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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+++++++++++
4
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +03005What's New in Python 3.2.3?
6===========================
7
8*Release date: XX-XXX-2011*
9
10Core and Builtins
11-----------------
12
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
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +030022- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
23 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
24
Charles-François Natali134a8ba2011-08-18 18:49:39 +020025Library
26-------
27
Ned Deily79746422011-09-14 14:49:14 -070028- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
29 with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
30 (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
31
Éric Araujo13e8c8e2011-09-10 01:51:40 +020032- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
33 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
34 present.
35
Victor Stinnera1bea6e2011-09-05 23:44:56 +020036- Issue #9561: distutils now reads and writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
37 instead of the locale encoding.
38
Ezio Melottid9e0b062011-09-05 17:11:06 +030039- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
40 more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.
41
Benjamin Petersonf6f3a352011-09-03 09:26:20 -040042- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
43
Victor Stinner979482a2011-09-02 01:00:40 +020044- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
45
Antoine Pitrou55549ec2011-08-30 00:27:10 +020046- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
47 the C pickle implementation.
48
Antoine Pitrou82be19f2011-08-29 23:09:33 +020049- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
50 (more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
51
Charles-François Nataliaa26b272011-08-28 17:51:43 +020052- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
53 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
54
Antoine Pitroubcb39d42011-08-23 19:46:22 +020055- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
56 Pipe.
57
Antoine Pitroue05565e2011-08-20 14:39:23 +020058- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
59 could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
60
Charles-François Natali134a8ba2011-08-18 18:49:39 +020061- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
62 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
Ezio Melottiee8d9982011-08-15 09:09:57 +030063
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +020064Tests
65-----
66
67- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
68
Jesus Ceaaaa89912011-09-10 04:37:07 +020069Extension Modules
70-----------------
71
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbbe46d62011-09-12 21:03:36 +020072- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
73 object triggers the garbage collector.
74
Jesus Ceaaaa89912011-09-10 04:37:07 +020075- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
76 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
Charles-François Natali6cea35a2011-08-23 19:46:46 +020077
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -050078What's New in Python 3.2.2?
79===========================
80
Georg Brandlb0993bc2011-09-03 11:17:55 +020081*Release date: 03-Sep-2011*
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +020082
83Core and Builtins
84-----------------
85
Victor Stinner4cf66042011-08-20 14:01:05 +020086- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
87 is compiled on Linux 3.
88
Benjamin Peterson40582112011-08-31 22:13:03 -040089- Accept bytes for the AST string type. This is temporary until a proper fix in
90 3.3.
91
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +020092Library
93-------
Victor Stinnera1bea6e2011-09-05 23:44:56 +020094
Éric Araujobcf99ac2011-09-05 17:44:07 +020095- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
96 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +020097
Lars Gustäbel2e7ddd32011-09-05 16:58:14 +020098- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
99 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
100 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
101 information was lost.
102
Éric Araujod5a98112011-08-29 21:48:39 +0200103- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
104 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
105
Nadeem Vawda97d67922011-08-28 11:26:46 +0200106- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
107 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
108
Georg Brandl89b7af12011-09-03 09:08:49 +0200109Extension Modules
110-----------------
111
112- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
113 some functions like file.write().
114
Nadeem Vawda97d67922011-08-28 11:26:46 +0200115
Georg Brandl666ed0b2011-08-13 20:19:09 +0200116
Georg Brandlb3f0ce42011-08-13 11:34:58 +0200117What's New in Python 3.2.2 release candidate 1?
118===============================================
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500119
Georg Brandlb3f0ce42011-08-13 11:34:58 +0200120*Release date: 14-Aug-2011*
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500121
122Core and Builtins
123-----------------
124
Benjamin Petersonf413b802011-08-12 22:17:18 -0500125- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
126 outside the BMP.
127
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200128- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
129 Andreas Stührk.
130
131- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
132 embedding Python. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
133
Benjamin Peterson2193d2b2011-07-22 10:50:23 -0500134- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
135 compiling them.
136
Eric V. Smith12ebefc2011-07-18 14:03:41 -0400137- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
138 format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
139 Julian Berman.
140
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400141- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
142 non-exception class.
Benjamin Peterson5afa03a2011-07-15 14:09:26 -0500143
Georg Brandle3bb2cf2011-09-04 08:10:25 +0200144- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
Antoine Pitrou84f1b172011-07-12 21:57:15 +0200145 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
146 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
147 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
148 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
149
Benjamin Petersonac913412011-07-03 16:25:11 -0500150- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
151 generator.
152
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500153- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
Benjamin Peterson9cf960c2011-07-03 13:49:59 -0500154 caller's frame as they return for the last time.
Benjamin Peterson83195c32011-07-03 13:44:00 -0500155
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500156Library
157-------
158
Georg Brandl3abb3722011-08-13 11:48:12 +0200159- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
160 the file cannot be opened.
161
Antoine Pitrouf6c7a852011-08-11 21:04:02 +0200162- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
163 (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.
164
Senthil Kumaran9dc4cad2011-08-11 09:24:37 +0800165- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
166
Ned Deilye5cad232011-08-02 18:47:13 -0700167- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
168 in os.kill().
169
Senthil Kumaran2a157d22011-08-03 18:37:22 +0800170- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
171 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
172
Éric Araujoab7c1b32011-07-31 04:06:12 +0200173- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
174 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
175
Charles-François Natalidef35432011-07-29 18:59:24 +0200176- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
177 symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
178
Éric Araujoe64e51b2011-07-29 17:03:55 +0200179- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
180 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
181
Charles-François Natali27c4e882011-07-27 19:40:02 +0200182- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
183
Raymond Hettinger3a081f52011-07-29 00:02:04 -0700184- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
185 collections when it is done.
186
Ross Lagerwalld98646e2011-07-27 07:16:31 +0200187- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
188 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
189
Ned Deilyf25e3d52011-07-26 18:17:33 -0700190- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
191 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
192
Senthil Kumaran1299a8f2011-07-27 08:05:58 +0800193- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
194 Connection:close header.
195
Antoine Pitroucf9d3c02011-07-24 02:27:04 +0200196- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
197
Antoine Pitrouab85ff32011-07-23 22:03:45 +0200198- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
199 module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
200
Antoine Pitroue96ec682011-07-23 21:46:35 +0200201- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
202 a read1() method), and add an undocumented *write_through* parameter to
203 mandate unbuffered writes.
204
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200205- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
206
Nadeem Vawdace7e51e2011-07-23 15:16:23 +0200207- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
208
Antoine Pitrouc57ed912011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200209- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
210 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
211 Linux 3.0.
212
R David Murray46346762011-07-18 21:38:54 -0400213- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
214 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
215
Antoine Pitrou0b447952011-07-16 23:52:02 +0200216- Close the call queue in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor when
217 shutdown() is called, without waiting for the garbage collector to kick in.
218
Charles-François Natali1f0ccfa2011-07-14 19:57:35 +0200219- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
220
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200221- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures with an endianness
222 different than that of the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
Victor Stinner66361212011-07-13 21:43:18 +0200223
Antoine Pitroucb4ae812011-07-13 21:07:49 +0200224- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
225 TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
226
Victor Stinner2cfb6f32011-07-05 14:00:56 +0200227- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
228 if the process has only one pipe.
229
Victor Stinner91e08772011-07-05 14:30:41 +0200230- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200231 Python modules using a encoding different than UTF-8 (reading the coding
232 cookie of the module).
Victor Stinner91e08772011-07-05 14:30:41 +0200233
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200234- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python module in binary mode,
Victor Stinnere975af62011-07-04 02:08:50 +0200235 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
236
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200237- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python module in binary mode,
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200238 instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200239 than UTF-8 (modules using the coding cookie).
Victor Stinner6c471022011-07-04 01:45:39 +0200240
Victor Stinnerbbdc08e2011-07-04 01:25:55 +0200241- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
242 of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
243
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400244Extension Modules
245-----------------
246
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02dd5392011-09-02 20:39:40 +0200247- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
248 a string.
249
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfaecc382011-08-30 22:02:51 +0200250- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
251
Barry Warsawd460a762011-07-19 18:28:30 -0400252- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
253 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
254 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
255
Benjamin Petersonc77eccd2011-07-03 13:31:34 -0500256C-API
257-----
258
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200259Build
260-----
261
262- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
263
264- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
265
266- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
267
Éric Araujo9e1af032011-07-26 18:25:14 +0200268Tools/Demos
269-----------
270
271- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
272 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200273
Ned Deily41435352011-07-03 21:56:48 -0700274Tests
275-----
276
Éric Araujo548c0542011-07-31 17:58:46 +0200277- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
278 Python.
279
Antoine Pitroub9c73e82011-07-29 23:53:38 +0200280- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
281 with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases
282 using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites
283 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
284
Antoine Pitrou216a3bc2011-07-23 22:33:39 +0200285- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
286 running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
287 (or ``-G``) option to regrtest. This is useful with long test suites
288 such as test_io or test_subprocess.
289
Ned Deily2ea6fcc2011-07-19 16:15:27 -0700290- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
291 (Patch by Robert Xiao)
292
Antoine Pitrou707f2282011-07-15 22:29:44 +0200293- Try harder to reap dangling threads in test.support.reap_threads().
294
Antoine Pitrouc081c0c2011-07-15 22:12:24 +0200295- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
296
Ned Deily58e33502011-07-13 15:07:04 -0700297- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
298 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
299
Antoine Pitrou95531ea2011-07-08 19:43:51 +0200300- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
301 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
302 Web site.
303
Antoine Pitroub9ac25d2011-07-08 18:47:06 +0200304- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
305 reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
306 rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
307
Ned Deilye2d51902011-07-04 19:06:20 -0700308- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
309 tests.
310
311- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
Ned Deily8215f5d2011-07-04 17:48:01 -0700312 testcase failure in test_ssl.
313
Victor Stinnere40b3aa2011-07-04 17:35:10 +0200314- Issue #12469: Run "wakeup" signal tests in subprocess to run the test in a
315 fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal handling of the
316 parent process.
317
Ned Deily41435352011-07-03 21:56:48 -0700318- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
319 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
320 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
321
322
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200323What's New in Python 3.2.1?
