine Pitrou8391cf42011-07-15 21:01:21 +0200673- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
674 embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
675
Victor Stinnera7878b72011-07-14 23:07:44 +0200676- Issue #6755: Add get_wch() method to curses.window class. Patch by Iñigo
677 Serna.
678
Victor Stinnerd33344a2011-07-14 22:28:36 +0200679- Add cgi.closelog() function to close the log file.
680
Charles-François Natalif64f9e92011-07-14 20:00:49 +0200681- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
682
Victor Stinner66361212011-07-13 21:43:18 +0200683- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
684 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
685
Antoine Pitroucb4ae812011-07-13 21:07:49 +0200686- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
687 TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
688
Éric Araujo4468e552011-07-08 17:22:19 +0200689- Issue #12504: Close file handles in a timely manner in packaging.database.
690 This fixes a bug with the remove (uninstall) feature on Windows.
691
Éric Araujoce5fe832011-07-08 16:27:12 +0200692- Issues #12169 and #10510: Factor out code used by various packaging commands
693 to make HTTP POST requests, and make sure it uses CRLF.
694
Victor Stinner2cded9c2011-07-08 01:45:13 +0200695- Issue #12016: Multibyte CJK decoders now resynchronize faster. They only
696 ignore the first byte of an invalid byte sequence. For example,
697 b'\xff\n'.decode('gb2312', 'replace') gives '\ufffd\n' instead of '\ufffd'.
698
Victor Stinner7f53a502011-07-05 22:00:25 +0200699- Issue #12459: time.sleep() now raises a ValueError if the sleep length is
700 negative, instead of an infinite sleep on Windows or raising an IOError on
701 Linux for example, to have the same behaviour on all platforms.
702
Victor Stinnerd7772bc2011-07-05 14:31:28 +0200703- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
704 Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
705 of the script).
706
Victor Stinner2cfb6f32011-07-05 14:00:56 +0200707- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
708 if the process has only one pipe.
709
Victor Stinner8b0508e2011-07-04 02:43:09 +0200710- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
711 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
712
Victor Stinnere975af62011-07-04 02:08:50 +0200713- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
714 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
715
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200716- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
717 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
718 than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
719
Victor Stinner3663aba2011-07-04 01:27:37 +0200720- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
721 of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
722
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400723- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
724 conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent- headers.
725
Charles-François Natali778db492011-07-02 14:35:49 +0200726- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
727 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
728
Victor Stinner48b1ce52011-07-01 13:50:09 +0200729- Issue #12462: time.sleep() now calls immediatly the (Python) signal handler
730 if it is interrupted by a signal, instead of having to wait until the next
731 instruction.
732
Giampaolo Rodola'210e7ca2011-07-01 13:55:36 +0200733- Issue #12442: new shutil.disk_usage function, providing total, used and free
734 disk space statistics.
735
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200736- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
737 UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
738 also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode
739 to avoid encoding issues.
740
Victor Stinner12b8d142011-06-30 17:35:55 +0200741- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file
742 anymore to avoid encoding issues.
743
Victor Stinnere6c910e2011-06-30 15:55:43 +0200744- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available,
745 to read the Python script from the right encoding.
746
Victor Stinnerdc9b1ea2011-06-30 15:40:22 +0200747- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
748 encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
749
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700750- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
751 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
752 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
753 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
754 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
755 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
756 still possible to globally override the default by setting
757 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
758 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
Ned Deily044369f2011-06-28 20:08:34 -0700759 was built. Also, implement the same handling in packaging.
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700760
Benjamin Petersone90ec362011-06-27 16:22:46 -0500761- Issue #12422: In the copy module, don't store objects that are their own copy
762 in the memo dict.
763
Ross Lagerwallbc808222011-06-25 12:13:40 +0200764- Issue #12303: Add sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait() to the signal module.
765
Ross Lagerwalldbfb9b82011-06-25 10:02:37 +0200766- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
767 Kitada.
768
R David Murray749073a2011-06-22 13:47:53 -0400769- Issue #1874: email now detects and reports as a defect the presence of
770 any CTE other than 7bit, 8bit, or binary on a multipart.
771
Victor Stinnerf1512a22011-06-21 17:18:38 +0200772- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
773 variables, start with an empty environment.
774
Éric Araujo3e425ac2011-06-19 21:23:43 +0200775- Issue #11637: Fix support for importing packaging setup hooks from the
776 project directory.
777
778- Issue #6771: Moved the curses.wrapper function from the single-function
R David Murrayafc9a5e2011-06-18 20:21:09 -0400779 wrapper module into __init__, eliminating the module. Since __init__ was
780 already importing the function to curses.wrapper, there is no API change.
781
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400782- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header
R David Murraye5e366c2011-06-18 12:57:28 -0400783 passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail
784 if given binary unknown-8bit input.
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400785
R David Murrayc88bce12011-06-17 22:24:05 -0400786- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
787 times without error.
788
R David Murray05ff9902011-06-17 12:54:56 -0400789- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
790
Victor Stinnerf073dc22011-06-17 14:02:18 +0200791- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
792 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
793 written by Ezio Melotti.
794
Éric Araujo643cb732011-06-11 00:33:38 +0200795- Issue #12240: Allow multiple setup hooks in packaging's setup.cfg files.
796 Original patch by Erik Bray.
797
Benjamin Peterson703f7c42011-06-11 15:56:46 -0500798- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
799 functions.
800
Éric Araujo36050302011-06-10 23:52:26 +0200801- Issue #11595: Fix assorted bugs in packaging.util.cfg_to_args, a
802 compatibility helper for the distutils-packaging transition. Original patch
803 by Erik Bray.
804
Charles-François Natalia5293082011-06-11 18:58:24 +0200805- Issue #12287: In ossaudiodev, check that the device isn't closed in several
806 methods.
807
Benjamin Peterson9aa68e42011-06-10 12:29:40 -0500808- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
809
Éric Araujofa6cfbc2011-06-10 18:31:40 +0200810- Issue #12246: Warn and fail when trying to install a third-party project from
811 an uninstalled Python (built in a source checkout). Original patch by
812 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe.
813
R David Murray51fcb812011-06-09 15:52:31 -0400814- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
815
R David Murray0a9f16b2011-06-09 15:21:02 -0400816- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
817
R David Murrayf97c59a2011-06-09 12:34:07 -0400818- Issue #10424: Argparse now includes the names of the missing required
819 arguments in the missing arguments error message.
820
Vinay Sajip8168d102011-06-09 16:50:49 +0100821- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
822 a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
823
Brian Curtin9a82eaa2011-06-08 18:43:57 -0500824- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
825 instead of os.stat.
826
Charles-François Natali4dd453c2011-06-08 19:18:14 +0200827- Issue #12021: Make mmap's read() method argument optional. Patch by Petri
828 Lehtinen.
829
Antoine Pitroudd696492011-06-08 17:21:55 +0200830- Issue #9205: concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor now detects killed
831 children and raises BrokenProcessPool in such a situation. Previously it
832 would reliably freeze/deadlock.
833
Antoine Pitrou176f07d2011-06-06 19:35:31 +0200834- Issue #12040: Expose a new attribute ``sentinel`` on instances of
835 :class:`multiprocessing.Process`. Also, fix Process.join() to not use
836 polling anymore, when given a timeout.
837
Antoine Pitrouf068ab82011-06-06 19:17:09 +0200838- Issue #11893: Remove obsolete internal wrapper class ``SSLFakeFile`` in the
839 smtplib module. Patch by Catalin Iacob.
840
Mark Dickinson7ce0fa82011-06-04 18:14:23 +0100841- Issue #12080: Fix a Decimal.power() case that took an unreasonably long time
842 to compute.
843
Benjamin Peterson8c6f88e2011-05-31 20:52:17 -0500844- Issue #12221: Remove __version__ attributes from pyexpat, pickle, tarfile,
845 pydoc, tkinter, and xml.parsers.expat. This were useless version constants
846 left over from the Mercurial transition
847
Raymond Hettinger22cc1182011-06-02 23:49:44 -0700848- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
849
Victor Stinner1b5b9d72011-06-01 00:58:57 +0200850- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
851 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
852 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
853
Victor Stinner2a129742011-05-30 23:02:52 +0200854- Issue #12028: Make threading._get_ident() public, rename it to
Victor Stinner58ab7662011-05-30 23:23:50 +0200855 threading.get_ident() and document it. This function was already used using
Victor Stinner2a129742011-05-30 23:02:52 +0200856 _thread.get_ident().
857
Victor Stinnere15dce32011-05-30 22:56:00 +0200858- Issue #12171: IncrementalEncoder.reset() of CJK codecs (multibytecodec) calls
859 encreset() instead of decreset().
860
Tarek Ziade371df052011-05-30 18:55:32 +0200861- Issue #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.
862
Victor Stinnere15dce32011-05-30 22:56:00 +0200863- Issue #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module.
Charles-François Natalidaafdd52011-05-29 20:07:40 +0200864
Ned Deily59a33382011-05-28 03:09:33 -0700865- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
866 Patch by Mher Movsisyan.
867
Nadeem Vawda55b43382011-05-27 01:52:15 +0200868- Issue #1625: BZ2File and bz2.decompress() now support multi-stream files.
869 Initial patch by Nir Aides.
870
Victor Stinnerb57f1082011-05-26 00:19:38 +0200871- Issue #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.
872
Victor Stinnere9d44ccb2011-05-26 00:16:44 +0200873- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size
874 once.
875
Victor Stinnera80987f2011-05-25 22:47:16 +0200876- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
877
Victor Stinnerb79f28c2011-05-25 22:09:03 +0200878- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
879 if the file is closed.
880
Victor Stinnerd2780ae2011-05-25 22:51:16 +0200881- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
882 class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Wark.
883
884- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
885 ctypes.util._get_soname(). Patch by Sijin Joseph.
Senthil Kumaran656ce502011-05-26 00:24:38 +0800886
Victor Stinner6daa33c2011-05-25 01:41:22 +0200887- Issue #10818: Remove the Tk GUI and the serve() function of the pydoc module,
888 pydoc -g has been deprecated in Python 3.2 and it has a new enhanced web
889 server.
Victor Stinner383c3fc2011-05-25 01:35:05 +0200890
Charles-François Natali1f4560c2011-05-24 23:47:49 +0200891- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, read the data in one chunk to speed up large
892 reads and simplify code.
893
Victor Stinner1273b7c2011-05-24 23:37:07 +0200894- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
895 correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
896
Victor Stinnereb734f72011-05-24 22:24:11 +0200897- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
898 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
899 final argument is True.
900
Victor Stinner99c8b162011-05-24 12:05:19 +0200901- Issue #12049: Add RAND_bytes() and RAND_pseudo_bytes() functions to the ssl
902 module.
903
Tarek Ziadee1177d92011-05-23 19:07:56 +0200904- Issue #12125: fixed the failures under Solaris due to improper test cleanup.
905
Victor Stinner7870bdf2011-05-23 18:12:52 +0200906- Issue #6501: os.device_encoding() returns None on Windows if the application
907 has no console.
908
Tarek Ziade35173692011-05-22 22:09:55 +0200909- Issue #12132: Skip test_build_ext in case the xxmodule is not found.
910
Charles-François Natali1e045b12011-05-22 20:42:32 +0200911- Issue #12105: Add O_CLOEXEC to the os module.
912
Mark Dickinsonb455e582011-05-22 12:53:18 +0100913- Issue #12079: Decimal('Infinity').fma(Decimal('0'), (3.91224318126786e+19+0j))
914 now raises TypeError (reflecting the invalid type of the 3rd argument) rather
915 than Decimal.InvalidOperation.
916
Victor Stinner21809a62011-05-20 00:22:39 +0200917- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
918 to be able to unload the module.
919
Éric Araujo765e94f2011-06-03 17:26:59 +0200920- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as
921 distutils2).
Tarek Ziadeebbb14c2011-05-19 19:56:12 +0200922
Antoine Pitrou7a616f22011-05-18 18:52:20 +0200923- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
924 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
925
Antoine Pitroue0650202011-05-18 18:03:09 +0200926- Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
927 passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
928 Patch by Kasun Herath.
929
Ronald Oussoren5ee05672011-05-17 14:48:40 +0200930- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
931 with Tk 8.5.
932
Ronald Oussorenf4542eb2011-05-15 17:13:47 +0200933- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Ronald Oussoren447fcfb2011-05-15 16:50:28 +0200934 is set in shell.
935
Nadeem Vawda0c3d96a2011-05-15 00:19:50 +0200936- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
937 their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
938 larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
939 an incorrect result.
940
Nadeem Vawda7619e882011-05-14 14:05:20 +0200941- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
942 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
943
Antoine Pitrou7c404892011-05-13 00:13:33 +0200944- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
945 on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
946 writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
947 data, and writing again).
948
Antoine Pitrou3486a982011-05-12 01:57:53 +0200949- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
950 Patch by John O'Connor.
951
Kurt B. Kaisere1478062011-05-11 12:24:17 -0400952- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
953 With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
954 IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +0000955
Senthil Kumaran4de00a22011-05-11 21:17:57 +0800956- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
957 when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
958 by Yuval Greenfield.
959
Victor Stinner19474772011-05-11 00:14:28 +0200960- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
961 non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
962 binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
963 encoding of the script.
964
Antoine Pitrou1be815a2011-05-10 19:16:29 +0200965- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
966 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
967
Victor Stinner388196e2011-05-10 17:13:00 +0200968- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
969 instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.
970
Senthil Kumaranc7ae19b2011-05-09 23:25:02 +0800971- Issue #3709: a flush_headers method to BaseHTTPRequestHandler which manages
972 the sending of headers to output stream and flushing the internal headers
973 buffer. Patch contribution by Andrew Schaaf
974
Antoine Pitrou87cf2202011-05-09 17:04:27 +0200975- Issue #11743: Rewrite multiprocessing connection classes in pure Python.
976
Martin v. Löwis2f48d892011-05-09 08:05:43 +0200977- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
978
Victor Stinnerfa0e3d52011-05-09 01:01:09 +0200979- Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark
980 Dickinson.
981
Victor Stinner3de49192011-05-09 00:42:58 +0200982- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
983
Victor Stinnerd49b1f12011-05-08 02:03:15 +0200984- Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
985 instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to
986 wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.
987
Victor Stinnerb3e72192011-05-08 01:46:11 +0200988- Issue #8407: Add pthread_kill(), sigpending() and sigwait() functions to the
989 signal module.
990
Antoine Pitrouc1d52062011-05-07 19:39:37 +0200991- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
992 by Kasun Herath.
993
Giampaolo Rodola'24befa82011-05-07 19:09:34 +0200994- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
995
Ezio Melotti43432b82011-05-08 20:01:36 +0300996- Issue #11916: Add a number of MacOSX specific definitions to the errno module.
Ronald Oussoren97c3eb42011-05-07 09:59:03 +0200997 Patch by Pierre Carrier.
