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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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Antoine Pitroua7622852011-09-01 21:37:43 +020013- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
14 mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).
15
Ezio Melotti93e7afc2011-08-22 14:08:38 +030016- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
17 characters even in narrow Unicode builds.
18
Antoine Pitroua370fcf2011-08-20 14:15:03 +020019- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
20 an exception.
21
Benjamin Peterson01fc6cd2011-08-17 12:03:47 -050022- Issue #12773: Make __doc__ mutable on user-defined classes.
23
Benjamin Petersonc4085c82011-08-16 18:53:26 -050024- Issue #12766: Raise an ValueError when creating a class with a class variable
25 that conflicts with a name in __slots__.
26
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +030027- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
28 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
29
Benjamin Petersonf413b802011-08-12 22:17:18 -050030- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
31 outside the BMP.
32
Benjamin Peterson832bfe22011-08-09 16:15:04 -050033- Issue #12575: Validate user-generated AST before it is compiled.
34
Benjamin Peterson18d7d7a2011-07-29 18:27:44 -050035- Make type(None), type(Ellipsis), and type(NotImplemented) callable. They
36 return the respective singleton instances.
Benjamin Petersonc4607ae2011-07-29 18:19:43 -050037
Benjamin Petersonc7723962011-08-17 12:05:13 -050038- Forbid summing bytes with sum().
Benjamin Petersonce071ca2011-07-29 14:23:47 -050039
Benjamin Peterson2193d2b2011-07-22 10:50:23 -050040- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
41 compiling them.
42
Raymond Hettinger66d2be82011-07-28 09:55:13 -070043- Issue #12647: The None object now has a __bool__() method that returns False.
44 Formerly, bool(None) returned False only because of special case logic
45 in PyObject_IsTrue().
46
Eric V. Smith12ebefc2011-07-18 14:03:41 -040047- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
48 format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
49 Julian Berman.
50
Brett Cannone52181c2011-07-17 19:25:50 -070051- Issue #10271: Allow warnings.showwarning() be any callable.
52
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -040053- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
54 non-exception class.
Benjamin Peterson5afa03a2011-07-15 14:09:26 -050055
Georg Brandlfd164c22011-09-04 08:12:27 +020056- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
Antoine Pitrou84f1b172011-07-12 21:57:15 +020057 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
58 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
59 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
60 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
61
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +020062- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
63
Victor Stinner99b95382011-07-04 14:23:54 +020064- Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
65 a new HAVE_MBCS define.
66
Victor Stinnerd64e8a72011-07-04 13:48:30 +020067- Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page
68 on Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if
69 we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
70 instead of using UTF-8.
71
Benjamin Petersonac913412011-07-03 16:25:11 -050072- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
73 generator.
74
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -050075- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
Benjamin Peterson9cf960c2011-07-03 13:49:59 -050076 caller's frame as they return for the last time.
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -050077
Vinay Sajip5bdae3b2011-07-02 16:42:47 +010078- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream,
79 with other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
80
Benjamin Petersone109c702011-06-24 09:37:26 -050081- Issue #12356: When required positional or keyword-only arguments are not
82 given, produce a informative error message which includes the name(s) of the
83 missing arguments.
84
Benjamin Petersonf5ff2232011-06-19 19:42:22 -050085- Issue #12370: Fix super with not arguments when __class__ is overriden in the
86 class body.
87
Brian Curtind25aef52011-06-13 15:16:04 -050088- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
89 links when called from any directory.
90
Benjamin Peterson3bbb7222011-06-11 16:12:08 -050091- Loosen type restrictions on the __dir__ method. __dir__ can now return any
92 sequence, which will be converted to a list and sorted by dir().
93
Benjamin Petersonb204a422011-06-05 22:04:07 -050094- Issue #12265: Make error messages produced by passing an invalid set of
95 arguments to a function more informative.
96
Benjamin Peterson0bb29912011-05-31 17:11:26 -050097- Issue #12225: Still allow Python to build if Python is not in its hg repo or
98 mercurial is not installed.
99
Victor Stinner19c52332011-05-30 23:50:04 +0200100- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner4f711012011-05-30 23:46:00 +0200101 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
102 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
103
Benjamin Peterson758888d2011-05-30 11:12:38 -0500104- Issue #12216: Allow unexpected EOF errors to happen on any line of the file.
105
Benjamin Peterson43af12b2011-05-29 11:43:10 -0500106- Issue #12199: The TryExcept and TryFinally and AST nodes have been unified
107 into a Try node.
108
Ned Deily9a7c5242011-05-28 00:19:56 -0700109- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
110 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
111 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
112 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
113
Benjamin Petersonbf1bbc12011-05-27 13:58:08 -0500114- Issue #12106: The use of the multiple-with shorthand syntax is now reflected
115 in the AST.
116
Benjamin Peterson43b06862011-05-27 09:08:01 -0500117- Issue #12190: Try to use the same filename object when compiling unmarshalling
118 a code objects in the same file.
119
Benjamin Peterson82b00c12011-05-24 11:09:06 -0500120- Issue #12166: Move implementations of dir() specialized for various types into
121 the __dir__() methods of those types.
122
Charles-François Natali7b54e752011-05-24 18:23:15 +0200123- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
124
Benjamin Petersonf5fcd332011-05-23 16:22:42 -0500125- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
126 besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
127
Victor Stinner2ec6b172011-05-15 10:21:59 +0200128- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
129 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
130
Gregory P. Smithb6471db2011-05-22 22:47:55 -0700131- Issue #1746656: Added the if_nameindex, if_indextoname, if_nametoindex
132 methods to the socket module.
Gregory P. Smith5ed2e772011-05-15 00:26:45 -0700133
Gregory P. Smith6b657452011-05-11 21:42:08 -0700134- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
135 wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
136 leaving zombie processes around.
137
Victor Stinner4755ab02011-05-10 00:19:53 +0200138- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
139 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
140
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200141- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
142 interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when
143 they try to take the GIL.
144
Antoine Pitrou6f26be02011-05-03 18:18:59 +0200145- Issue #11849: Make it more likely for the system allocator to release
146 free()d memory arenas on glibc-based systems. Patch by Charles-François
147 Natali.
148
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200149- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
150 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
151 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner13aaef52011-05-01 23:46:48 +0200152 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200153
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200154- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
155 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
156 by Charles-François Natali.
157
Victor Stinner793b5312011-04-27 00:24:21 +0200158- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
159 subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
160 the ISO-8859-15 codec.
161
Victor Stinnerb90db4c2011-04-26 22:48:24 +0200162- Issue #11918: OS/2 and VMS are no more supported because of the lack of
163 maintainer.
164
Ezio Melottiba42fd52011-04-26 06:09:45 +0300165- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
166 accepted too.
167
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300168- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
169 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
170 chars (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
171
Ezio Melotti982ef4e2011-04-15 08:15:40 +0300172- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
173 compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
174
Reid Kleckner98707c22011-04-10 22:23:08 -0400175- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait,
176 subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and
177 subprocess.check_output. If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout`
178 seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised.
179
Victor Stinner52c950f2011-04-09 15:55:44 +0200180- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
181 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
182 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
183
Victor Stinnerfe7c5b52011-04-05 01:48:03 +0200184- Issue #9319: Include the filename in "Non-UTF8 code ..." syntax error.
185
Victor Stinner7f2fee32011-04-05 00:39:01 +0200186- Issue #10785: Store the filename as Unicode in the Python parser.
187
Victor Stinner2d322272011-04-04 23:05:53 +0200188- Issue #11619: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() doesn't encode the path to bytes
189 on Windows.
190
Éric Araujobe3bd572011-03-26 01:55:15 +0100191- Issue #10998: Remove mentions of -Q, sys.flags.division_warning and
192 Py_DivisionWarningFlag left over from Python 2.
193
Mark Dickinson7c9e8032011-03-23 17:59:37 +0000194- Issue #11244: Remove an unnecessary peepholer check that was preventing
195 negative zeros from being constant-folded properly.
196
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100197- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
198 Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
199 returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if
200 stdout mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less,
201 depending on heap usage).
202
Antoine Pitroue1474842011-03-17 23:40:53 +0100203- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to
Antoine Pitrou819be342011-03-17 23:36:13 +0100204 a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
205
Éric Araujo765e94f2011-06-03 17:26:59 +0200206- _ast.__version__ is now a Mercurial hex revision.
Benjamin Peterson6cb2b922011-03-12 18:28:16 -0600207
Gregory P. Smith28edfee2011-03-15 16:02:10 -0400208- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
209 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
210 file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
211
Eric V. Smithb9cd3532011-03-12 10:08:48 -0500212- Issue #9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string
213 to be a DeprecationWarning. In 3.2 it was a PendingDeprecationWarning.
214 In 3.4 it will be a TypeError.
215
Antoine Pitrou17b880a2011-03-11 17:27:02 +0100216- Issue #11244: The peephole optimizer is now able to constant-fold
217 arbitrarily complex expressions. This also fixes a 3.2 regression where
218 operations involving negative numbers were not constant-folded.
219
Antoine Pitrou7983d332011-03-09 12:34:41 +0100220- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
221 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
222
Daniel Stutzbach8eda5f72011-03-02 23:37:50 +0000223- Issue #11335: Fixed a memory leak in list.sort when the key function
224 throws an exception.
225
Victor Stinnera5c68c32011-03-02 01:03:14 +0000226- Issue #8923: When a string is encoded to UTF-8 in strict mode, the result is
227 cached into the object. Examples: str.encode(), str.encode('utf-8'),
228 PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
229 NULL).
230
Victor Stinner6d970f42011-03-02 00:04:25 +0000231- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
232
Victor Stinner96865452011-03-01 23:44:09 +0000233- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
234 the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
235
Victor Stinner2512a8b2011-03-01 22:46:52 +0000236- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
237 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
238 Patch written by Ray Allen.
239
Antoine Pitrou5bffa792011-02-24 20:50:49 +0000240- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
241 a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
242
Victor Stinnerc0f1a1a2011-02-23 12:07:37 +0000243- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
244 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
245
Jesus Ceaac451502011-04-20 17:09:23 +0200246- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
247 Patch by Torsten Becker.
248
Victor Stinner5ed8b2c2011-02-21 21:13:44 +0000249- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
250 narrow build.
251
Victor Stinnered4c7112011-02-21 21:05:50 +0000252- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
253 It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
254 undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
255 UnicodeEncodeError on recursion limit.
Martin v. Löwis5e06a5d2011-02-21 16:24:00 +0000256
Victor Stinnerfd34b372011-02-21 20:51:28 +0000257- Issue #11187: Remove bootstrap code (use ASCII) of
258 PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(), it was replaced by a better fallback (use the
259 locale encoding) in PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault().
260
Victor Stinnered4c7112011-02-21 21:05:50 +0000261- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
262
Eli Bendersky4db28d32011-03-03 18:21:02 +0000263- Issue #10516: New copy() and clear() methods for lists and bytearrays.
Eli Benderskycbbaa962011-02-25 05:47:53 +0000264
Eli Bendersky1bc4f192011-03-04 04:55:25 +0000265- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
266 empty, instead of OverflowError.
267
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +0300268- Issue #12380: The rjust, ljust and center methods of bytes and bytearray
269 now accept a bytearray argument.
270
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +0000271Library
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Antoine Pitrou3486a982011-05-12 01:57:53 +0200273
Victor Stinnerd4d8ae52011-09-06 00:11:13 +0200274- Issue #9561: distutils and packaging now writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
Victor Stinnere01aa532011-09-05 23:46:05 +0200275 instead of the locale encoding.
276
Éric Araujocfbd6302011-09-03 00:42:04 +0200277- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
278 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
279
Lars Gustäbel24757852011-09-05 16:59:44 +0200280- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
281 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
282 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
283 information was lost.
284
Ezio Melottid9e0b062011-09-05 17:11:06 +0300285- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
286 more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.
287
Benjamin Petersonf6f3a352011-09-03 09:26:20 -0400288- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
289
Victor Stinner979482a2011-09-02 01:00:40 +0200290- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
291
Victor Stinnerc15c88c2011-09-01 23:45:04 +0200292- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
293 getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
294 read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
295
Benjamin Peterson8f8cc8b2011-08-31 22:21:44 -0400296- Issue #12720: Expose low-level Linux extended file attribute functions in os.
297
Éric Araujofbe37df2011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200298- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
Éric Araujob9fe54c2011-08-30 01:42:50 +0200299 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist. The packaging commands
300 were fixed too.
Éric Araujofbe37df2011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200301
Antoine Pitrou55549ec2011-08-30 00:27:10 +0200302- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
303 the C pickle implementation.
304
Antoine Pitrou82be19f2011-08-29 23:09:33 +0200305- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
306 (more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
307
Charles-François Nataliac7e9e02011-08-28 18:10:27 +0200308- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
309 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
310
Nadeem Vawda44c6ef52011-08-28 11:29:35 +0200311- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
312 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
313
Nick Coghlan20937302011-08-28 00:17:31 +1000314- Issue #9923: The mailcap module now correctly uses the platform path
315 separator for the MAILCAP environment variable on non-POSIX platforms.
316
Nick Coghlan513886a2011-08-28 00:00:27 +1000317- Issue #12835: Follow up to #6560 that unconditionally prevents use of the
318 unencrypted sendmsg/recvmsg APIs on SSL wrapped sockets. Patch by David
319 Watson.
320
Antoine Pitrou4fd1e6a2011-08-25 14:39:44 +0200321- Issue #12803: SSLContext.load_cert_chain() now accepts a password argument
322 to be used if the private key is encrypted. Patch by Adam Simpkins.
323
Antoine Pitrou162fee12011-08-23 19:48:34 +0200324- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
325 Pipe.
326
Nick Coghlanc4a28712011-08-22 16:19:19 +1000327- Issue #12811: tabnanny.check() now promptly closes checked files. Patch by
328 Anthony Briggs.
329
Nick Coghlan96fe56a2011-08-22 11:55:57 +1000330- Issue #6560: The sendmsg/recvmsg API is now exposed by the socket module
331 when provided by the underlying platform, supporting processing of
Nick Coghlan5c7f5c62011-08-22 16:27:46 +1000332 ancillary data in pure Python code. Patch by David Watson and Heiko Wundram.
Nick Coghlan96fe56a2011-08-22 11:55:57 +1000333
Victor Stinnerff3d9392011-08-20 23:39:26 +0200334- Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
335 anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending
336 on the Linux version used to build Python.
337
Antoine Pitroue8bb1a02011-08-20 14:52:04 +0200338- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
339 could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
340
Antoine Pitroudf7fc9d2011-08-19 18:03:14 +0200341- Issue #12778: Reduce memory consumption when JSON-encoding a large
342 container of many small objects.
343
Charles-François Natali558639f2011-08-18 19:11:29 +0200344- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
345 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
346
Antoine Pitrou3c7e9282011-08-13 20:15:19 +0200347- Issue #12744: Fix inefficient representation of integers between 2**31 and
348 2**63 on systems with a 64-bit C "long".
349
Nadeem Vawda1c385462011-08-13 15:22:40 +0200350- Issue #12646: Add an 'eof' attribute to zlib.Decompress, to make it easier to
351 detect truncated input streams.
352
Georg Brandl3abb3722011-08-13 11:48:12 +0200353- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
354 the file cannot be opened.
355
Antoine Pitrouf6c7a852011-08-11 21:04:02 +0200356- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
357 (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.
358
Senthil Kumaran9dc4cad2011-08-11 09:24:37 +0800359- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
360
Ned Deilye5cad232011-08-02 18:47:13 -0700361- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
362 in os.kill().
363
Raymond Hettingerfcb393c2011-08-09 13:00:40 -0700364- Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter().
365
Senthil Kumaran2a157d22011-08-03 18:37:22 +0800366- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
367 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
368
Benjamin Peterson94b580d2011-08-02 17:30:04 -0500369- Issue #12655: Expose functions from sched.h in the os module: sched_yield(),
370 sched_setscheduler(), sched_getscheduler(), sched_setparam(),
371 sched_get_min_priority(), sched_get_max_priority(), sched_rr_get_interval(),
372 sched_getaffinity(), sched_setaffinity().
373
Benjamin Peterson28da7b82011-08-02 17:45:00 -0500374- Add ThreadError to threading.__all__.
375
Éric Araujoab7c1b32011-07-31 04:06:12 +0200376- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
377 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
378
Senthil Kumaran3d23fd62011-07-30 10:56:50 +0800379- Issue #11281: smtplib.STMP gets source_address parameter, which adds the
380 ability to bind to specific source address on a machine with multiple
381 interfaces. Patch by Paulo Scardine.
382
Charles-François Natalidef35432011-07-29 18:59:24 +0200383- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
384 symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
385
Éric Araujoe64e51b2011-07-29 17:03:55 +0200386- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
387 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
388
Éric Araujo0cdd4452011-07-28 00:28:28 +0200389- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading. The public names (Thread,
390 Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
391 classes (_Thread, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
392 code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types. It is now possible to
393 inherit from Thread and other classes, without having to import the private
394 underscored names like multiprocessing did.