324===========================
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200325
Georg Brandlcd0dc162011-07-09 08:56:21 +0200326*Release date: 10-Jul-2011*
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200327
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200328Library
329-------
330
Victor Stinnerb1b25f02011-07-04 02:43:09 +0200331- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
332 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
333
Antoine Pitrou3aba4982011-07-08 19:19:57 +0200334Tests
335-----
336
Antoine Pitrou9163c472011-07-09 02:31:24 +0200337- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
338 failure in name resolution.
339
Antoine Pitrou3aba4982011-07-08 19:19:57 +0200340- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
341 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
342 is now skipped instead.
343
Georg Brandl7d10a2d2011-07-04 08:20:48 +0200344
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200345What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 2?
346===============================================
347
Georg Brandld4fa7ed2011-07-03 09:41:27 +0200348*Release date: 03-Jul-2011*
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200349
350Core and Builtins
351-----------------
352
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200353- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream, with
354 other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
Vinay Sajip5bdae3b2011-07-02 16:42:47 +0100355
Brian Curtind25aef52011-06-13 15:16:04 -0500356- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
357 links when called from any directory.
358
Victor Stinner19c52332011-05-30 23:50:04 +0200359- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner4f711012011-05-30 23:46:00 +0200360 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
361 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
362
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200363- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on Mac OS X
364 and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a "maximum recursion
365 depth" RuntimeError exception (patch by Ronald Oussoren).
Ned Deily9a7c5242011-05-28 00:19:56 -0700366
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200367Library
368-------
369
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400370- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200371 conformance to the RFCs: correctly handle Sender and Resent headers.
R David Murrayac4e5ab2011-07-02 21:03:19 -0400372
Charles-François Natali778db492011-07-02 14:35:49 +0200373- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
374 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
375
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200376- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
377 UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200378 also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode to
379 avoid encoding issues.
380
381- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file anymore
Victor Stinnereaf399e2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200382 to avoid encoding issues.
383
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200384- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available, to
Éric Araujoaa95ccd2011-07-29 03:28:40 +0200385 read the Python module from the right encoding.
Victor Stinnere6c910e2011-06-30 15:55:43 +0200386
Victor Stinnerdc9b1ea2011-06-30 15:40:22 +0200387- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
388 encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
389
Ned Deily657b2de2011-06-28 19:51:30 -0700390- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
391 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
392 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
393 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
394 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
395 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
396 still possible to globally override the default by setting
397 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
398 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
399 was built.
400
Victor Stinnerf1512a22011-06-21 17:18:38 +0200401- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
402 variables, start with an empty environment.
403
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200404- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header passed
405 to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail if given
406 binary unknown-8bit input.
R David Murray6bdb1762011-06-18 12:30:55 -0400407
R David Murrayc88bce12011-06-17 22:24:05 -0400408- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
409 times without error.
410
R David Murray05ff9902011-06-17 12:54:56 -0400411- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
412
Victor Stinnera4c45d72011-06-17 14:01:18 +0200413- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
414 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
415 written by Ezio Melotti.
416
Benjamin Peterson9620cc02011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500417- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
418 functions.
419
Benjamin Peterson9aa68e42011-06-10 12:29:40 -0500420- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
421
R David Murray4fbb9db2011-06-09 15:50:51 -0400422- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
423
R David Murray0f663d02011-06-09 15:05:57 -0400424- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
425
Vinay Sajip8168d102011-06-09 16:50:49 +0100426- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
427 a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
428
Brian Curtin9c669cc2011-06-08 18:17:18 -0500429- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
430 instead of os.stat.
431
Raymond Hettinger3d890572011-06-02 23:40:24 -0700432- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
433
Victor Stinner87b9bc32011-06-01 00:57:47 +0200434- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
435 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
436 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
437
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200438- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists. Patch by
439 Mher Movsisyan.
Ned Deilyb8e59f72011-05-28 02:19:19 -0700440
Victor Stinnera80987f2011-05-25 22:47:16 +0200441- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
442
Victor Stinnerb79f28c2011-05-25 22:09:03 +0200443- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
444 if the file is closed.
445
Victor Stinner1273b7c2011-05-24 23:37:07 +0200446- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
447 correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
448
Victor Stinner6bcbef72011-05-24 22:17:55 +0200449- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
450 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
451 final argument is True.
452
Charles-François Natali7b54e752011-05-24 18:23:15 +0200453- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
454
Benjamin Petersonf5fcd332011-05-23 16:22:42 -0500455- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
456 besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
457
Victor Stinner4925cde2011-05-20 00:16:09 +0200458- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
459 to be able to unload the module.
460
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200461- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
462 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
463
Benjamin Peterson0aa71f72011-05-31 19:06:17 -0500464Extension Modules
465-----------------
Ronald Oussoren02a67ac2011-05-17 12:44:54 +0200466
Éric Araujocab106c2011-07-26 17:32:50 +0200467- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
468 Kitada.
469
Benjamin Peterson0aa71f72011-05-31 19:06:17 -0500470- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
471
Ned Deily6e5fd042011-05-28 05:59:55 -0700472Build
473-----
474
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700475- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200476 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these functions
477 (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X (UF_HIDDEN and
478 UF_COMPRESSED).
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700479
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200480- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds, ensure
481 "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32" files in the
482 framework bin directory like the installer does.
Antoine Pitroub4410db2011-05-18 18:51:06 +0200483
Jason R. Coombs76748b72011-07-26 11:18:40 -0400484
Victor Stinneree497972011-05-31 00:01:24 +0200485Tests
486-----
487
Antoine Pitrou71cbafb2011-06-30 20:02:54 +0200488- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
489
Victor Stinnera7c33e52011-06-29 13:00:54 +0200490- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
491 the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
492 error twice anymore if there is only one error.
493
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200494- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that test_build_ext
495 of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when run outside of a build
496 directory.
Ned Deily58f27b22011-06-28 00:42:50 -0700497
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200498- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags(). Patch
499 by Garrett Cooper.
Ned Deily3eb67d52011-06-28 00:00:28 -0700500
Georg Brandl06ddddf2011-07-03 09:42:43 +0200501- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9 on Mac
502 OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
Ned Deily11f00f32011-06-27 23:12:20 -0700503
Victor Stinneree497972011-05-31 00:01:24 +0200504- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
505 iso2022_kr).
506
Victor Stinner4445ec82011-05-20 00:18:58 +0200507
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200508What's New in Python 3.2.1 release candidate 1?
509===============================================
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000510
Georg Brandl5673e272011-05-15 17:52:42 +0200511*Release date: 15-May-2011*
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000512
513Core and Builtins
514-----------------
515
Victor Stinner2ec6b172011-05-15 10:21:59 +0200516- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
517 module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
518
Gregory P. Smithc9557af2011-05-11 22:18:23 -0700519- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
520 wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
521 leaving zombie processes around.
522
Victor Stinner4755ab02011-05-10 00:19:53 +0200523- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
524 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
525
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200526Library
527-------
528
Ronald Oussoren5ee05672011-05-17 14:48:40 +0200529- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
530 with Tk 8.5.
531
Victor Stinner9cd66262011-05-16 16:32:33 +0200532- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Ronald Oussoren447fcfb2011-05-15 16:50:28 +0200533 is set in shell.
534
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200535- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
536
537- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
538 their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
539 larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
540 an incorrect result.
541
542- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
543 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
544
545- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
546 on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
547 writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
548 data, and writing again).
549
550- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
551 With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
552 IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
553
554- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
555 escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
556
557- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
558 non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
559 binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
560 encoding of the script.
561
562- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
563 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
564
565- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
566
567Build
568-----
569
570- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
571
572Tools/Demos
573-----------
574
575- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
576 add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
577
578Tests
579-----
580
Victor Stinner3349bca2011-05-18 00:16:14 +0200581- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
582 written by Charles-François Natali.
583
Victor Stinner9cd66262011-05-16 16:32:33 +0200584- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
585 Andreas Stührk.
586
Georg Brandl758b85e2011-05-15 09:49:19 +0200587- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
588
589- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
590
591
592What's New in Python 3.2.1 beta 1?
593==================================
594
595*Release date: 08-May-2011*
596
597Core and Builtins
598-----------------
599
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200600- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200601 interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when they
602 try to take the GIL.
Antoine Pitrou0d5e52d2011-05-04 20:02:30 +0200603
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200604- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
605 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
606 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner13aaef52011-05-01 23:46:48 +0200607 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner3249dec2011-05-01 23:19:15 +0200608
Victor Stinner3cbf14b2011-04-27 00:24:21 +0200609- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
610 subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
611 the ISO-8859-15 codec.
612
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200613- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200614 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch by
615 Charles-François Natali.
Antoine Pitrou0c759fe2011-04-27 19:28:05 +0200616
Ezio Melottiba42fd52011-04-26 06:09:45 +0300617- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
618 accepted too.
619
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300620- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200621 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP chars
622 (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300623
Ezio Melotti982ef4e2011-04-15 08:15:40 +0300624- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
625 compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
626
Victor Stinner52c950f2011-04-09 15:55:44 +0200627- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
628 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
629 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
630
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100631- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
632 Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200633 returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if stdout
634 mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less, depending
635 on heap usage).
Victor Stinnere0daff12011-03-20 23:36:35 +0100636
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200637- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to a
638 possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
Antoine Pitrou819be342011-03-17 23:36:13 +0100639
Raymond Hettinger29dcaad2011-03-15 14:50:16 -0700640- Issue #11510: Fixed optimizer bug which turned "a,b={1,1}" into "a,b=(1,1)".
641
Gregory P. Smith28edfee2011-03-15 16:02:10 -0400642- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
643 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
644 file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
645
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200646- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when there
647 are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
Antoine Pitrou7983d332011-03-09 12:34:41 +0100648
Victor Stinner2b574a22011-03-01 22:48:49 +0000649- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
650 UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
651 Patch written by Ray Allen.
652
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200653- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with a
654 buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
Antoine Pitrou915605c2011-02-24 20:53:48 +0000655
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +0000656- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
657 sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
658
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200659- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index. Patch
660 by Torsten Becker.
Jesus Ceaac451502011-04-20 17:09:23 +0200661
Victor Stinner659eb842011-02-23 12:14:22 +0000662- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
663 narrow build.
664
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000665- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
666
Eli Benderskye0c8635d82011-03-04 05:10:57 +0000667- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
668 empty, instead of OverflowError.