998
Ezio Melotti1c3fd582011-05-08 19:58:08 +0300999- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murraycaed7fe2011-05-06 22:07:19 -04001000 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1001 previous value of the mtime.
1002
Giampaolo Rodola'd78def92011-05-06 19:49:08 +02001003- Issue #11072: added MLSD command (RFC-3659) support to ftplib.
1004
Antoine Pitrou08728162011-05-06 18:49:52 +02001005- Issue #8808: The IMAP4_SSL constructor now allows passing an SSLContext
1006 parameter to control parameters of the secure channel. Patch by Sijin
1007 Joseph.
1008
Ronald Oussoren6355c162011-05-06 17:11:07 +02001009- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
1010 file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
1011
Antoine Pitrou1c86b442011-05-06 15:19:49 +02001012- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any
1013 dNSName entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName.
1014 Patch by Nicolas Bareil.
1015
Ezio Melottib4dc2502011-05-06 15:01:41 +03001016- Issue #10775: assertRaises, assertRaisesRegex, assertWarns, and
1017 assertWarnsRegex now accept a keyword argument 'msg' when used as context
1018 managers. Initial patch by Winston Ewert.
1019
Ronald Oussoren136148e2011-05-06 11:17:40 +02001020- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1021 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1022 for the case.
1023
Nick Coghlan0ded3e32011-05-05 23:49:25 +10001024- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support
1025 more than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch
1026 by Ysj Ray.
1027
Alexander Belopolsky5611a1c2011-05-02 14:14:48 -04001028- Issue #11930: Removed deprecated time.accept2dyear variable.
1029 Removed year >= 1000 restriction from datetime.strftime.
1030
Victor Stinnercafa2ef2011-05-02 16:11:28 +02001031- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
1032
Raymond Hettinger003be522011-05-03 11:01:32 -07001033- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
1034
Victor Stinnera6cd0cf2011-05-02 01:05:37 +02001035- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1036 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1037
Victor Stinnera9293352011-04-30 15:21:58 +02001038- Issue #8407: Add signal.pthread_sigmask() function to fetch and/or change the
1039 signal mask of the calling thread.
1040
Łukasz Langa90759a22011-04-30 09:36:35 +02001041- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
1042 names.
1043
1044- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
1045
Antoine Pitrou15399c32011-04-28 19:23:55 +02001046- Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible. Patch
1047 by Charles-François Natali.
1048
Ezio Melotti935a5882011-04-27 10:17:34 +03001049- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1050 strings are too long.
1051
Senthil Kumaran72387f92011-04-26 21:09:49 +08001052- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1053
Antoine Pitrouf6454512011-04-25 19:16:06 +02001054- Issue #11856: Speed up parsing of JSON numbers.
1055
Victor Stinner762f8d12011-04-24 23:45:23 +02001056- Issue #11005: threading.RLock()._release_save() raises a RuntimeError if the
Victor Stinnerc2824d42011-04-24 23:41:33 +02001057 lock was not acquired.
1058
Antoine Pitrou8c520272011-04-23 17:51:04 +02001059- Issue #11258: Speed up ctypes.util.find_library() under Linux by a factor
1060 of 5 to 10. Initial patch by Jonas H.
1061
Antoine Pitrou877509a2011-04-23 17:21:13 +02001062- Issue #11382: Trivial system calls, such as dup() or pipe(), needn't
1063 release the GIL. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1064
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001065- Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about
1066 the thread implementation.
1067
R David Murray3edd22a2011-04-18 13:59:37 -04001068- Issue #11731: simplify/enhance email parser/generator API by introducing
1069 policy objects.
1070
Victor Stinner6c9b35b2011-04-18 16:25:56 +02001071- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1072 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1073 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1074
R David Murray01581ee2011-04-18 10:04:34 -04001075- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
1076
Vinay Sajipe723e962011-04-15 22:27:17 +01001077- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
1078
Raymond Hettinger019a97c2011-04-19 10:21:27 -07001079- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1080 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1081
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +03001082- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
Senthil Kumaran397eb442011-04-15 18:20:24 +08001083 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1084
Raymond Hettinger1c746c22011-04-15 13:16:46 -07001085- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1086
Senthil Kumaran2d2ea1b2011-04-14 13:16:30 +08001087- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1088 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1089
R David Murrayb35c8502011-04-13 16:46:05 -04001090- Issue #11684: complete email.parser bytes API by adding BytesHeaderParser.
1091
Nadeem Vawdaccb16cb2011-04-13 07:35:29 +02001092- The bz2 module now handles 4GiB+ input buffers correctly.
1093
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +03001094- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1095 _json is not available.
Alexander Belopolsky1a20c122011-04-12 23:03:39 -04001096
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +03001097- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +03001098
1099- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +08001100 url contains #fragment.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +03001101
R David Murray3dd02d62011-04-12 21:02:45 -04001102- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1103 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1104
Victor Stinner4d652242011-04-12 23:41:50 +02001105- Issue #11186: pydoc ignores a module if its name contains a surrogate
1106 character in the index of modules.
1107
Antoine Pitroub7877f22011-04-12 17:58:11 +02001108- Issue #11815: Use a light-weight SimpleQueue for the result queue in
1109 concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
1110
brian.curtinf7eac1f2011-04-11 18:18:20 -05001111- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1112 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1113
Vinay Sajip4a0a31d2011-04-11 08:42:07 +01001114- logging.basicConfig now supports an optional 'handlers' argument taking an
1115 iterable of handlers to be added to the root logger. Additional parameter
1116 checks were also added to basicConfig.
1117
Antoine Pitroubed9a5b2011-04-11 00:20:23 +02001118- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
1119
Raymond Hettinger49353d02011-04-11 12:40:58 -07001120- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
1121 difflib.unified_diff().
1122
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +02001123- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1124 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1125 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1126
Ezio Melotti88fdeb42011-04-10 12:59:16 +03001127- Issue #2650: re.escape() no longer escapes the '_'.
1128
Antoine Pitrou131a6412011-04-09 23:49:58 +02001129- Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative timeout
1130 is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised). Patch
1131 by Charles-François Natali.
1132
Ezio Melotti2e3607c2011-04-07 22:03:31 +03001133- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
1134
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001135- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001136 multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +02001137 bytes.
R David Murrayc5c14722011-04-06 08:13:02 -04001138
Éric Araujof7d08e82011-05-29 18:13:51 +02001139- Issue #1690608: email.util.formataddr is now RFC 2047 aware: it now has a
1140 charset parameter that defaults to utf-8 and is used as the charset for RFC
R David Murray8debacb2011-04-06 09:35:57 -04001141 2047 encoding when the realname contains non-ASCII characters.
1142
Ross Lagerwall4f61b022011-04-05 15:34:00 +02001143- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1144
Antoine Pitrou4ec4b0c2011-04-04 21:00:37 +02001145- Issue #10791: Implement missing method GzipFile.read1(), allowing GzipFile
1146 to be wrapped in a TextIOWrapper. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1147
Raymond Hettinger7ab9e222011-04-05 02:33:54 -07001148- Issue #11707: Added a fast C version of functools.cmp_to_key().
1149 Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
1150
Antoine Pitrou5bfa0622011-04-04 00:12:04 +02001151- Issue #11688: Add sqlite3.Connection.set_trace_callback(). Patch by
1152 Torsten Landschoff.
1153
Antoine Pitrou9c254862011-04-03 18:15:34 +02001154- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
1155 private keys.
1156
Antoine Pitrou37dc5f82011-04-03 17:05:46 +02001157- Issue #5863: Rewrite BZ2File in pure Python, and allow it to accept
1158 file-like objects using a new ``fileobj`` constructor argument. Patch by
1159 Nadeem Vawda.
1160
Ezio Melotti0f535012011-04-03 18:02:13 +03001161- unittest.TestCase.assertSameElements has been removed.
1162
Victor Stinner27181ac2011-03-31 13:39:03 +02001163- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
1164 called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
1165
Victor Stinner024e37a2011-03-31 01:31:06 +02001166- Issue #11393: Add the new faulthandler module.
1167
Antoine Pitrou7899acf2011-03-31 01:00:32 +02001168- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
1169
R David Murray86cc82e2011-03-29 11:32:35 -04001170- Removed the 'strict' argument to email.parser.Parser, which has been
1171 deprecated since Python 2.4.
1172
Benjamin Peterson6a2638b2011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001173- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1174 arguments.
1175
Martin v. Löwisf8d887e2011-03-27 21:05:51 +02001176- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1177
Raymond Hettinger5d446132011-03-27 18:52:10 -07001178- itertools.accumulate now supports an optional *func* argument for
1179 a user-supplied binary function.
1180
Ross Lagerwallf382ab22011-03-27 17:34:22 +02001181- Issue #11692: Remove unnecessary demo functions in subprocess module.
1182
Mark Dickinson92b60d52011-03-27 16:25:40 +01001183- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1184 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1185
Mark Dickinsonccd22832011-03-27 15:46:32 +01001186- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1187 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1188 documentation.
1189
Martin v. Löwisa6e0b4f2011-03-27 10:14:57 +02001190- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
Martin v. Löwis9bad3a92011-03-27 10:12:07 +02001191
Ross Lagerwallb8a57692011-03-26 21:19:57 +02001192- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
1193 Patch by Ben Hayden.
1194
Antoine Pitrouc13d4542011-03-26 19:29:44 +01001195- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
1196 concurrent.futures.
1197
Brett Cannon442c9b92011-03-23 16:14:42 -07001198- Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
1199 to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
1200 object originally came from.
1201
Brett Cannona7468bc2011-03-23 16:06:00 -07001202- Issue #8754: Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.
1203
Éric Araujoc09fca62011-03-23 02:06:24 +01001204- Issue #11591: Prevent "import site" from modifying sys.path when python
1205 was started with -S.
1206
Raymond Hettinger28dff612011-03-23 13:05:02 -07001207- collections.namedtuple() now adds a _source attribute to the generated
1208 class. This make the source more accessible than the outdated
1209 "verbose" option which prints to stdout but doesn't make the source
1210 string available.
1211
Éric Araujoeda55832011-03-21 00:09:07 +01001212- Issue #11371: Mark getopt error messages as localizable. Patch by Filip
1213 Gruszczyński.
1214
Raymond Hettingerc46759a2011-03-22 11:46:25 -07001215- Issue #11333: Add __slots__ to collections ABCs.
1216
Éric Araujoc09fca62011-03-23 02:06:24 +01001217- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__.
Raymond Hettingera0d1d962011-03-21 17:50:28 -07001218
Raymond Hettinger1103d052011-03-25 14:15:24 -07001219- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1220 that start with a leading underscore.
1221
Guido van Rossum20d2ab42011-03-29 12:58:29 -07001222- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
1223 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
1224
Victor Stinner628225c2011-03-21 02:38:51 +01001225- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
1226 httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
1227
Éric Araujo6a1454f2011-03-20 19:59:25 +01001228- Issue #4391: Use proper gettext plural forms in optparse.
1229
Antoine Pitrou6d58d642011-03-20 23:56:36 +01001230- Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.
1231
Senthil Kumaran799c6692011-03-20 09:26:57 +08001232- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
1233 class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
1234 contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
1235
Antoine Pitrou877766d2011-03-19 17:00:37 +01001236- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
1237 unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
1238
Antoine Pitrou5e981412011-03-17 22:38:37 +01001239- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
1240 arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001241
Ross Lagerwall7807c352011-03-17 20:20:30 +02001242- Issue #10812: Add some extra posix functions to the os module.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001243
1244- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1245 setup and teardown.
1246
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001247- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
1248
R David Murraya2150232011-03-16 21:11:23 -04001249- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
1250 the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
1251
R David Murrayde912762011-03-16 18:26:23 -04001252- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
1253 relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
1254
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -04001255- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
1256 which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line
1257 of the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
1258
Nick Coghlan35ec8a42011-03-16 14:18:29 -04001259- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001260 parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1261
Ross Lagerwallba102ec2011-03-16 18:40:25 +02001262- Issue #5870: Add `subprocess.DEVNULL` constant.
1263
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001264- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
Benjamin Petersona78e4e62011-03-16 10:29:19 -05001265 execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001266
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -04001267- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1268 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1269 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1270
Antoine Pitrou2c50a092011-03-15 21:02:59 +01001271- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
1272 not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
1273 the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
1274
Barry Warsaw1f5c9582011-03-15 15:04:44 -04001275- Issue #11289: `smtp.SMTP` class becomes a context manager so it can be used
1276 in a `with` statement. Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola.
1277
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001278- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
1279 encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
1280
briancurtin2ef76982011-03-15 11:51:28 -04001281- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
1282 Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
1283
Michael Foord1341bb02011-03-14 19:01:46 -04001284- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
1285 Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
1286
Antoine Pitroue8706232011-03-15 21:05:36 +01001287- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
Antoine Pitrou0e63f592011-03-15 21:08:50 +01001288 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussorenf2db4de2011-03-14 18:46:50 -04001289
briancurtin525c25d2011-03-14 16:03:54 -04001290- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with
1291 the "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches
1292 the documentation and general logic.
1293
Éric Araujof7d08e82011-05-29 18:13:51 +02001294- Issue #1162477: Postel Principle adjustment to email date parsing: handle the
R David Murrayaccd1c02011-03-13 20:06:23 -04001295 fact that some non-compliant MUAs use '.' instead of ':' in time specs.
1296
Mark Dickinson37a79fb2011-03-12 11:12:52 +00001297- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus
1298 operations when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1299
Antoine Pitrou16c4ce12011-03-11 21:30:43 +01001300- Issue #9935: Speed up pickling of instances of user-defined classes.
1301
Ned Deilyd2853182011-03-09 02:36:51 -08001302- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1303 initialization fails.
1304
Antoine Pitrou125d5c82011-03-06 08:40:35 +01001305- Issue #11408: In threading.Lock.acquire(), only call gettimeofday() when
1306 really necessary. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1307
Antoine Pitrou16a0a0b2011-03-06 01:11:03 +01001308- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1309 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1310 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1311
Giampaolo Rodolà3a9559b2011-03-04 12:54:34 +00001312- Issue #9795: add context manager protocol support for nntplib.NNTP class.
1313
R. David Murray91221f22011-03-03 18:03:36 +00001314- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1315 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1316 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1317
Giampaolo Rodolà1bc75c62011-03-03 13:57:47 +00001318- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1319 on accept(), send() and recv().
1320
Victor Stinner1dfd3802011-03-03 12:54:07 +00001321- Issue #11377: Deprecate platform.popen() and reimplement it with os.popen().
1322
Victor Stinner7b3b20a2011-03-03 12:54:05 +00001323- Issue #8513: On UNIX, subprocess supports bytes command string.