395
Éric Araujo9bce3112011-07-27 18:29:31 +0200396- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
397 lines.
398
Charles-François Natali27c4e882011-07-27 19:40:02 +0200399- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
400
Raymond Hettinger3a081f52011-07-29 00:02:04 -0700401- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
402 collections when it is done.
403
Ross Lagerwalld98646e2011-07-27 07:16:31 +0200404- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
405 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
406
Ned Deilyf25e3d52011-07-26 18:17:33 -0700407- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
408 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
409
Senthil Kumaran1299a8f2011-07-27 08:05:58 +0800410- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
411 Connection:close header.
412
Ross Lagerwall59c01ed2011-07-25 07:12:43 +0200413- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
414 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
415
Charles-François Natali749400a2011-07-24 22:41:18 +0200416- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
417
Antoine Pitroucf9d3c02011-07-24 02:27:04 +0200418- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
419
Antoine Pitrouab85ff32011-07-23 22:03:45 +0200420- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
421 module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
422
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200423- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
Antoine Pitroud42c1d02011-07-23 21:50:21 +0200424 a read1() method), and add a *write_through* parameter to mandate
425 unbuffered writes.
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200426
Nadeem Vawdace7e51e2011-07-23 15:16:23 +0200427- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
428
Charles-François Natali54ef40b2011-07-22 23:52:02 +0200429- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
430
Charles-François Natali996f6062011-07-21 19:45:31 +0200431- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
432
Antoine Pitroud6494802011-07-21 01:11:30 +0200433- Issue #12551: Provide a get_channel_binding() method on SSL sockets so as
434 to get channel binding data for the current SSL session (only the
435 "tls-unique" channel binding is implemented). This allows the implementation
436 of certain authentication mechanisms such as SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS. Patch by
437 Jacek Konieczny.
438
R David Murray875048b2011-07-20 11:41:21 -0400439- Issue #665194: email.utils now has format_datetime and parsedate_to_datetime
440 functions, allowing for round tripping of RFC2822 format dates.
441
Antoine Pitrouc57ed912011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200442- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
443 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
444 Linux 3.0.
445
R David Murray46346762011-07-18 21:38:54 -0400446- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
447 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
448
Benjamin Petersonddddcab2011-07-15 21:11:35 -0500449- Issue #12273: Remove ast.__version__. AST changes can be accounted for by
450 checking sys.version_info or sys._mercurial.
451
Antoine Pitroudc19c242011-07-16 01:51:58 +0200452- Silence spurious "broken pipe" tracebacks when shutting down a
453 ProcessPoolExecutor.
454
Antoine Pitroud06a0652011-07-16 01:13:34 +0200455- Fix potential resource leaks in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
456 by joining all queues and processes when shutdown() is called.
457
Antoine Pitrou8cdc40e2011-07-15 21:15:07 +0200458- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
459 Andreas Stührk.
460
Antoine Pitrou8391cf42011-07-15 21:01:21 +0200461- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
462 embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
463
Victor Stinnera7878b72011-07-14 23:07:44 +0200464- Issue #6755: Add get_wch() method to curses.window class. Patch by Iñigo
465 Serna.
466
Victor Stinnerd33344a2011-07-14 22:28:36 +0200467- Add cgi.closelog() function to close the log file.
468
Charles-François Natalif64f9e92011-07-14 20:00:49 +0200469- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
470
Victor Stinner66361212011-07-13 21:43:18 +0200471- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
472 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
473
Antoine Pitroucb4ae812011-07-13 21:07:49 +0200474- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
475 TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
476
Éric Araujo4468e552011-07-08 17:22:19 +0200477- Issue #12504: Close file handles in a timely manner in packaging.database.
478 This fixes a bug with the remove (uninstall) feature on Windows.
479
Éric Araujoce5fe832011-07-08 16:27:12 +0200480- Issues #12169 and #10510: Factor out code used by various packaging commands
481 to make HTTP POST requests, and make sure it uses CRLF.
482
Victor Stinner2cded9c2011-07-08 01:45:13 +0200483- Issue #12016: Multibyte CJK decoders now resynchronize faster. They only
484 ignore the first byte of an invalid byte sequence. For example,
485 b'\xff\n'.decode('gb2312', 'replace') gives '\ufffd\n' instead of '\ufffd'.
486
Victor Stinner7f53a502011-07-05 22:00:25 +0200487- Issue #12459: time.sleep() now raises a ValueError if the sleep length is
488 negative, instead of an infinite sleep on Windows or raising an IOError on
489 Linux for example, to have the same behaviour on all platforms.
490
Victor Stinnerd7772bc2011-07-05 14:31:28 +0200491- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
492 Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
493 of the script).
494
Victor Stinner2cfb6f32011-07-05 14:00:56 +0200495- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
496 if the process has only one pipe.
497
Victor Stinner8b0508e2011-07-04 02:43:09 +0200498- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
499 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
500
Victor Stinnere975af62011-07-04 02:08:50 +0200501- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
502 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
503
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200504- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
505 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
506 than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
507
Victor Stinner3663aba2011-07-04 01:27:37 +0200508- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
509 of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
510
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400511- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
512 conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent- headers.
513
Charles-François Natali778db492011-07-02 14:35:49 +0200514- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
515 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
516
Victor Stinner48b1ce52011-07-01 13:50:09 +0200517- Issue #12462: time.sleep() now calls immediatly the (Python) signal handler
518 if it is interrupted by a signal, instead of having to wait until the next
519 instruction.
520
Giampaolo Rodola'210e7ca2011-07-01 13:55:36 +0200521- Issue #12442: new shutil.disk_usage function, providing total, used and free
522 disk space statistics.
523
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200524- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
525 UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
526 also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode
527 to avoid encoding issues.
528
Victor Stinner12b8d142011-06-30 17:35:55 +0200529- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file
530 anymore to avoid encoding issues.
531
Victor Stinnere6c910e2011-06-30 15:55:43 +0200532- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available,
533 to read the Python script from the right encoding.
534
Victor Stinnerdc9b1ea2011-06-30 15:40:22 +0200535- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
536 encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
537
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700538- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
539 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
540 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
541 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
542 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
543 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
544 still possible to globally override the default by setting
545 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
546 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
Ned Deily044369f2011-06-28 20:08:34 -0700547 was built. Also, implement the same handling in packaging.
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700548
Benjamin Petersone90ec362011-06-27 16:22:46 -0500549- Issue #12422: In the copy module, don't store objects that are their own copy
550 in the memo dict.
551
Ross Lagerwallbc808222011-06-25 12:13:40 +0200552- Issue #12303: Add sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait() to the signal module.
553
Ross Lagerwalldbfb9b82011-06-25 10:02:37 +0200554- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
555 Kitada.
556
R David Murray749073a2011-06-22 13:47:53 -0400557- Issue #1874: email now detects and reports as a defect the presence of
558 any CTE other than 7bit, 8bit, or binary on a multipart.
559
Victor Stinnerf1512a22011-06-21 17:18:38 +0200560- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
561 variables, start with an empty environment.
562
Éric Araujo3e425ac2011-06-19 21:23:43 +0200563- Issue #11637: Fix support for importing packaging setup hooks from the
564 project directory.
565
566- Issue #6771: Moved the curses.wrapper function from the single-function
R David Murrayafc9a5e2011-06-18 20:21:09 -0400567 wrapper module into __init__, eliminating the module. Since __init__ was
568 already importing the function to curses.wrapper, there is no API change.
569
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400570- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header
R David Murraye5e366c2011-06-18 12:57:28 -0400571 passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail
572 if given binary unknown-8bit input.
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400573
R David Murrayc88bce12011-06-17 22:24:05 -0400574- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
575 times without error.
576
R David Murray05ff9902011-06-17 12:54:56 -0400577- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
578
Victor Stinnerf073dc22011-06-17 14:02:18 +0200579- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
580 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
581 written by Ezio Melotti.
582
Éric Araujo643cb732011-06-11 00:33:38 +0200583- Issue #12240: Allow multiple setup hooks in packaging's setup.cfg files.
584 Original patch by Erik Bray.
585
Benjamin Peterson703f7c42011-06-11 15:56:46 -0500586- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
587 functions.
588
Éric Araujo36050302011-06-10 23:52:26 +0200589- Issue #11595: Fix assorted bugs in packaging.util.cfg_to_args, a
590 compatibility helper for the distutils-packaging transition. Original patch
591 by Erik Bray.
592
Charles-François Natalia5293082011-06-11 18:58:24 +0200593- Issue #12287: In ossaudiodev, check that the device isn't closed in several
594 methods.
595
Benjamin Peterson9aa68e42011-06-10 12:29:40 -0500596- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
597
Éric Araujofa6cfbc2011-06-10 18:31:40 +0200598- Issue #12246: Warn and fail when trying to install a third-party project from
599 an uninstalled Python (built in a source checkout). Original patch by
600 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe.
601
R David Murray51fcb812011-06-09 15:52:31 -0400602- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
603
R David Murray0a9f16b2011-06-09 15:21:02 -0400604- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
605
R David Murrayf97c59a2011-06-09 12:34:07 -0400606- Issue #10424: Argparse now includes the names of the missing required
607 arguments in the missing arguments error message.
608
Vinay Sajip8168d102011-06-09 16:50:49 +0100609- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
610 a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
611
Brian Curtin9a82eaa2011-06-08 18:43:57 -0500612- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
613 instead of os.stat.
614
Charles-François Natali4dd453c2011-06-08 19:18:14 +0200615- Issue #12021: Make mmap's read() method argument optional. Patch by Petri
616 Lehtinen.
617
Antoine Pitroudd696492011-06-08 17:21:55 +0200618- Issue #9205: concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor now detects killed
619 children and raises BrokenProcessPool in such a situation. Previously it
620 would reliably freeze/deadlock.
621
Antoine Pitrou176f07d2011-06-06 19:35:31 +0200622- Issue #12040: Expose a new attribute ``sentinel`` on instances of
623 :class:`multiprocessing.Process`. Also, fix Process.join() to not use
624 polling anymore, when given a timeout.
625
Antoine Pitrouf068ab82011-06-06 19:17:09 +0200626- Issue #11893: Remove obsolete internal wrapper class ``SSLFakeFile`` in the
627 smtplib module. Patch by Catalin Iacob.
628
Mark Dickinson7ce0fa82011-06-04 18:14:23 +0100629- Issue #12080: Fix a Decimal.power() case that took an unreasonably long time
630 to compute.
631
Benjamin Peterson8c6f88e2011-05-31 20:52:17 -0500632- Issue #12221: Remove __version__ attributes from pyexpat, pickle, tarfile,
633 pydoc, tkinter, and xml.parsers.expat. This were useless version constants
634 left over from the Mercurial transition
635
Raymond Hettinger22cc1182011-06-02 23:49:44 -0700636- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
637
Victor Stinner1b5b9d72011-06-01 00:58:57 +0200638- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
639 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
640 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
641
Victor Stinner2a129742011-05-30 23:02:52 +0200642- Issue #12028: Make threading._get_ident() public, rename it to
Victor Stinner58ab7662011-05-30 23:23:50 +0200643 threading.get_ident() and document it. This function was already used using
Victor Stinner2a129742011-05-30 23:02:52 +0200644 _thread.get_ident().
645
Victor Stinnere15dce32011-05-30 22:56:00 +0200646- Issue #12171: IncrementalEncoder.reset() of CJK codecs (multibytecodec) calls
647 encreset() instead of decreset().
648
Tarek Ziade371df052011-05-30 18:55:32 +0200649- Issue #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.
650
Victor Stinnere15dce32011-05-30 22:56:00 +0200651- Issue #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module.
Charles-François Natalidaafdd52011-05-29 20:07:40 +0200652
Ned Deily59a33382011-05-28 03:09:33 -0700653- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
654 Patch by Mher Movsisyan.
655
Nadeem Vawda55b43382011-05-27 01:52:15 +0200656- Issue #1625: BZ2File and bz2.decompress() now support multi-stream files.
657 Initial patch by Nir Aides.
658
Victor Stinnerb57f1082011-05-26 00:19:38 +0200659- Issue #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.
660
Victor Stinnere9d44ccb2011-05-26 00:16:44 +0200661- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size
662 once.
663
Victor Stinnera80987f2011-05-25 22:47:16 +0200664- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
665
Victor Stinnerb79f28c2011-05-25 22:09:03 +0200666- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
667 if the file is closed.
668
Victor Stinnerd2780ae2011-05-25 22:51:16 +0200669- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
670 class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Wark.
671
672- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
673 ctypes.util._get_soname(). Patch by Sijin Joseph.
Senthil Kumaran656ce502011-05-26 00:24:38 +0800674
Victor Stinner6daa33c2011-05-25 01:41:22 +0200675- Issue #10818: Remove the Tk GUI and the serve() function of the pydoc module,
676 pydoc -g has been deprecated in Python 3.2 and it has a new enhanced web
677 server.
Victor Stinner383c3fc2011-05-25 01:35:05 +0200678
Charles-François Natali1f4560c2011-05-24 23:47:49 +0200679- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, read the data in one chunk to speed up large
680 reads and simplify code.
681
Victor Stinner1273b7c2011-05-24 23:37:07 +0200682- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
683 correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
684
Victor Stinnereb734f72011-05-24 22:24:11 +0200685- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
686 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
687 final argument is True.
688
Victor Stinner99c8b162011-05-24 12:05:19 +0200689- Issue #12049: Add RAND_bytes() and RAND_pseudo_bytes() functions to the ssl
690 module.
691
Tarek Ziadee1177d92011-05-23 19:07:56 +0200692- Issue #12125: fixed the failures under Solaris due to improper test cleanup.
693
Victor Stinner7870bdf2011-05-23 18:12:52 +0200694- Issue #6501: os.device_encoding() returns None on Windows if the application
695 has no console.
696
Tarek Ziade35173692011-05-22 22:09:55 +0200697- Issue #12132: Skip test_build_ext in case the xxmodule is not found.
698
Charles-François Natali1e045b12011-05-22 20:42:32 +0200699- Issue #12105: Add O_CLOEXEC to the os module.
700
Mark Dickinsonb455e582011-05-22 12:53:18 +0100701- Issue #12079: Decimal('Infinity').fma(Decimal('0'), (3.91224318126786e+19+0j))
702 now raises TypeError (reflecting the invalid type of the 3rd argument) rather
703 than Decimal.InvalidOperation.
704
Victor Stinner21809a62011-05-20 00:22:39 +0200705- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
706 to be able to unload the module.
707
Éric Araujo765e94f2011-06-03 17:26:59 +0200708- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as
709 distutils2).
Tarek Ziadeebbb14c2011-05-19 19:56:12 +0200710
Antoine Pitrou7a616f22011-05-18 18:52:20 +0200711- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
712 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
713
Antoine Pitroue0650202011-05-18 18:03:09 +0200714- Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
715 passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
716 Patch by Kasun Herath.
717
Ronald Oussoren5ee05672011-05-17 14:48:40 +0200718- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
719 with Tk 8.5.
720
Ronald Oussorenf4542eb2011-05-15 17:13:47 +0200721- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Ronald Oussoren447fcfb2011-05-15 16:50:28 +0200722 is set in shell.
723
Nadeem Vawda0c3d96a2011-05-15 00:19:50 +0200724- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
725 their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
726 larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
727 an incorrect result.
728
Nadeem Vawda7619e882011-05-14 14:05:20 +0200729- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
730 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
731
Antoine Pitrou7c404892011-05-13 00:13:33 +0200732- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
733 on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
734 writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
735 data, and writing again).
736
Antoine Pitrou3486a982011-05-12 01:57:53 +0200737- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
738 Patch by John O'Connor.
739
Kurt B. Kaisere1478062011-05-11 12:24:17 -0400740- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
741 With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
742 IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +0000743
Senthil Kumaran4de00a22011-05-11 21:17:57 +0800744- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
745 when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
746 by Yuval Greenfield.
747
Victor Stinner19474772011-05-11 00:14:28 +0200748- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
749 non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
750 binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
751 encoding of the script.
752
Antoine Pitrou1be815a2011-05-10 19:16:29 +0200753- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
754 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
755
Victor Stinner388196e2011-05-10 17:13:00 +0200756- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
757 instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.
758
Senthil Kumaranc7ae19b2011-05-09 23:25:02 +0800759- Issue #3709: a flush_headers method to BaseHTTPRequestHandler which manages
760 the sending of headers to output stream and flushing the internal headers
761 buffer. Patch contribution by Andrew Schaaf
762
Antoine Pitrou87cf2202011-05-09 17:04:27 +0200763- Issue #11743: Rewrite multiprocessing connection classes in pure Python.