669
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +0000670Library
671-------
Antoine Pitroubc7f20c2010-12-17 17:44:45 +0000672
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200673- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch by
674 Kasun Herath.
Antoine Pitrouc1d52062011-05-07 19:39:37 +0200675
Giampaolo Rodola'24befa82011-05-07 19:09:34 +0200676- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
677
Ezio Melotti1c3fd582011-05-08 19:58:08 +0300678- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murraycaed7fe2011-05-06 22:07:19 -0400679 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
680 previous value of the mtime.
681
Ronald Oussoren6355c162011-05-06 17:11:07 +0200682- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
683 file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
684
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200685- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any dNSName
686 entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName. Patch by
687 Nicolas Bareil.
Antoine Pitrou1c86b442011-05-06 15:19:49 +0200688
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200689- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support more
690 than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch by Ysj
691 Ray.
Nick Coghlan0ded3e32011-05-05 23:49:25 +1000692
Victor Stinnercafa2ef2011-05-02 16:11:28 +0200693- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
694
Raymond Hettinger003be522011-05-03 11:01:32 -0700695- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
696
Victor Stinnera6cd0cf2011-05-02 01:05:37 +0200697- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
698 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
699
Łukasz Langa90759a22011-04-30 09:36:35 +0200700- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
701 names.
702
703- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
704
Ezio Melotti935a5882011-04-27 10:17:34 +0300705- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
706 strings are too long.
707
Senthil Kumaran72387f92011-04-26 21:09:49 +0800708- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
709
Victor Stinner6c9b35b2011-04-18 16:25:56 +0200710- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
711 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
712 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
713
R David Murray01581ee2011-04-18 10:04:34 -0400714- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
715
Vinay Sajipe723e962011-04-15 22:27:17 +0100716- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
717
Raymond Hettinger019a97c2011-04-19 10:21:27 -0700718- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
719 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
720
Ezio Melotti2df6a932011-04-15 16:38:34 +0300721- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
Senthil Kumaran397eb442011-04-15 18:20:24 +0800722 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
723
Raymond Hettinger1c746c22011-04-15 13:16:46 -0700724- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
725
Senthil Kumaran2d2ea1b2011-04-14 13:16:30 +0800726- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
727 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
728
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300729- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
730 _json is not available.
Alexander Belopolsky1a20c122011-04-12 23:03:39 -0400731
Ezio Melotti04c64232011-04-13 07:18:24 +0300732- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300733
734- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +0800735 url contains #fragment.
Ezio Melottic7533052011-04-13 07:04:18 +0300736
R David Murray3dd02d62011-04-12 21:02:45 -0400737- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
738 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
Senthil Kumaran60f02a62011-04-13 09:21:01 +0800739
brian.curtinf7eac1f2011-04-11 18:18:20 -0500740- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
741 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
742
Antoine Pitroubed9a5b2011-04-11 00:20:23 +0200743- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
744
Raymond Hettinger49353d02011-04-11 12:40:58 -0700745- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
746 difflib.unified_diff().
747
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +0200748- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200749 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being shut
750 down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
Antoine Pitrou81dee6b2011-04-11 00:18:59 +0200751
Ezio Melotti2e3607c2011-04-07 22:03:31 +0300752- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
753
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200754- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +0200755 multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200756 bytes.
R David Murrayc5c14722011-04-06 08:13:02 -0400757
Ross Lagerwall4f61b022011-04-05 15:34:00 +0200758- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
759
Antoine Pitrou9c254862011-04-03 18:15:34 +0200760- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
761 private keys.
762
Victor Stinner27181ac2011-03-31 13:39:03 +0200763- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
764 called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
765
Antoine Pitrou7899acf2011-03-31 01:00:32 +0200766- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
767
Benjamin Peterson6a2638b2011-03-28 17:32:31 -0500768- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
769 arguments.
770
Martin v. Löwisf8d887e2011-03-27 21:05:51 +0200771- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
772
Mark Dickinson92b60d52011-03-27 16:25:40 +0100773- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
774 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
775
Mark Dickinsonccd22832011-03-27 15:46:32 +0100776- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
777 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
778 documentation.
779
Martin v. Löwisa6e0b4f2011-03-27 10:14:57 +0200780- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
Martin v. Löwis9bad3a92011-03-27 10:12:07 +0200781
Ross Lagerwallb8a57692011-03-26 21:19:57 +0200782- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
783 Patch by Ben Hayden.
784
Antoine Pitrouc13d4542011-03-26 19:29:44 +0100785- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
786 concurrent.futures.
787
Raymond Hettingera0d1d962011-03-21 17:50:28 -0700788- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__
789
Raymond Hettinger1103d052011-03-25 14:15:24 -0700790- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
791 that start with a leading underscore.
792
Guido van Rossum20d2ab42011-03-29 12:58:29 -0700793- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
794 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
795
Victor Stinner628225c2011-03-21 02:38:51 +0100796- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
797 httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
798
Senthil Kumaran799c6692011-03-20 09:26:57 +0800799- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
800 class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
801 contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
802
Antoine Pitrou877766d2011-03-19 17:00:37 +0100803- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
804 unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
805
Antoine Pitrou5e981412011-03-17 22:38:37 +0100806- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
807 arguments has the wrong type. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Michael Foordf40834f2011-03-17 13:47:12 -0400808
809- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
810 setup and teardown.
811
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -0400812- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
813
R David Murraya2150232011-03-16 21:11:23 -0400814- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
815 the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
816
R David Murrayde912762011-03-16 18:26:23 -0400817- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
818 relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
819
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -0400820- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200821 which was a regression relative to Python2. Unlike Python2, the last line of
822 the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
R David Murray6d94bd42011-03-16 15:52:22 -0400823
Nick Coghlan454e11d2011-03-16 14:19:22 -0400824- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -0400825 parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
826
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -0400827- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
Benjamin Petersona78e4e62011-03-16 10:29:19 -0500828 execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
Michael Foorddcebe0f2011-03-15 19:20:44 -0400829
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -0400830- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200831 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures that
832 multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
Ronald Oussoren0b8753d2011-03-16 09:41:32 -0400833
Antoine Pitrou2c50a092011-03-15 21:02:59 +0100834- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
835 not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
836 the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
837
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -0400838- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
839 encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
840
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200841- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified IP
842 addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussorenf2db4de2011-03-14 18:46:50 -0400843
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200844- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with the
845 "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches the
846 documentation and general logic.
briancurtin525c25d2011-03-14 16:03:54 -0400847
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200848- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus operations
849 when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
Mark Dickinson37a79fb2011-03-12 11:12:52 +0000850
Ned Deilyd2853182011-03-09 02:36:51 -0800851- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
852 initialization fails.
853
Antoine Pitrou16a0a0b2011-03-06 01:11:03 +0100854- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
855 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
856 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
857
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200858- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open certain
859 files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by checking for EACCES,
860 now it also checks for EROFS.
R. David Murray752b9502011-03-03 18:12:34 +0000861
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200862- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors on
863 accept(), send() and recv().
Giampaolo Rodolà9c9105d2011-03-03 13:59:28 +0000864
Antoine Pitrou86cbfec2011-02-26 23:25:34 +0000865- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
866 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
867
Antoine Pitrou5d5381e2011-02-25 23:14:08 +0000868- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
869 occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
870
Antoine Pitroud843c2d2011-02-25 21:34:39 +0000871- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
872 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
873
Lars Gustäbel9f6cbe02011-02-23 11:52:31 +0000874- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
875 objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
876 consumption and failures with the stream interface.
877
Brett Cannon45b96d32011-02-22 03:35:18 +0000878- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
879
Antoine Pitrou97696cb2011-02-21 23:46:27 +0000880- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
881 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
882 32-bit Windows.
883
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +0000884- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
Victor Stinner02bfdb32011-02-23 12:10:23 +0000885 with large config files.
Raymond Hettingere6603602011-02-21 19:38:53 +0000886
Antoine Pitrouf3d22752011-02-21 18:09:00 +0000887- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
888 larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
889
Steven Bethard006ba5c2011-03-26 18:29:48 +0100890- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
891
Steven Bethardd8f2d502011-03-26 19:50:06 +0100892- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
893
Steven Bethardd186f992011-03-26 21:49:00 +0100894- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
895 their children.
896
Steven Bethard8a6a1982011-03-27 13:53:53 +0200897- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
898
Steven Bethard7cb20a82011-04-04 01:53:02 +0200899- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
900
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +0000901Build
902-----
903
Thomas Wouters6b103432011-03-06 11:51:24 -0800904- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
905
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200906- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation package had
907 previously been installed.
Ned Deilya16b05b2011-02-21 20:52:58 +0000908
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -0700909IDLE
910----
911
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200912- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py file in
913 a package.
Raymond Hettingerf6445e82011-04-12 18:30:14 -0700914
Antoine Pitrou375ff582011-03-11 20:57:11 +0100915Tools/Demos
916-----------
917
918- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
919
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +0300920Extension Modules
921-----------------
922
Ezio Melotti13672652011-05-11 01:02:56 +0300923- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
924 objects using the C accelerations.
925
Ezio Melotti06383ee2011-05-07 18:15:34 +0300926- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
927 objects using the C accelerations.
Benjamin Peterson1a07f072011-03-26 18:17:05 -0500928
929- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
930 to an instance of the class.
931
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +0000932Tests
933-----
934
R David Murray66a18fd2011-05-05 11:52:44 -0400935- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
936 when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
937
Antoine Pitrou72562d02011-04-25 21:22:04 +0200938- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
939
Georg Brandlcd79cdc2011-05-08 09:03:36 +0200940- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in
941 test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
Antoine Pitrouf25a8de2011-04-16 21:02:01 +0200942
Antoine Pitrouee429342011-04-16 18:53:59 +0200943- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
944
Ross Lagerwall226580e2011-04-09 20:05:04 +0200945- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
946 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
947
Antoine Pitroue44b1252011-03-23 23:02:31 +0100948- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
949
Nick Coghlanb3c728f2011-03-16 21:26:40 -0400950- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
951
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +0200952- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch by Michael Henry.