1324
Antoine Pitrou061cfb52011-02-28 22:25:22 +00001325- Issue #10866: Add socket.sethostname(). Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1326
Antoine Pitroufcf81fd2011-02-28 22:03:34 +00001327- Issue #11140: Lock.release() now raises a RuntimeError when attempting
1328 to release an unacquired lock, as claimed in the threading documentation.
Antoine Pitrou8d0f2572011-02-28 22:06:48 +00001329 The _thread.error exception is now an alias of RuntimeError. Patch by
Antoine Pitrou819c40f2011-03-01 23:05:42 +00001330 Filip Gruszczyński. Patch for _dummy_thread by Aymeric Augustin.
Antoine Pitroufcf81fd2011-02-28 22:03:34 +00001331
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001332- Issue #8594: ftplib now provides a source_address parameter to specify which
Giampaolo Rodolà396ff062011-02-28 19:19:51 +00001333 (address, port) to bind to before connecting.
1334
Antoine Pitroue93bf7a2011-02-26 23:24:06 +00001335- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1336 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1337
Raymond Hettinger9fe1ccf2011-02-26 01:02:51 +00001338- Issue #11297: Add collections.ChainMap().
1339
Antoine Pitrou8250e232011-02-25 23:41:16 +00001340- Issue #10755: Add the posix.fdlistdir() function. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1341
Antoine Pitrouf65132d2011-02-25 23:25:17 +00001342- Issue #4761: Add the *at() family of functions (openat(), etc.) to the posix
1343 module. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1344
Antoine Pitrou68e5c042011-02-25 23:07:44 +00001345- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
1346 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
1347
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001348- Issue #11291: poplib.POP no longer suppresses errors on quit().
Giampaolo Rodolà95bcb932011-02-25 22:28:24 +00001349
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001350- Issue #11177: asyncore's create_socket() arguments can now be omitted.
Giampaolo Rodolà103a6d62011-02-25 22:21:22 +00001351
Antoine Pitrou0bd4deb2011-02-25 22:07:43 +00001352- Issue #6064: Add a ``daemon`` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
1353 and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
1354 default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
1355 thread/process.
1356
Antoine Pitrou707ce822011-02-25 21:24:11 +00001357- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1358 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1359
Giampaolo Rodolà7e1b9af2011-02-25 21:00:10 +00001360- Issue #10784: New os.getpriority() and os.setpriority() functions.
1361
Antoine Pitrou211b81d2011-02-25 20:27:33 +00001362- Issue #11114: Fix catastrophic performance of tell() on text files (up
1363 to 1000x faster in some cases). It is still one to two order of magnitudes
1364 slower than binary tell().
1365
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001366- Issue #10882: Add os.sendfile function.
Giampaolo Rodolàc9c2c8b2011-02-25 14:39:16 +00001367
Éric Araujo6c3787c2011-02-24 18:03:10 +00001368- Issue #10868: Allow usage of the register method of an ABC as a class
1369 decorator.
1370
Lars Gustäbeldd071042011-02-23 11:42:22 +00001371- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
1372 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
1373 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
1374
Sean Reifscheidere2dfefb2011-02-22 10:55:44 +00001375- Issue #10924: Adding salt and Modular Crypt Format to crypt library.
1376 Moved old C wrapper to _crypt, and added a Python wrapper with
1377 enhanced salt generation and simpler API for password generation.
1378
Brett Cannonf3042782011-02-22 03:25:12 +00001379- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
1380
Raymond Hettinger158c9c22011-02-22 00:41:50 +00001381- Issue #11085: Moved collections abstract base classes into a separate
1382 module called collections.abc, following the pattern used by importlib.abc.
1383 For backwards compatibility, the names are imported into the collections
1384 module.
1385
Antoine Pitrouecc26922011-02-21 23:41:12 +00001386- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1387 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1388 32-bit Windows.
1389
Victor Stinner441cc012011-02-21 20:58:02 +00001390- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
1391 escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
1392
Raymond Hettingerddb52402011-02-21 19:42:11 +00001393- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinnerfd34b372011-02-21 20:51:28 +00001394 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingerddb52402011-02-21 19:42:11 +00001395
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +00001396- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
1397 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1398
Eli Bendersky9479d1a2011-03-04 05:34:58 +00001399- Issue #11388: Added a clear() method to MutableSequence
1400
Steven Bethard0331e902011-03-26 14:48:04 +01001401- Issue #11174: Add argparse.MetavarTypeHelpFormatter, which uses type names
1402 for the names of optional and positional arguments in help messages.
1403
Steven Bethard006ba5c2011-03-26 18:29:48 +01001404- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1405
Steven Bethardd8f2d502011-03-26 19:50:06 +01001406- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1407
Steven Bethardd186f992011-03-26 21:49:00 +01001408- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1409 their children.
1410
Steven Bethard8a6a1982011-03-27 13:53:53 +02001411- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1412
Steven Bethard7cb20a82011-04-04 01:53:02 +02001413- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1414
Sandro Tosid902a142011-08-22 23:28:27 +02001415- Issue #12191: Added shutil.chown() to change user and/or group owner of a
1416 given path also specifying their names.
1417
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001418Build
1419-----
1420
Éric Araujo5043f092011-10-05 01:04:18 +02001421- PEP 393: the configure option --with-wide-unicode is removed.
1422
Victor Stinner14d098d2011-09-07 22:29:43 +02001423- Issue #12852: Set _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700, instead of 600, to get POSIX 2008
1424 functions on OpenBSD (e.g. fdopendir).
1425
Antoine Pitrou37009202011-07-08 23:47:50 +02001426- Issue #11863: Remove support for legacy systems deprecated in Python 3.2
1427 (following PEP 11). These systems are systems using Mach C Threads,
1428 SunOS lightweight processes, GNU pth threads and IRIX threads.
1429
Ned Deily8b56c4b2011-06-28 00:13:01 -07001430- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1431 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1432 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1433 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1434
Éric Araujof5949b52011-06-09 14:10:07 +02001435- Issue #10645: Installing Python does no longer create a
1436 Python-X.Y.Z-pyX.Y.egg-info file in the lib-dynload directory.
1437
Brett Cannonc5011fe2011-06-06 20:09:10 -07001438- Do not accidentally include the directory containing sqlite.h twice when
1439 building sqlite3.
1440
Ned Deilye4eed062011-05-28 06:04:02 -07001441- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1442 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1443 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1444
Martin v. Löwis8ffaa102011-05-09 07:42:28 +02001445- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
Martin v. Löwis48e14d32011-05-09 07:37:45 +02001446
Thomas Wouters6b103432011-03-06 11:51:24 -08001447- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1448
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001449- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1450 package had previously been installed.
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001451
Jesus Cea736e7fc2011-03-14 17:36:54 +01001452- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001453
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001454
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001455IDLE
1456----
1457
1458- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1459 file in a package.
Jesus Cea736e7fc2011-03-14 17:36:54 +01001460
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001461Tools/Demos
1462-----------
1463
Victor Stinnere670c882011-05-13 17:40:15 +02001464- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
1465 add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
1466
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001467- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
1468
Jason R. Coombs1322bd42011-07-26 11:57:08 -04001469- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1470 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
Jason R. Coombs76eec3d2011-07-26 11:38:04 -04001471 "--newline" option added to specify new line character.
Jason R. Coombs1322bd42011-07-26 11:57:08 -04001472
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001473Extension Modules
1474-----------------
1475
Nadeem Vawda72d6a132011-10-13 13:38:14 +02001476- Issue #13159: FileIO and BZ2Compressor/BZ2Decompressor now use a linear-time
1477 buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic-time one.
1478
Charles-François Natali47413c12011-10-06 19:47:44 +02001479- Issue #10141: socket: Add SocketCAN (PF_CAN) support. Initial patch by
1480 Matthias Fuchs, updated by Tiago Gonçalves.
1481
Charles-François Natalib619bb22011-10-05 19:55:56 +02001482- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
1483 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
1484 writer got cleared by the GC.
1485
Meador Inge29f43f72011-10-03 21:48:30 -05001486- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
1487
Charles-François Natali9624a762011-09-29 19:49:37 +02001488- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
1489 Thomas Jarosch.
1490
Meador Inge48d49492011-09-27 20:52:04 -05001491- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
1492 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
1493
Jesus Cea41c98a32011-09-21 03:56:05 +02001494- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
1495 file descriptor was actually received.
1496
Meador Inge1c9f0c92011-09-20 19:55:51 -05001497- Issue #1172711: Add 'long long' support to the array module.
1498 Initial patch by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1499
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc65604b52011-09-12 21:09:12 +02001500- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
1501 object triggers the garbage collector.
1502
Jesus Cea9af32cc2011-09-10 04:40:13 +02001503- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
1504 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
1505
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9b20e272011-09-02 20:43:59 +02001506- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
1507 a string.
1508
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdd2f8b02011-08-30 22:07:20 +02001509- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
1510
1511- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
1512 some functions like file.write().
1513
Barry Warsaw2ebada42011-07-19 19:23:56 -04001514- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1515 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1516 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1517
Benjamin Peterson9e3e1c62011-05-31 19:07:45 -05001518- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
1519
Ezio Melotti13672652011-05-11 01:02:56 +03001520- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1521 objects using the C accelerations.
1522
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001523- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1524 objects using the C accelerations.
Benjamin Peterson1a07f072011-03-26 18:17:05 -05001525
1526- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1527 to an instance of the class.
1528
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001529Tests
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001530-----
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001531
Ned Deilyd61f9d12011-10-31 16:22:53 -07001532- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
1533 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
1534
Charles-François Natalid4621192011-10-29 12:45:56 +02001535- Issue #5661: Add a test for ECONNRESET/EPIPE handling to test_asyncore. Patch
1536 by Xavier de Gaye.
1537
Barry Warsawc21a81b2011-10-28 17:08:12 -04001538- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
1539
Barry Warsawcb9c5ba2011-10-07 15:14:53 -04001540- Re-enable lib2to3's test_parser.py tests, though with an expected failure
1541 (see issue 13125).
1542
Charles-François Natalie78cbec2011-08-24 23:24:05 +02001543- Issue #12656: Add tests for IPv6 and Unix sockets to test_asyncore.
1544
Nick Coghlan029ba2b2011-08-22 16:05:44 +10001545- Issue #6484: Add unit tests for mailcap module (patch by Gregory Nofi)
1546
Nadeem Vawda3c01d162011-08-01 23:48:26 +02001547- Issue #11651: Improve the Makefile test targets to run more of the test suite
1548 more quickly. The --multiprocess option is now enabled by default, reducing
1549 the amount of time needed to run the tests. "make test" and "make quicktest"
1550 now include some resource-intensive tests, but no longer run the test suite
1551 twice to check for bugs in .pyc generation. Tools/scripts/run_test.py provides
Éric Araujo4f996442011-10-19 06:02:24 +02001552 an easy platform-independent way to run test suite with sensible defaults.
Nadeem Vawda3c01d162011-08-01 23:48:26 +02001553
Éric Araujob85b9662011-07-31 20:47:47 +02001554- Issue #12331: The test suite for the packaging module can now run from an
1555 installed Python.
1556
Éric Araujoad548b82011-07-31 18:33:00 +02001557- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1558 Python.
1559
Antoine Pitrouf83e4ac2011-07-29 23:57:10 +02001560- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
1561 with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
1562 using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
1563 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
1564
Antoine Pitrou8dbd8572011-07-23 22:37:52 +02001565- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
1566 running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
1567 (or ``-G``) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
1568 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
1569
Ned Deilydac7de32011-07-19 16:18:11 -07001570- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
1571 (Patch by Robert Xiao)
1572
Antoine Pitrou428bc6c2011-07-15 22:15:38 +02001573- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
1574
Ned Deily07b35372011-07-13 15:09:49 -07001575- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1576 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1577
Antoine Pitrou13d7db12011-07-09 02:32:36 +02001578- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1579 failure in name resolution.
1580
Antoine Pitrou4a183b42011-07-08 19:44:55 +02001581- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1582 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1583 Web site.
1584
Antoine Pitrou88fcf1b2011-07-08 19:22:31 +02001585- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1586 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1587 is now skipped instead.
1588
Antoine Pitrou7128f952011-07-08 18:49:07 +02001589- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
1590 reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
1591 rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
1592
Brian Curtin6a4ffd72011-07-05 19:14:16 -05001593- Issue #11512: Add a test suite for the cgitb module. Patch by Robbie Clemons.
1594
Ned Deily368ff102011-07-04 19:11:14 -07001595- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
1596 tests.
1597
1598- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
Ned Deily4bd3e5d2011-07-04 17:51:48 -07001599 testcase failure in test_ssl.
1600
Victor Stinnerd554cdf2011-07-04 17:49:40 +02001601- Issue #12469: Run wakeup and pending signal tests in a subprocess to run the
1602 test in a fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal
1603 handling of the parent process.
1604
Ned Deilyefa384a2011-07-03 22:27:16 -07001605- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1606 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1607 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1608
Antoine Pitrou61600cb2011-06-30 20:04:06 +02001609- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
1610
Victor Stinnere2185d72011-06-29 13:04:35 +02001611- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
1612 the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
1613 error twice anymore if there is only one error.
1614
Ned Deily4a1ec122011-06-28 00:53:54 -07001615- Issue #12141: Install copies of template C module file so that
1616 test_build_ext of test_distutils and test_command_build_ext of
1617 test_packaging are no longer silently skipped when
1618 run outside of a build directory.
1619
Ned Deily8b56c4b2011-06-28 00:13:01 -07001620- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1621 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1622
Ned Deilyf6837aa2011-06-27 23:18:45 -07001623- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1624 2.8 + on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1625
Victor Stinner1eb6d272011-05-31 00:03:07 +02001626- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1627 iso2022_kr).
1628
Éric Araujo08ae8bb2011-05-26 17:06:47 +02001629- Issue #12180: Fixed a few remaining errors in test_packaging when no
1630 threading.
1631
1632- Issue #12120, #12119: skip a test in packaging and distutils
1633 if sys.dont_write_bytecode is set to True.
1634
Victor Stinner5f3b1c42011-05-18 00:20:18 +02001635- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
1636 written by Charles-François Natali.
1637
Victor Stinner118ed712011-05-16 16:35:35 +02001638- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
1639 Andreas Stührk.
1640
Ezio Melotti6b60fb92011-05-14 06:47:51 +03001641- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1642
Antoine Pitrou606c3f52011-05-09 21:17:02 +02001643- Issue #12041: Make test_wait3 more robust.
1644
R David Murray66a18fd2011-05-05 11:52:44 -04001645- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
1646 when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
1647
Victor Stinnerc90e19d2011-05-01 01:23:03 +02001648- Issue #11958: Fix FTP tests for IPv6, bind to "::1" instead of "localhost".
1649 Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1650
Victor Stinnera9293352011-04-30 15:21:58 +02001651- Issue #8407, #11859: Fix tests of test_io using threads and an alarm: use
1652 pthread_sigmask() to ensure that the SIGALRM signal is received by the main
1653 thread.