764
Martin v. Löwis2f48d892011-05-09 08:05:43 +0200765- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
766
Victor Stinnerfa0e3d52011-05-09 01:01:09 +0200767- Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark
768 Dickinson.
769
Victor Stinner3de49192011-05-09 00:42:58 +0200770- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
771
Victor Stinnerd49b1f12011-05-08 02:03:15 +0200772- Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
773 instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to
774 wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.
775
Victor Stinnerb3e72192011-05-08 01:46:11 +0200776- Issue #8407: Add pthread_kill(), sigpending() and sigwait() functions to the
777 signal module.
778
Antoine Pitrouc1d52062011-05-07 19:39:37 +0200779- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
780 by Kasun Herath.
781
Giampaolo Rodola'24befa82011-05-07 19:09:34 +0200782- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
783
Ezio Melotti43432b82011-05-08 20:01:36 +0300784- Issue #11916: Add a number of MacOSX specific definitions to the errno module.
Ronald Oussoren97c3eb42011-05-07 09:59:03 +0200785 Patch by Pierre Carrier.
786
Ezio Melotti1c3fd582011-05-08 19:58:08 +0300787- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murraycaed7fe2011-05-06 22:07:19 -0400788 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
789 previous value of the mtime.
790
Giampaolo Rodola'd78def92011-05-06 19:49:08 +0200791- Issue #11072: added MLSD command (RFC-3659) support to ftplib.
792
Antoine Pitrou08728162011-05-06 18:49:52 +0200793- Issue #8808: The IMAP4_SSL constructor now allows passing an SSLContext
794 parameter to control parameters of the secure channel. Patch by Sijin
795 Joseph.
796
Ronald Oussoren6355c162011-05-06 17:11:07 +0200797- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
798 file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
799
Antoine Pitrou1c86b442011-05-06 15:19:49 +0200800- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any
801 dNSName entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName.
802 Patch by Nicolas Bareil.
803
Ezio Melottib4dc2502011-05-06 15:01:41 +0300804- Issue #10775: assertRaises, assertRaisesRegex, assertWarns, and
805 assertWarnsRegex now accept a keyword argument 'msg' when used as context
806 managers. Initial patch by Winston Ewert.
807
Ronald Oussoren136148e2011-05-06 11:17:40 +0200808- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
809 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
810 for the case.
811
Nick Coghlan0ded3e32011-05-05 23:49:25 +1000812- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support
813 more than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch
814 by Ysj Ray.
815
Alexander Belopolsky5611a1c2011-05-02 14:14:48 -0400816- Issue #11930: Removed deprecated time.accept2dyear variable.
817 Removed year >= 1000 restriction from datetime.strftime.
818
Victor Stinnercafa2ef2011-05-02 16:11:28 +0200819- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
820
Raymond Hettinger003be522011-05-03 11:01:32 -0700821- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
822
Victor Stinnera6cd0cf2011-05-02 01:05:37 +0200823- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
824 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
825
Victor Stinnera9293352011-04-30 15:21:58 +0200826- Issue #8407: Add signal.pthread_sigmask() function to fetch and/or change the
827 signal mask of the calling thread.
828
Łukasz Langa90759a22011-04-30 09:36:35 +0200829- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
830 names.
831
832- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
833
Antoine Pitrou15399c32011-04-28 19:23:55 +0200834- Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible. Patch
835 by Charles-François Natali.
836
Ezio Melotti935a5882011-04-27 10:17:34 +0300837- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
838 strings are too long.
839
Senthil Kumaran72387f92011-04-26 21:09:49 +0800840- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
841
Antoine Pitrouf6454512011-04-25 19:16:06 +0200842- Issue #11856: Speed up parsing of JSON numbers.
843
Victor Stinner762f8d12011-04-24 23:45:23 +0200844- Issue #11005: threading.RLock()._release_save() raises a RuntimeError if the
Victor Stinnerc2824d42011-04-24 23:41:33 +0200845 lock was not acquired.
846
Antoine Pitrou8c520272011-04-23 17:51:04 +0200847- Issue #11258: Speed up ctypes.util.find_library() under Linux by a factor
848 of 5 to 10. Initial patch by Jonas H.
849
Antoine Pitrou877509a2011-04-23 17:21:13 +0200850- Issue #11382: Trivial system calls, such as dup() or pipe(), needn't
851 release the GIL. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
852
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +0200853- Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about
854 the thread implementation.
855
R David Murray3edd22a2011-04-18 13:59:37 -0400856- Issue #11731: simplify/enhance email parser/generator API by introducing
857 policy objects.
858
Victor Stinner6c9b35b2011-04-18 16:25:56 +0200859- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
860 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
861 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
862
R David Murray01581ee2011-04-18 10:04:34 -0400863- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
864
Vinay Sajipe723e962011-04-15 22:27:17 +0100865- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
866
Raymond Hettinger019a97c2011-04-19 10:21:27 -0700867- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
868 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
869
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300870- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
Senthil Kumaran397eb442011-04-15 18:20:24 +0800871 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
872
Raymond Hettinger1c746c22011-04-15 13:16:46 -0700873- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
874
Senthil Kumaran2d2ea1b2011-04-14 13:16:30 +0800875- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
876 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
877
R David Murrayb35c8502011-04-13 16:46:05 -0400878- Issue #11684: complete email.parser bytes API by adding BytesHeaderParser.
879
Nadeem Vawdaccb16cb2011-04-13 07:35:29 +0200880- The bz2 module now handles 4GiB+ input buffers correctly.
881
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300882- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
883 _json is not available.
Alexander Belopolsky1a20c122011-04-12 23:03:39 -0400884
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300885- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300886
887- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +0800888 url contains #fragment.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300889
R David Murray3dd02d62011-04-12 21:02:45 -0400890- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
891 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
892
Victor Stinner4d652242011-04-12 23:41:50 +0200893- Issue #11186: pydoc ignores a module if its name contains a surrogate
894 character in the index of modules.
895
Antoine Pitroub7877f22011-04-12 17:58:11 +0200896- Issue #11815: Use a light-weight SimpleQueue for the result queue in
897 concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
898
brian.curtinf7eac1f2011-04-11 18:18:20 -0500899- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
900 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
901
Vinay Sajip4a0a31d2011-04-11 08:42:07 +0100902- logging.basicConfig now supports an optional 'handlers' argument taking an
903 iterable of handlers to be added to the root logger. Additional parameter
904 checks were also added to basicConfig.
905
Antoine Pitroubed9a5b2011-04-11 00:20:23 +0200906- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
907
Raymond Hettinger49353d02011-04-11 12:40:58 -0700908- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
909 difflib.unified_diff().
910
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +0200911- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
912 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
913 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
914
Ezio Melotti88fdeb42011-04-10 12:59:16 +0300915- Issue #2650: re.escape() no longer escapes the '_'.
916
Antoine Pitrou131a6412011-04-09 23:49:58 +0200917- Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative timeout
918 is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised). Patch
919 by Charles-François Natali.
920
Ezio Melotti2e3607c2011-04-07 22:03:31 +0300921- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
922
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200923- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +0200924 multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200925 bytes.
R David Murrayc5c14722011-04-06 08:13:02 -0400926
Éric Araujof7d08e82011-05-29 18:13:51 +0200927- Issue #1690608: email.util.formataddr is now RFC 2047 aware: it now has a
928 charset parameter that defaults to utf-8 and is used as the charset for RFC
R David Murray8debacb2011-04-06 09:35:57 -0400929 2047 encoding when the realname contains non-ASCII characters.
930
Ross Lagerwall4f61b022011-04-05 15:34:00 +0200931- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
932
Antoine Pitrou4ec4b0c2011-04-04 21:00:37 +0200933- Issue #10791: Implement missing method GzipFile.read1(), allowing GzipFile
934 to be wrapped in a TextIOWrapper. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
935
Raymond Hettinger7ab9e222011-04-05 02:33:54 -0700936- Issue #11707: Added a fast C version of functools.cmp_to_key().
937 Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
938
Antoine Pitrou5bfa0622011-04-04 00:12:04 +0200939- Issue #11688: Add sqlite3.Connection.set_trace_callback(). Patch by
940 Torsten Landschoff.
941
Antoine Pitrou9c254862011-04-03 18:15:34 +0200942- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
943 private keys.
944
Antoine Pitrou37dc5f82011-04-03 17:05:46 +0200945- Issue #5863: Rewrite BZ2File in pure Python, and allow it to accept
946 file-like objects using a new ``fileobj`` constructor argument. Patch by
947 Nadeem Vawda.
948
Ezio Melotti0f535012011-04-03 18:02:13 +0300949- unittest.TestCase.assertSameElements has been removed.
950
Victor Stinner27181ac2011-03-31 13:39:03 +0200951- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
952 called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
953
Victor Stinner024e37a2011-03-31 01:31:06 +0200954- Issue #11393: Add the new faulthandler module.
955
Antoine Pitrou7899acf2011-03-31 01:00:32 +0200956- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
957
R David Murray86cc82e2011-03-29 11:32:35 -0400958- Removed the 'strict' argument to email.parser.Parser, which has been
959 deprecated since Python 2.4.
960
Benjamin Peterson6a2638b2011-03-28 17:32:31 -0500961- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
962 arguments.
963
Martin v. Löwisf8d887e2011-03-27 21:05:51 +0200964- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
965
Raymond Hettinger5d446132011-03-27 18:52:10 -0700966- itertools.accumulate now supports an optional *func* argument for
967 a user-supplied binary function.
968
Ross Lagerwallf382ab22011-03-27 17:34:22 +0200969- Issue #11692: Remove unnecessary demo functions in subprocess module.
970
Mark Dickinson92b60d52011-03-27 16:25:40 +0100971- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
972 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
973
Mark Dickinsonccd22832011-03-27 15:46:32 +0100974- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
975 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
976 documentation.
977
Martin v. Löwisa6e0b4f2011-03-27 10:14:57 +0200978- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
Martin v. Löwis9bad3a92011-03-27 10:12:07 +0200979
Ross Lagerwallb8a57692011-03-26 21:19:57 +0200980- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
981 Patch by Ben Hayden.
982
Antoine Pitrouc13d4542011-03-26 19:29:44 +0100983- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
984 concurrent.futures.
985
Brett Cannon442c9b92011-03-23 16:14:42 -0700986- Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
987 to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
988 object originally came from.
989
Brett Cannona7468bc2011-03-23 16:06:00 -0700990- Issue #8754: Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.
991
Éric Araujoc09fca62011-03-23 02:06:24 +0100992- Issue #11591: Prevent "import site" from modifying sys.path when python
993 was started with -S.
994
Raymond Hettinger28dff612011-03-23 13:05:02 -0700995- collections.namedtuple() now adds a _source attribute to the generated
996 class. This make the source more accessible than the outdated
997 "verbose" option which prints to stdout but doesn't make the source
998 string available.
999
Éric Araujoeda55832011-03-21 00:09:07 +01001000- Issue #11371: Mark getopt error messages as localizable. Patch by Filip
1001 Gruszczyński.
1002
Raymond Hettingerc46759a2011-03-22 11:46:25 -07001003- Issue #11333: Add __slots__ to collections ABCs.
1004
Éric Araujoc09fca62011-03-23 02:06:24 +01001005- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__.
Raymond Hettingera0d1d962011-03-21 17:50:28 -07001006
Raymond Hettinger1103d052011-03-25 14:15:24 -07001007- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1008 that start with a leading underscore.
1009
Guido van Rossum20d2ab42011-03-29 12:58:29 -07001010- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
1011 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
1012
Victor Stinner628225c2011-03-21 02:38:51 +01001013- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
1014 httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
1015
Éric Araujo6a1454f2011-03-20 19:59:25 +01001016- Issue #4391: Use proper gettext plural forms in optparse.
1017
Antoine Pitrou6d58d642011-03-20 23:56:36 +01001018- Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.
1019
Senthil Kumaran799c6692011-03-20 09:26:57 +08001020- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
1021 class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
1022 contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
1023
Antoine Pitrou877766d2011-03-19 17:00:37 +01001024- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
1025 unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
1026
Antoine Pitrou5e981412011-03-17 22:38:37 +01001027- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
1028 arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001029
Ross Lagerwall7807c352011-03-17 20:20:30 +02001030- Issue #10812: Add some extra posix functions to the os module.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -04001031
1032- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1033 setup and teardown.
1034
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001035- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
1036
R David Murraya2150232011-03-16 21:11:23 -04001037- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
1038 the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
1039
R David Murrayde912762011-03-16 18:26:23 -04001040- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
1041 relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
1042
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -04001043- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
1044 which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line
1045 of the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
1046
Nick Coghlan35ec8a42011-03-16 14:18:29 -04001047- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001048 parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1049
Ross Lagerwallba102ec2011-03-16 18:40:25 +02001050- Issue #5870: Add `subprocess.DEVNULL` constant.
1051
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001052- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
Benjamin Petersona78e4e62011-03-16 10:29:19 -05001053 execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -04001054
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -04001055- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1056 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1057 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1058
Antoine Pitrou2c50a092011-03-15 21:02:59 +01001059- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
1060 not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
1061 the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
1062
Barry Warsaw1f5c9582011-03-15 15:04:44 -04001063- Issue #11289: `smtp.SMTP` class becomes a context manager so it can be used
1064 in a `with` statement. Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola.
1065
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001066- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
1067 encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
1068
briancurtin2ef76982011-03-15 11:51:28 -04001069- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
1070 Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
1071
Michael Foord1341bb02011-03-14 19:01:46 -04001072- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
1073 Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
1074
Antoine Pitroue8706232011-03-15 21:05:36 +01001075- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
Antoine Pitrou0e63f592011-03-15 21:08:50 +01001076 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussorenf2db4de2011-03-14 18:46:50 -04001077
briancurtin525c25d2011-03-14 16:03:54 -04001078- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with
1079 the "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches
1080 the documentation and general logic.
1081
Éric Araujof7d08e82011-05-29 18:13:51 +02001082- Issue #1162477: Postel Principle adjustment to email date parsing: handle the
R David Murrayaccd1c02011-03-13 20:06:23 -04001083 fact that some non-compliant MUAs use '.' instead of ':' in time specs.
1084
Mark Dickinson37a79fb2011-03-12 11:12:52 +00001085- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus
1086 operations when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1087
Antoine Pitrou16c4ce12011-03-11 21:30:43 +01001088- Issue #9935: Speed up pickling of instances of user-defined classes.
1089
Ned Deilyd2853182011-03-09 02:36:51 -08001090- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1091 initialization fails.
1092
Antoine Pitrou125d5c82011-03-06 08:40:35 +01001093- Issue #11408: In threading.Lock.acquire(), only call gettimeofday() when
1094 really necessary. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1095
Antoine Pitrou16a0a0b2011-03-06 01:11:03 +01001096- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1097 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1098 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1099
Giampaolo Rodolà3a9559b2011-03-04 12:54:34 +00001100- Issue #9795: add context manager protocol support for nntplib.NNTP class.
1101
R. David Murray91221f22011-03-03 18:03:36 +00001102- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1103 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1104 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1105
Giampaolo Rodolà1bc75c62011-03-03 13:57:47 +00001106- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1107 on accept(), send() and recv().
1108
Victor Stinner1dfd3802011-03-03 12:54:07 +00001109- Issue #11377: Deprecate platform.popen() and reimplement it with os.popen().
1110
Victor Stinner7b3b20a2011-03-03 12:54:05 +00001111- Issue #8513: On UNIX, subprocess supports bytes command string.
1112
Antoine Pitrou061cfb52011-02-28 22:25:22 +00001113- Issue #10866: Add socket.sethostname(). Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1114
Antoine Pitroufcf81fd2011-02-28 22:03:34 +00001115- Issue #11140: Lock.release() now raises a RuntimeError when attempting
1116 to release an unacquired lock, as claimed in the threading documentation.
Antoine Pitrou8d0f2572011-02-28 22:06:48 +00001117 The _thread.error exception is now an alias of RuntimeError. Patch by
Antoine Pitrou819c40f2011-03-01 23:05:42 +00001118 Filip Gruszczyński. Patch for _dummy_thread by Aymeric Augustin.
Antoine Pitroufcf81fd2011-02-28 22:03:34 +00001119
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001120- Issue #8594: ftplib now provides a source_address parameter to specify which
Giampaolo Rodolà396ff062011-02-28 19:19:51 +00001121 (address, port) to bind to before connecting.
1122
Antoine Pitroue93bf7a2011-02-26 23:24:06 +00001123- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1124 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1125
Raymond Hettinger9fe1ccf2011-02-26 01:02:51 +00001126- Issue #11297: Add collections.ChainMap().
1127
Antoine Pitrou8250e232011-02-25 23:41:16 +00001128- Issue #10755: Add the posix.fdlistdir() function. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1129
Antoine Pitrouf65132d2011-02-25 23:25:17 +00001130- Issue #4761: Add the *at() family of functions (openat(), etc.) to the posix
1131 module. Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1132
Antoine Pitrou68e5c042011-02-25 23:07:44 +00001133- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
1134 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
1135
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001136- Issue #11291: poplib.POP no longer suppresses errors on quit().