R David Murraya88da672011-03-16 17:32:27 -0400953
Michael Foord07926f02011-03-16 17:19:16 -0400954- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
955
Nick Coghlan7462fa62011-03-16 14:30:45 -0400956- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
957 Arlen.
958
Nick Coghlan296d9a62011-03-16 14:14:18 -0400959- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
960 Evan Dandrea.
961
R David Murray56a9d7e2011-03-15 12:20:02 -0400962- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
963
R David Murray384069c2011-03-13 22:26:53 -0400964- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
965 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
966
Antoine Pitroud3cccd22011-03-13 19:14:21 +0100967- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
968 non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
969
Victor Stinnerf0e293c2011-03-01 23:09:57 +0000970- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
971 Pierre Quentel.
972
Antoine Pitrou4914f9e2011-02-26 16:49:08 +0000973- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
974 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
975
Antoine Pitroua47c25d2011-02-21 21:58:42 +0000976- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
977 to open door files.
978
Ross Lagerwall810b94a2011-04-10 09:30:04 +0200979Documentation
980-------------
981
982- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
983
Martin v. Löwis7be5b782011-02-21 16:26:47 +0000984
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +0000985What's New in Python 3.2?
986=========================
987
988*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
989
990Core and Builtins
991-----------------
992
Georg Brandl032400b2011-02-19 21:47:02 +0000993- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
994
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +0000995Build
996-----
997
Georg Brandl6e8d17c2011-02-19 08:47:14 +0000998- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
999
Georg Brandl216e4042011-02-19 08:58:23 +00001000- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1001
Georg Brandl9a829be2011-02-15 15:44:51 +00001002- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1003
Georg Brandl6c9ba242011-02-19 08:44:47 +00001004Documentation
1005-------------
1006
1007- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1008
Georg Brandld5852182011-02-14 06:35:00 +00001009
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001010What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
1011=============================================
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001012
Georg Brandla6d12ef2011-02-13 10:00:57 +00001013*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001014
1015Core and Builtins
1016-----------------
1017
Martin v. Löwiscc7e23a2011-02-11 20:50:24 +00001018- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
1019
Martin v. Löwis69168062011-02-11 20:47:49 +00001020- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
1021
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001022- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
1023 ABI.
Martin v. Löwis738236d2011-02-05 20:35:29 +00001024
Martin v. Löwisd77520a2011-02-04 19:09:02 +00001025- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
1026
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001027Library
1028-------
1029
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001030- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
1031 rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
R. David Murrayfc141142011-02-11 22:47:17 +00001032
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001033- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
1034 compileall.compile_dir().
Georg Brandl45438462011-02-07 12:36:54 +00001035
Brett Cannone1445072011-02-04 20:24:02 +00001036- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
1037
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001038- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
1039 by Stan Mihai.
Antoine Pitrou0ea622a2011-01-31 21:08:57 +00001040
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001041Build
1042-----
1043
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001044- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
1045 installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
1046 includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
1047 framework under share/doc.
Ned Deilyeb698da2011-02-07 16:44:19 +00001048
Martin v. Löwis9b142aa2011-02-05 20:26:52 +00001049- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
1050
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001051Tests
1052-----
1053
Georg Brandl260a7882011-02-20 10:29:04 +00001054- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
1055 hunter feature of test.regrtest.
Nick Coghlanef316572011-02-07 13:43:07 +00001056
Georg Brandl6b449ba2011-01-31 10:39:57 +00001057
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001058What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
1059=============================================
1060
Georg Brandld6e19c32011-01-30 14:03:33 +00001061*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001062
1063Core and Builtins
1064-----------------
1065
Antoine Pitrouad62b032011-01-18 18:57:52 +00001066- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1067 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1068
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001069Library
1070-------
1071
R. David Murrayb7deff12011-01-30 06:21:28 +00001072- Issue #9124: mailbox now accepts binary input and reads and writes mailbox
1073 files in binary mode, using the email package's binary support to parse
1074 arbitrary email messages. StringIO and text file input is deprecated,
1075 and string input fails early if non-ASCII characters are used, where
1076 previously it would fail when the email was processed in a later step.
1077
Nick Coghlan793ee1f2011-01-30 01:24:08 +00001078- Issue #10845: Mitigate the incompatibility between the multiprocessing
1079 module on Windows and the use of package, zipfile or directory execution
1080 by special casing main modules that actually *are* called __main__.py.
1081
Éric Araujoac4e58e2011-01-29 20:32:11 +00001082- Issue #11045: Protect logging call against None argument.
1083
Ned Deily5c2d3302011-01-29 19:10:26 +00001084- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1085 commands.
1086
Ned Deily806c9442011-01-29 18:43:56 +00001087- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
1088 preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
1089 obscured.
1090
Ned Deily70063932011-01-29 18:29:01 +00001091- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1092 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1093 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1094
Victor Stinner80f75e62011-01-29 11:31:20 +00001095- Issue #10989: Fix a crash on SSLContext.load_verify_locations(None, True).
1096
Raymond Hettinger8b5eb2f2011-01-27 00:06:54 +00001097- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
1098 conversion.
1099
R. David Murray7372a072011-01-26 21:21:32 +00001100- Issue #11019: Fixed BytesGenerator so that it correctly handles a Message
1101 with a None body.
1102
Raymond Hettingera63a3122011-01-26 20:34:14 +00001103- Issue #11014: Make 'filter' argument in tarfile.Tarfile.add() into a
1104 keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
1105 so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
1106
Raymond Hettinger512d2cc2011-01-25 21:32:39 +00001107- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1108
Ned Deily122539e2011-01-24 21:46:44 +00001109- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
1110 with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
1111
Raymond Hettingerbf1d2bc2011-01-24 04:52:27 +00001112- Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
1113 return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.
1114
Antoine Pitroue6d4c5b2011-01-23 17:12:25 +00001115- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
1116
Georg Brandlc7c199f2011-01-22 22:06:24 +00001117- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
1118
Victor Stinnerf2e439f2011-01-23 00:11:58 +00001119- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001120 filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
1121 possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
Victor Stinner137e0f02011-01-22 10:33:01 +00001122 for all file entries in the ZIP file.
Victor Stinner4ee65a92011-01-22 10:30:29 +00001123
Vinay Sajip01241d62011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001124- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1125
Antoine Pitrou305bc9e2011-01-20 21:07:24 +00001126- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1127 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1128
Antoine Pitroue47e0932011-01-19 15:21:35 +00001129- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1130 a symbol named FSTAT.
1131
Armin Ronacher8d96d772011-01-22 13:13:05 +00001132- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
1133 encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
1134 of HTTP 1.1.
1135
Armin Ronacher59531282011-01-22 13:44:22 +00001136- To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also
1137 encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing
1138 that for incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in
1139 both incoming and outgoing direction.
1140
Steven Bethardb0270112011-01-24 21:02:50 +00001141- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1142 argparse.FileType.
Georg Brandl0c5036f2011-01-16 08:44:50 +00001143
Georg Brandld2f38572011-01-30 08:37:19 +00001144- Issue #10961: The new pydoc server now better handles exceptions raised
1145 during request handling.
1146
Georg Brandl0f6b47a2011-01-30 12:19:35 +00001147- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1148 argparse.
1149
Ned Deilye59e4c52011-01-29 18:56:28 +00001150Build
1151-----
1152
1153- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1154 the system-provided Python.
1155
1156
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001157What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
1158============================================
1159
Georg Brandl3988ed82011-01-15 17:08:53 +00001160*Release date: 16-Jan-2011*
1161
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001162Core and Builtins
1163-----------------
1164
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001165- Issue #10889: range indexing and slicing now works correctly on ranges with
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001166 a length that exceeds sys.maxsize.
Nick Coghlaneea594b2011-01-16 13:08:48 +00001167
Benjamin Peterson477ba912011-01-12 15:34:01 +00001168- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1169 class.
1170
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001171- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001172 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. Patch
1173 by Matt Bandy.
Antoine Pitrou3be412d2011-01-07 21:47:02 +00001174
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001175- Issue #10841: On Windows, set the binary mode on stdin, stdout, stderr and all
1176 io.FileIO objects (to not translate newlines, \r\n <=> \n). The Python parser
1177 translates newlines (\r\n => \n).
Victor Stinner89e34362011-01-07 18:47:22 +00001178
Martin v. Löwisc83bc3c2011-01-06 19:15:47 +00001179- Remove buffer API from stable ABI for now, see #10181.
1180
Victor Stinnerb3c9e072011-01-04 02:07:34 +00001181- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1182 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1183 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1184
Victor Stinnerdc555402011-01-04 13:15:39 +00001185- Issue #9015, #9611: FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write(), os.write() and
Victor Stinnerc655a722011-07-05 11:31:49 +02001186 stdprinter.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
Victor Stinnere6edec22011-01-04 00:29:35 +00001187
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca251a852011-01-03 00:19:11 +00001188- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1189 can now handle dates after 2038.
1190
Victor Stinner92be9392010-12-28 00:28:21 +00001191- Issue #10780: PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
1192 PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename() decode the filename from the
1193 filesystem encoding instead of UTF-8.
1194
Victor Stinnercb428f02010-12-27 20:10:36 +00001195- Issue #10779: PyErr_WarnExplicit() decodes the filename from the filesystem
1196 encoding instead of UTF-8.
1197
Georg Brandl8aa7e992010-12-28 18:30:18 +00001198- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
1199
Benjamin Peterson62f8bcb2011-04-12 18:34:30 -05001200- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a
1201 SyntaxError.
1202
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001203Library
1204-------
1205
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001206- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as length
1207 and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file is made
1208 (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrou85f46152011-01-15 16:17:07 +00001209
Ronald Oussoren6edd8c12011-05-17 13:03:54 +02001210- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1211 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1212
Ronald Oussoren78349b02011-05-06 10:57:22 +02001213- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1214 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1215 for the case.
1216
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001217- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1218 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1219 64-/32-bit installer variant.
Ned Deily4ce92b22011-01-15 04:37:12 +00001220
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001221- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
1222 as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
Victor Stinnerc5982962011-01-14 14:11:45 +00001223 cgi.FieldStorage. Patch written by Pierre Quentel (with many inputs by Glenn
1224 Linderman).
Victor Stinner5c23b8e2011-01-14 13:05:21 +00001225
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001226- Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl().
Victor Stinnerac71c542011-01-14 12:52:12 +00001227
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001228- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library. Removed
1229 function type annotations from _pyio.py.