1654
Antoine Pitrou9c39f3c2011-04-28 19:18:10 +02001655- Issue #11811: Factor out detection of IPv6 support on the current host
1656 and make it available as ``test.support.IPV6_ENABLED``. Patch by
1657 Charles-François Natali.
1658
Antoine Pitrou72562d02011-04-25 21:22:04 +02001659- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
1660
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001661- Issue #11223: Skip test_lock_acquire_interruption() and
1662 test_rlock_acquire_interruption() of test_threadsignals if a thread lock is
1663 implemented using a POSIX mutex and a POSIX condition variable. A POSIX
1664 condition variable cannot be interrupted by a signal (e.g. on Linux, the
1665 futex system call is restarted).
1666
Antoine Pitrouf25a8de2011-04-16 21:02:01 +02001667- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
1668
Antoine Pitrouee429342011-04-16 18:53:59 +02001669- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
1670
Ross Lagerwall226580e2011-04-09 20:05:04 +02001671- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1672 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1673
Victor Stinnerd7edf3b2011-04-03 23:46:42 +02001674- Issue #11727: Add a --timeout option to regrtest: if a test takes more than
1675 TIMEOUT seconds, dumps the traceback of all threads and exits.
Victor Stinner0cc8d592011-03-31 18:10:13 +02001676
Antoine Pitroue44b1252011-03-23 23:02:31 +01001677- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
1678
R David Murray9aaba782011-03-21 17:17:06 -04001679- The email test suite now lives in the Lib/test/test_email package. The test
1680 harness code has also been modernized to allow use of new unittest features.
1681
1682- regrtest now discovers test packages as well as test modules.
1683
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001684- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
1685
Nick Coghlan49cb9592011-03-16 20:23:58 -04001686- New test_crashers added to exercise the scripts in the Lib/test/crashers
1687 directory and confirm they fail as expected
1688
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001689- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
R David Murraya88da672011-03-16 17:32:27 -04001690
Michael Foord07926f02011-03-16 17:19:16 -04001691- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1692
Nick Coghlan62ecb6a2011-05-31 19:40:11 +10001693- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py, increases granularity of
1694 string.Formatter tests. Initial patch by Alicia Arlen.
Nick Coghlan7462fa62011-03-16 14:30:45 -04001695
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001696- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
1697 Evan Dandrea.
1698
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001699- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
1700
Nick Coghlan252183e2011-03-16 14:37:06 -04001701- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
1702 Arlen
Nick Coghland25fd4d2011-03-15 08:54:37 +10001703
R David Murray384069c2011-03-13 22:26:53 -04001704- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1705 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1706
Antoine Pitroud3cccd22011-03-13 19:14:21 +01001707- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
1708 non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
1709
Victor Stinner096f1a82011-03-01 23:08:36 +00001710- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
1711 Pierre Quentel.
1712
Antoine Pitroud20a5f62011-02-26 15:58:05 +00001713- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
1714 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1715
Brett Cannoneeb114b2011-02-22 03:14:12 +00001716- Issue #10512: Properly close sockets under test.test_cgi.
1717
Brett Cannon7a540732011-02-22 03:04:06 +00001718- Issue #10992: Make tests pass under coverage.
1719
Antoine Pitrouce58dc72011-02-21 21:55:48 +00001720- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
1721 to open door files.
1722
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001723- Issue #10990: Prevent tests from clobbering a set trace function.
1724
Benjamin Peterson485119e2011-03-15 15:07:20 -05001725C-API
1726-----
1727
Ezio Melotti8c9375b2011-08-22 20:03:25 +03001728- Issue #10542: Add 4 macros to work with surrogates: Py_UNICODE_IS_SURROGATE,
1729 Py_UNICODE_IS_HIGH_SURROGATE, Py_UNICODE_IS_LOW_SURROGATE,
1730 Py_UNICODE_JOIN_SURROGATES.
1731
Brian Curtin0275fc12011-08-10 20:32:10 -05001732- Issue #12724: Add Py_RETURN_NOTIMPLEMENTED macro for returning NotImplemented.
1733
Benjamin Peterson8a021002011-05-25 09:27:43 -05001734- PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION has been removed, since it's meaningless with
1735 Mercurial.
Benjamin Peterson485119e2011-03-15 15:07:20 -05001736
Benjamin Peterson04778a82011-05-25 09:29:00 -05001737- Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const
Benjamin Petersonc556e102011-05-26 17:49:57 -05001738 char *` instead of `char *`.
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001739
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +03001740- Issue #12380: PyArg_ParseTuple now accepts a bytearray for the 'c' format.
1741
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +02001742Documentation
1743-------------
1744
Florent Xiclunae9126b52011-10-23 22:44:19 +02001745- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for socketserver examples.
1746
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +02001747- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
1748
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001749
1750What's New in Python 3.2?
1751=========================
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +00001752
1753*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001754
1755Core and Builtins
1756-----------------
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +00001757
1758- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +00001759
1760Build
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001761-----
1762
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +00001763- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
1764
1765- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1766
1767- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001768
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001769Documentation
1770-------------
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001771
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001772- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001773
1774
1775What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
1776=============================================
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +00001777
1778*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +00001779
1780Core and Builtins
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001781-----------------
1782
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +00001783- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +00001784
1785- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001786
1787- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
1788 ABI.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001789
1790- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +00001791
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001792Library
1793-------
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +00001794
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +00001795- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
1796 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001797
1798- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +00001799 compileall.compile_dir().
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001800
1801- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
1802
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001803- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
1804 by Stan Mihai.
1805
1806Build
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +00001807-----
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001808
1809- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001810 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
1811 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
1812 framework under share/doc.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001813
1814- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001815
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001816Tests
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001817-----
1818
1819- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +00001820 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001821
1822
1823What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
1824=============================================
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +00001825
1826*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
1827
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001828Core and Builtins
1829-----------------
1830
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +00001831- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1832 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1833
1834Library
1835-------
1836
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +00001837- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
1838 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
1839 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
1840 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +00001841 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
1842
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +00001843- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
1844 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
1845 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +00001846
1847- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
1848
1849- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +00001850 commands.
1851
1852- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
1853 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +00001854 obscured.
1855
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +00001856- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1857 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1858 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +00001859
1860- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
1861
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +00001862- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
1863 conversion.
1864
1865- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +00001866 with a None body.
1867
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +00001868- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
1869 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
1870 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +00001871
1872- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1873
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +00001874- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
1875 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +00001876
1877- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +00001878 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001879
1880- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +00001881
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001882- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001883
1884- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +00001885 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
1886 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
1887 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +00001888
1889- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1890
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +00001891- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1892 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1893
1894- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +00001895 a symbol named FSTAT.
1896
1897- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
1898 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
1899 of HTTP 1.1.
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +00001900
1901- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001902 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +00001903 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
1904 both incoming and outgoing direction.
1905
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +00001906- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1907 argparse.FileType.
1908
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +00001909- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
1910 during request handling.
1911
1912- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1913 argparse.
1914
1915Build
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001916-----
1917
1918- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +00001919 the system-provided Python.
1920
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001921
1922What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
1923============================================
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001924
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001925*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001926
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +00001927Core and Builtins
1928-----------------
1929
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001930- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001931 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
1932
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001933- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001934 class.
1935
1936- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +00001937 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +00001938 by Matt Bandy.
1939
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +00001940- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
1941 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
1942 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
1943
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +00001944- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
1945
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +00001946- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +00001947 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1948 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1949
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001950- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +02001951 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001952
1953- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +00001954 can now handle dates after 2038.
1955
1956- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +00001957 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
1958 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001959
1960- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
1961 encoding instead of UTF-8.
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +00001962
1963- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
1964
Benjamin Peterson62f8bcb2011-04-12 18:34:30 -05001965- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a
1966 SyntaxError.
1967
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001968Library
1969-------
1970
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001971- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
1972 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
1973 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +00001974
Ronald Oussoren6edd8c12011-05-17 13:03:54 +02001975- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1976 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1977
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001978- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1979 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1980 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +00001981
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001982- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
1983 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +00001984 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
1985 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001986
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001987- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +00001988
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001989- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
1990 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +00001991
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +00001992- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1993
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +00001994- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
1995 if available.
1996
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001997- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
1998 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +00001999
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00002000- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002001 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
2002 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
2003 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
2004 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00002005
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +00002006- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
2007 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
2008
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +00002009- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
2010 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
2011
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00002012- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02002013 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a BytesParser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002014 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00002015
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02002016- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding whitespace when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002017 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
2018 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
2019 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +00002020
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +00002021- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
2022 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
2023 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
2024 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
2025 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
2026 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +00002027
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +00002028- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
2029 on an existing file.
2030
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +00002031- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
2032 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
2033
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +00002034- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
2035 compilation (if the input is a string).
2036
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00002037- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +00002038 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00002039
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +00002040- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
2041 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +00002042
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +00002043- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
2044 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
2045
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +00002046- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
2047 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
2048
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +00002049- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
2050 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
2051 2^32-1 bytes).
2052
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002053- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
2054 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +00002055
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002056- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
2057 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
2058 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +00002059
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +00002060- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
2061 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
2062
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +00002063- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
2064 few POSIX semaphores.
2065
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +00002066- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
2067 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
2068
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002069- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
2070 filenames.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +00002071
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +00002072- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
2073 David Daniels.
2074
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002075- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
2076 define __missing__().
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00002077
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002078- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
2079 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
2080 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00002081
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002082- Issue #10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
2083 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's request_uri
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002084 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
2085 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +00002086
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00002087- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +00002088
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00002089- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +00002090 browsers actually parse cookies.
2091
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002092- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
2093 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
2094 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +00002095
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +00002096- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +00002097
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00002098- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
2099
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +00002100- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
2101
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +00002102- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
2103 ElementTree register_namespace().
2104
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +00002105- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
2106
2107- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
2108
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +00002109- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
2110 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
2111 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
2112
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +00002113- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
2114 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
2115
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +00002116- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
2117 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
2118
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +00002119- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
2120
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +00002121- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
2122 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
2123
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +00002124- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
2125 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
2126
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +00002127- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
2128
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +00002129- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00002130
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00002131C-API
2132-----
2133
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +00002134- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
2135 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
2136
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002137- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
2138 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00002139
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00002140Build
2141-----
2142
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002143- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
2144 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
2145 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +00002146
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +00002147- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
2148 scripts (#10679).
2149
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +00002150- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
2151 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
2152
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +00002153- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
2154 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
2155
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00002156- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
2157 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
2158
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +00002159- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
2160 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
2161 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
2162 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
2163
Ronald Oussoren25032492011-03-14 10:11:59 -04002164- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
2165 using GCC 4.0.
2166
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00002167Tools/Demos
2168-----------
2169
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002170- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
2171 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
2172 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +00002173
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00002174- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
2175 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
2176 Tools/demo subdirectory.
2177
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00002178- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002179 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
2180 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00002181
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00002182Tests
2183-----
2184
Ezio Melotti8269a442011-05-09 07:15:04 +03002185- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
2186
Nadeem Vawda58de6ee2011-04-19 01:38:47 +02002187- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
2188
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +00002189- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
2190 by Ross Lagerwall.
2191
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +00002192- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
2193
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +00002194- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
2195 Björn Lindqvist.
2196
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +00002197- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
2198 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
2199
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00002200- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
2201 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
2202 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00002203
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00002204
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002205What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
2206================================
2207
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +00002208*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002209
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00002210Core and Builtins
2211-----------------
2212
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +00002213- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
2214 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
2215
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00002216- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
2217 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
2218 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002219
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +00002220- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
2221 Daniel Urban.
2222
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002223Library
2224-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00002225
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +00002226- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
2227 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
2228
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00002229- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
2230
2231- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
2232 up function.
2233
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +00002234- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
2235 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
2236
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +00002237- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
2238 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
2239
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +00002240- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
2241 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
2242
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +00002243- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
2244
2245- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +00002246 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
2247
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +00002248- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
2249 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
2250
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00002251- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
2252 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
2253
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +00002254- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
2255 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002256
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +00002257- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
2258 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2259
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +00002260- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
2261
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +00002262- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
2263
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +00002264- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
2265 causes debug mode to fail.
2266
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +00002267- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
2268 that contain non-ascii values.
2269
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00002270- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +00002271 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
2272 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
2273 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
2274 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
2275
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00002276- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
2277
2278- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +00002279 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
2280 error handles are provided.
2281
2282- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
2283 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
2284 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002285
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +00002286- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
2287 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
2288 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
2289
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00002290Tests
2291-----
2292
2293- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
2294 encountering them.
2295
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00002296Tools/Demos
2297-----------
2298
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +00002299- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
2300 Cocoa AquaTk.
2301
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +00002302- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
2303
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00002304- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
2305 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
2306
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00002307Build
2308-----
2309
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +00002310- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00002311
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +00002312- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
2313
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00002314
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002315What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
2316================================
2317
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002318*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002319
2320Core and Builtins
2321-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002322
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +00002323- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
2324 methods.
2325
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002326- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
2327 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +00002328
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002329- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
2330 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +00002331
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00002332- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
2333
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002334- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
2335 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +00002336
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +00002337- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
2338
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002339- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002340
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +00002341- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
2342
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002343- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
2344 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +00002345
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00002346- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
2347
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002348- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
2349 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
2350 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +00002351
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002352- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +00002353
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +00002354- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
2355 masking all errors.
2356
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002357Library
2358-------
2359
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +00002360- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
2361
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +00002362- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
2363 assertions about logging.
2364
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +00002365- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
2366
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +00002367- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
2368 UnicodeEncodeError.
2369
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +00002370- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
2371
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002372- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
2373 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +00002374
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +00002375- Add the "interact" pdb command.
2376
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +00002377- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
2378
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +00002379- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
2380
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00002381- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
2382 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
2383
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +00002384- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2385 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2386 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2387
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +00002388- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
2389
2390- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +00002391 names for running specific tests.
2392
2393- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
2394 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
2395 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
2396
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +00002397- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
2398 SSLError on socket timeouts.
2399
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +00002400- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
2401 messages from argparse.
2402
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +00002403- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
2404
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +00002405- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2406 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2407 current process.
2408
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +00002409- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
2410
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +00002411- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2412
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +00002413- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
2414 Adam.
2415
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002416- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
2417 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +00002418
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +00002419- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2420
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002421- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
2422 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +00002423
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002424- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
2425 subprocess.
2426
2427- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
2428 module.
2429
2430- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
2431 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2432
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002433- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
2434 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002435
2436- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
2437
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002438- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002439 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002440
2441- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
2442 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +00002443
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +00002444- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
2445
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +00002446- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
2447 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
2448
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002449- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
2450 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
2451 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +00002452
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002453- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
2454 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +00002455
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +00002456- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2457
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +00002458- Added itertools.accumulate().