Giampaolo Rodolà95bcb932011-02-25 22:28:24 +00001137
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001138- Issue #11177: asyncore's create_socket() arguments can now be omitted.
Giampaolo Rodolà103a6d62011-02-25 22:21:22 +00001139
Antoine Pitrou0bd4deb2011-02-25 22:07:43 +00001140- Issue #6064: Add a ``daemon`` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
1141 and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
1142 default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
1143 thread/process.
1144
Antoine Pitrou707ce822011-02-25 21:24:11 +00001145- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1146 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1147
Giampaolo Rodolà7e1b9af2011-02-25 21:00:10 +00001148- Issue #10784: New os.getpriority() and os.setpriority() functions.
1149
Antoine Pitrou211b81d2011-02-25 20:27:33 +00001150- Issue #11114: Fix catastrophic performance of tell() on text files (up
1151 to 1000x faster in some cases). It is still one to two order of magnitudes
1152 slower than binary tell().
1153
Éric Araujob2772412011-03-21 03:18:58 +01001154- Issue #10882: Add os.sendfile function.
Giampaolo Rodolàc9c2c8b2011-02-25 14:39:16 +00001155
Éric Araujo6c3787c2011-02-24 18:03:10 +00001156- Issue #10868: Allow usage of the register method of an ABC as a class
1157 decorator.
1158
Lars Gustäbeldd071042011-02-23 11:42:22 +00001159- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
1160 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
1161 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
1162
Sean Reifscheidere2dfefb2011-02-22 10:55:44 +00001163- Issue #10924: Adding salt and Modular Crypt Format to crypt library.
1164 Moved old C wrapper to _crypt, and added a Python wrapper with
1165 enhanced salt generation and simpler API for password generation.
1166
Brett Cannonf3042782011-02-22 03:25:12 +00001167- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
1168
Raymond Hettinger158c9c22011-02-22 00:41:50 +00001169- Issue #11085: Moved collections abstract base classes into a separate
1170 module called collections.abc, following the pattern used by importlib.abc.
1171 For backwards compatibility, the names are imported into the collections
1172 module.
1173
Antoine Pitrouecc26922011-02-21 23:41:12 +00001174- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1175 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1176 32-bit Windows.
1177
Victor Stinner441cc012011-02-21 20:58:02 +00001178- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
1179 escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
1180
Raymond Hettingerddb52402011-02-21 19:42:11 +00001181- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinnerfd34b372011-02-21 20:51:28 +00001182 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingerddb52402011-02-21 19:42:11 +00001183
Antoine Pitrou54f0f842011-02-21 18:03:13 +00001184- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
1185 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1186
Eli Bendersky9479d1a2011-03-04 05:34:58 +00001187- Issue #11388: Added a clear() method to MutableSequence
1188
Steven Bethard0331e902011-03-26 14:48:04 +01001189- Issue #11174: Add argparse.MetavarTypeHelpFormatter, which uses type names
1190 for the names of optional and positional arguments in help messages.
1191
Steven Bethard006ba5c2011-03-26 18:29:48 +01001192- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1193
Steven Bethardd8f2d502011-03-26 19:50:06 +01001194- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1195
Steven Bethardd186f992011-03-26 21:49:00 +01001196- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1197 their children.
1198
Steven Bethard8a6a1982011-03-27 13:53:53 +02001199- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1200
Steven Bethard7cb20a82011-04-04 01:53:02 +02001201- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1202
Sandro Tosid902a142011-08-22 23:28:27 +02001203- Issue #12191: Added shutil.chown() to change user and/or group owner of a
1204 given path also specifying their names.
1205
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001206Build
1207-----
1208
Antoine Pitrou37009202011-07-08 23:47:50 +02001209- Issue #11863: Remove support for legacy systems deprecated in Python 3.2
1210 (following PEP 11). These systems are systems using Mach C Threads,
1211 SunOS lightweight processes, GNU pth threads and IRIX threads.
1212
Ned Deily8b56c4b2011-06-28 00:13:01 -07001213- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1214 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1215 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1216 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1217
Éric Araujof5949b52011-06-09 14:10:07 +02001218- Issue #10645: Installing Python does no longer create a
1219 Python-X.Y.Z-pyX.Y.egg-info file in the lib-dynload directory.
1220
Brett Cannonc5011fe2011-06-06 20:09:10 -07001221- Do not accidentally include the directory containing sqlite.h twice when
1222 building sqlite3.
1223
Ned Deilye4eed062011-05-28 06:04:02 -07001224- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1225 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1226 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1227
Martin v. Löwis8ffaa102011-05-09 07:42:28 +02001228- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
Martin v. Löwis48e14d32011-05-09 07:37:45 +02001229
Thomas Wouters6b103432011-03-06 11:51:24 -08001230- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1231
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001232- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1233 package had previously been installed.
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001234
Jesus Cea736e7fc2011-03-14 17:36:54 +01001235- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001236
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +00001237
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -07001238IDLE
1239----
1240
1241- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1242 file in a package.
Jesus Cea736e7fc2011-03-14 17:36:54 +01001243
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001244Tools/Demos
1245-----------
1246
Victor Stinnere670c882011-05-13 17:40:15 +02001247- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
1248 add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
1249
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +01001250- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
1251
Jason R. Coombs1322bd42011-07-26 11:57:08 -04001252- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1253 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
Jason R. Coombs76eec3d2011-07-26 11:38:04 -04001254 "--newline" option added to specify new line character.
Jason R. Coombs1322bd42011-07-26 11:57:08 -04001255
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001256Extension Modules
1257-----------------
1258
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9b20e272011-09-02 20:43:59 +02001259- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
1260 a string.
1261
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdd2f8b02011-08-30 22:07:20 +02001262- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
1263
1264- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
1265 some functions like file.write().
1266
Barry Warsaw2ebada42011-07-19 19:23:56 -04001267- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1268 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1269 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1270
Benjamin Peterson9e3e1c62011-05-31 19:07:45 -05001271- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
1272
Ezio Melotti13672652011-05-11 01:02:56 +03001273- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1274 objects using the C accelerations.
1275
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +03001276- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1277 objects using the C accelerations.
Benjamin Peterson1a07f072011-03-26 18:17:05 -05001278
1279- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1280 to an instance of the class.
1281
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001282Tests
Ned Deily5eaee2e2011-02-21 20:44:27 +00001283-----
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001284
Charles-François Natalie78cbec2011-08-24 23:24:05 +02001285- Issue #12656: Add tests for IPv6 and Unix sockets to test_asyncore.
1286
Nick Coghlan029ba2b2011-08-22 16:05:44 +10001287- Issue #6484: Add unit tests for mailcap module (patch by Gregory Nofi)
1288
Nadeem Vawda3c01d162011-08-01 23:48:26 +02001289- Issue #11651: Improve the Makefile test targets to run more of the test suite
1290 more quickly. The --multiprocess option is now enabled by default, reducing
1291 the amount of time needed to run the tests. "make test" and "make quicktest"
1292 now include some resource-intensive tests, but no longer run the test suite
1293 twice to check for bugs in .pyc generation. Tools/scripts/run_test.py provides
1294 as an easy platform-independent way to run test suite with sensible defaults.
1295
Éric Araujob85b9662011-07-31 20:47:47 +02001296- Issue #12331: The test suite for the packaging module can now run from an
1297 installed Python.
1298
Éric Araujoad548b82011-07-31 18:33:00 +02001299- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1300 Python.
1301
Antoine Pitrouf83e4ac2011-07-29 23:57:10 +02001302- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
1303 with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
1304 using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
1305 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
1306
Antoine Pitrou8dbd8572011-07-23 22:37:52 +02001307- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
1308 running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
1309 (or ``-G``) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
1310 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
1311
Ned Deilydac7de32011-07-19 16:18:11 -07001312- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
1313 (Patch by Robert Xiao)
1314
Antoine Pitrou428bc6c2011-07-15 22:15:38 +02001315- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
1316
Ned Deily07b35372011-07-13 15:09:49 -07001317- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1318 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1319
Antoine Pitrou13d7db12011-07-09 02:32:36 +02001320- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1321 failure in name resolution.
1322
Antoine Pitrou4a183b42011-07-08 19:44:55 +02001323- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1324 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1325 Web site.
1326
Antoine Pitrou88fcf1b2011-07-08 19:22:31 +02001327- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1328 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1329 is now skipped instead.
1330
Antoine Pitrou7128f952011-07-08 18:49:07 +02001331- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
1332 reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
1333 rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
1334
Brian Curtin6a4ffd72011-07-05 19:14:16 -05001335- Issue #11512: Add a test suite for the cgitb module. Patch by Robbie Clemons.
1336
Ned Deily368ff102011-07-04 19:11:14 -07001337- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
1338 tests.
1339
1340- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
Ned Deily4bd3e5d2011-07-04 17:51:48 -07001341 testcase failure in test_ssl.
1342
Victor Stinnerd554cdf2011-07-04 17:49:40 +02001343- Issue #12469: Run wakeup and pending signal tests in a subprocess to run the
1344 test in a fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal
1345 handling of the parent process.
1346
Ned Deilyefa384a2011-07-03 22:27:16 -07001347- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1348 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1349 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1350
Antoine Pitrou61600cb2011-06-30 20:04:06 +02001351- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
1352
Victor Stinnere2185d72011-06-29 13:04:35 +02001353- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
1354 the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
1355 error twice anymore if there is only one error.
1356
Ned Deily4a1ec122011-06-28 00:53:54 -07001357- Issue #12141: Install copies of template C module file so that
1358 test_build_ext of test_distutils and test_command_build_ext of
1359 test_packaging are no longer silently skipped when
1360 run outside of a build directory.
1361
Ned Deily8b56c4b2011-06-28 00:13:01 -07001362- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1363 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1364
Ned Deilyf6837aa2011-06-27 23:18:45 -07001365- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1366 2.8 + on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1367
Victor Stinner1eb6d272011-05-31 00:03:07 +02001368- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1369 iso2022_kr).
1370
Éric Araujo08ae8bb2011-05-26 17:06:47 +02001371- Issue #12180: Fixed a few remaining errors in test_packaging when no
1372 threading.
1373
1374- Issue #12120, #12119: skip a test in packaging and distutils
1375 if sys.dont_write_bytecode is set to True.
1376
Victor Stinner5f3b1c42011-05-18 00:20:18 +02001377- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
1378 written by Charles-François Natali.
1379
Victor Stinner118ed712011-05-16 16:35:35 +02001380- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
1381 Andreas Stührk.
1382
Ezio Melotti6b60fb92011-05-14 06:47:51 +03001383- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1384
Antoine Pitrou606c3f52011-05-09 21:17:02 +02001385- Issue #12041: Make test_wait3 more robust.
1386
R David Murray66a18fd2011-05-05 11:52:44 -04001387- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
1388 when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
1389
Victor Stinnerc90e19d2011-05-01 01:23:03 +02001390- Issue #11958: Fix FTP tests for IPv6, bind to "::1" instead of "localhost".
1391 Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1392
Victor Stinnera9293352011-04-30 15:21:58 +02001393- Issue #8407, #11859: Fix tests of test_io using threads and an alarm: use
1394 pthread_sigmask() to ensure that the SIGALRM signal is received by the main
1395 thread.
1396
Antoine Pitrou9c39f3c2011-04-28 19:18:10 +02001397- Issue #11811: Factor out detection of IPv6 support on the current host
1398 and make it available as ``test.support.IPV6_ENABLED``. Patch by
1399 Charles-François Natali.
1400
Antoine Pitrou72562d02011-04-25 21:22:04 +02001401- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
1402
Victor Stinner754851f2011-04-19 23:58:51 +02001403- Issue #11223: Skip test_lock_acquire_interruption() and
1404 test_rlock_acquire_interruption() of test_threadsignals if a thread lock is
1405 implemented using a POSIX mutex and a POSIX condition variable. A POSIX
1406 condition variable cannot be interrupted by a signal (e.g. on Linux, the
1407 futex system call is restarted).
1408
Antoine Pitrouf25a8de2011-04-16 21:02:01 +02001409- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
1410
Antoine Pitrouee429342011-04-16 18:53:59 +02001411- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
1412
Ross Lagerwall226580e2011-04-09 20:05:04 +02001413- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1414 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1415
Victor Stinnerd7edf3b2011-04-03 23:46:42 +02001416- Issue #11727: Add a --timeout option to regrtest: if a test takes more than
1417 TIMEOUT seconds, dumps the traceback of all threads and exits.
Victor Stinner0cc8d592011-03-31 18:10:13 +02001418
Antoine Pitroue44b1252011-03-23 23:02:31 +01001419- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
1420
R David Murray9aaba782011-03-21 17:17:06 -04001421- The email test suite now lives in the Lib/test/test_email package. The test
1422 harness code has also been modernized to allow use of new unittest features.
1423
1424- regrtest now discovers test packages as well as test modules.
1425
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -04001426- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
1427
Nick Coghlan49cb9592011-03-16 20:23:58 -04001428- New test_crashers added to exercise the scripts in the Lib/test/crashers
1429 directory and confirm they fail as expected
1430
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001431- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
R David Murraya88da672011-03-16 17:32:27 -04001432
Michael Foord07926f02011-03-16 17:19:16 -04001433- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
1434
Nick Coghlan62ecb6a2011-05-31 19:40:11 +10001435- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py, increases granularity of
1436 string.Formatter tests. Initial patch by Alicia Arlen.
Nick Coghlan7462fa62011-03-16 14:30:45 -04001437
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -04001438- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
1439 Evan Dandrea.
1440
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -04001441- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
1442
Nick Coghlan252183e2011-03-16 14:37:06 -04001443- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
1444 Arlen
Nick Coghland25fd4d2011-03-15 08:54:37 +10001445
R David Murray384069c2011-03-13 22:26:53 -04001446- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1447 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1448
Antoine Pitroud3cccd22011-03-13 19:14:21 +01001449- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
1450 non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
1451
Victor Stinner096f1a82011-03-01 23:08:36 +00001452- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
1453 Pierre Quentel.
1454
Antoine Pitroud20a5f62011-02-26 15:58:05 +00001455- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
1456 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1457
Brett Cannoneeb114b2011-02-22 03:14:12 +00001458- Issue #10512: Properly close sockets under test.test_cgi.
1459
Brett Cannon7a540732011-02-22 03:04:06 +00001460- Issue #10992: Make tests pass under coverage.
1461
Antoine Pitrouce58dc72011-02-21 21:55:48 +00001462- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
1463 to open door files.
1464
Brett Cannon31f59292011-02-21 19:29:56 +00001465- Issue #10990: Prevent tests from clobbering a set trace function.
1466
Benjamin Peterson485119e2011-03-15 15:07:20 -05001467C-API
1468-----
1469
Ezio Melotti8c9375b2011-08-22 20:03:25 +03001470- Issue #10542: Add 4 macros to work with surrogates: Py_UNICODE_IS_SURROGATE,
1471 Py_UNICODE_IS_HIGH_SURROGATE, Py_UNICODE_IS_LOW_SURROGATE,
1472 Py_UNICODE_JOIN_SURROGATES.
1473
Brian Curtin0275fc12011-08-10 20:32:10 -05001474- Issue #12724: Add Py_RETURN_NOTIMPLEMENTED macro for returning NotImplemented.
1475
Benjamin Peterson8a021002011-05-25 09:27:43 -05001476- PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION has been removed, since it's meaningless with
1477 Mercurial.
Benjamin Peterson485119e2011-03-15 15:07:20 -05001478
Benjamin Peterson04778a82011-05-25 09:29:00 -05001479- Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const
Benjamin Petersonc556e102011-05-26 17:49:57 -05001480 char *` instead of `char *`.
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001481
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +03001482- Issue #12380: PyArg_ParseTuple now accepts a bytearray for the 'c' format.
1483
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +02001484Documentation
1485-------------
1486
1487- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
1488
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001489
1490What's New in Python 3.2?
1491=========================
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +00001492
1493*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001494
1495Core and Builtins
1496-----------------
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +00001497
1498- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +00001499
1500Build
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001501-----
1502
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +00001503- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
1504
1505- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1506
1507- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001508
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001509Documentation
1510-------------
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001511
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001512- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001513
1514
1515What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
1516=============================================
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +00001517
1518*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +00001519
1520Core and Builtins
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001521-----------------
1522
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +00001523- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +00001524
1525- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001526
1527- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
1528 ABI.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001529
1530- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +00001531
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001532Library
1533-------
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +00001534
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +00001535- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
1536 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001537
1538- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +00001539 compileall.compile_dir().
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001540
1541- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
1542
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001543- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
1544 by Stan Mihai.
1545
1546Build
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +00001547-----
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001548
1549- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001550 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
1551 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
1552 framework under share/doc.
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001553
1554- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001555
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001556Tests
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001557-----
1558
1559- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +00001560 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001561
1562
1563What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
1564=============================================
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +00001565
1566*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
1567
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001568Core and Builtins
1569-----------------
1570
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +00001571- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1572 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1573
1574Library
1575-------
1576
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +00001577- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
1578 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
1579 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
1580 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +00001581 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
1582
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +00001583- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
1584 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
1585 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +00001586
1587- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
1588
1589- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +00001590 commands.