Raymond Hettinger3c940242011-01-12 23:39:31 +00001230
Terry Reedyaacfd4a2011-01-10 21:27:49 +00001231- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1232
Antoine Pitroua4815ca2011-01-09 20:38:15 +00001233- Issue #10872: The repr() of TextIOWrapper objects now includes the mode
1234 if available.
1235
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001236- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root node
1237 twice.
Georg Brandl619e7ba2011-01-09 07:38:51 +00001238
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001239- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001240 continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space and looks
1241 like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all headers, this check
1242 is made for all headers in any serialized message at serialization time. This
1243 provides protection against header injection attacks.
R. David Murray5b2d9dd2011-01-09 02:35:24 +00001244
Antoine Pitrou67b212e2011-01-08 09:55:31 +00001245- Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
1246 private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.
1247
Raymond Hettinger23f9fc32011-01-08 07:01:56 +00001248- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1249 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1250
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001251- Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001252 non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a BytesParser) when doing conversion to 7bit-clean
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001253 presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.
R. David Murray92532142011-01-07 23:25:30 +00001254
Éric Araujof0ab5d62011-05-29 03:43:59 +02001255- email.header.Header was incorrectly encoding folding whitespace when
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001256 rfc2047-encoding header values with embedded newlines, leaving them without
1257 folding whitespace. It now uses the continuation_ws, as it does for
1258 continuation lines that it creates itself.
R. David Murray6f0022d2011-01-07 21:57:25 +00001259
Victor Stinner3ec899f2011-01-08 16:37:47 +00001260- Issue #1777412, #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The
1261 time.asctime(), time.ctime() and time.strftime() functions will now format
1262 any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is False and will accept years >= 1000
1263 otherwise. ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` now accept full range
1264 supported by the OS. With Visual Studio or on Solaris, the year is limited to
1265 the range [1; 9999]. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
Alexander Belopolskyc64708a2011-01-07 19:59:19 +00001266
Antoine Pitroue85da7a2011-01-06 18:25:55 +00001267- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1268 on an existing file.
1269
Antoine Pitroub715fac2011-01-06 17:17:04 +00001270- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1271 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1272
Victor Stinner4bd81722011-01-06 00:49:38 +00001273- Issue #10492: bdb.Bdb.run() only traces the execution of the code, not the
1274 compilation (if the input is a string).
1275
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001276- Issue #7995: When calling accept() on a socket with a timeout, the returned
Antoine Pitroudc51a3c2011-01-05 22:43:26 +00001277 socket is now always blocking, regardless of the operating system.
Antoine Pitrou600232b2011-01-05 21:03:42 +00001278
Victor Stinner8786d3d2011-01-05 03:56:22 +00001279- Issue #10756: atexit normalizes the exception before displaying it. Patch by
1280 Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinner358e11d2011-01-05 03:54:25 +00001281
R. David Murray477efb32011-01-05 01:39:32 +00001282- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
1283 for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
1284
Victor Stinnerc3a51ec2011-01-04 11:00:45 +00001285- Issue #10819: SocketIO.name property returns -1 when its closed, instead of
1286 raising a ValueError, to fix repr().
1287
Victor Stinner8848c7a2011-01-04 02:07:36 +00001288- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
1289 the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
1290 2^32-1 bytes).
1291
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001292- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork to
1293 avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
Gregory P. Smith4d419682011-01-03 21:09:23 +00001294
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001295- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard file
1296 descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial patch by Ross
1297 Lagerwall.
Antoine Pitrouc9c83ba2011-01-03 18:23:55 +00001298
Michael Foord32e1d832011-01-03 17:00:11 +00001299- `unittest.TestCase` can be instantiated without a method name; for simpler
1300 exploration from the interactive interpreter.
1301
Martin v. Löwis9f6d48b2011-01-03 00:07:01 +00001302- Issue #10798: Reject supporting concurrent.futures if the system has too
1303 few POSIX semaphores.
1304
Victor Stinnerb6f42402011-01-02 19:50:36 +00001305- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
1306 the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
1307
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001308- Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and the
1309 filenames.
Georg Brandl5ba11de2011-01-01 10:09:32 +00001310
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001311- Issue #6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott
1312 David Daniels.
Terry Reedy554e6fa2011-01-01 02:54:11 +00001313
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001314- Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in subclasses that
1315 define __missing__().
Raymond Hettingera673b1f2010-12-31 23:16:17 +00001316
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001317- Issue #10786: unittest.TextTestRunner default stream no longer bound at import
1318 time. `sys.stderr` now looked up at instantiation time. Fix contributed by
1319 Mark Roddy.
Michael Foord6f17e2d2010-12-30 19:36:29 +00001320
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001321- Issue #10753: Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment variable
1322 won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's request_uri
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001323 method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of params in
1324 PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
Senthil Kumaran299fa4c2010-12-29 06:25:42 +00001325
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001326- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts.
Terry Reedydad532f2010-12-28 19:30:19 +00001327
Georg Brandld30a0dd2011-01-01 10:07:30 +00001328- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murraye05ca2a2010-12-28 18:54:13 +00001329 browsers actually parse cookies.
1330
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001331- Issue #9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges. The
1332 function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable to create
1333 symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
Brian Curtin3b4499c2010-12-28 14:31:47 +00001334
Victor Stinnerde3aa7f2010-12-29 02:44:42 +00001335- Issue #10783: struct.pack() no longer implicitly encodes unicode to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerda9ec992010-12-28 13:26:42 +00001336
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001337- Issue #10730: Add SVG mime types to mimetypes module.
1338
Georg Brandl780d5e02010-12-28 10:56:20 +00001339- Issue #10768: Make the Tkinter ScrolledText widget work again.
1340
Georg Brandl90b20672010-12-28 10:38:33 +00001341- Issue #10777: Fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" bug in
1342 ElementTree register_namespace().
1343
Vinay Sajip67981ec2010-12-27 18:34:25 +00001344- Issue #10626: test_logging now preserves logger disabled states.
1345
1346- Issue #10774: test_logging now removes temp files created during tests.
1347
R. David Murrayb4ca59b2010-12-26 19:54:29 +00001348- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1349 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1350 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1351
Victor Stinner667d4b52010-12-25 22:40:32 +00001352- Issue #10763: subprocess.communicate() closes stdout and stderr if both are
1353 pipes (bug specific to Windows).
1354
R. David Murraydfd7eb02010-12-24 22:36:49 +00001355- Issue #1693546: fix email.message RFC 2231 parameter encoding to be in better
1356 compliance (no "s around encoded values).
1357
Raymond Hettinger1e7efdf2010-12-24 10:04:00 +00001358- Improved the diff message in the unittest module's assertCountEqual().
1359
R. David Murray4a62e892010-12-23 20:35:46 +00001360- Issue #1155362: email.utils.parsedate_tz now handles a missing space before
1361 the '-' of a timezone field as well as before a '+'.
1362
R. David Murray8d855d82010-12-21 21:53:37 +00001363- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
1364 an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
1365
Antoine Pitrou7f8f4182010-12-21 21:20:59 +00001366- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1367
Raymond Hettinger8dff4ba2010-12-31 23:23:06 +00001368- Deprecated assertDictContainsSubset() in the unittest module.
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001369
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001370C-API
1371-----
1372
Antoine Pitrou5ace8e92011-01-15 13:11:48 +00001373- Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
1374 PyEval_ReleaseLock(). The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
1375
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001376- Issue #10333: Remove ancient GC API, which has been deprecated since Python
1377 2.2.
Antoine Pitrou23683ef2011-01-04 00:00:31 +00001378
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001379Build
1380-----
1381
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001382- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
1383 installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4 (with FTS3/FTS4
1384 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char support enabled).
Ned Deily4f7ff782011-01-15 05:29:12 +00001385
Ned Deily9a1383e2011-01-10 22:14:25 +00001386- Issue #10820: Fix OS X framework installs to support version-specific
1387 scripts (#10679).
1388
Antoine Pitrouf3fcd9f2011-01-03 18:53:50 +00001389- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1390 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1391
Antoine Pitrouc2244582011-01-02 19:34:03 +00001392- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1393 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1394
Georg Brandlff52f762010-12-28 09:51:43 +00001395- Issue #10679: The "idle", "pydoc" and "2to3" scripts are now installed with
1396 a version-specific suffix on "make altinstall".
1397
David Malcolmf1397ad2011-01-06 17:01:36 +00001398- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1399 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1400 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1401 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1402
Ronald Oussoren25032492011-03-14 10:11:59 -04001403- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1404 using GCC 4.0.
1405
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001406Tools/Demos
1407-----------
1408
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001409- Issue #10843: Install the Tools directory on OS X in the applications Extras
1410 (/Applications/Python 3.n/Extras/) where the Demo directory had previous been
1411 installed.
Ned Deily916f2a82011-01-15 05:05:53 +00001412
Georg Brandl59b44722010-12-30 22:12:40 +00001413- Issue #7962: The Demo directory is gone. Most of the old and unmaintained
1414 demos have been removed, others integrated in documentation or a new
1415 Tools/demo subdirectory.
1416
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001417- Issue #10502: Addition of the unittestgui tool. Originally by Steve Purcell.
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001418 Updated for test discovery by Mark Roddy and Python 3 compatibility by Brian
1419 Curtin.
Michael Foord90efac72011-01-03 15:39:49 +00001420
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001421Tests
1422-----
1423
Nadeem Vawda58de6ee2011-04-19 01:38:47 +02001424- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1425
Antoine Pitrou318b8f32011-01-12 18:45:27 +00001426- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1427 by Ross Lagerwall.
1428
Brett Cannon63eef1e2011-01-06 22:32:41 +00001429- Make the --coverage flag work for test.regrtest.
1430
Antoine Pitrouca023ca2011-01-06 09:05:22 +00001431- Issue #1677694: Refactor and improve test_timeout. Original patch by
1432 Björn Lindqvist.
1433
Antoine Pitrou452196f2011-01-05 18:44:14 +00001434- Issue #5485: Add tests for the UseForeignDTD method of expat parser objects.
1435 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.
1436
Georg Brandl255abdd2011-01-16 14:17:26 +00001437- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default in
1438 whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an explicit
1439 list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
Antoine Pitrou3c4402f2011-01-03 20:38:52 +00001440
Raymond Hettinger8ebe27f2010-12-21 19:24:26 +00001441
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001442What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 2?