2459
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +00002460- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
2461 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
2462
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +00002463- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
2464 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
2465
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +00002466- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
2467
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002468- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
2469 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +00002470
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002471- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
2472 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +00002473
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002474- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
2475 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
2476 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +00002477
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002478- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
2479 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +00002480
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002481- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
2482 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +00002483
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +00002484- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2485
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002486- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
2487 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +00002488 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
2489
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00002490- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
2491 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +00002492
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +00002493- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
2494
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +00002495- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
2496
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +00002497- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +00002498 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2499
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +00002500- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2501 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2502
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +00002503- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
2504 when no extra arguments have been provided.
2505
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +00002506- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
2507 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
2508 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
2509
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002510- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
2511 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +00002512
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +00002513- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
2514 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
2515
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002516- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
2517 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +00002518
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +00002519- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
2520
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +00002521- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +00002522
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +00002523- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2524 end of the file.
2525
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002526- configparser: 100% test coverage.
2527
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002528- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
2529 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +00002530 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
2531 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
2532
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002533- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
2534 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
2535 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00002536
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002537- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
2538 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
2539
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002540- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
2541
2542- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
2543
2544- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
2545
2546- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
2547 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
2548
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002549- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
2550 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
2551 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002552
2553- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
2554 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
2555 values, and indentation.
2556
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002557- Issue #10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +00002558
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002559- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +00002560
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002561- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
2562 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
2563 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +00002564
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +00002565- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
2566
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +00002567- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
2568 version-specific online reference manual.
2569
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +00002570- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
2571
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +00002572- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
2573
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +00002574- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
2575 Patch by Robert Collins.
2576
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002577- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
2578 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +00002579
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002580C-API
2581-----
2582
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002583- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002584 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
2585 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002586
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002587- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
2588 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002589 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
2590 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002591
2592- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
2593 Schemenauer.
2594
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +00002595- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
2596
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002597- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
2598
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002599Tests
2600-----
2601
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002602- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002603 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +00002604
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002605- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
2606 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +00002607
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002608- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
2609 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +00002610
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002611- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
2612 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002613
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +00002614Build
2615-----
2616
2617- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
2618 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
2619
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00002620Documentation
2621-------------
2622
2623- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2624
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002625
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +00002626What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
2627=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002628
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +00002629*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002630
2631Core and Builtins
2632-----------------
2633
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +00002634- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
2635 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
2636
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002637- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
2638 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +00002639 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
2640
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002641- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +00002642
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +00002643- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
2644
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +00002645- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2646 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2647
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002648- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +00002649 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
2650
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +00002651- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
2652 of the offending line.
2653
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002654- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
2655 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +00002656
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002657- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
2658 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002659 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002660 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002661 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
2662
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002663- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
2664 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002665 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
2666
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +00002667- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2668 resolution.
2669
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002670- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
2671 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +00002672
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +00002673- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
2674 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
2675
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002676- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +00002677 descriptor.
2678
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00002679- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
2680 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
2681
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00002682- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
2683
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002684Library
2685-------
2686
Meador Inge14c0f032011-10-07 08:53:38 -05002687- Issue #12943: python -m tokenize support has been added to tokenize.
2688
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00002689- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
2690
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00002691- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
2692
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00002693- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
2694
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00002695- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2696
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002697- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
2698 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00002699
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002700- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
2701 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00002702
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002703- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
2704 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00002705
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002706- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002707 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00002708
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002709- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
2710 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00002711
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00002712- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
2713
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002714- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002715 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
2716 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002717 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
2718
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002719- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
2720 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
2721 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
2722 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002723
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002724- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
2725 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00002726
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00002727- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
2728
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002729- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
2730 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00002731
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00002732- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
2733 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
2734
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002735- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
2736 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00002737
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002738- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
2739 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
2740 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
2741 ASCII.
2742
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002743- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002744 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002745 Belopolsky.
2746
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002747- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2748 --enable-shared.
2749
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00002750- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2751 Arfrever.
2752
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00002753- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2754
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00002755- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2756 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2757
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00002758- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
2759 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
2760
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002761- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
2762 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00002763
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00002764- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
2765
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00002766- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
2767
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002768- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
2769 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00002770
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00002771- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
2772 response, instead of raising an exception.
2773
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002774- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
2775 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002776 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
2777 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
2778 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002779
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002780- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
2781 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00002782
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00002783- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
2784
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002785- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
2786 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00002787
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00002788- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2789
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002790- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
2791 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00002792
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002793- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
2794 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00002795
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00002796- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
2797
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00002798- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2799
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002800- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
2801 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00002802
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002803- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
2804 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00002805
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002806- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
2807 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00002808
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00002809- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2810 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2811
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002812- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
2813 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00002814
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00002815- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
2816
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00002817- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
2818
2819- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
2820
2821- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
2822
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002823- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
2824 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00002825
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002826- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002827 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
2828 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002829
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002830- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
2831 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00002832
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00002833- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
2834
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002835- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
2836 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00002837
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00002838- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2839 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2840 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2841
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00002842- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
2843
2844- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00002845
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00002846- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2847
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002848- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
2849 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00002850
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00002851- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
2852 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
2853
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002854- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
2855 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
2856 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00002857
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00002858- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
2859
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002860- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00002861
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00002862- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
2863
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00002864- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
2865
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00002866- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
2867
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00002868- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2869
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00002870- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
2871 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
2872
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002873- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
2874 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
2875 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00002876
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00002877- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
2878 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
2879
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00002880- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
2881 switch to python-config for command line access.
2882
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00002883- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2884
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00002885- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2886 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2887
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002888- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002889 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002890
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00002891- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00002892 debugging in doctests.
2893
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002894- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
2895 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00002896
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002897- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
2898 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00002899
2900- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002901 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002902 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
2903 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002904
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00002905- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2906 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2907 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2908
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002909- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
2910 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
2911 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00002912
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002913- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002914 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
2915 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002916
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00002917- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2918 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2919
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002920- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00002921
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00002922- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
2923
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002924- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2925
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002926Extension Modules
2927-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002928
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00002929- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
2930 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
2931
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00002932- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
2933
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00002934- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
2935
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00002936- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
2937
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00002938- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
2939
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00002940- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
2941
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00002942- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2943
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002944- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
2945 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00002946
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002947- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
2948 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
2949 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00002950
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00002951- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
2952
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002953C-API
2954-----
2955
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002956- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002957 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002958
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002959- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
2960 type has been introduced.
2961
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002962Tools/Demos
2963-----------
2964
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002965- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
2966 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
2967 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00002968
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002969- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2970
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002971Tests
2972-----
2973
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002974- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
2975 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00002976
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00002977- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
2978
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002979- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
2980 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002981
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002982Build
2983-----
2984
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00002985- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
2986
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00002987- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2988
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00002989- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
2990
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002991- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
2992
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00002993- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
2994
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002995- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
2996 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00002997
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002998
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002999What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
3000=================================
3001
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00003002*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00003003
3004Core and Builtins
3005-----------------
3006
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00003007- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
3008 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
3009
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00003010- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003011 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00003012
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003013- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
3014 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
3015 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00003016
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00003017- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
3018 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
3019
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00003020- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
3021
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00003022- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003023 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
3024 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00003025
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00003026- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00003027 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00003028
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00003029- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
3030
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00003031- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
3032 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
3033
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003034- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
3035 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00003036
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00003037- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003038 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00003039
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00003040- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
3041
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00003042- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
3043 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
3044 Py_Initialize().
3045
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003046- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
3047 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00003048
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00003049- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
3050 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
3051
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00003052- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003053 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00003054
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003055- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
3056 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
3057 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
3058 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
3059 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
3060 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00003061
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00003062- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
3063 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
3064 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
3065
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00003066- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
3067 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
3068 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
3069
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003070- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
3071 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00003072
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00003073- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
3074 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
3075 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
3076
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003077- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
3078 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
3079 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
3080 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00003081
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00003082- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
3083 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
3084 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
3085
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00003086- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
3087 thread-local storage key.
3088
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00003089Library
3090-------
3091
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00003092- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
3093
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00003094- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
3095
3096- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
3097
3098- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
3099 not in build_clib.
3100
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00003101- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
3102
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00003103- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
3104 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
3105
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00003106- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
3107 verification for higher-level protocols.
3108
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00003109- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
3110 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
3111
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00003112- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
3113 gettext.
3114
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00003115- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00003116 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003117 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00003118 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
3119 directly.
3120
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00003121- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
3122 gname field.
3123
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003124- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
3125 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00003126
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00003127- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
3128 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
3129
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003130- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
3131 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00003132
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003133- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
3134 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00003135
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003136- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
3137 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
3138 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00003139
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00003140- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
3141
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00003142- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003143 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
3144 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
3145 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00003146
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00003147- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
3148
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00003149- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003150 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
3151 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
3152 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00003153
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00003154- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
3155
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00003156- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
3157
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00003158- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
3159
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00003160- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
3161 in ntpath.
3162
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00003163- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
3164
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003165- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
3166 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00003167
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00003168- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
3169 performance-critical threads.
3170
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00003171- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
3172
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00003173- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
3174
3175- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
3176
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00003177- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
3178
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00003179- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
3180 object, only munmap().
3181
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003182- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
3183 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00003184
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00003185- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
3186 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
3187 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
3188
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00003189- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
3190
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00003191- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003192 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
3193 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00003194
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00003195- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
3196 another kind.
3197
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00003198- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
3199
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003200- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00003201
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003202- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
3203 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00003204
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003205- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
3206 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
3207 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00003208
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003209- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
3210 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00003211
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01003212- Issue #9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003213 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00003214
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00003215- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
3216
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00003217- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00003218
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00003219- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
3220 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
3221
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003222- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
3223 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00003224
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00003225- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003226 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
3227 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00003228 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
3229 in the first place.
3230
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00003231- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
3232 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003233 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00003234
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003235- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
3236 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
3237 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
3238 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00003239
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003240- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
3241 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
3242 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00003243
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003244- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
3245 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00003246
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00003247- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
3248 multiprocessing.
3249
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003250- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
3251 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
3252 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00003253
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00003254- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
3255 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
3256 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
3257
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003258- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
3259 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
3260 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
3261 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00003262
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003263- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
3264 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
3265 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00003266
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00003267- Updates to the random module:
3268
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003269 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
3270 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00003271
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003272 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
3273 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
3274 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00003275
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003276 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
3277 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
3278 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00003279
3280 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00003281
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003282- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
3283 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00003284
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003285- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
3286 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
3287 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00003288
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003289- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
3290 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
3291 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00003292
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00003293- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
3294
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00003295- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003296 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
3297 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00003298
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00003299- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
3300 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
3301 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
3302 algorithms available in the current process.
3303
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00003304- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
3305
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00003306C-API
3307-----
3308
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00003309- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
3310
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00003311- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
3312 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
3313 defined.
3314
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00003315Tools/Demos
3316-----------
3317
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003318- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
3319 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
3320 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00003321
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00003322Tests
3323-----
3324
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00003325- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
3326 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
3327
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003328- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
3329 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00003330
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00003331- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
3332 in test_os)
3333
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00003334- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
3335 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
3336
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00003337- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
3338
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003339- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
3340 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00003341
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00003342- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
3343
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00003344- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
3345
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00003346- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
3347 case when running profile or trace, for example.
3348
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00003349- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
3350
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00003351Build
3352-----
3353
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00003354- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
3355
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003356- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
3357 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00003358
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00003359- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
3360
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00003361- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
3362
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00003363- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
3364
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003365- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
3366 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00003367
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003368- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
3369 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00003370
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00003371- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
3372 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
3373 defined by PEP 3149.
3374
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003375- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
3376 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00003377
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00003378- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
3379 Sablé.
3380
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00003381- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
3382 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
3383 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
3384
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00003385
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003386What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
3387=================================
3388
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00003389*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003390
3391Core and Builtins
3392-----------------
3393
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003394- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
3395 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
3396 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00003397
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00003398- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
3399 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
3400
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003401- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
3402 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00003403
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003404- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
3405 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00003406
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003407- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
3408 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
3409 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00003410
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00003411- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
3412 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
3413
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003414- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
3415 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00003416
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00003417- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
3418
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00003419- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
3420
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003421- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
3422 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00003423
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003424- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
3425 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00003426
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00003427- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
3428 filesystem encoding.
3429
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00003430- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
3431 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
3432 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
3433 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
3434 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
3435
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00003436- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
3437 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
3438 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
3439 function.
3440
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00003441- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
3442
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00003443- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
3444
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003445- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
3446 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00003447
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003448- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
3449 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00003450 sys.stderr.
3451
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003452- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003453 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
3454 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003455
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003456- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
3457 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
3458 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00003459
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003460- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
3461 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003462
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003463- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
3464 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00003465
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003466- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00003467
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003468- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
3469 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00003470
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003471- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
3472 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00003473
3474 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
3475 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
3476
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00003477Extension Modules
3478-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003479
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00003480- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
3481 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
3482 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
3483 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
3484 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
3485
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00003486- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
3487 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
3488
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00003489- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
3490 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3491
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003492- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
3493 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00003494
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003495- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
3496 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
3497 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00003498
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003499- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
3500 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
3501 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00003502
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003503- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
3504 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00003505
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00003506- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
3507 Matthew Ahrens.
3508
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003509- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
3510 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00003511
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003512- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
3513 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00003514
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00003515- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
3516
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003517- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
3518 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00003519
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003520- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
3521 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00003522
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00003523- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00003524
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00003525- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
3526
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003527- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
3528 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00003529
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003530- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
3531 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00003532
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003533- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
3534 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00003535
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003536- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
3537 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00003538
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00003539- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
3540
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003541- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
3542 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00003543
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00003544- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
3545 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
3546
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00003547- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
3548
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003549- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
3550 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003551
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003552Library
3553-------
3554
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003555- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
3556 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
3557 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00003558
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003559- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
3560 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00003561
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003562- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00003563
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003564- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
3565 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00003566
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00003567- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
3568 ConfigParser.write.
3569
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003570- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
3571 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003572 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
3573 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003574
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003575- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
3576 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00003577
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003578- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00003579 circumstances.
3580
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003581- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
3582 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00003583
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003584- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
3585 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00003586
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00003587- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
3588 falling into recursion.
3589
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00003590- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
3591 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
3592
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00003593- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
3594 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00003595
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003596- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
3597 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00003598
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003599- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003600 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
3601 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003602
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003603- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003604 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003605
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00003606- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
3607
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003608- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00003609
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003610- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
3611 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00003612
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00003613- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
3614 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
3615
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00003616- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
3617
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003618- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
3619 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00003620
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003621- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
3622 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00003623
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003624- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
3625 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00003626 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
3627 structure.
3628
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00003629- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
3630 single keyword arguments.