1591
1592- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
1593 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +00001594 obscured.
1595
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +00001596- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1597 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1598 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +00001599
1600- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
1601
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +00001602- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
1603 conversion.
1604
1605- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +00001606 with a None body.
1607
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +00001608- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
1609 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
1610 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +00001611
1612- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1613
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +00001614- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
1615 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +00001616
1617- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +00001618 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001619
1620- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +00001621
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001622- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001623
1624- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +00001625 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
1626 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
1627 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +00001628
1629- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1630
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +00001631- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1632 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1633
1634- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +00001635 a symbol named FSTAT.
1636
1637- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
1638 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
1639 of HTTP 1.1.
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +00001640
1641- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001642 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +00001643 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
1644 both incoming and outgoing direction.
1645
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +00001646- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1647 argparse.FileType.
1648
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +00001649- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
1650 during request handling.
1651
1652- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1653 argparse.
1654
1655Build
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001656-----
1657
1658- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +00001659 the system-provided Python.
1660
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001661
1662What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
1663============================================
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001664
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001665*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001666
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +00001667Core and Builtins
1668-----------------
1669
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001670- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001671 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
1672
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001673- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001674 class.
1675
1676- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +00001677 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +00001678 by Matt Bandy.
1679
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +00001680- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
1681 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
1682 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
1683
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +00001684- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
1685
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +00001686- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +00001687 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1688 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1689
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001690- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +02001691 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001692
1693- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +00001694 can now handle dates after 2038.
1695
1696- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +00001697 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
1698 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001699
1700- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
1701 encoding instead of UTF-8.
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +00001702
1703- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
1704
Benjamin Peterson62f8bcb2011-04-12 18:34:30 -05001705- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a
1706 SyntaxError.
1707
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001708Library
1709-------
1710
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001711- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
1712 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
1713 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +00001714
Ronald Oussoren6edd8c12011-05-17 13:03:54 +02001715- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1716 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1717
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001718- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1719 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1720 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +00001721
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001722- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
1723 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +00001724 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
1725 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001726
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001727- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +00001728
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001729- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
1730 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +00001731
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +00001732- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1733
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +00001734- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
1735 if available.
1736
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001737- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
1738 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +00001739
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001740- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001741 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
1742 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
1743 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
1744 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001745
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +00001746- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
1747 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
1748
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +00001749- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1750 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1751
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001752- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001753 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a BytesParser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001754 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001755
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001756- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding whitespace when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001757 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
1758 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
1759 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +00001760
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +00001761- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
1762 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
1763 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
1764 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
1765 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
1766 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +00001767
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +00001768- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1769 on an existing file.
1770
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +00001771- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1772 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1773
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +00001774- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
1775 compilation (if the input is a string).
1776
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001777- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +00001778 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001779
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +00001780- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
1781 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +00001782
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +00001783- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
1784 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
1785
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +00001786- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
1787 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
1788
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +00001789- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
1790 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
1791 2^32-1 bytes).
1792
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001793- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
1794 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +00001795
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001796- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
1797 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
1798 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +00001799
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +00001800- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
1801 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
1802
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +00001803- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
1804 few POSIX semaphores.
1805
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +00001806- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
1807 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
1808
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001809- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
1810 filenames.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +00001811
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +00001812- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
1813 David Daniels.
1814
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001815- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
1816 define __missing__().
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001817
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001818- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
1819 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
1820 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001821
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001822- Issue #10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
1823 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's request_uri
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001824 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
1825 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +00001826
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001827- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +00001828
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001829- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +00001830 browsers actually parse cookies.
1831
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001832- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
1833 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
1834 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +00001835
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +00001836- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +00001837
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001838- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
1839
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +00001840- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
1841
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +00001842- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
1843 ElementTree register_namespace().
1844
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +00001845- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
1846
1847- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
1848
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +00001849- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1850 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1851 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1852
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +00001853- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
1854 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
1855
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +00001856- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
1857 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
1858
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +00001859- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
1860
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +00001861- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
1862 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
1863
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +00001864- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
1865 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
1866
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +00001867- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1868
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +00001869- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001870
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001871C-API
1872-----
1873
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +00001874- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
1875 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
1876
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001877- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
1878 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001879
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001880Build
1881-----
1882
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001883- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
1884 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
1885 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +00001886
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +00001887- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
1888 scripts (#10679).
1889
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +00001890- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1891 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1892
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +00001893- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1894 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1895
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001896- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
1897 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
1898
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +00001899- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1900 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1901 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1902 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1903
Ronald Oussoren25032492011-03-14 10:11:59 -04001904- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1905 using GCC 4.0.
1906
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001907Tools/Demos
1908-----------
1909
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001910- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
1911 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
1912 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +00001913
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001914- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
1915 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
1916 Tools/demo subdirectory.
1917
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001918- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001919 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
1920 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001921
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001922Tests
1923-----
1924
Ezio Melotti8269a442011-05-09 07:15:04 +03001925- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1926
Nadeem Vawda58de6ee2011-04-19 01:38:47 +02001927- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1928
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +00001929- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1930 by Ross Lagerwall.
1931
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +00001932- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
1933
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +00001934- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
1935 Björn Lindqvist.
1936
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +00001937- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
1938 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
1939
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001940- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
1941 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
1942 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001943
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001944
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001945What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
1946================================
1947
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +00001948*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001949
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001950Core and Builtins
1951-----------------
1952
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +00001953- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
1954 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
1955
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001956- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
1957 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1958 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001959
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +00001960- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
1961 Daniel Urban.
1962
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001963Library
1964-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001965
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +00001966- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
1967 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
1968
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00001969- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
1970
1971- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
1972 up function.
1973
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +00001974- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
1975 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
1976
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +00001977- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
1978 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
1979
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +00001980- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
1981 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1982
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +00001983- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1984
1985- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +00001986 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1987
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +00001988- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1989 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1990
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001991- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
1992 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
1993
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +00001994- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1995 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001996
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +00001997- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1998 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1999
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +00002000- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
2001
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +00002002- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
2003
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +00002004- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
2005 causes debug mode to fail.
2006
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +00002007- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
2008 that contain non-ascii values.
2009
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00002010- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +00002011 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
2012 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
2013 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
2014 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
2015
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00002016- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
2017
2018- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +00002019 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
2020 error handles are provided.
2021
2022- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
2023 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
2024 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00002025
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +00002026- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
2027 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
2028 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
2029
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00002030Tests
2031-----
2032
2033- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
2034 encountering them.
2035
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00002036Tools/Demos
2037-----------
2038
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +00002039- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
2040 Cocoa AquaTk.
2041
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +00002042- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
2043
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00002044- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
2045 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
2046
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00002047Build
2048-----
2049
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +00002050- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00002051
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +00002052- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
2053
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00002054
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002055What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
2056================================
2057
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002058*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002059
2060Core and Builtins
2061-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002062
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +00002063- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
2064 methods.
2065
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002066- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
2067 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +00002068
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002069- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
2070 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +00002071
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00002072- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
2073
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002074- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
2075 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +00002076
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +00002077- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
2078
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002079- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002080
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +00002081- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
2082
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002083- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
2084 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +00002085
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00002086- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
2087
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002088- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
2089 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
2090 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +00002091
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002092- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +00002093
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +00002094- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
2095 masking all errors.
2096
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002097Library
2098-------
2099
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +00002100- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
2101
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +00002102- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
2103 assertions about logging.
2104
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +00002105- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
2106
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +00002107- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
2108 UnicodeEncodeError.
2109
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +00002110- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
2111
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002112- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
2113 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +00002114
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +00002115- Add the "interact" pdb command.
2116
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +00002117- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
2118
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +00002119- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
2120
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00002121- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
2122 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
2123
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +00002124- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2125 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2126 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2127
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +00002128- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
2129
2130- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +00002131 names for running specific tests.
2132
2133- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
2134 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
2135 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
2136
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +00002137- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
2138 SSLError on socket timeouts.
2139
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +00002140- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
2141 messages from argparse.
2142
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +00002143- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
2144
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +00002145- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2146 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2147 current process.
2148
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +00002149- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
2150
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +00002151- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2152
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +00002153- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
2154 Adam.
2155
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002156- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
2157 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +00002158
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +00002159- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2160
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002161- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
2162 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +00002163
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002164- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
2165 subprocess.
2166
2167- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
2168 module.
2169
2170- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
2171 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
2172
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002173- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
2174 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002175
2176- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
2177
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002178- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002179 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002180
2181- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
2182 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +00002183
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +00002184- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
2185
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +00002186- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
2187 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
2188
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002189- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
2190 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
2191 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +00002192
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002193- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
2194 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +00002195
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +00002196- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2197
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +00002198- Added itertools.accumulate().
2199
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +00002200- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
2201 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
2202
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +00002203- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
2204 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
2205
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +00002206- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
2207
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002208- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
2209 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +00002210
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002211- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
2212 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +00002213
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002214- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
2215 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
2216 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +00002217
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002218- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
2219 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +00002220
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002221- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
2222 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +00002223
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +00002224- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2225
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002226- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
2227 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +00002228 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
2229
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00002230- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
2231 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +00002232
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +00002233- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
2234
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +00002235- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
2236
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +00002237- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +00002238 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2239
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +00002240- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2241 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2242
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +00002243- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
2244 when no extra arguments have been provided.
2245
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +00002246- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
2247 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
2248 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
2249
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002250- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
2251 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +00002252
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +00002253- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
2254 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
2255
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002256- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
2257 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +00002258
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +00002259- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
2260
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +00002261- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +00002262
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +00002263- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2264 end of the file.
2265
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002266- configparser: 100% test coverage.
2267
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002268- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
2269 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +00002270 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
2271 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
2272
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002273- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
2274 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
2275 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00002276
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00002277- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
2278 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
2279
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002280- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
2281
2282- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
2283
2284- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
2285
2286- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
2287 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
2288
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00002289- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
2290 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
2291 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002292
2293- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
2294 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
2295 values, and indentation.
2296
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002297- Issue #10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +00002298
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002299- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +00002300
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002301- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
2302 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
2303 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +00002304
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +00002305- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
2306
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +00002307- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
2308 version-specific online reference manual.
2309
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +00002310- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
2311
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +00002312- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
2313
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +00002314- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
2315 Patch by Robert Collins.
2316
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002317- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
2318 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +00002319
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002320C-API
2321-----
2322
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002323- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002324 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
2325 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00002326
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002327- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
2328 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002329 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
2330 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00002331
2332- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
2333 Schemenauer.
2334
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +00002335- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
2336
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00002337- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
2338
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002339Tests
2340-----
2341
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002342- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002343 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +00002344
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00002345- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
2346 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +00002347
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00002348- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
2349 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +00002350
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00002351- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
2352 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00002353
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +00002354Build
2355-----
2356
2357- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
2358 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
2359
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00002360Documentation
2361-------------
2362
2363- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2364
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00002365
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +00002366What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
2367=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002368
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +00002369*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002370
2371Core and Builtins
2372-----------------
2373
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +00002374- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
2375 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
2376
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002377- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
2378 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +00002379 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
2380
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002381- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +00002382
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +00002383- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
2384
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +00002385- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2386 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2387
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002388- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +00002389 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
2390
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +00002391- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
2392 of the offending line.
2393
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002394- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
2395 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +00002396
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002397- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
2398 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002399 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002400 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00002401 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
2402
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002403- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
2404 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002405 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
2406
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +00002407- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2408 resolution.
2409
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002410- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
2411 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +00002412
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +00002413- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
2414 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
2415
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002416- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +00002417 descriptor.
2418
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00002419- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
2420 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
2421
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00002422- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
2423
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002424Library
2425-------
2426
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00002427- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
2428
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00002429- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
2430
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00002431- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
2432
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00002433- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2434
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002435- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
2436 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00002437
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002438- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
2439 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00002440
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002441- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
2442 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00002443
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002444- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00002445 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00002446
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002447- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
2448 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00002449
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00002450- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
2451
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002452- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002453 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
2454 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002455 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
2456
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002457- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
2458 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
2459 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
2460 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00002461
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002462- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
2463 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00002464
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00002465- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
2466
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002467- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
2468 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00002469
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00002470- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
2471 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
2472
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002473- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
2474 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00002475
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002476- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
2477 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
2478 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
2479 ASCII.
2480
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002481- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00002482 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00002483 Belopolsky.
2484
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002485- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2486 --enable-shared.
2487
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00002488- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2489 Arfrever.
2490
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00002491- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2492
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00002493- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2494 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2495
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00002496- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
2497 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
2498
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002499- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
2500 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00002501
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00002502- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
2503
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00002504- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
2505
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002506- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
2507 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00002508
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00002509- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
2510 response, instead of raising an exception.
2511
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002512- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
2513 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002514 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
2515 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
2516 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002517
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002518- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
2519 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00002520
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00002521- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
2522
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002523- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
2524 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00002525
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00002526- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2527
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002528- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
2529 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00002530
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002531- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
2532 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00002533
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00002534- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
2535
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00002536- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2537
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002538- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
2539 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00002540
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002541- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
2542 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00002543
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002544- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
2545 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00002546
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00002547- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2548 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2549
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002550- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
2551 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00002552
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00002553- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
2554
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00002555- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
2556
2557- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
2558
2559- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
2560
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002561- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
2562 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00002563
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002564- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002565 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
2566 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002567
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002568- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
2569 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00002570
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00002571- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
2572
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002573- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
2574 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00002575
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00002576- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2577 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2578 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2579
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00002580- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
2581
2582- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00002583
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00002584- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2585
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002586- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
2587 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00002588
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00002589- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
2590 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
2591
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002592- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
2593 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
2594 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00002595
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00002596- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
2597
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002598- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00002599
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00002600- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
2601
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00002602- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
2603
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00002604- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
2605
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00002606- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2607
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00002608- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
2609 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
2610
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002611- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
2612 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
2613 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00002614
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00002615- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
2616 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
2617
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00002618- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
2619 switch to python-config for command line access.
2620
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00002621- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2622
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00002623- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2624 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2625
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002626- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002627 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002628
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00002629- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00002630 debugging in doctests.
2631
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002632- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
2633 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00002634
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002635- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
2636 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00002637
2638- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002639 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002640 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
2641 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002642
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00002643- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2644 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2645 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2646
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002647- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
2648 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
2649 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00002650
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002651- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002652 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
2653 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002654
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00002655- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2656 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2657
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002658- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00002659
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00002660- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
2661
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002662- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2663
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002664Extension Modules
2665-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002666
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00002667- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
2668 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
2669
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00002670- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
2671
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00002672- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
2673
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00002674- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
2675
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00002676- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
2677
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00002678- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
2679
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00002680- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2681
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002682- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
2683 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00002684
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002685- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
2686 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
2687 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00002688
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00002689- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
2690
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002691C-API
2692-----
2693
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002694- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002695 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002696
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002697- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
2698 type has been introduced.
2699
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002700Tools/Demos
2701-----------
2702
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002703- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
2704 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
2705 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00002706
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002707- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2708
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002709Tests
2710-----
2711
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002712- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
2713 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00002714
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00002715- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
2716
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002717- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
2718 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002719
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002720Build
2721-----
2722
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00002723- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
2724
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00002725- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2726
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00002727- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
2728
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002729- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
2730
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00002731- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
2732
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002733- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
2734 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00002735
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002736
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002737What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
2738=================================
2739
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00002740*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002741
2742Core and Builtins
2743-----------------
2744
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00002745- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2746 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2747
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002748- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002749 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002750
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002751- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
2752 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
2753 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00002754
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00002755- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
2756 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
2757
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00002758- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
2759
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002760- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002761 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
2762 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002763
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002764- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002765 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002766
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00002767- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
2768
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00002769- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
2770 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
2771
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002772- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
2773 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00002774
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002775- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002776 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002777
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00002778- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
2779
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002780- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
2781 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
2782 Py_Initialize().
2783
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002784- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
2785 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00002786
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00002787- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
2788 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
2789
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002790- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002791 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00002792
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002793- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2794 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2795 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2796 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
2797 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
2798 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00002799
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00002800- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
2801 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
2802 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
2803
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00002804- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
2805 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
2806 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
2807
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002808- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
2809 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00002810
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00002811- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
2812 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
2813 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
2814
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002815- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
2816 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
2817 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
2818 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00002819
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00002820- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
2821 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
2822 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
2823
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00002824- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2825 thread-local storage key.
2826
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002827Library
2828-------
2829
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00002830- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2831
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002832- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2833
2834- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2835
2836- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2837 not in build_clib.
2838
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00002839- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2840
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00002841- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
2842 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
2843
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00002844- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
2845 verification for higher-level protocols.
2846
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00002847- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2848 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2849
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00002850- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2851 gettext.
2852
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00002853- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002854 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002855 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002856 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
2857 directly.
2858
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00002859- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2860 gname field.