1443================================
1444
Georg Brandl8a60e942010-12-19 10:30:28 +00001445*Release date: 19-Dec-2010*
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001446
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001447Core and Builtins
1448-----------------
1449
Antoine Pitrou810023d2010-12-15 22:59:16 +00001450- Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
1451 by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
1452
R. David Murrayce4b1702010-12-14 23:06:25 +00001453- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
1454 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1455 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001456
Ezio Melottiac53ab62010-12-18 14:59:43 +00001457- Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and
1458 Daniel Urban.
1459
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001460Library
1461-------
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001462
Senthil Kumaran7bc0d872010-12-19 10:49:52 +00001463- Issue #3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch Contributions by
1464 Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
1465
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00001466- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
1467
1468- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
1469 up function.
1470
Ezio Melottiaddc6f52010-12-18 20:00:04 +00001471- Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
1472 The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
1473
R. David Murray63563cd2010-12-18 18:25:38 +00001474- Issue #9286: email.utils.parseaddr no longer concatenates blank-separated
1475 words in the local part of email addresses, thereby preserving the input.
1476
Antoine Pitrou2b37ce72010-12-18 17:59:18 +00001477- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
1478 and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1479
R. David Murrayb68a7bc2010-12-18 17:19:10 +00001480- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1481
1482- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray52d1b4e2010-12-18 03:48:32 +00001483 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1484
Antoine Pitrou401edd62010-12-17 17:42:16 +00001485- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1486 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1487
Antoine Pitrou988dbd72010-12-17 17:35:56 +00001488- Issue #10711: Remove HTTP 0.9 support from http.client. The ``strict``
1489 parameter to HTTPConnection and friends is deprecated.
1490
Senthil Kumarandca5b862010-12-17 04:48:45 +00001491- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1492 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001493
Antoine Pitrouc4924372010-12-16 16:48:36 +00001494- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1495 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1496
Éric Araujo60532bd2010-12-15 21:07:22 +00001497- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1498
Raymond Hettinger96f34102010-12-15 16:30:37 +00001499- Issue #10667: Fast path for collections.Counter().
1500
R. David Murray32ef70c2010-12-14 14:16:20 +00001501- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1502 causes debug mode to fail.
1503
R. David Murray7ec754b2010-12-13 23:51:19 +00001504- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
1505 that contain non-ascii values.
1506
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001507- Issue #10188 (partial resolution): tempfile.TemporaryDirectory emits
Nick Coghlan6b22f3f2010-12-12 15:24:21 +00001508 a warning on sys.stderr rather than throwing a misleading exception
1509 if cleanup fails due to nulling out of modules during shutdown.
1510 Also avoids an AttributeError when mkdtemp call fails and issues
1511 a ResourceWarning on implicit cleanup via __del__.
1512
Gregory P. Smithf86aa7c2010-12-13 08:07:14 +00001513- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1514
1515- Issue #7213: subprocess.Popen's default for close_fds has been changed.
Gregory P. Smith8edd99d2010-12-14 13:43:30 +00001516 It is now True in most cases other than on Windows when input, output or
1517 error handles are provided.
1518
1519- Issue #6559: subprocess.Popen has a new pass_fds parameter (actually
1520 added in 3.2beta1) to allow specifying a specific list of file descriptors
1521 to keep open in the child process.
Ronald Oussoren10e05e12010-12-07 15:28:10 +00001522
Gregory P. Smithe85db2b2010-12-14 14:38:00 +00001523- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1524 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1525 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1526
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001527Tests
1528-----
1529
1530- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1531 encountering them.
1532
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001533Tools/Demos
1534-----------
1535
Georg Brandlaedd2892010-12-19 10:10:32 +00001536- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1537 Cocoa AquaTk.
1538
Antoine Pitrou20f0fb62010-12-16 18:25:24 +00001539- Issue #10710: ``Misc/setuid-prog.c`` is removed from the source tree.
1540
Antoine Pitrou00c6b622010-12-15 15:33:18 +00001541- Issue #10706: Remove outdated script runtests.sh. Either ``make test``
1542 or ``python -m test`` should be used instead.
1543
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001544Build
1545-----
1546
Martin v. Löwis0e74cac2010-12-17 21:04:09 +00001547- The Windows build now uses Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 and sqlite3 3.7.4.
Martin v. Löwis910a4ed2010-12-17 20:43:27 +00001548
Steven Bethardfd311a72010-12-18 11:19:23 +00001549- Issue #9234: argparse supports alias names for subparsers.
1550
R. David Murrayec073312010-12-14 16:20:53 +00001551
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001552What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
1553================================
1554
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001555*Release date: 05-Dec-2010*
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001556
1557Core and Builtins
1558-----------------
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001559
Benjamin Peterson9b4e27e2010-12-07 03:47:37 +00001560- Issue #10630: Return dict views from the dict proxy keys()/values()/items()
1561 methods.
1562
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001563- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as float.__divmod__
1564 with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be 0.0, not -0.0.
Mark Dickinsond2a9b202010-12-04 12:25:30 +00001565
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001566- Issue #1772833: Add the -q command-line option to suppress copyright and
1567 version output in interactive mode.
Georg Brandl9d871192010-12-04 10:47:18 +00001568
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001569- Provide an *optimize* parameter in the built-in compile() function.
1570
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001571- Fixed several corner case issues on Windows in os.stat/os.lstat related to
1572 reparse points.
Hirokazu Yamamoto427d3142010-12-04 10:16:05 +00001573
Martin v. Löwis4d0d4712010-12-03 20:14:31 +00001574- PEP 384 (Defining a Stable ABI) is implemented.
1575
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001576- Issue #2690: Range objects support negative indices and slicing.
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00001577
Daniel Stutzbach98338222010-12-02 21:55:33 +00001578- Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key.
1579
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001580- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much
1581 larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts.
Antoine Pitrou715f3cd2010-11-30 22:23:20 +00001582
Antoine Pitroue71362d2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00001583- Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
1584
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001585- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__``
1586 method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over
1587 when decimal points are displayed.
Eric Smith984bb582010-11-25 16:08:06 +00001588
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001589- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers.
Benjamin Peterson0b458d52010-11-20 22:35:41 +00001590
R. David Murray6bb99892010-11-20 16:33:30 +00001591- Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than
1592 masking all errors.
1593
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001594Library
1595-------
1596
Vinay Sajip5a27d402010-12-10 11:42:57 +00001597- logging: added "handler of last resort". See http://bit.ly/last-resort-handler
1598
Vinay Sajip129fd042010-12-10 08:19:38 +00001599- test.support: Added TestHandler and Matcher classes for better support of
1600 assertions about logging.
1601
Éric Araujo12159152010-12-04 17:31:49 +00001602- Issue #4391: Use proper plural forms in argparse.
1603
Victor Stinner13d49ee2010-12-04 17:24:33 +00001604- Issue #10601: sys.displayhook uses 'backslashreplace' error handler on
1605 UnicodeEncodeError.
1606
Georg Brandlcbc79c72010-12-04 16:21:42 +00001607- Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands.
1608
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001609- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again
1610 after a "continue" command.
Georg Brandl44f2b642010-12-04 16:00:47 +00001611
Georg Brandl1acb7462010-12-04 11:20:26 +00001612- Add the "interact" pdb command.
1613
Georg Brandl732324a2010-12-04 11:12:43 +00001614- Issue #7905: Actually respect the keyencoding parameter to shelve.Shelf.
1615
Georg Brandlc29cc6a2010-12-04 11:02:04 +00001616- Issue #1569291: Speed up array.repeat().
1617
Georg Brandl8334fd92010-12-04 10:26:46 +00001618- Provide an interface to set the optimization level of compilation in
1619 py_compile, compileall and zipfile.PyZipFile.
1620
Senthil Kumaran10064e92010-12-04 09:44:30 +00001621- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
1622 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
1623 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
1624
Georg Brandld9e833c2010-12-04 09:14:36 +00001625- Issue #6045: dbm.gnu databases now support get() and setdefault() methods.
1626
1627- Issue #10620: `python -m unittest` can accept file paths instead of module
Michael Foord37d120a2010-12-04 01:11:21 +00001628 names for running specific tests.
1629
1630- Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`,
1631 `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_`
1632 and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite.
1633
Antoine Pitrouc4df7842010-12-03 19:59:41 +00001634- Issue #10272: The ssl module now raises socket.timeout instead of a generic
1635 SSLError on socket timeouts.
1636
Éric Araujobb48a8b2010-12-03 19:41:00 +00001637- Issue #10528: Allow translators to reorder placeholders in localizable
1638 messages from argparse.
1639
Éric Araujoa9c7a8f2010-12-03 19:19:17 +00001640- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1641
Antoine Pitrouf3b68b32010-12-03 18:41:39 +00001642- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1643 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1644 current process.
1645
Vinay Sajip61561522010-12-03 11:50:38 +00001646- logging: Added getLogRecordFactory/setLogRecordFactory with docs and tests.
1647
Georg Brandl9bd45f992010-12-03 09:58:38 +00001648- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1649
Nick Coghlan7bb30b72010-12-03 09:29:11 +00001650- Issue #2001: New HTML server with enhanced Web page features. Patch by Ron
1651 Adam.
1652
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001653- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership
1654 of non-weakrefable objects.
Georg Brandlf8de3fe2010-12-03 07:55:44 +00001655
Georg Brandld80d5f42010-12-03 07:47:22 +00001656- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1657
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001658- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent
1659 DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena.
Georg Brandl1e5c5f82010-12-03 07:38:22 +00001660
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001661- Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in
1662 subprocess.
1663
1664- Issue #10391: Don't dereference invalid memory in error messages in the ast
1665 module.
1666
1667- Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
1668 os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1669
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001670- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is
1671 held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used.
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001672
1673- Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows.
1674
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001675- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001676 failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy.
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001677
1678- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to
1679 guess at the correct parsing of invalid html.
R. David Murrayb579dba2010-12-03 04:06:39 +00001680
Brian Curtin79cdb662010-12-03 02:46:02 +00001681- Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects.
1682
R. David Murraya0b44b52010-12-02 21:47:19 +00001683- Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can
1684 override the domain name used in the generated msgid.
1685
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001686- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File
1687 exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified
1688 mode. Patch by Ray Allen.
Terry Reedy5a22b652010-12-02 07:05:56 +00001689
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001690- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of
1691 a module import.