3631
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003632- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
3633 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00003634
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003635- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
3636 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00003637
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003638- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003639 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003640
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003641- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
3642 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003643
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00003644- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
3645
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003646- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
3647 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3648
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00003649- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
3650 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3651
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003652- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003653 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
3654 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003655
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003656- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
3657 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00003658
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003659- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
3660 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
3661 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00003662
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003663- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
3664 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
3665 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00003666
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003667- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
3668 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
3669 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
3670 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00003671
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003672- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003673 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
3674 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003675
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003676- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00003677 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
3678
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003679- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
3680 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00003681
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00003682- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
3683 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
3684
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003685- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
3686 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
3687 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00003688
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003689- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00003690 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
3691 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003692
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003693- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
3694 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
3695 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00003696
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00003697- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
3698
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003699- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
3700 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00003701
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003702- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
3703 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00003704
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003705- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
3706 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
3707 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00003708
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003709- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
3710 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00003711
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003712- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
3713 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00003714
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003715- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
3716 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003717
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003718- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
3719 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003720
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003721- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
3722 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00003723
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003724- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
3725 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00003726
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00003727- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
3728 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
3729
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00003730- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
3731 across devices.
3732
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00003733- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
3734
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00003735- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
3736
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00003737- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
3738
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00003739- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
3740
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00003741- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
3742 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00003743
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00003744- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
3745
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00003746- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
3747 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
3748
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003749- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
3750 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00003751
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003752- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
3753 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00003754
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00003755- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
3756
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00003757- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00003758
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003759Tools/Demos
3760-----------
3761
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00003762- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
3763
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003764- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
3765 non-ASCII content.
3766
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003767Tests
3768-----
3769
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003770- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
3771
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00003772- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3773
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00003774- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3775
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00003776- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3777
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00003778- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3779 Michele Orrù.
3780
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003781- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
3782
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003783Build
3784-----
3785
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00003786- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
3787
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003788- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
3789
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003790- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
3791 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00003792
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00003793- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3794 Sébastien Sablé.
3795
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003796- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
3797
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003798
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003799What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
3800=================================
3801
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003802*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003803
3804Core and Builtins
3805-----------------
3806
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00003807- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
3808
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00003809- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
3810 compiler.
3811
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00003812- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
3813
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003814- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003815 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
3816 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
3817 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
3818 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
3819 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
3820 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003821
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003822- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
3823 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00003824
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00003825- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
3826
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00003827- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
3828 objects, as described in the documentation.
3829
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003830- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003831 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00003832 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003833
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003834- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
3835 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
3836 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00003837
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003838- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003839 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003840 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003841 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003842
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00003843- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
3844 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
3845
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003846- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003847 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003848 string formats.
3849
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003850- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00003851 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
3852 location of the raised exception.
3853
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00003854- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
3855 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
3856
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00003857- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3858
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003859- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
3860 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
3861 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00003862
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003863- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
3864 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
3865 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
3866 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00003867
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00003868- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
3869 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
3870 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
3871
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003872- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
3873 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003874
3875- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003876 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003877 like bytearray.
3878
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003879- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00003880 used anymore and it was never documented.
3881
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003882- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00003883
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003884- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
3885 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00003886
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003887- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
3888 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
3889 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
3890 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00003891
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003892- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3893 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003894 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
3895 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
3896 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
3897 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003898
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00003899- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
3900 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
3901
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003902- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003903 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003904 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003905
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003906- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
3907 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00003908
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003909- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
3910 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003911 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00003912 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003913
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003914- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003915 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003916
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003917- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003918 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003919 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
3920
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003921- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003922 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
3923 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003924
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00003925- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3926
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003927- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00003928
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003929- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
3930 arguments.
3931
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003932- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003933 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
3934 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003935
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003936- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003937 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003938
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003939- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
3940 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00003941
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003942- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003943 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
3944 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
3945 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003946
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00003947- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3948 passed to bytes or bytearray.
3949
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00003950- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3951
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00003952- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3953 changed.
3954
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003955- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
3956 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
3957 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00003958
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00003959- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3960
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00003961- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
3962
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00003963- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3964
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003965- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3966 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00003967
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003968- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003969 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003970
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003971- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00003972
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003973- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003974 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003975
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00003976- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
3977 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
3978 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
3979 comparisons with complex.
3980
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003981- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
3982 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003983 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003984
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00003985- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
3986
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003987- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3988 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00003989
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003990- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3991 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00003992
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00003993- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
3994
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003995- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
3996 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00003997
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003998- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003999 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00004000
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004001- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
4002 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00004003
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004004- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
4005 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00004006
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00004007- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004008 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
4009 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00004010
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004011- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
4012 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00004013
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004014- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
4015 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00004016
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004017- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
4018 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
4019 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
4020 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00004021
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004022- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
4023 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
4024 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00004025
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00004026- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004027 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
4028 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
4029 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
4030 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
4031 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00004032
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004033- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
4034 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
4035 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00004036
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004037- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
4038 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
4039 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
4040 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
4041 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
4042 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00004043
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00004044- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
4045 consistent with other special methods.
4046
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00004047- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
4048 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4049
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00004050- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
4051 AttributeError.
4052
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004053- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
4054 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00004055
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004056- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
4057 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
4058 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
4059 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00004060
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00004061- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
4062 executables on OSX.
4063
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004064 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
4065 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
4066 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00004067
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004068- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
4069 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00004070
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00004071- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
4072 with invalid values.
4073
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00004074- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
4075 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
4076
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004077- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
4078 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00004079
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00004080- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
4081
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00004082- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
4083 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
4084
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004085- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
4086 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
4087 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
4088 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
4089 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00004090
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004091- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
4092 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00004093
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00004094- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
4095 surrogates.
4096
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00004097- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
4098
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00004099- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
4100
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00004101- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
4102 disabled since Python 3.0.
4103
4104- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
4105 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
4106 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
4107
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00004108- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004109 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00004110
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00004111- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
4112
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00004113- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
4114 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
4115 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
4116
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00004117- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00004118 support.
4119
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004120- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
4121 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004122
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004123- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
4124 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
4125 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00004126
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004127- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
4128 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00004129
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00004130- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
4131 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
4132 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
4133 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
4134
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004135- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
4136 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00004137
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004138- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
4139 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00004140
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00004141- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
4142
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00004143- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
4144
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00004145- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
4146
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00004147- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
4148
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004149- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
4150 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00004151
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00004152- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
4153
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00004154- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
4155
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00004156- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
4157 occurred in the argument chain.
4158
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004159- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
4160 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00004161
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00004162- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
4163
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004164- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
4165 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00004166
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00004167- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
4168
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004169- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
4170 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
4171 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00004172
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004173- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
4174 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00004175
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00004176- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
4177
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004178- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
4179 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00004180
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004181- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
4182 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00004183
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004184- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
4185 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
4186 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00004187
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00004188- Code objects now support weak references.
4189
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004190- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00004191
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004192- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004193 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
4194 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00004195
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00004196C-API
4197-----
4198
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00004199- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
4200 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
4201 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
4202
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00004203- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
4204 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
4205 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
4206
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004207- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
4208 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
4209 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00004210 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
4211
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00004212- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
4213 strings in an efficient manner.
4214
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00004215- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004216 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
4217 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00004218
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004219- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
4220 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00004221
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00004222- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
4223 has '\0' at the end.
4224
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00004225- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004226 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
4227 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
4228 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00004229 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
4230
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004231- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00004232
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004233- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
4234 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00004235
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004236- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4237 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00004238
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004239- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
4240 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
4241 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00004242
4243- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00004244
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00004245- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
4246
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00004247- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4248 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4249
4250- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4251 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4252
4253- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4254 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4255
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004256- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
4257 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
4258 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
4259 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00004260
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00004261Library
4262-------
4263
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004264- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
4265 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00004266
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004267- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
4268 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
4269 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00004270
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004271- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
4272 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004273
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004274- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
4275 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004276
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004277- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
4278 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004279
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004280- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
4281 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00004282
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004283- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
4284 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00004285
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004286- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
4287 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00004288
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004289- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
4290 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00004291
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004292- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
4293 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00004294
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004295- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
4296 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00004297
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00004298- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
4299
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004300- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
4301 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
4302 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00004303
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004304- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
4305 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00004306
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004307- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00004308 entries, consider the first one.
4309
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00004310- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
4311 string.Template class.
4312
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004313- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
4314 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00004315
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004316- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
4317 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00004318
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00004319- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
4320
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00004321- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
4322
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004323- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
4324 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00004325
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00004326- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004327 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
4328 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00004329
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004330- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00004331
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004332- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
4333 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00004334 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
4335 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004336 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
4337 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00004338
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00004339- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
4340
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004341- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00004342 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
4343 XML-RPC request.
4344
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004345- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
4346 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
4347 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00004348
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004349- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
4350 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
4351 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
4352 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
4353 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
4354 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00004355
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004356- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00004357
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004358- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
4359 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00004360
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004361- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
4362 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00004363
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00004364- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
4365 parameters.
4366
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004367- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
4368 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00004369
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004370- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
4371 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00004372
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00004373- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
4374
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00004375- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
4376
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004377- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
4378 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00004379
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00004380- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
4381
4382- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00004383
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00004384- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
4385
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004386- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
4387 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
4388 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00004389
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004390- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
4391 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
4392 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00004393
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00004394- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
4395
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00004396- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
4397
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00004398- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
4399
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004400- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
4401 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
4402 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00004403
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00004404- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
4405 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
4406
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004407- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
4408 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004409
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004410- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
4411 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00004412
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00004413- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
4414 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
4415
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004416- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00004417 raises an exception.
4418
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004419- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004420 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
4421 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004422
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00004423- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
4424 for removal in Python 3.4.
4425
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004426- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
4427 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00004428
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004429- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
4430 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00004431
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004432- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
4433 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00004434
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004435- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
4436 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00004437 deallocation while the object is still being used.
4438
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004439- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004440 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004441 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
4442
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004443- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00004444 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
4445
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004446- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
4447 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00004448
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004449- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
4450 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00004451
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00004452- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
4453
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004454- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
4455 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
4456
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004457- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
4458 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
4459 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
4460 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
4461 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00004462
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004463- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
4464 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00004465
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00004466- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00004467
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00004468- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
4469
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004470- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
4471 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00004472
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00004473- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
4474 mistake.
4475
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004476- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
4477 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004478 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00004479
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00004480- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
4481 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
4482
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004483- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
4484 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
4485 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00004486
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00004487- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
4488 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
4489
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00004490- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
4491
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004492- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
4493 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004494 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004495
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004496- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
4497 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00004498
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004499- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004500 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004501
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004502- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004503 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
4504 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004505
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00004506- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
4507 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
4508 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00004509
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004510- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004511 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004512
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00004513- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
4514 of files without one.
4515
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00004516- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
4517 comparing to a non-mapping.
4518
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004519- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004520 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004521
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004522- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
4523 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
4524 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00004525
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00004526- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
4527
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00004528- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
4529 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
4530 stdout is not a TTY).
4531
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00004532- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
4533 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
4534 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
4535 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
4536
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00004537- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
4538 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
4539
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00004540- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
4541 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
4542
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00004543- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
4544
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00004545- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004546 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00004547
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00004548- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
4549
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004550- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
4551 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00004552
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004553- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
4554 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00004555
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00004556- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
4557 class.
4558
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00004559- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
4560 given.
4561
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00004562- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
4563 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
4564
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004565- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
4566 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00004567
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00004568- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
4569 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
4570 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
4571 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00004572
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004573- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
4574
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004575- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
4576 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
4577 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
4578 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004579
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00004580- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
4581 Patch by Tres Seaver.
4582
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00004583- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004584 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00004585
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00004586- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
4587
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004588- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
4589 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00004590
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004591- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
4592 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
4593 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
4594 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
4595 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00004596
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004597- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004598 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
4599 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004600
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00004601- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
4602 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
4603
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004604- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
4605 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00004606
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00004607- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00004608 webbrowser.get("safari").
4609
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004610- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
4611 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00004612
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004613- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
4614 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00004615
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00004616- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
4617
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00004618- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
4619 It should correctly return an empty response now.
4620
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00004621- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
4622
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00004623- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
4624 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
4625
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00004626- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
4627 and mappings.
4628
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004629- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
4630 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
4631 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
4632 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00004633
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004634- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
4635 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
4636 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00004637
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004638- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
4639 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
4640
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004641- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
4642 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004643
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004644- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
4645 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00004646
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004647- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
4648 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004649 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004650
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004651- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00004652
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004653- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
4654 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
4655 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00004656
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004657- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
4658 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00004659 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
4660 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
4661
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00004662- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
4663 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4664
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00004665- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
4666 collation name contains a surrogate character.
4667
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004668- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
4669 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
4670 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00004671
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00004672- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
4673
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004674- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00004675
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00004676- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
4677 from PORT/EPRT commands.
4678
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00004679- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
4680
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004681- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
4682 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00004683
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004684- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
4685 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00004686
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00004687- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
4688 surrogates.
4689
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004690- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00004691 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004692
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00004693- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
4694 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
4695
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00004696- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
4697 the current working directory.
4698
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004699- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004700 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004701
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004702- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00004703
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00004704- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
4705 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
4706
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00004707- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
4708
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004709- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004710 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004711 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004712
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004713- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
4714 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004715 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004716
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004717- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004718 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
4719 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004720
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004721- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004722 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
4723 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004724
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00004725- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
4726 present before it cleans them.
4727
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004728- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
4729 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00004730
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004731- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004732 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
4733 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004734
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00004735- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
4736
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004737- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
4738 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00004739
4740 >>> Decimal(1.1)
4741 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
4742
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004743- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
4744 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00004745
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004746- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
4747 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
4748 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
4749 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004750
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004751- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
4752 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
4753 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
4754 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
4755 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004756
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00004757- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
4758
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004759- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004760 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
4761 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
4762 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004763
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004764- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
4765 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004766 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004767
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004768- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
4769 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
4770 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
4771 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00004772
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004773- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
4774 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
4775 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00004776
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00004777- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
4778 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
4779
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004780- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004781 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
4782 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004783
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004784- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
4785 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00004786
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00004787- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
4788 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
4789 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00004790
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00004791- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
4792 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
4793 (utf8) encoding.
4794
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00004795- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
4796
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00004797- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
4798
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00004799- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
4800
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00004801- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
4802 detected.
4803
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00004804- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
4805
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00004806- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
4807 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
4808
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004809- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00004810
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004811- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
4812 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00004813
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004814- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
4815 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
4816 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00004817
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004818- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
4819 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
4820 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
4821 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00004822
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00004823- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
4824 cElementTree module is updated too.
4825
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004826- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004827 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
4828 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004829
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00004830- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
4831
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004832- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
4833 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00004834
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00004835- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
4836 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4837
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00004838- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
4839 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00004840
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00004841- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
4842 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
4843
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00004844- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
4845 class.
4846
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00004847- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
4848 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
4849
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00004850- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
4851
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00004852- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
4853 writing.