2861
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002862- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
2863 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00002864
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00002865- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2866 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2867
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002868- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
2869 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00002870
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002871- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
2872 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00002873
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002874- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
2875 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
2876 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00002877
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00002878- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
2879
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002880- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002881 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
2882 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
2883 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002884
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00002885- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
2886
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002887- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002888 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
2889 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
2890 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002891
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002892- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2893
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002894- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2895
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00002896- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2897
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00002898- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
2899 in ntpath.
2900
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00002901- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2902
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002903- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
2904 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00002905
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00002906- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
2907 performance-critical threads.
2908
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00002909- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
2910
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002911- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
2912
2913- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
2914
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00002915- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
2916
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00002917- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
2918 object, only munmap().
2919
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002920- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
2921 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00002922
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00002923- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
2924 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
2925 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
2926
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00002927- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
2928
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002929- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002930 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
2931 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002932
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00002933- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
2934 another kind.
2935
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00002936- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
2937
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002938- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00002939
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002940- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
2941 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00002942
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002943- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
2944 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
2945 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00002946
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002947- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
2948 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00002949
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002950- Issue #9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002951 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00002952
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00002953- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
2954
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00002955- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00002956
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00002957- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2958 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2959
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002960- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
2961 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00002962
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002963- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002964 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
2965 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002966 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
2967 in the first place.
2968
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002969- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
2970 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002971 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002972
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002973- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
2974 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
2975 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
2976 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00002977
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002978- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
2979 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
2980 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00002981
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002982- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
2983 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00002984
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00002985- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
2986 multiprocessing.
2987
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002988- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
2989 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
2990 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00002991
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00002992- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
2993 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
2994 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
2995
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002996- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
2997 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
2998 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
2999 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00003000
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003001- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
3002 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
3003 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00003004
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00003005- Updates to the random module:
3006
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003007 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
3008 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00003009
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003010 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
3011 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
3012 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00003013
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003014 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
3015 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
3016 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00003017
3018 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00003019
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003020- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
3021 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00003022
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003023- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
3024 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
3025 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00003026
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003027- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
3028 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
3029 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00003030
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00003031- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
3032
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00003033- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003034 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
3035 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00003036
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00003037- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
3038 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
3039 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
3040 algorithms available in the current process.
3041
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00003042- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
3043
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00003044C-API
3045-----
3046
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00003047- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
3048
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00003049- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
3050 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
3051 defined.
3052
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00003053Tools/Demos
3054-----------
3055
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003056- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
3057 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
3058 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00003059
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00003060Tests
3061-----
3062
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00003063- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
3064 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
3065
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003066- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
3067 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00003068
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00003069- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
3070 in test_os)
3071
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00003072- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
3073 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
3074
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00003075- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
3076
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003077- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
3078 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00003079
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00003080- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
3081
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00003082- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
3083
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00003084- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
3085 case when running profile or trace, for example.
3086
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00003087- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
3088
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00003089Build
3090-----
3091
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00003092- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
3093
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003094- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
3095 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00003096
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00003097- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
3098
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00003099- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
3100
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00003101- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
3102
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003103- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
3104 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00003105
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003106- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
3107 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00003108
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00003109- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
3110 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
3111 defined by PEP 3149.
3112
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00003113- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
3114 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00003115
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00003116- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
3117 Sablé.
3118
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00003119- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
3120 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
3121 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
3122
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00003123
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003124What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
3125=================================
3126
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00003127*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003128
3129Core and Builtins
3130-----------------
3131
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003132- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
3133 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
3134 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00003135
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00003136- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
3137 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
3138
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003139- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
3140 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00003141
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003142- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
3143 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00003144
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003145- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
3146 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
3147 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00003148
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00003149- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
3150 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
3151
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003152- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
3153 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00003154
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00003155- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
3156
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00003157- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
3158
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003159- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
3160 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00003161
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003162- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
3163 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00003164
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00003165- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
3166 filesystem encoding.
3167
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00003168- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
3169 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
3170 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
3171 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
3172 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
3173
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00003174- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
3175 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
3176 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
3177 function.
3178
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00003179- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
3180
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00003181- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
3182
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003183- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
3184 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00003185
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003186- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
3187 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00003188 sys.stderr.
3189
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003190- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003191 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
3192 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00003193
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003194- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
3195 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
3196 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00003197
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003198- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
3199 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003200
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003201- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
3202 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00003203
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003204- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00003205
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003206- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
3207 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00003208
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003209- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
3210 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00003211
3212 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
3213 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
3214
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00003215Extension Modules
3216-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003217
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00003218- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
3219 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
3220 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
3221 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
3222 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
3223
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00003224- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
3225 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
3226
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00003227- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
3228 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3229
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003230- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
3231 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00003232
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003233- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
3234 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
3235 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00003236
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003237- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
3238 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
3239 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00003240
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003241- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
3242 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00003243
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00003244- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
3245 Matthew Ahrens.
3246
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003247- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
3248 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00003249
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003250- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
3251 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00003252
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00003253- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
3254
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003255- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
3256 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00003257
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003258- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
3259 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00003260
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00003261- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00003262
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00003263- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
3264
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003265- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
3266 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00003267
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003268- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
3269 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00003270
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003271- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
3272 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00003273
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003274- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
3275 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00003276
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00003277- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
3278
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003279- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
3280 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00003281
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00003282- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
3283 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
3284
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00003285- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
3286
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003287- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
3288 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00003289
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003290Library
3291-------
3292
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003293- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
3294 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
3295 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00003296
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003297- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
3298 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00003299
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003300- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00003301
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003302- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
3303 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00003304
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00003305- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
3306 ConfigParser.write.
3307
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003308- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
3309 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003310 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
3311 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00003312
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003313- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
3314 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00003315
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003316- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00003317 circumstances.
3318
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003319- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
3320 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00003321
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003322- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
3323 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00003324
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00003325- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
3326 falling into recursion.
3327
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00003328- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
3329 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
3330
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00003331- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
3332 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00003333
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003334- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
3335 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00003336
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003337- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003338 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
3339 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003340
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003341- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003342 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00003343
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00003344- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
3345
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003346- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00003347
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003348- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
3349 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00003350
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00003351- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
3352 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
3353
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00003354- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
3355
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003356- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
3357 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00003358
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003359- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
3360 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00003361
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003362- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
3363 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00003364 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
3365 structure.
3366
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00003367- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
3368 single keyword arguments.
3369
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003370- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
3371 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00003372
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003373- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
3374 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00003375
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003376- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003377 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003378
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003379- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
3380 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00003381
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00003382- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
3383
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003384- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
3385 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3386
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00003387- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
3388 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
3389
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003390- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003391 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
3392 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00003393
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003394- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
3395 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00003396
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003397- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
3398 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
3399 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00003400
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003401- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
3402 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
3403 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00003404
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003405- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
3406 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
3407 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
3408 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00003409
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003410- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003411 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
3412 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00003413
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00003414- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00003415 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
3416
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003417- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
3418 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00003419
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00003420- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
3421 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
3422
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003423- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
3424 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
3425 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00003426
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003427- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00003428 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
3429 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00003430
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003431- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
3432 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
3433 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00003434
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00003435- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
3436
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003437- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
3438 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00003439
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003440- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
3441 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00003442
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003443- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
3444 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
3445 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00003446
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003447- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
3448 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00003449
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003450- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
3451 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00003452
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003453- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
3454 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003455
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003456- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
3457 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00003458
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003459- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
3460 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00003461
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003462- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
3463 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00003464
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00003465- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
3466 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
3467
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00003468- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
3469 across devices.
3470
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00003471- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
3472
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00003473- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
3474
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00003475- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
3476
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00003477- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
3478
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00003479- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
3480 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00003481
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00003482- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
3483
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00003484- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
3485 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
3486
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003487- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
3488 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00003489
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003490- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
3491 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00003492
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00003493- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
3494
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00003495- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00003496
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003497Tools/Demos
3498-----------
3499
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00003500- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
3501
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00003502- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
3503 non-ASCII content.
3504
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003505Tests
3506-----
3507
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003508- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
3509
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00003510- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3511
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00003512- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3513
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00003514- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3515
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00003516- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3517 Michele Orrù.
3518
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003519- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
3520
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003521Build
3522-----
3523
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00003524- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
3525
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003526- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
3527
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003528- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
3529 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00003530
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00003531- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3532 Sébastien Sablé.
3533
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003534- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
3535
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003536
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003537What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
3538=================================
3539
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003540*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003541
3542Core and Builtins
3543-----------------
3544
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00003545- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
3546
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00003547- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
3548 compiler.
3549
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00003550- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
3551
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003552- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003553 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
3554 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
3555 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
3556 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
3557 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
3558 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003559
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003560- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
3561 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00003562
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00003563- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
3564
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00003565- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
3566 objects, as described in the documentation.
3567
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003568- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003569 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00003570 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003571
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003572- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
3573 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
3574 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00003575
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003576- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003577 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003578 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003579 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003580
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00003581- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
3582 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
3583
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003584- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003585 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003586 string formats.
3587
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003588- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00003589 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
3590 location of the raised exception.
3591
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00003592- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
3593 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
3594
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00003595- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3596
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003597- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
3598 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
3599 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00003600
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003601- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
3602 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
3603 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
3604 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00003605
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00003606- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
3607 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
3608 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
3609
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003610- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
3611 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003612
3613- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003614 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003615 like bytearray.
3616
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003617- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00003618 used anymore and it was never documented.
3619
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003620- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00003621
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003622- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
3623 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00003624
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003625- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
3626 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
3627 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
3628 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00003629
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003630- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3631 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003632 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
3633 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
3634 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
3635 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003636
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00003637- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
3638 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
3639
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003640- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003641 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003642 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003643
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003644- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
3645 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00003646
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003647- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
3648 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003649 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00003650 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003651
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003652- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003653 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003654
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003655- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003656 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003657 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
3658
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003659- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003660 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
3661 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003662
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00003663- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3664
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003665- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00003666
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003667- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
3668 arguments.
3669
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003670- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003671 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
3672 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003673
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003674- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003675 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003676
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003677- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
3678 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00003679
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003680- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003681 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
3682 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
3683 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003684
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00003685- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3686 passed to bytes or bytearray.
3687
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00003688- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3689
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00003690- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3691 changed.
3692
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003693- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
3694 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
3695 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00003696
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00003697- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3698
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00003699- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
3700
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00003701- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3702
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003703- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3704 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00003705
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003706- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003707 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003708
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003709- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00003710
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003711- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003712 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003713
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00003714- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
3715 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
3716 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
3717 comparisons with complex.
3718
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003719- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
3720 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003721 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003722
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00003723- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
3724
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003725- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3726 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00003727
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003728- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3729 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00003730
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00003731- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
3732
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003733- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
3734 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00003735
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003736- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003737 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003738
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003739- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3740 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00003741
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003742- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
3743 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00003744
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003745- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003746 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
3747 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003748
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003749- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
3750 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00003751
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003752- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3753 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00003754
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003755- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
3756 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
3757 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3758 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00003759
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003760- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
3761 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
3762 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00003763
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003764- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003765 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
3766 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
3767 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
3768 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
3769 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003770
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003771- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
3772 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
3773 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00003774
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003775- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3776 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
3777 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
3778 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
3779 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
3780 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00003781
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00003782- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
3783 consistent with other special methods.
3784
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00003785- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3786 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3787
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00003788- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3789 AttributeError.
3790
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003791- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3792 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00003793
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003794- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3795 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3796 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3797 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00003798
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003799- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
3800 executables on OSX.
3801
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003802 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3803 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3804 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003805
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003806- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3807 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00003808
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00003809- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
3810 with invalid values.
3811
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00003812- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
3813 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
3814
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003815- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3816 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00003817
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00003818- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3819
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00003820- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
3821 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
3822
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003823- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
3824 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
3825 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
3826 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
3827 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00003828
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003829- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
3830 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00003831
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00003832- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
3833 surrogates.
3834
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00003835- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
3836
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00003837- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3838
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00003839- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
3840 disabled since Python 3.0.
3841
3842- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
3843 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
3844 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
3845
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003846- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003847 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003848
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00003849- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
3850
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00003851- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
3852 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3853 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
3854
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00003855- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00003856 support.
3857
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003858- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3859 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003860
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003861- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3862 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3863 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00003864
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003865- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
3866 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00003867
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00003868- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3869 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3870 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3871 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3872
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003873- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3874 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00003875
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003876- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
3877 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00003878
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00003879- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
3880
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00003881- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
3882
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00003883- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
3884
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00003885- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3886
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003887- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
3888 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00003889
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00003890- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
3891
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00003892- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
3893
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00003894- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
3895 occurred in the argument chain.
3896
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003897- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3898 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00003899
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00003900- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3901
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003902- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
3903 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00003904
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00003905- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
3906
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003907- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3908 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3909 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00003910
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003911- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
3912 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00003913
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00003914- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3915
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003916- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
3917 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00003918
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003919- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
3920 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00003921
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003922- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
3923 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
3924 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00003925
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00003926- Code objects now support weak references.
3927
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003928- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003929
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003930- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003931 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
3932 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003933
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003934C-API
3935-----
3936
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00003937- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
3938 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
3939 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
3940
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00003941- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
3942 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
3943 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
3944
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003945- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
3946 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
3947 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00003948 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3949
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003950- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
3951 strings in an efficient manner.
3952
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003953- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003954 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3955 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003956
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003957- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
3958 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00003959
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00003960- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
3961 has '\0' at the end.
3962
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003963- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003964 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
3965 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
3966 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003967 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
3968
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003969- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00003970
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003971- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
3972 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00003973
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003974- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3975 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00003976
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003977- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
3978 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
3979 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00003980
3981- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00003982
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003983- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
3984
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00003985- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3986 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3987
3988- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3989 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3990
3991- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3992 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3993
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003994- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3995 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3996 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3997 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00003998
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003999Library
4000-------
4001
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004002- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
4003 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00004004
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004005- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
4006 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
4007 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00004008
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004009- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
4010 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004011
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004012- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
4013 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004014
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004015- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
4016 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00004017
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004018- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
4019 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00004020
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004021- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
4022 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00004023
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004024- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
4025 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00004026
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004027- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
4028 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00004029
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004030- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
4031 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00004032
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004033- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
4034 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00004035
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00004036- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
4037
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004038- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
4039 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
4040 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00004041
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004042- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
4043 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00004044
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004045- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00004046 entries, consider the first one.
4047
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00004048- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
4049 string.Template class.
4050
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004051- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
4052 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00004053
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004054- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
4055 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00004056
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00004057- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
4058
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00004059- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
4060
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004061- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
4062 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00004063
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00004064- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004065 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
4066 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00004067
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004068- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00004069
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004070- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
4071 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00004072 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
4073 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004074 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
4075 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00004076
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00004077- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
4078
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004079- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00004080 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
4081 XML-RPC request.
4082
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004083- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
4084 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
4085 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00004086
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004087- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
4088 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
4089 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
4090 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
4091 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
4092 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00004093
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004094- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00004095
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004096- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
4097 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00004098
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004099- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
4100 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00004101
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00004102- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
4103 parameters.
4104
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004105- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
4106 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00004107
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004108- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
4109 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00004110
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00004111- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
4112
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00004113- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
4114
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004115- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
4116 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00004117
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00004118- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
4119
4120- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00004121
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00004122- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
4123
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004124- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
4125 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
4126 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00004127
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004128- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
4129 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
4130 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00004131
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00004132- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
4133
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00004134- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
4135
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00004136- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
4137
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004138- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
4139 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
4140 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00004141
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00004142- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
4143 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
4144
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004145- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
4146 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004147
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004148- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
4149 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00004150
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00004151- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
4152 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
4153
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00004154- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00004155 raises an exception.
4156
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004157- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004158 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
4159 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00004160
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00004161- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
4162 for removal in Python 3.4.
4163
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004164- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
4165 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00004166
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004167- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
4168 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00004169
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004170- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
4171 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00004172
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004173- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
4174 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00004175 deallocation while the object is still being used.
4176
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004177- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004178 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00004179 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
4180
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004181- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00004182 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
4183
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004184- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
4185 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00004186
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004187- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
4188 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00004189
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00004190- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
4191
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004192- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
4193 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
4194
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004195- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
4196 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
4197 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
4198 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
4199 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00004200
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004201- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
4202 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00004203
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00004204- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00004205
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00004206- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
4207
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004208- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
4209 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00004210
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00004211- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
4212 mistake.
4213
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004214- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
4215 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004216 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00004217
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00004218- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
4219 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
4220
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004221- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
4222 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
4223 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00004224
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00004225- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
4226 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
4227
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00004228- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
4229
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004230- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
4231 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004232 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00004233
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004234- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
4235 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00004236
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004237- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004238 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00004239
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004240- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004241 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
4242 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00004243
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00004244- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
4245 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
4246 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00004247
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004248- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004249 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00004250
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00004251- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
4252 of files without one.
4253
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00004254- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
4255 comparing to a non-mapping.