Nick Coghlanb2ddf792010-12-02 04:11:46 +00001692
R. David Murrayd2bb8302010-12-02 02:58:07 +00001693- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1694
Raymond Hettinger482ba772010-12-01 22:48:00 +00001695- Added itertools.accumulate().
1696
Alexander Belopolsky41e422a2010-12-01 20:05:49 +00001697- Issue #4113: Added custom ``__repr__`` method to ``functools.partial``.
1698 Original patch by Daniel Urban.
1699
Ezio Melottied3a7d22010-12-01 02:32:32 +00001700- Issue #10273: Rename `assertRegexpMatches` and `assertRaisesRegexp` to
1701 `assertRegex` and `assertRaisesRegex`.
1702
Ezio Melottif10c4002010-12-01 01:45:53 +00001703- Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default.
1704
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001705- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte
1706 sequences as input in addition to character strings.
Nick Coghlan9fc443c2010-11-30 15:48:08 +00001707
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001708- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been
1709 changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.
Nick Coghlan234515a2010-11-30 06:19:46 +00001710
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001711- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs
1712 before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
1713 undefined.
Raymond Hettinger69b34bf2010-11-30 02:49:29 +00001714
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001715- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and
1716 __next__.
Raymond Hettingeread22222010-11-29 03:56:12 +00001717
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001718- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new
1719 more informative name, unittest.CountEqual.
Raymond Hettinger6e165b32010-11-27 09:31:37 +00001720
Senthil Kumaran6f107042010-11-29 11:54:17 +00001721- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1722
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001723- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can
1724 be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
Terry Reedy99f96372010-11-25 06:12:34 +00001725 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
1726
Georg Brandl68eb4642010-12-28 11:02:12 +00001727- Issue #10534: in difflib, expose bjunk and bpopular sets; deprecate
1728 undocumented and now redundant isbjunk and isbpopular methods.
Terry Reedy4b9b1972010-12-03 22:50:06 +00001729
Łukasz Langae61602f2010-11-23 00:19:53 +00001730- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
1731
Martin v. Löwis5cbc71e2010-11-22 09:00:02 +00001732- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.
1733
Senthil Kumaran249d7e32010-11-22 05:08:13 +00001734- Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
Senthil Kumaranc2958622010-11-22 04:48:26 +00001735 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1736
Brian Curtinf9916422010-11-21 23:45:10 +00001737- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1738 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1739
Michael Foord086f3082010-11-21 21:28:01 +00001740- Issue #10470: 'python -m unittest' will now run test discovery by default,
1741 when no extra arguments have been provided.
1742
Senthil Kumarane4dad4f2010-11-21 14:36:14 +00001743- Issue #3709: BaseHTTPRequestHandler will buffer the headers and write to
1744 output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an
1745 internal optimization. Patch by endian.
1746
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001747- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho
1748 Eckhardt.
Nick Coghlane0f04652010-11-21 03:44:04 +00001749
R. David Murray650f1472010-11-20 21:18:51 +00001750- Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus
1751 provides clean output when called with '-h'.
1752
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001753- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch
1754 by Rodolpho Eckhardt.
Antoine Pitroua78f74c2010-11-20 20:03:08 +00001755
Éric Araujoe7606642010-11-20 19:37:28 +00001756- Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils.
1757
Ezio Melottib3aedd42010-11-20 19:04:17 +00001758- Issue #10371: Deprecated undocumented functions in the trace module.
Alexander Belopolsky44454af2010-11-20 18:21:07 +00001759
Benjamin Petersonfa735552010-11-20 17:24:04 +00001760- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1761 end of the file.
1762
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00001763- configparser: 100% test coverage.
1764
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00001765- Issue #10499: configparser supports pluggable interpolation handlers. The
1766 default classic interpolation handler is called BasicInterpolation. Another
Łukasz Langab6a6f5f2010-12-03 16:28:00 +00001767 interpolation handler added (ExtendedInterpolation) which supports the syntax
1768 used by zc.buildout (e.g. interpolation between sections).
1769
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00001770- configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
1771 The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
1772 is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
Michael Foordb3468f72010-12-19 03:19:47 +00001773
Łukasz Langa1ac0d7a2010-12-16 01:42:36 +00001774- configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
1775 in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).
1776
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00001777- Issue #1682942: configparser supports alternative option/value delimiters.
1778
1779- Issue #5412: configparser supports mapping protocol access.
1780
1781- Issue #9411: configparser supports specifying encoding for read operations.
1782
1783- Issue #9421: configparser's getint(), getfloat() and getboolean() methods
1784 accept vars and default arguments just like get() does.
1785
Łukasz Langa71b37a52010-12-17 21:56:32 +00001786- Issue #9452: configparser supports reading from strings and dictionaries
1787 (thanks to the mapping protocol API, the latter can be used to copy data
1788 between parsers).
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00001789
1790- configparser: accepted INI file structure is now customizable, including
1791 comment prefixes, name of the DEFAULT section, empty lines in multiline
1792 values, and indentation.
1793
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001794- Issue #10326: unittest.TestCase instances can be pickled.
Michael Foord8ca6d982010-11-20 15:34:26 +00001795
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01001796- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
Michael Foordc610e3e2010-11-20 17:50:34 +00001797
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001798- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex
1799 zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero.
1800 This fixes a test failure on AIX.
Mark Dickinson4ccc1372010-11-20 11:08:27 +00001801
Michael Foord95fc51d2010-11-20 15:07:30 +00001802- Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module.
1803
Alexander Belopolsky9a4030e2010-11-18 03:50:18 +00001804- Issue #10446: Module documentation generated by pydoc now links to a
1805 version-specific online reference manual.
1806
Brett Cannon0ffe6a92010-11-18 03:03:04 +00001807- Make the 'No module named' exception message from importlib consistent.
1808
Antoine Pitrou664c2d12010-11-17 20:29:42 +00001809- Issue #10443: Add the SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths() method.
1810
Antoine Pitroub6d4ee52010-11-17 16:19:35 +00001811- Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module.
1812 Patch by Robert Collins.
1813
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001814- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather
1815 than strings.
Antoine Pitroudbe75192010-11-16 17:55:26 +00001816
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00001817C-API
1818-----
1819
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00001820- Issue #10557: Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001821 which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their ASCII
1822 equivalents.
Alexander Belopolsky942af5a2010-12-04 03:38:46 +00001823
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001824- Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly
1825 zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001826 extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by
1827 "-W").
Georg Brandl106a54d2010-12-03 07:37:16 +00001828
1829- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil
1830 Schemenauer.
1831
Georg Brandl71c23d42010-11-30 09:30:54 +00001832- structseq.h is now included in Python.h.
1833
Benjamin Petersonf6096542010-11-17 22:33:12 +00001834- Loosen PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments to allow dict subclasses.
1835
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00001836Tests
1837-----
1838
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001839- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001840 when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module.
Nick Coghlan4c4c0f22010-12-03 07:44:33 +00001841
Georg Brandl41ea8ae2010-12-04 19:09:24 +00001842- `python -m test` can be used to run the test suite as well as `python -m
1843 test.regrtest`.
Michael Foord3ab34cc2010-12-03 12:27:40 +00001844
Georg Brandl9af2a6e2010-12-03 09:18:37 +00001845- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be
1846 looked up.
Georg Brandl89197fe2010-11-20 14:16:17 +00001847
Łukasz Langa45ec4262010-11-20 16:16:24 +00001848- Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric
1849 Carstensen.
Brian Curtin8fb9b862010-11-18 02:15:28 +00001850
Mark Dickinson6646cd42010-11-20 10:43:10 +00001851Build
1852-----
1853
1854- Issue #10325: Fix two issues in the fallback definitions for PY_ULLONG_MAX and
1855 PY_LLONG_MAX that made them unsuitable for use in preprocessor conditionals.
1856
Ezio Melotti17f9b3d2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00001857Documentation
1858-------------
1859
1860- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1861
Georg Brandl9b0034d2010-11-16 15:15:56 +00001862
Georg Brandlb8bbffd2010-11-08 16:57:52 +00001863What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 4?
1864=================================
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001865
Georg Brandl24854ca2010-11-13 06:39:58 +00001866*Release date: 13-Nov-2010*
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001867
1868Core and Builtins
1869-----------------
1870
Antoine Pitroucf9f9802010-11-10 13:55:25 +00001871- Issue #10372: Import the warnings module only after the IO library is
1872 initialized, so as to avoid bootstrap issues with the '-W' option.
1873
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001874- Issue #10293: Remove obsolete field in the PyMemoryView structure, unused
1875 undocumented value PyBUF_SHADOW, and strangely-looking code in
Antoine Pitrouaeb6cee2010-11-04 20:30:33 +00001876 PyMemoryView_GetContiguous.
1877
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00001878- Issue #6081: Add str.format_map(), similar to ``str.format(**mapping)``.
Eric Smith27bbca62010-11-04 17:06:58 +00001879
Benjamin Petersonbbb04122010-10-30 23:16:28 +00001880- If FileIO.__init__ fails, close the file descriptor.
1881
Raymond Hettingerdd421542010-10-30 08:10:29 +00001882- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1883 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1884
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001885- Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not keep traceback
Antoine Pitrou07e20ef2010-10-28 22:56:58 +00001886 data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely.
1887
Benjamin Peterson503d6c52010-10-24 02:52:05 +00001888- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
1889 of the offending line.
1890
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001891- Issue #10089: Add support for arbitrary -X options on the command line. They
1892 can be retrieved through a new attribute ``sys._xoptions``.
Antoine Pitrou9583cac2010-10-21 13:42:28 +00001893
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001894- Issue #4388: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from UTF-8, instead of
1895 the locale encoding. If the LANG (and LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) environment
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00001896 variable is not set, the locale encoding is ISO-8859-1, whereas most programs
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001897 (including Python) expect UTF-8. Python already uses UTF-8 for the filesystem
Victor Stinnerf933e1a2010-10-20 22:58:25 +00001898 encoding and to encode command line arguments on this OS.
1899
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001900- Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (e.g. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expect
1901 filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with the surrogateescape error
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00001902 handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
1903
Benjamin Peterson230b2062010-10-16 03:45:45 +00001904- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1905 resolution.
1906
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001907- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding its value as
1908 the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
R. David Murraye16cda92010-10-15 23:12:57 +00001909
Victor Stinnerf3170cc2010-10-15 12:04:23 +00001910- Use locale encoding instead of UTF-8 to encode and decode filenames if
1911 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set.