4854
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00004855- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
4856
4857- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
4858
4859- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4860
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00004861- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
4862
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004863- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
4864 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00004865
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00004866- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
4867
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004868- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
4869 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00004870
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004871- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
4872 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00004873
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00004874- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
4875
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00004876- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
4877 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
4878
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00004879- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
4880 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
4881
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004882- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
4883 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
4884 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
4885 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00004886
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00004887- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4888 interpreter shutdown.
4889
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004890- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
4891 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
4892 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
4893 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00004894
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004895- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
4896 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
4897 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00004898
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004899- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
4900 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00004901
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004902- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
4903 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004904 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
4905 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004906
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004907- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
4908 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4909 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00004910 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4911
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004912- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004913 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
4914 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
4915 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
4916 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
4917 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004918
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004919- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004920 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4921 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004922
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00004923- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4924
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00004925- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00004926
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00004927- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
4928
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00004929- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
4930 the release file is empty.
4931
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00004932- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
4933 module.
4934
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004935- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
4936 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
4937 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00004938
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004939- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
4940 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00004941
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004942- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
4943 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00004944
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004945- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4946 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00004947
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004948- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4949 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00004950
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00004951- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
4952
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00004953- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
4954 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
4955 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
4956
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004957- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4958 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00004959
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004960- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
4961 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00004962
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004963- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4964 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00004965
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004966- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004967 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4968 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004969
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004970- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4971 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
4972 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00004973
4974- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00004975 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4976
4977- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
4978
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004979- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
4980 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00004981
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004982- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
4983 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
4984 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00004985
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004986- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4987 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4988 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00004989
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00004990- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4991 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
4992
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004993- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
4994 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
4995 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00004996
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00004997- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4998 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4999 the same as passing no argument.
5000
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005001- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00005002
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005003- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
5004 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00005005
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00005006- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00005007
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00005008- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
5009
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005010- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
5011 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00005012
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00005013- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00005014 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
5015
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00005016- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
5017 TLS with authentication credentials.
5018
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005019- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
5020 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00005021
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00005022- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
5023 msvc9compiler.
5024
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00005025- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005026 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
5027 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00005028
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00005029- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
5030 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
5031 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
5032
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00005033- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005034 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
5035 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00005036
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005037- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
5038 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00005039
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00005040- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
5041
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00005042- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
5043 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
5044 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
5045
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005046- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
5047 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
5048 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00005049
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00005050- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
5051
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005052- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00005053
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00005054- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
5055 raises ReadError on empty files.
5056
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005057- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00005058
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00005059- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
5060 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00005061
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005062- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
5063 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00005064
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00005065- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
5066 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
5067
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005068- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
5069 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00005070
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005071- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00005072
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005073- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
5074 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00005075
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005076- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
5077 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
5078 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
5079 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00005080 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
5081
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005082- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
5083 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
5084 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00005085
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00005086- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005087 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00005088 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
5089
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00005090- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
5091 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
5092 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00005093
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005094- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00005095 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
5096
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00005097- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005098 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
5099 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
5100 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00005101
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005102- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
5103 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00005104 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
5105
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00005106- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
5107 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
5108
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00005109- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
5110 which are part of a reference cycle.
5111
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00005112- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
5113 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
5114
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005115- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
5116 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
5117 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00005118
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005119- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
5120 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
5121 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
5122 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00005123
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005124- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
5125 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
5126 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
5127 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00005128
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00005129- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
5130 header as required by RFC 1952.
5131
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00005132- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
5133 Distutils.
5134
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00005135- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
5136 an uppercase.
5137
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00005138- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
5139 several threads at once.
5140
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00005141- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
5142
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00005143- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
5144 larger than emax.
5145
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00005146- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
5147 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
5148
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005149- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
5150 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00005151
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005152- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00005153
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00005154- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
5155 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005156
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005157- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
5158 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00005159
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00005160- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
5161 builtin tokenizer.
5162
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005163- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
5164 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00005165
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005166- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
5167 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00005168
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005169- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
5170 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00005171
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005172- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
5173 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00005174
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00005175- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
5176
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00005177- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
5178
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00005179- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
5180
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00005181- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
5182
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005183- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00005184
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005185- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
5186 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
5187 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00005188
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005189- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
5190 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00005191
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00005192- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
5193
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005194- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
5195 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
5196 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
5197 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00005198
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00005199- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
5200 should be raised, not AttributeError.
5201
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00005202- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
5203 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
5204
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00005205- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005206 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00005207
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00005208- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
5209
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00005210- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
5211
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00005212- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
5213
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00005214- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
5215 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
5216
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00005217- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
5218
5219- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
5220
5221- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
5222
5223- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
5224 ScrolledText.
5225
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00005226- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
5227
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005228- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
5229 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00005230
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00005231- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
5232 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
5233 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
5234 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
5235
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005236- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
5237 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00005238
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00005239- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
5240
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005241- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
5242 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
5243 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00005244
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00005245- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
5246 DO/DONT correctly.
5247
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00005248- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005249 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
5250 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00005251
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00005252- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005253 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
5254 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
5255 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00005256
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00005257- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
5258 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
5259 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
5260
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005261- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
5262 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
5263 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00005264
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00005265- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00005266
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005267- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
5268 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00005269
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005270- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
5271 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00005272
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00005273- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
5274 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
5275
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00005276- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
5277
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00005278- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
5279
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00005280- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
5281
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005282- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
5283 sys.path.
5284
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00005285- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
5286
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005287- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
5288 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00005289
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00005290- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
5291 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
5292
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005293- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
5294 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00005295
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00005296- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
5297
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00005298- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
5299
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005300- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
5301 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00005302
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00005303- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
5304 for tracing methods.
5305
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005306Extension Modules
5307-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005308
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00005309- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
5310 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
5311
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00005312- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
5313
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00005314- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005315 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
5316 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
5317 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
5318 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00005319
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00005320- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
5321
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005322- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
5323 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
5324 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00005325
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005326- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
5327 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00005328
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005329- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
5330 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00005331
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005332- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
5333 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00005334
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00005335- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
5336 object in the '?' format.
5337
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00005338- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
5339
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00005340- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
5341 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00005342
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005343- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
5344 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
5345 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
5346 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00005347
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005348- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
5349 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
5350 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
5351 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
5352 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
5353 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00005354
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00005355- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005356 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
5357 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
5358 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
5359 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
5360 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00005361
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005362- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
5363 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00005364
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00005365- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00005366 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00005367 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00005368
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005369- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
5370 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
5371 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00005372
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005373- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
5374 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00005375
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005376- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
5377 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
5378 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
5379 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
5380 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00005381
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00005382- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
5383 overflow checks in the audioop module.
5384
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00005385- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
5386 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005387 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
5388 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00005389
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005390- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
5391 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
5392 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00005393
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00005394- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
5395
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00005396- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
5397 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
5398 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
5399 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
5400
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00005401- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
5402
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00005403- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
5404
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005405- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00005406 handling.
5407
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00005408- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
5409 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
5410
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00005411- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5412
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00005413- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5414
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00005415- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005416
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005417- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
5418 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005419
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00005420- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5421
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00005422- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
5423
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005424- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5425 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5426 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00005427
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005428- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
5429 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005430
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00005431- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5432
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00005433- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
5434 (CVE_2009_3560).
5435
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005436- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
5437 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
5438 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00005439
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00005440- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
5441 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
5442
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00005443- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
5444
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005445- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
5446 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00005447
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005448- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00005449
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005450Build
5451-----
5452
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00005453- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
5454
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00005455- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
5456
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005457- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
5458 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
5459 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
5460 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
5461 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00005462
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00005463- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
5464
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00005465- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
5466 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00005467
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005468- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
5469 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
5470 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
5471 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00005472
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005473- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
5474 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00005475
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00005476- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
5477
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00005478- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
5479 give false warnings.
5480
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005481- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
5482 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
5483 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00005484
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005485- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
5486 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00005487
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00005488- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00005489
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005490- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
5491 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
5492 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00005493
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00005494- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
5495
5496- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
5497 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
5498
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00005499- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
5500 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
5501 Python.
5502
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00005503- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
5504 found.
5505
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00005506- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00005507
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00005508- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
5509 icc or suncc.
5510
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005511- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5512 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5513 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00005514
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005515- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00005516
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00005517- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5518
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005519- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00005520 directories.
5521
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005522- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005523 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005524
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005525- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005526 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00005527
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00005528- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
5529
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00005530- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
5531
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00005532- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
5533
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00005534Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005535-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005536
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00005537- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
5538 to Doc/license.rst.
5539
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00005540- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
5541 with os.kill.
5542
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005543- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00005544 only.
5545
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005546- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00005547 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
5548
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005549- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
5550 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00005551
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00005552- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
5553 ImportError.
5554
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005555- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5556 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005557
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00005558- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
5559 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005560
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00005561- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
5562 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
5563
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005564Tests
5565-----
5566
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005567- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
5568 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00005569
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00005570- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
5571
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005572- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00005573
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005574- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
5575 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
5576 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00005577
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00005578- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005579 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00005580
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00005581- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
5582 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
5583
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00005584- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
5585 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
5586
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005587- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
5588 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00005589
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005590- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
5591 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00005592
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005593- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
5594 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00005595
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00005596- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
5597
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00005598- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
5599
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00005600- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
5601 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
5602
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00005603- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
5604 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00005605
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005606- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
5607 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005608
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00005609- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
5610 effectively raised.
5611
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005612- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
5613 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00005614
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005615- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
5616 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00005617
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00005618- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
5619 filesystem encoding.
5620
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005621- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
5622 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00005623
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005624- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
5625 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
5626 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
5627 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00005628
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005629- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
5630 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
5631 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00005632
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005633- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
5634 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00005635
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005636- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00005637 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
5638
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00005639- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
5640
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00005641- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00005642 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
5643
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005644- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5645 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5646 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00005647
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005648- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5649 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00005650
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005651- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5652 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00005653
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005654- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
5655 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
5656 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
5657 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00005658
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00005659- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5660
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00005661- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5662 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5663
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00005664- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
5665 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
5666 between concurrent executions on the same system.
5667
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00005668- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
5669 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
5670 calling methods on the object.
5671
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005672- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005673 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5674 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5675 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005676 :func:`_thread._count()`.
5677
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005678- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5679 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00005680
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00005681- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5682 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5683
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00005684- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005685 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
5686 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00005687
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00005688- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5689
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005690- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
5691 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
5692 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00005693
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005694- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005695 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005696
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005697Tools/Demos
5698-----------
5699
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00005700- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00005701
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005702- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005703 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005704
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00005705
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005706What's New in Python 3.1?
5707=========================
5708
5709*Release date: 27-June-2009*
5710
5711Core and Builtins
5712-----------------
5713
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00005714- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
5715 large arguments.
5716
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00005717- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
5718 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
5719
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005720Library
5721-------
5722
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00005723- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
5724
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005725- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005726
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00005727- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
5728
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00005729- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
5730 io.UnsupportedOperation.
5731
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005732- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00005733 (On Unix)
5734
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00005735- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
5736 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
5737
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00005738Extension Modules
5739-----------------
5740
5741- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
5742
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005743
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00005744What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
5745=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005746
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00005747*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005748
5749Core and Builtins
5750-----------------
5751
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00005752- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
5753
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00005754- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
5755 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
5756
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00005757- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
5758 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
5759
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005760- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00005761 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005762
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005763Library
5764-------
5765
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005766- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005767 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005768 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
5769
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00005770- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5771
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00005772- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
5773 binary files.
5774
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005775- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
5776 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5777
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00005778- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
5779 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
5780 are always None now.
5781
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00005782- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
5783 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
5784 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
5785 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
5786
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00005787- Removed the ipaddr module.
5788
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00005789- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
5790 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
5791 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
5792
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00005793- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
5794
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00005795- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
5796
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00005797- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
5798 parameters.
5799
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005800Windows
5801-------
5802
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00005803- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
5804
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005805- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
5806
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00005807C-API
5808-----
5809
5810- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
5811 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
5812 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
5813
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005814
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005815Build
5816-----
5817
5818- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
5819 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
5820
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00005821- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
5822 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
5823
5824
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005825
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00005826What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
5827=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005828
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00005829*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005830
5831Core and Builtins
5832-----------------
5833
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00005834- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
5835 of the command line.
5836
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00005837- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
5838
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00005839- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
5840 that would raise SystemError.
5841
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00005842- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
5843 function with __func__.
5844
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00005845- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
5846 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00005847
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00005848- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
5849 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
5850 and imaginary literals.
5851
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00005852- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
5853
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00005854- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
5855
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00005856- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
5857 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
5858 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
5859 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
5860 didn't match that of float('-nan').
5861
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005862Library
5863-------
5864
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00005865- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
5866
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00005867- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
5868
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00005869- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
5870 argument to the 'help' function.
5871
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00005872- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
5873 arguments for strings with a space in them.
5874
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00005875- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
5876 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
5877
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00005878- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5879 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5880
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00005881- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
5882 the directory already exists.
5883
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00005884- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5885 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5886 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5887
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00005888- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
5889 IO objects.
5890
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00005891- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
5892 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
5893
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00005894- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
5895 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
5896 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
5897
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00005898- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5899 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5900
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00005901- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5902 deepcopy()ing.
5903
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00005904- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5905
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00005906- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5907
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00005908- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5909
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00005910- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
5911 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
5912 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
5913 empty.
5914
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00005915- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5916 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
5917 corrects a pydoc regression.
5918
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005919- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00005920 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
5921
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00005922Installation
5923------------
5924
5925- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
5926 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005927
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00005928- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
5929
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005930Extension Modules
5931-----------------
5932
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00005933- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00005934
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00005935- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5936
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005937- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
5938
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00005939- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
5940 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00005941
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00005942Build
5943-----
5944
5945- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
5946 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
5947 Clinton Roy.
5948
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005949Tests
5950-----
5951
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005952- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005953 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
5954 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
5955 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
5956
5957
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005958What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
5959================================
5960
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00005961*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005962
5963Core and Builtins
5964-----------------
5965
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00005966- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
5967 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
5968
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005969- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
5970 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
5971 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
5972
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00005973- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
5974 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
5975 a PendingDeprecation warning.
5976
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00005977- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
5978 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
5979 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
5980 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
5981 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
5982 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
5983 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
5984 the same way.
5985
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00005986- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
5987
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00005988- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
5989 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
5990 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
5991
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00005992- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
5993 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
5994
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00005995- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00005996
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00005997- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
5998 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
5999 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
6000
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00006001- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
6002 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
6003 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
6004 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00006005
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00006006- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00006007 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
6008
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00006009- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
6010 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
6011
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00006012- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
6013 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
6014
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00006015- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
6016
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00006017- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
6018 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
6019
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00006020- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
6021
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00006022- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
6023 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
6024
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00006025- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00006026
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00006027- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
6028 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
6029 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
6030 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
6031
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00006032- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
6033 some builtin types.
6034
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00006035- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
6036
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00006037- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
6038 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00006039
6040- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
6041 floats.
6042
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00006043- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00006044 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
6045 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
6046 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
6047 long time.)