4256
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004257- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004258 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00004259
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004260- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
4261 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
4262 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00004263
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00004264- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
4265
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00004266- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
4267 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
4268 stdout is not a TTY).
4269
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00004270- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
4271 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
4272 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
4273 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
4274
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00004275- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
4276 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
4277
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00004278- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
4279 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
4280
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00004281- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
4282
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00004283- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004284 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00004285
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00004286- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
4287
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004288- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
4289 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00004290
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004291- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
4292 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00004293
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00004294- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
4295 class.
4296
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00004297- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
4298 given.
4299
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00004300- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
4301 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
4302
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004303- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
4304 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00004305
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00004306- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
4307 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
4308 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
4309 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00004310
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004311- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
4312
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004313- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
4314 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
4315 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
4316 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00004317
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00004318- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
4319 Patch by Tres Seaver.
4320
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00004321- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004322 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00004323
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00004324- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
4325
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004326- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
4327 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00004328
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004329- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
4330 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
4331 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
4332 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
4333 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00004334
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004335- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004336 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
4337 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00004338
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00004339- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
4340 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
4341
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004342- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
4343 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00004344
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00004345- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00004346 webbrowser.get("safari").
4347
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004348- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
4349 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00004350
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004351- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
4352 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00004353
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00004354- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
4355
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00004356- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
4357 It should correctly return an empty response now.
4358
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00004359- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
4360
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00004361- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
4362 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
4363
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00004364- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
4365 and mappings.
4366
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004367- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
4368 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
4369 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
4370 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00004371
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004372- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
4373 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
4374 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00004375
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004376- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
4377 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
4378
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004379- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
4380 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00004381
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004382- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
4383 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00004384
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004385- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
4386 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004387 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00004388
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004389- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00004390
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004391- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
4392 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
4393 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00004394
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004395- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
4396 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00004397 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
4398 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
4399
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00004400- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
4401 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4402
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00004403- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
4404 collation name contains a surrogate character.
4405
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004406- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
4407 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
4408 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00004409
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00004410- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
4411
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004412- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00004413
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00004414- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
4415 from PORT/EPRT commands.
4416
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00004417- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
4418
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004419- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
4420 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00004421
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004422- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
4423 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00004424
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00004425- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
4426 surrogates.
4427
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004428- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00004429 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00004430
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00004431- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
4432 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
4433
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00004434- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
4435 the current working directory.
4436
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004437- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004438 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00004439
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004440- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00004441
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00004442- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
4443 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
4444
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00004445- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
4446
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004447- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004448 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004449 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00004450
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004451- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
4452 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004453 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00004454
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004455- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004456 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
4457 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00004458
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004459- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004460 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
4461 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00004462
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00004463- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
4464 present before it cleans them.
4465
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004466- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
4467 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00004468
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004469- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004470 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
4471 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00004472
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00004473- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
4474
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004475- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
4476 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00004477
4478 >>> Decimal(1.1)
4479 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
4480
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004481- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
4482 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00004483
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004484- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
4485 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
4486 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
4487 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004488
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004489- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
4490 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
4491 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
4492 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
4493 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00004494
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00004495- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
4496
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004497- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004498 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
4499 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
4500 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00004501
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004502- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
4503 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004504 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004505
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004506- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
4507 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
4508 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
4509 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00004510
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004511- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
4512 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
4513 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00004514
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00004515- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
4516 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
4517
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004518- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004519 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
4520 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004521
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004522- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
4523 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00004524
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00004525- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
4526 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
4527 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00004528
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00004529- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
4530 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
4531 (utf8) encoding.
4532
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00004533- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
4534
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00004535- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
4536
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00004537- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
4538
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00004539- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
4540 detected.
4541
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00004542- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
4543
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00004544- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
4545 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
4546
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004547- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00004548
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004549- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
4550 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00004551
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004552- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
4553 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
4554 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00004555
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004556- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
4557 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
4558 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
4559 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00004560
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00004561- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
4562 cElementTree module is updated too.
4563
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004564- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004565 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
4566 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004567
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00004568- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
4569
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004570- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
4571 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00004572
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00004573- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
4574 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4575
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00004576- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
4577 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00004578
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00004579- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
4580 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
4581
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00004582- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
4583 class.
4584
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00004585- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
4586 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
4587
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00004588- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
4589
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00004590- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
4591 writing.
4592
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00004593- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
4594
4595- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
4596
4597- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4598
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00004599- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
4600
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004601- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
4602 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00004603
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00004604- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
4605
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004606- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
4607 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00004608
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004609- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
4610 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00004611
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00004612- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
4613
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00004614- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
4615 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
4616
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00004617- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
4618 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
4619
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004620- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
4621 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
4622 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
4623 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00004624
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00004625- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4626 interpreter shutdown.
4627
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004628- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
4629 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
4630 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
4631 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00004632
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004633- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
4634 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
4635 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00004636
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004637- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
4638 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00004639
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004640- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
4641 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004642 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
4643 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004644
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004645- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
4646 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4647 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00004648 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4649
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004650- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004651 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
4652 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
4653 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
4654 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
4655 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004656
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004657- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004658 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4659 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004660
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00004661- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4662
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00004663- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00004664
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00004665- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
4666
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00004667- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
4668 the release file is empty.
4669
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00004670- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
4671 module.
4672
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004673- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
4674 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
4675 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00004676
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004677- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
4678 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00004679
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004680- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
4681 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00004682
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004683- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4684 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00004685
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004686- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4687 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00004688
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00004689- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
4690
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00004691- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
4692 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
4693 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
4694
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004695- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4696 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00004697
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004698- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
4699 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00004700
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004701- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4702 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00004703
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004704- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004705 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4706 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004707
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004708- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4709 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
4710 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00004711
4712- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00004713 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4714
4715- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
4716
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004717- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
4718 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00004719
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004720- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
4721 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
4722 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00004723
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004724- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4725 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4726 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00004727
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00004728- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4729 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
4730
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004731- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
4732 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
4733 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00004734
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00004735- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4736 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4737 the same as passing no argument.
4738
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004739- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00004740
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004741- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
4742 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00004743
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00004744- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00004745
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00004746- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4747
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004748- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4749 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00004750
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004751- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00004752 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
4753
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004754- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
4755 TLS with authentication credentials.
4756
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004757- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4758 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00004759
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00004760- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4761 msvc9compiler.
4762
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004763- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004764 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4765 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004766
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00004767- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4768 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4769 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4770
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004771- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004772 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
4773 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004774
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004775- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4776 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00004777
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004778- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4779
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00004780- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
4781 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
4782 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4783
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004784- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
4785 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4786 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00004787
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00004788- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4789
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004790- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00004791
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00004792- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4793 raises ReadError on empty files.
4794
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004795- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00004796
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00004797- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
4798 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00004799
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004800- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4801 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00004802
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00004803- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
4804 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
4805
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004806- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4807 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00004808
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004809- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00004810
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004811- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4812 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00004813
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004814- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4815 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4816 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
4817 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00004818 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4819
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004820- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4821 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4822 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00004823
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004824- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004825 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004826 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4827
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004828- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
4829 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
4830 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004831
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004832- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004833 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
4834
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004835- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004836 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
4837 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
4838 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004839
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004840- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4841 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00004842 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
4843
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00004844- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
4845 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
4846
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00004847- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4848 which are part of a reference cycle.
4849
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00004850- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
4851 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
4852
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004853- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
4854 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
4855 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00004856
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004857- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4858 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4859 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4860 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00004861
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004862- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4863 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4864 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4865 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00004866
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00004867- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4868 header as required by RFC 1952.
4869
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00004870- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4871 Distutils.
4872
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00004873- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4874 an uppercase.
4875
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00004876- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
4877 several threads at once.
4878
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004879- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4880
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00004881- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4882 larger than emax.
4883
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00004884- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
4885 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
4886
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004887- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4888 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00004889
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004890- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00004891
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004892- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4893 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004894
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004895- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4896 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00004897
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00004898- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
4899 builtin tokenizer.
4900
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004901- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4902 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00004903
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004904- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
4905 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00004906
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004907- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4908 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00004909
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004910- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
4911 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00004912
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00004913- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
4914
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00004915- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4916
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00004917- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4918
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00004919- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
4920
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004921- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00004922
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004923- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4924 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4925 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00004926
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004927- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4928 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00004929
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00004930- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
4931
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004932- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4933 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4934 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4935 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00004936
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00004937- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
4938 should be raised, not AttributeError.
4939
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00004940- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
4941 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
4942
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004943- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004944 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004945
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00004946- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
4947
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00004948- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
4949
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00004950- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4951
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00004952- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4953 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4954
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00004955- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
4956
4957- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
4958
4959- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4960
4961- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4962 ScrolledText.
4963
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00004964- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4965
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004966- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4967 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00004968
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00004969- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
4970 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4971 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4972 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4973
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004974- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
4975 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00004976
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00004977- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
4978
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004979- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4980 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4981 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00004982
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00004983- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
4984 DO/DONT correctly.
4985
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00004986- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004987 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
4988 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00004989
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004990- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004991 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
4992 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
4993 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004994
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00004995- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
4996 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
4997 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
4998
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004999- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
5000 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
5001 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00005002
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00005003- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00005004
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005005- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
5006 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00005007
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005008- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
5009 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00005010
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00005011- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
5012 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
5013
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00005014- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
5015
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00005016- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
5017
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00005018- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
5019
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005020- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
5021 sys.path.
5022
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00005023- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
5024
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005025- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
5026 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00005027
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00005028- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
5029 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
5030
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005031- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
5032 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00005033
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00005034- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
5035
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00005036- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
5037
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005038- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
5039 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00005040
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00005041- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
5042 for tracing methods.
5043
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005044Extension Modules
5045-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005046
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00005047- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
5048 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
5049
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00005050- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
5051
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00005052- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005053 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
5054 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
5055 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
5056 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00005057
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00005058- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
5059
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005060- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
5061 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
5062 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00005063
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005064- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
5065 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00005066
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005067- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
5068 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00005069
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005070- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
5071 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00005072
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00005073- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
5074 object in the '?' format.
5075
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00005076- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
5077
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00005078- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
5079 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00005080
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005081- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
5082 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
5083 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
5084 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00005085
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005086- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
5087 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
5088 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
5089 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
5090 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
5091 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00005092
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00005093- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005094 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
5095 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
5096 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
5097 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
5098 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00005099
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005100- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
5101 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00005102
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00005103- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00005104 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00005105 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00005106
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005107- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
5108 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
5109 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00005110
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005111- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
5112 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00005113
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005114- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
5115 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
5116 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
5117 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
5118 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00005119
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00005120- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
5121 overflow checks in the audioop module.
5122
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00005123- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
5124 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005125 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
5126 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00005127
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005128- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
5129 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
5130 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00005131
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00005132- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
5133
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00005134- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
5135 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
5136 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
5137 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
5138
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00005139- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
5140
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00005141- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
5142
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005143- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00005144 handling.
5145
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00005146- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
5147 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
5148
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00005149- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5150
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00005151- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5152
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00005153- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00005154
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005155- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
5156 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005157
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00005158- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5159
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00005160- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
5161
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005162- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5163 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5164 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00005165
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005166- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
5167 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00005168
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00005169- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5170
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00005171- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
5172 (CVE_2009_3560).
5173
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005174- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
5175 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
5176 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00005177
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00005178- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
5179 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
5180
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00005181- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
5182
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005183- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
5184 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00005185
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005186- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00005187
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005188Build
5189-----
5190
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00005191- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
5192
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00005193- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
5194
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005195- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
5196 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
5197 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
5198 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
5199 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00005200
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00005201- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
5202
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00005203- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
5204 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00005205
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005206- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
5207 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
5208 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
5209 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00005210
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005211- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
5212 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00005213
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00005214- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
5215
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00005216- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
5217 give false warnings.
5218
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005219- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
5220 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
5221 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00005222
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005223- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
5224 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00005225
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00005226- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00005227
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005228- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
5229 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
5230 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00005231
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00005232- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
5233
5234- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
5235 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
5236
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00005237- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
5238 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
5239 Python.
5240
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00005241- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
5242 found.
5243
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00005244- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00005245
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00005246- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
5247 icc or suncc.
5248
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005249- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5250 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5251 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00005252
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005253- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00005254
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00005255- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5256
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005257- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00005258 directories.
5259
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005260- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005261 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00005262
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005263- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005264 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00005265
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00005266- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
5267
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00005268- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
5269
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00005270- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
5271
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00005272Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005273-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005274
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00005275- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
5276 to Doc/license.rst.
5277
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00005278- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
5279 with os.kill.
5280
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005281- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00005282 only.
5283
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005284- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00005285 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
5286
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005287- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
5288 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00005289
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00005290- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
5291 ImportError.
5292
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005293- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5294 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005295
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00005296- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
5297 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00005298
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00005299- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
5300 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
5301
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005302Tests
5303-----
5304
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005305- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
5306 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00005307
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00005308- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
5309
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005310- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00005311
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005312- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
5313 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
5314 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00005315
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00005316- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005317 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00005318
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00005319- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
5320 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
5321
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00005322- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
5323 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
5324
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005325- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
5326 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00005327
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005328- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
5329 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00005330
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005331- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
5332 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00005333
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00005334- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
5335
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00005336- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
5337
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00005338- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
5339 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
5340
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00005341- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
5342 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00005343
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005344- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
5345 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00005346
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00005347- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
5348 effectively raised.
5349
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005350- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
5351 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00005352
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005353- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
5354 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00005355
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00005356- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
5357 filesystem encoding.
5358
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005359- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
5360 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00005361
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005362- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
5363 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
5364 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
5365 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00005366
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005367- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
5368 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
5369 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00005370
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00005371- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
5372 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00005373
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005374- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00005375 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
5376
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00005377- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
5378
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00005379- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00005380 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
5381
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005382- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5383 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5384 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00005385
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005386- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5387 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00005388
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005389- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5390 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00005391
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005392- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
5393 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
5394 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
5395 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00005396
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00005397- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5398
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00005399- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5400 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5401
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00005402- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
5403 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
5404 between concurrent executions on the same system.
5405
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00005406- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
5407 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
5408 calling methods on the object.
5409
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005410- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005411 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5412 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5413 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00005414 :func:`_thread._count()`.
5415
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005416- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5417 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00005418
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00005419- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5420 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5421
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00005422- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005423 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
5424 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00005425
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00005426- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5427
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005428- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
5429 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
5430 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00005431
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005432- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005433 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00005434
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005435Tools/Demos
5436-----------
5437
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00005438- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00005439
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005440- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00005441 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00005442
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00005443
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005444What's New in Python 3.1?
5445=========================
5446
5447*Release date: 27-June-2009*
5448
5449Core and Builtins
5450-----------------
5451
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00005452- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
5453 large arguments.
5454
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00005455- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
5456 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
5457
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005458Library
5459-------
5460
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00005461- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
5462
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005463- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005464
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00005465- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
5466
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00005467- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
5468 io.UnsupportedOperation.
5469
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00005470- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00005471 (On Unix)
5472
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00005473- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
5474 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
5475
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00005476Extension Modules
5477-----------------
5478
5479- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
5480
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00005481
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00005482What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
5483=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005484
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00005485*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005486
5487Core and Builtins
5488-----------------
5489
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00005490- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
5491
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00005492- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
5493 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
5494
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00005495- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
5496 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
5497
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005498- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00005499 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00005500
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005501Library
5502-------
5503
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005504- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005505 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005506 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
5507
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00005508- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5509
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00005510- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
5511 binary files.
5512
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005513- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
5514 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5515
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00005516- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
5517 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
5518 are always None now.
5519
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00005520- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
5521 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
5522 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
5523 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
5524
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00005525- Removed the ipaddr module.
5526
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00005527- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
5528 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
5529 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
5530
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00005531- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
5532
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00005533- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
5534
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00005535- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
5536 parameters.
5537
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005538Windows
5539-------
5540
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00005541- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
5542
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005543- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
5544
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00005545C-API
5546-----
5547
5548- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
5549 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
5550 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
5551
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005552
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005553Build
5554-----
5555
5556- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
5557 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
5558
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00005559- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
5560 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
5561
5562
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005563
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00005564What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
5565=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005566
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00005567*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005568
5569Core and Builtins
5570-----------------
5571
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00005572- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
5573 of the command line.
5574
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00005575- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
5576
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00005577- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
5578 that would raise SystemError.
5579
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00005580- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
5581 function with __func__.
5582
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00005583- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
5584 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00005585
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00005586- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
5587 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
5588 and imaginary literals.
5589
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00005590- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
5591
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00005592- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
5593
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00005594- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
5595 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
5596 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
5597 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
5598 didn't match that of float('-nan').
5599
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005600Library
5601-------
5602
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00005603- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
5604
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00005605- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
5606
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00005607- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
5608 argument to the 'help' function.
5609
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00005610- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
5611 arguments for strings with a space in them.
5612
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00005613- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
5614 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
5615
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00005616- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5617 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5618
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00005619- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
5620 the directory already exists.
5621
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00005622- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5623 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5624 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5625
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00005626- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
5627 IO objects.
5628
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00005629- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
5630 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
5631
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00005632- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
5633 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
5634 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
5635
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00005636- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5637 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5638
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00005639- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5640 deepcopy()ing.
5641
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00005642- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5643
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00005644- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5645
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00005646- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5647
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00005648- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
5649 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
5650 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
5651 empty.
5652
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00005653- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5654 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
5655 corrects a pydoc regression.
5656
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005657- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00005658 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
5659
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00005660Installation
5661------------
5662
5663- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
5664 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005665
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00005666- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
5667
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005668Extension Modules
5669-----------------
5670
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00005671- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00005672
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00005673- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5674
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005675- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
5676
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00005677- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
5678 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00005679
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00005680Build
5681-----
5682
5683- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
5684 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
5685 Clinton Roy.
5686
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005687Tests
5688-----
5689
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005690- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005691 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
5692 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
5693 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
5694
5695
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005696What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
5697================================
5698
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00005699*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005700
5701Core and Builtins
5702-----------------
5703
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00005704- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
5705 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
5706
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005707- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
5708 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
5709 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
5710
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00005711- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
5712 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
5713 a PendingDeprecation warning.
5714
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00005715- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
5716 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
5717 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
5718 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
5719 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
5720 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
5721 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
5722 the same way.
5723
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00005724- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
5725
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00005726- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
5727 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
5728 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
5729
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00005730- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
5731 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
5732
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00005733- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00005734
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00005735- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
5736 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
5737 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
5738
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00005739- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
5740 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
5741 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
5742 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00005743
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005744- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00005745 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
5746
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00005747- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
5748 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
5749
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00005750- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
5751 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
5752
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00005753- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
5754
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00005755- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
5756 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
5757
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00005758- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
5759
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00005760- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
5761 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
5762
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00005763- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00005764
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00005765- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
5766 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
5767 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
5768 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
5769
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00005770- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
5771 some builtin types.
5772
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005773- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
5774
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00005775- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
5776 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005777
5778- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5779 floats.
5780
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005781- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005782 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
5783 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
5784 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
5785 long time.)
5786
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005787- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
5788 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
5789 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
5790 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005791 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
5792 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
5793 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005794
5795 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
5796 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
5797 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
5798 reason or another.
5799
5800 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
5801 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
5802 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
5803 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
5804 correctly rounded on these platforms.
5805
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005806 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005807 this change does not apply.
5808
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00005809- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
5810
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00005811- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
5812 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
5813 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
5814 methods available on the str class.
5815
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00005816- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
5817 its clarity and its speed.
5818
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005819- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00005820 to avoid compiler warnings.
5821
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00005822- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
5823 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
5824
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00005825Installation
5826------------
5827
5828- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
5829
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005830Library
5831-------
5832
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00005833- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
5834
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00005835- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
5836 specific Python version.
5837
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00005838- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
5839 whitespace.
5840
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005841- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00005842 the right type checkings anymore.
5843
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00005844- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
5845 return directories.
5846
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00005847- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5848
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00005849- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5850 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5851
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00005852- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
5853 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
5854
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00005855- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
5856 extracting a file to the root directory.
5857
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00005858- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
5859
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00005860- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5861 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
5862 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
5863
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00005864- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
5865
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00005866- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5867 Contributed by Google.
5868
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00005869- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5870 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5871
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00005872- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
5873
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00005874- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5875
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00005876- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
5877 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
5878 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5879
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00005880- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
5881 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5882 initialized before.
5883
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005884- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5885 names which should not be exported.
5886
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00005887- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
5888 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
5889
5890- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5891
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00005892- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
5893 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
5894 instances.
5895
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00005896- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
5897 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
5898 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
5899
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00005900- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
5901 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
5902
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00005903- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
5904 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
5905 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
5906 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
5907 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
5908
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00005909- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
5910 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
5911
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00005912- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5913 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5914 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5915
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005916Extension Modules
5917-----------------
5918
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00005919- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
5920 pwd.
5921
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00005922- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
5923 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
5924 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
5925 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
5926
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00005927- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
5928 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005929
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00005930Tests
5931-----
5932
5933- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
5934 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
5935 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
5936 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
5937 can be adjusted to use it over time.
5938
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00005939- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5940 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5941 incorrectly on __exit__.
5942
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00005943C-API
5944-----
5945
5946- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
5947
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005948
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005949What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
5950=================================
5951
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00005952*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005953
5954Core and Builtins
5955-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005956
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00005957- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5958 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005959
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00005960- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
5961
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00005962- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
5963 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
5964
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00005965- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
5966 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
5967
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00005968- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
5969
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00005970- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
5971 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
5972
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00005973- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
5974 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
5975 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
5976
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00005977- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
5978
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00005979- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
5980 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
5981
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00005982- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
5983 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
5984 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
5985 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
5986
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00005987- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
5988 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
5989 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
5990
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00005991- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
5992 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
5993 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
5994 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
5995 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
5996 the internal format.
5997
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00005998- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
5999 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
6000 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
6001
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00006002- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
6003 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
6004
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00006005- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
6006 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
6007
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00006008- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
6009 short file names.
6010
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006011Library
6012-------
6013
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006014- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00006015 mailbox.MH.get_message().
6016
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00006017- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
6018 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
6019 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
6020
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00006021- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
6022 the -T argument.
6023
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00006024- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
6025
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00006026- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
6027
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00006028- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
6029
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00006030- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
6031 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
6032
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00006033- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
6034
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00006035- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
6036
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00006037- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
6038 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
6039
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00006040- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
6041 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
6042
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00006043- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
6044 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
6045 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
6046
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00006047- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
6048
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00006049- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
6050 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
6051
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00006052- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
6053 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
6054
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00006055- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
6056 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
6057 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
6058 partial bzip2 compressed data.
6059
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00006060- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
6061 specifier to Decimal.__format__
6062
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00006063- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
6064 '>' alignment characters.
6065
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00006066- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
6067 value, and report it as -1 instead.
6068
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00006069- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
6070 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
6071
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006072Extension Modules
6073-----------------
6074
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00006075- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
6076
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006077- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
6078 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00006079 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
6080 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
6081 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00006082
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00006083
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00006084What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00006085================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006086
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00006087*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006088
6089Core and Builtins
6090-----------------
6091
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00006092- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
6093
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00006094- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
6095
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00006096- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
6097 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
6098
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00006099- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
6100 contained non ascii character on windows.
6101
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00006102- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
6103 source has already been decoded into str.
6104
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00006105- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
6106 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
6107
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00006108- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
6109 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
6110
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00006111- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
6112 returns a non-number type.
6113
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00006114- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
6115
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00006116- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
6117 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00006118 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
6119 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00006120
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006121- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00006122 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
6123
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00006124- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
6125 Previously it returned a float.
6126
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00006127- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
6128 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
6129 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
6130 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
6131
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00006132- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
6133
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00006134- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
6135 from a string.
6136
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00006137- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
6138
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00006139- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
6140 optional module state data.
6141
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006142- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006143 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00006144
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00006145- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
6146 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
6147 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
6148
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00006149- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
6150 __next__ method.
6151
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00006152- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
6153 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
6154 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
6155
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00006156- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
6157
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00006158- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
6159
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00006160- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
6161 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
6162 amount of loop unrolling.
6163
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00006164- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
6165 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
6166 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
6167 Martin von Löwis at
6168 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
6169
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006170- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00006171 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
6172 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
6173
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00006174- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
6175 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
6176 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
6177 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
6178
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00006179- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
6180 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
6181 Python's overall memory).
6182
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00006183- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
6184 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
6185 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
6186 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
6187 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
6188
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00006189- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
6190 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
6191 items, rather than the size in bytes.
6192
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006193- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
6194
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00006195- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
6196 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
6197
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006198- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
6199 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00006200
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00006201- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
6202 did not get collected.
6203
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00006204- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
6205 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
6206
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00006207- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
6208 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
6209
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00006210- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
6211 fail.
6212
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00006213- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
6214
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00006215- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
6216 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
6217
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00006218- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
6219 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
6220 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
6221
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00006222- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
6223
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00006224- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
6225 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
6226 failures on OS X.
6227
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00006228- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
6229 exceptions.
6230
6231- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00006232 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
6233
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00006234- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
6235 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
6236 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
6237 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
6238
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00006239- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
6240 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
6241 Python 2.x.
6242
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00006243- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
6244 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
6245
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006246- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
6247 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
6248 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
6249 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00006250
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00006251- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
6252 larger than 1.
6253
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00006254- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
6255
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00006256- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
6257
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00006258- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
6259 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
6260 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
6261 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
6262
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006263Library
6264-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006265
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00006266- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
6267 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
6268
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00006269- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00006270 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
6271
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00006272- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00006273 Distutils.
6274
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00006275- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
6276
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00006277- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
6278 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
6279 Michael Haubenwallner.
6280
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00006281- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
6282
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00006283- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
6284 opening an empty or very small file.
6285
6286- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00006287 behavior is similar when used with -O.
6288
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00006289- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
6290
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00006291- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
6292 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
6293 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
6294 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
6295
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006296- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
6297
6298- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
6299
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00006300- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006301 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
6302
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006303- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00006304
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006305- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00006306 attribute.
6307
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00006308- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
6309
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00006310- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
6311
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00006312- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
6313 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
6314 descriptor errors
6315
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006316- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00006317 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
6318
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00006319- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00006320 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
6321
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00006322- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
6323 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
6324
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00006325- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
6326
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00006327- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
6328
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00006329- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
6330 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
6331 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6332
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00006333- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
6334 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6335
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00006336- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
6337
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006338- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00006339 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
6340
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00006341- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
6342
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00006343- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
6344 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
6345
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006346- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00006347 subcommand.
6348
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00006349- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
6350 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
6351
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00006352- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
6353 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
6354
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00006355- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
6356 for old-style extensions.
6357
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00006358- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
6359
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00006360- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
6361 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
6362 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
6363 Cournapeau.
6364
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00006365- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
6366
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006367- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00006368 anymore.
6369
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006370- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00006371 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
6372
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00006373- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
6374
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00006375- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
6376
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00006377- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
6378
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00006379- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
6380 a value in SafeConfigParser.
6381
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00006382- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
6383
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006384- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00006385 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
6386
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00006387- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
6388 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
6389
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00006390- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
6391 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
6392
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006393- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00006394
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006395- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00006396
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00006397- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
6398 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
6399 threads.
6400
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00006401- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
6402 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
6403 that it was failing to do localization.
6404
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00006405- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
6406 Brandl.
6407
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00006408- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
6409 character.
6410
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00006411- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
6412 Tim Golden.
6413
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00006414- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
6415
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00006416- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
6417 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
6418 window flashing.
6419
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00006420- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
6421 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
6422 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
6423
6424- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
6425
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00006426- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
6427 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
6428
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00006429- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
6430
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00006431- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
6432
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00006433- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
6434
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00006435- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
6436
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00006437- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
6438
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00006439- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
6440
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00006441- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
6442 import guess_extension`` was used.
6443
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00006444- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
6445 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
6446
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00006447- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
6448 overrun.
6449
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006450- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00006451 bdist_rpm command.
6452
6453- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
6454
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00006455- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
6456
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00006457- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
6458 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00006459
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006460- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
6461 IronPython.
6462
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00006463- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
6464 The file was resized to wrong size.
6465
6466- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
6467
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006468- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00006469 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
6470
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006471- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00006472 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
6473
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00006474- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
6475 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
6476
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00006477- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
6478
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00006479- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
6480 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
6481 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
6482
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00006483- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
6484 encoding.
6485
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00006486- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
6487 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
6488
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00006489- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
6490 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
6491
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00006492- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
6493 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
6494 ctime of the files involved.
6495
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00006496- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
6497 deadlock.
6498
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00006499- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
6500 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
6501 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
6502
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00006503- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
6504
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00006505- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
6506 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
6507
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00006508- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
6509 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
6510 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
6511 Vajda.
6512
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00006513- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
6514 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
6515 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
6516 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
6517
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00006518- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
6519 Ross Light.
6520
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006521- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00006522 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
6523
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00006524- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
6525 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
6526
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006527- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00006528 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
6529
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00006530- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
6531
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00006532- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
6533
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00006534- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
6535 items being passed through ord().
6536
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00006537- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
6538 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
6539 "src.new").
6540
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00006541- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
6542
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00006543- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
6544 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
6545 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
6546
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006547- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00006548 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
6549
6550- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
6551 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
6552
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00006553- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
6554 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
6555
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00006556- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
6557
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00006558- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
6559 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00006560
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006561- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00006562 allowed non-integer arguments.
6563
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00006564- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
6565 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
6566 examples.
6567
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00006568- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
6569 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
6570
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00006571- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
6572 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
6573
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00006574- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
6575 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
6576
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006577- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00006578 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
6579 be disabled, and not compiled.
6580
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00006581- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
6582 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
6583 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
6584 traditional 2.x file object.
6585
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006586- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
6587 parameter was set.
6588
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00006589- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
6590 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
6591
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00006592- Add the importlib package.
6593
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00006594- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6595 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6596
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00006597- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006598 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00006599
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00006600- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
6601 without defaults.
6602
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006603- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
6604 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00006605 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
6606
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00006607- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
6608 in sharedctypes.py.
6609
6610- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
6611 __getattr__.
6612
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00006613- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
6614 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
6615 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
6616
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00006617- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
6618 counting.
6619
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00006620- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
6621
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00006622- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
6623 function without defining argtypes.
6624
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00006625- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
6626 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
6627 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
6628 Jacques Frechet.
6629
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00006630- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
6631
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00006632- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
6633 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
6634
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006635- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
6636 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00006637 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
6638
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00006639- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
6640 to the decimal module.
6641
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006642- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
6643 cast as floats.
6644
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00006645- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
6646 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
6647
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006648- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006649 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
6650
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006651- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
6652 the function is not a generator.
6653
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006654- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
6655 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00006656
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006657- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00006658 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
6659
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00006660- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
6661
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00006662- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
6663
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00006664- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
6665 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
6666
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00006667- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
6668 works as expected in the interactive environment.
6669
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00006670- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
6671 Gabriel Genellina.
6672
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00006673- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
6674 boundary.
6675
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00006676- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
6677 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
6678 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
6679
6680- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
6681 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
6682 Alexander Belopolsky.
6683
6684- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
6685 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
6686 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
6687 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
6688 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
6689 Alexander Belopolsky.
6690
6691- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
6692 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
6693 Alexander Belopolsky.
6694
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00006695- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
6696 a non-ASCII letter.
6697
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00006698- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
6699
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00006700- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
6701 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
6702
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00006703- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
6704 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
6705 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
6706
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00006707- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
6708 libs.
6709
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006710- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
6711 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6712
6713- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6714 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6715 Content-Disposition headers.
6716
6717- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
6718 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
6719 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
6720 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
6721 doesn't configure logging.
6722
6723- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
6724 exception.
6725
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00006726- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
6727 statements.
6728
6729- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
6730 not a malformed option.
6731
6732- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
6733 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6734
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00006735- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
6736 the corresponding tests now pass.
6737
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00006738- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
6739 it was calling the wrong open() function.
6740
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00006741- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6742 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6743 Content-Disposition headers.
6744
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00006745- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
6746 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
6747
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00006748- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
6749 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
6750 and getservbyport().
6751
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00006752- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
6753
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006754Tools/Demos
6755-----------
6756
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00006757- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
6758 and make it 2.6-compatible.
6759
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00006760- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
6761
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006762- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
6763
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006764
6765Build
6766-----
6767
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00006768- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
6769
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00006770- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
6771
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00006772- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
6773 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6774
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006775- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006776 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006777
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00006778- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
6779
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00006780- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
6781
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00006782- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
6783
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00006784- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
6785
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006786- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
6787
6788- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
6789
6790- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
6791
6792- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
6793
6794- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
6795
6796- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
6797
6798- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
6799
6800- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
6801
6802- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
6803
6804- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
6805
6806
6807C-API
6808-----
6809
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00006810- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
6811 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
6812
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00006813- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
6814 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
6815
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006816- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6817
6818- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
6819 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
6820
6821- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6822 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
6823
6824
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006825Extension Modules
6826-----------------
6827
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00006828- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6829 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
6830 implementations or external openssl library).
6831
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00006832- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
6833
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00006834- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6835
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00006836- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
6837 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
6838 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
6839
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006840- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6841
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00006842- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
6843 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
6844 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
6845
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006846- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6847
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00006848- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6849
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006850- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6851 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00006852
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00006853- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
6854 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
6855 buffer.
6856
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00006857
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00006858- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6859
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006860Tests
6861-----
6862
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00006863- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6864 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6865
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00006866- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6867 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
6868 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
6869 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
6870
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006871- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006872 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006873 from test support, which does the conversion.
6874
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006875- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6876
6877
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00006878Docs
6879----
6880
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00006881
Eli Bendersky906b88f2011-07-29 07:05:08 +03006882**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**