6048
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00006049- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
6050 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
6051 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
6052 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00006053 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
6054 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
6055 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00006056
6057 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
6058 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
6059 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
6060 reason or another.
6061
6062 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
6063 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
6064 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
6065 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
6066 correctly rounded on these platforms.
6067
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00006068 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00006069 this change does not apply.
6070
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00006071- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
6072
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00006073- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
6074 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
6075 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
6076 methods available on the str class.
6077
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00006078- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
6079 its clarity and its speed.
6080
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006081- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00006082 to avoid compiler warnings.
6083
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00006084- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
6085 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
6086
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00006087Installation
6088------------
6089
6090- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
6091
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00006092Library
6093-------
6094
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00006095- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
6096
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00006097- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
6098 specific Python version.
6099
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00006100- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
6101 whitespace.
6102
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006103- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00006104 the right type checkings anymore.
6105
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00006106- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
6107 return directories.
6108
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00006109- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
6110
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00006111- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
6112 looking for files given by a relative filename.
6113
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00006114- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
6115 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
6116
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00006117- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
6118 extracting a file to the root directory.
6119
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00006120- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
6121
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00006122- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
6123 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
6124 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
6125
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00006126- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
6127
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00006128- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
6129 Contributed by Google.
6130
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00006131- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
6132 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
6133
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00006134- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
6135
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00006136- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
6137
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00006138- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
6139 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
6140 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
6141
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00006142- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
6143 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
6144 initialized before.
6145
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006146- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
6147 names which should not be exported.
6148
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00006149- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
6150 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
6151
6152- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
6153
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00006154- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
6155 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
6156 instances.
6157
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00006158- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
6159 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
6160 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
6161
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00006162- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
6163 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
6164
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00006165- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
6166 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
6167 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
6168 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
6169 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
6170
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00006171- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
6172 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
6173
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00006174- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
6175 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
6176 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
6177
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00006178Extension Modules
6179-----------------
6180
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00006181- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
6182 pwd.
6183
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00006184- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
6185 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
6186 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
6187 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
6188
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00006189- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
6190 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00006191
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00006192Tests
6193-----
6194
6195- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
6196 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
6197 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
6198 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
6199 can be adjusted to use it over time.
6200
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00006201- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
6202 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
6203 incorrectly on __exit__.
6204
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00006205C-API
6206-----
6207
6208- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
6209
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00006210
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006211What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
6212=================================
6213
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00006214*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006215
6216Core and Builtins
6217-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00006218
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00006219- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
6220 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006221
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00006222- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
6223
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00006224- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
6225 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
6226
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00006227- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
6228 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
6229
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00006230- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
6231
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00006232- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
6233 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
6234
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00006235- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
6236 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
6237 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
6238
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00006239- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
6240
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00006241- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
6242 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
6243
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00006244- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
6245 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
6246 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
6247 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
6248
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00006249- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
6250 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
6251 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
6252
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00006253- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
6254 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
6255 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
6256 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
6257 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
6258 the internal format.
6259
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00006260- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
6261 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
6262 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
6263
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00006264- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
6265 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
6266
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00006267- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
6268 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
6269
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00006270- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
6271 short file names.
6272
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006273Library
6274-------
6275
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006276- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00006277 mailbox.MH.get_message().
6278
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00006279- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
6280 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
6281 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
6282
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00006283- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
6284 the -T argument.
6285
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00006286- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
6287
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00006288- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
6289
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00006290- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
6291
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00006292- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
6293 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
6294
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00006295- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
6296
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00006297- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
6298
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00006299- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
6300 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
6301
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00006302- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
6303 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
6304
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00006305- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
6306 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
6307 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
6308
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00006309- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
6310
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00006311- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
6312 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
6313
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00006314- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
6315 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
6316
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00006317- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
6318 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
6319 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
6320 partial bzip2 compressed data.
6321
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00006322- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
6323 specifier to Decimal.__format__
6324
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00006325- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
6326 '>' alignment characters.
6327
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00006328- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
6329 value, and report it as -1 instead.
6330
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00006331- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
6332 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
6333
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006334Extension Modules
6335-----------------
6336
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00006337- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
6338
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006339- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
6340 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00006341 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
6342 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
6343 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006344
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006345
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00006346What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00006347================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006348
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00006349*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006350
6351Core and Builtins
6352-----------------
6353
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00006354- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
6355
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00006356- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
6357
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00006358- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
6359 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
6360
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00006361- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
6362 contained non ascii character on windows.
6363
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00006364- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
6365 source has already been decoded into str.
6366
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00006367- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
6368 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
6369
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00006370- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
6371 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
6372
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00006373- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
6374 returns a non-number type.
6375
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00006376- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
6377
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00006378- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
6379 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00006380 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
6381 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00006382
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006383- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00006384 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
6385
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00006386- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
6387 Previously it returned a float.
6388
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00006389- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
6390 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
6391 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
6392 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
6393
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00006394- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
6395
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00006396- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
6397 from a string.
6398
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00006399- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
6400
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00006401- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
6402 optional module state data.
6403
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006404- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006405 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006406
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00006407- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
6408 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
6409 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
6410
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00006411- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
6412 __next__ method.
6413
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00006414- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
6415 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
6416 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
6417
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00006418- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
6419
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00006420- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
6421
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00006422- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
6423 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
6424 amount of loop unrolling.
6425
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00006426- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
6427 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
6428 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
6429 Martin von Löwis at
6430 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
6431
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006432- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00006433 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
6434 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
6435
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00006436- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
6437 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
6438 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
6439 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
6440
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00006441- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
6442 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
6443 Python's overall memory).
6444
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00006445- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
6446 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
6447 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
6448 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
6449 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
6450
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00006451- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
6452 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
6453 items, rather than the size in bytes.
6454
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006455- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
6456
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00006457- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
6458 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
6459
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006460- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
6461 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00006462
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00006463- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
6464 did not get collected.
6465
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00006466- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
6467 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
6468
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00006469- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
6470 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
6471
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00006472- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
6473 fail.
6474
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00006475- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
6476
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00006477- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
6478 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
6479
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00006480- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
6481 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
6482 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
6483
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00006484- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
6485
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00006486- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
6487 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
6488 failures on OS X.
6489
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00006490- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
6491 exceptions.
6492
6493- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00006494 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
6495
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00006496- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
6497 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
6498 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
6499 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
6500
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00006501- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
6502 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
6503 Python 2.x.
6504
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00006505- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
6506 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
6507
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006508- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
6509 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
6510 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
6511 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00006512
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00006513- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
6514 larger than 1.
6515
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00006516- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
6517
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00006518- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
6519
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00006520- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
6521 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
6522 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
6523 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
6524
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006525Library
6526-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006527
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00006528- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
6529 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
6530
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00006531- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00006532 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
6533
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00006534- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00006535 Distutils.
6536
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00006537- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
6538
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00006539- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
6540 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
6541 Michael Haubenwallner.
6542
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00006543- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
6544
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00006545- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
6546 opening an empty or very small file.
6547
6548- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00006549 behavior is similar when used with -O.
6550
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00006551- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
6552
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00006553- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
6554 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
6555 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
6556 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
6557
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006558- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
6559
6560- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
6561
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00006562- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006563 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
6564
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006565- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00006566
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006567- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00006568 attribute.
6569
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00006570- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
6571
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00006572- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
6573
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006574- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
6575 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
6576 descriptor errors
6577
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006578- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00006579 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
6580
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006581- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00006582 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
6583
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00006584- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
6585 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
6586
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00006587- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
6588
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00006589- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
6590
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00006591- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
6592 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
6593 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6594
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00006595- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
6596 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6597
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00006598- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
6599
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006600- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00006601 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
6602
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00006603- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6604
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00006605- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
6606 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
6607
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006608- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00006609 subcommand.
6610
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00006611- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
6612 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
6613
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00006614- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
6615 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
6616
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00006617- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
6618 for old-style extensions.
6619
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00006620- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
6621
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00006622- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
6623 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
6624 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
6625 Cournapeau.
6626
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00006627- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
6628
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006629- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00006630 anymore.
6631
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006632- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00006633 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
6634
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00006635- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
6636
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00006637- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
6638
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00006639- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
6640
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00006641- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
6642 a value in SafeConfigParser.
6643
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00006644- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
6645
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006646- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00006647 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
6648
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00006649- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
6650 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
6651
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00006652- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
6653 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
6654
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006655- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00006656
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006657- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00006658
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00006659- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
6660 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
6661 threads.
6662
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00006663- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
6664 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
6665 that it was failing to do localization.
6666
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00006667- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
6668 Brandl.
6669
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00006670- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
6671 character.
6672
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00006673- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
6674 Tim Golden.
6675
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00006676- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
6677
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00006678- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
6679 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
6680 window flashing.
6681
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00006682- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
6683 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
6684 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
6685
6686- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
6687
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00006688- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
6689 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
6690
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00006691- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
6692
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00006693- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
6694
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00006695- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
6696
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00006697- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
6698
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00006699- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
6700
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00006701- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
6702
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00006703- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
6704 import guess_extension`` was used.
6705
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00006706- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
6707 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
6708
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00006709- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
6710 overrun.
6711
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006712- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00006713 bdist_rpm command.
6714
6715- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
6716
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006717- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
6718
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00006719- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
6720 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006721
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006722- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
6723 IronPython.
6724
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00006725- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
6726 The file was resized to wrong size.
6727
6728- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
6729
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006730- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00006731 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
6732
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006733- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00006734 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
6735
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00006736- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
6737 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
6738
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00006739- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
6740
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00006741- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
6742 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
6743 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
6744
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00006745- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
6746 encoding.
6747
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00006748- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
6749 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
6750
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00006751- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
6752 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
6753
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00006754- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
6755 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
6756 ctime of the files involved.
6757
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00006758- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
6759 deadlock.
6760
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00006761- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
6762 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
6763 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
6764
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00006765- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
6766
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00006767- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
6768 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
6769
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00006770- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
6771 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
6772 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
6773 Vajda.
6774
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00006775- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
6776 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
6777 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
6778 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
6779
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00006780- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
6781 Ross Light.
6782
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006783- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00006784 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
6785
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00006786- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
6787 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
6788
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006789- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00006790 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
6791
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00006792- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
6793
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00006794- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
6795
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00006796- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
6797 items being passed through ord().
6798
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00006799- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
6800 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
6801 "src.new").
6802
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00006803- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
6804
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00006805- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
6806 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
6807 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
6808
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006809- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00006810 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
6811
6812- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
6813 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
6814
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00006815- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
6816 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
6817
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00006818- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
6819
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00006820- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
6821 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00006822
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006823- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00006824 allowed non-integer arguments.
6825
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00006826- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
6827 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
6828 examples.
6829
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00006830- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
6831 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
6832
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00006833- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
6834 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
6835
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00006836- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
6837 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
6838
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006839- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00006840 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
6841 be disabled, and not compiled.
6842
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00006843- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
6844 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
6845 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
6846 traditional 2.x file object.
6847
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006848- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
6849 parameter was set.
6850
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00006851- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
6852 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
6853
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00006854- Add the importlib package.
6855
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00006856- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6857 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6858
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00006859- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006860 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00006861
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00006862- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
6863 without defaults.
6864
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006865- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
6866 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00006867 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
6868
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00006869- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
6870 in sharedctypes.py.
6871
6872- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
6873 __getattr__.
6874
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00006875- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
6876 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
6877 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
6878
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00006879- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
6880 counting.
6881
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00006882- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
6883
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00006884- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
6885 function without defining argtypes.
6886
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00006887- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
6888 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
6889 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
6890 Jacques Frechet.
6891
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00006892- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
6893
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00006894- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
6895 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
6896
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006897- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
6898 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00006899 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
6900
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00006901- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
6902 to the decimal module.
6903
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006904- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
6905 cast as floats.
6906
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00006907- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
6908 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
6909
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006910- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006911 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
6912
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006913- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
6914 the function is not a generator.
6915
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006916- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
6917 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00006918
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006919- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00006920 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
6921
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00006922- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
6923
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00006924- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
6925
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00006926- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
6927 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
6928
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00006929- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
6930 works as expected in the interactive environment.
6931
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00006932- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
6933 Gabriel Genellina.
6934
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00006935- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
6936 boundary.
6937
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00006938- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
6939 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
6940 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
6941
6942- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
6943 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
6944 Alexander Belopolsky.
6945
6946- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
6947 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
6948 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
6949 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
6950 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
6951 Alexander Belopolsky.
6952
6953- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
6954 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
6955 Alexander Belopolsky.
6956
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00006957- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
6958 a non-ASCII letter.
6959
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00006960- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
6961
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00006962- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
6963 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
6964
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00006965- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
6966 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
6967 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
6968
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00006969- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
6970 libs.
6971
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006972- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
6973 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6974
6975- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6976 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6977 Content-Disposition headers.
6978
6979- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
6980 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
6981 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
6982 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
6983 doesn't configure logging.
6984
6985- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
6986 exception.
6987
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00006988- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
6989 statements.
6990
6991- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
6992 not a malformed option.
6993
6994- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
6995 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6996
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00006997- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
6998 the corresponding tests now pass.
6999
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00007000- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
7001 it was calling the wrong open() function.
7002
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00007003- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
7004 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
7005 Content-Disposition headers.
7006
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00007007- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
7008 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
7009
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00007010- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
7011 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
7012 and getservbyport().
7013
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00007014- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
7015
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00007016Tools/Demos
7017-----------
7018
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00007019- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
7020 and make it 2.6-compatible.
7021
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00007022- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
7023
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00007024- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
7025
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00007026
7027Build
7028-----
7029
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00007030- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
7031
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00007032- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
7033
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00007034- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
7035 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
7036
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00007037- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00007038 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00007039
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00007040- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
7041
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00007042- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
7043
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00007044- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
7045
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00007046- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
7047
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00007048- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
7049
7050- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
7051
7052- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
7053
7054- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
7055
7056- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
7057
7058- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
7059
7060- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
7061
7062- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
7063
7064- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
7065
7066- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
7067
7068
7069C-API
7070-----
7071
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00007072- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
7073 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
7074
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00007075- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
7076 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
7077
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00007078- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
7079
7080- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
7081 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
7082
7083- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
7084 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
7085
7086
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00007087Extension Modules
7088-----------------
7089
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00007090- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
7091 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
7092 implementations or external openssl library).
7093
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00007094- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
7095
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00007096- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
7097
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00007098- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
7099 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
7100 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
7101
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00007102- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
7103
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00007104- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
7105 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
7106 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
7107
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00007108- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
7109
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00007110- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
7111
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00007112- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
7113 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00007114
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00007115- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
7116 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
7117 buffer.
7118
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00007119
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00007120- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
7121
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00007122Tests
7123-----
7124
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00007125- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
7126 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
7127
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00007128- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
7129 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
7130 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
7131 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
7132
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00007133- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00007134 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00007135 from test support, which does the conversion.
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Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00007137- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
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