1912
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001913- Issue #10095: fp_setreadl() doesn't reopen the file, instead reuse the file
Victor Stinner22a351a2010-10-14 12:04:34 +00001914 descriptor.
1915
Georg Brandl66c221e2010-10-14 07:04:07 +00001916- Issue #9418: Moved private string methods ``_formatter_parser`` and
1917 ``_formatter_field_name_split`` into a new ``_string`` module.
1918
Victor Stinner8f6b6b02010-10-13 22:02:27 +00001919- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
1920
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00001921Library
1922-------
1923
Georg Brandl9f1c1dc2010-11-20 11:25:01 +00001924- Issue #10465: fix broken delegating of attributes by gzip._PaddedFile.
1925
Stefan Krahdc817b22010-11-17 11:16:34 +00001926- Issue #10356: Decimal.__hash__(-1) should return -2.
1927
Vinay Sajip8593ae62010-11-14 21:33:04 +00001928- Issue #1553375: logging: Added stack_info kwarg to display stack information.
1929
Senthil Kumaran74ebd9e2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00001930- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1931
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001932- Fix Fraction.__hash__ so that Fraction.__hash__(-1) is -2. (See also issue
1933 #10356.)
Mark Dickinsonfec66202010-11-13 10:27:38 +00001934
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001935- Issue #4471: Add the IMAP.starttls() method to enable encryption on standard
1936 IMAP4 connections. Original patch by Lorenzo M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitrouf3b001f2010-11-12 18:49:16 +00001937
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001938- Issue #1466065: Add 'validate' option to base64.b64decode to raise an error if
1939 there are non-base64 alphabet characters in the input.
R. David Murray64951362010-11-11 20:09:20 +00001940
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001941- Issue #10386: Add __all__ to token module; this simplifies importing in
Georg Brandl54445ad2010-11-20 10:24:34 +00001942 tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through ``import *``.
Alexander Belopolskyb9d10d02010-11-11 14:07:41 +00001943
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001944- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by Lorenzo
1945 M. Catucci.
Antoine Pitroud79f3c82010-11-09 23:10:33 +00001946
Antoine Pitroub1436f12010-11-09 22:55:55 +00001947- Fix IMAP.login() to work properly.
1948
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001949- Issue #9244: multiprocessing pool worker processes could terminate
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001950 unexpectedly if the return value of a task could not be pickled. Only the
1951 ``repr`` of such errors are now sent back, wrapped in an
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001952 ``MaybeEncodingError`` exception.
1953
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001954- Issue #9244: The ``apply_async()`` and ``map_async()`` methods of
1955 ``multiprocessing.Pool`` now accepts a ``error_callback`` argument. This can
1956 be a callback with the signature ``callback(exc)``, which will be called if
1957 the target raises an exception.
Ask Soleme912f5a2010-11-09 21:14:53 +00001958
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001959- Issue #10022: The dictionary returned by the ``getpeercert()`` method of SSL
1960 sockets now has additional items such as ``issuer`` and ``notBefore``.
Antoine Pitroufb046912010-11-09 20:21:19 +00001961
Antoine Pitrou859c4ef2010-11-09 18:58:42 +00001962- ``usenetrc`` is now false by default for NNTP objects.
1963
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001964- Issue #1926: Add support for NNTP over SSL on port 563, as well as STARTTLS.
1965 Patch by Andrew Vant.
Antoine Pitrou1cb121e2010-11-09 18:54:37 +00001966
Victor Stinner58c07522010-11-09 01:08:59 +00001967- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
1968 tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
1969
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001970- Issue #10321: Add support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail, and a new
1971 method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.
R. David Murray7dff9e02010-11-08 17:15:13 +00001972
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00001973- Issue #6011: sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig use the surrogateescape error
1974 handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
1975 code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
1976 ASCII.
1977
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00001978- Issue #10329: The trace module writes reports using the input Python script
Éric Araujoa5633922010-11-08 17:13:03 +00001979 encoding, instead of the locale encoding. Patch written by Alexander
Victor Stinner64bc3b22010-11-07 15:47:36 +00001980 Belopolsky.
1981
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00001982- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1983 --enable-shared.
1984
Éric Araujoba7209f2010-11-06 04:48:05 +00001985- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1986 Arfrever.
1987
Éric Araujo909ddbd2010-11-06 04:24:00 +00001988- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1989
Éric Araujo89c04782010-11-05 23:58:34 +00001990- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1991 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1992
Antoine Pitrou243757e2010-11-05 21:15:39 +00001993- Issue #10180: Pickling file objects is now explicitly forbidden, since
1994 unpickling them produced nonsensical results.
1995
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00001996- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its
1997 low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Antoine Pitrou39a65912010-11-05 19:47:27 +00001998
Antoine Pitroua0781152010-11-05 19:16:37 +00001999- Issue #10282: Add a ``nntp_implementation`` attribute to NNTP objects.
2000
Antoine Pitrou08eeada2010-11-04 21:36:15 +00002001- Issue #10283: Add a ``group_pattern`` argument to NNTP.list().
2002
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002003- Issue #10155: Add IISCGIHandler to wsgiref.handlers to support IIS CGI
2004 environment better, and to correct unicode environment values for WSGI 1.0.1.
Phillip J. Ebyb6d4a8e2010-11-03 22:39:01 +00002005
Antoine Pitrou4103bc02010-11-03 18:18:43 +00002006- Issue #10281: nntplib now returns None for absent fields in the OVER/XOVER
2007 response, instead of raising an exception.
2008
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002009- wsgiref now implements and validates PEP 3333, rather than an experimental
2010 extension of PEP 333. (Note: earlier versions of Python 3.x may have
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002011 incorrectly validated some non-compliant applications as WSGI compliant; if
2012 your app validates with Python <3.2b1+, but not on this version, it is likely
2013 the case that your app was not compliant.)
Phillip J. Ebya01799f2010-11-03 00:46:45 +00002014
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002015- Issue #10280: NNTP.nntp_version should reflect the highest version advertised
2016 by the server.
Antoine Pitrouf80b3f72010-11-02 22:31:52 +00002017
Martin v. Löwis16f344d2010-11-01 21:39:13 +00002018- Issue #10184: Touch directories only once when extracting a tarfile.
2019
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002020- Issue #10199: New package, ``turtledemo`` now contains selected demo scripts
2021 that were formerly found under Demo/turtle.
Alexander Belopolskyea13d9d2010-11-01 17:39:37 +00002022
Antoine Pitrou4d984892010-10-31 21:27:04 +00002023- Issue #10265: Close file objects explicitly in sunau. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2024
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002025- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a
2026 filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrouf5698262010-10-31 16:04:14 +00002027
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002028- Issue #10110: Queue objects didn't recognize full queues when the maxsize
2029 parameter had been reduced.
Raymond Hettinger189316a2010-10-31 17:57:52 +00002030
Antoine Pitroue9745712010-10-31 15:26:04 +00002031- Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter. Patch by Christos Georgiou.
2032
Vinay Sajip65b4af32010-10-31 15:11:43 +00002033- logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2034
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002035- Issue #5729: json.dumps() now supports using a string such as '\t' for
2036 pretty-printing multilevel objects.
Raymond Hettingerb643ef82010-10-31 08:00:16 +00002037
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002038- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for
2039 append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou8d2b51b2010-10-30 16:19:14 +00002040
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002041- Support context manager protocol for file-like objects returned by mailbox
2042 ``get_file()`` methods.
Georg Brandl6ce29fa2010-10-30 14:33:28 +00002043
Antoine Pitroubfa34702010-10-30 13:03:56 +00002044- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2045 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2046
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002047- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is
2048 called without data.
Georg Brandlcc2adbc2010-10-30 08:29:28 +00002049
Brett Cannon028011f2010-10-30 00:26:48 +00002050- Close file objects in modulefinder in a timely manner.
2051
Brett Cannon01105782010-10-30 00:18:54 +00002052- Close a io.TextIOWrapper object in email.parser in a timely manner.
2053
2054- Close a file object in distutils.sysconfig in a timely manner.
2055
2056- Close a file object in pkgutil in a timely manner.
2057
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002058- Issue #10233: Close file objects in a timely manner in the tarfile module and
2059 its test suite.
Antoine Pitroue1eca4e2010-10-29 23:49:49 +00002060
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002061- Issue #10093: ResourceWarnings are now issued when files and sockets are
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002062 deallocated without explicit closing. These warnings are silenced by default,
2063 except in pydebug mode.
Antoine Pitroue033e062010-10-29 10:38:18 +00002064
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002065- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse extensions
2066 and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
Lars Gustäbel9cbdd752010-10-29 09:08:19 +00002067
Georg Brandlb9a43912010-10-28 09:03:20 +00002068- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
2069
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002070- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name and
2071 deprecate the old name ``zipfile.BadZipfile``.
Georg Brandl4d540882010-10-28 06:42:33 +00002072
Antoine Pitrou6b03ee62010-10-27 18:33:30 +00002073- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2074 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2075 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2076
Georg Brandl7424dd32010-10-27 07:27:06 +00002077- Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
2078
2079- Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
R. David Murrayba488d12010-10-26 12:42:24 +00002080
Vinay Sajipa39c5712010-10-25 13:57:39 +00002081- logging: Added style option to Formatter to allow %, {} or $-formatting.
2082
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002083- Issue #5178: Added tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class that can be used as a
2084 context manager.
Nick Coghlan543af752010-10-24 11:23:25 +00002085
R. David Murray8451c4b2010-10-23 22:19:56 +00002086- Issue #1349106: Generator (and BytesGenerator) flatten method and Header
2087 encode method now support a 'linesep' argument.
2088
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002089- Issue #5639: Add a *server_hostname* argument to ``SSLContext.wrap_socket`` in
2090 order to support the TLS SNI extension. ``HTTPSConnection`` and ``urlopen()``
2091 also use this argument, so that HTTPS virtual hosts are now supported.
Antoine Pitroud5323212010-10-22 18:19:07 +00002092
Georg Brandl83938432010-10-22 06:28:01 +00002093- Issue #10166: Avoid recursion in pstats Stats.add() for many stats items.
2094
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002095- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes initialization.
Brian Curtin000f9742010-10-21 14:11:48 +00002096
Vinay Sajip2a20dfc2010-10-20 20:05:38 +00002097- logging: Made StreamHandler terminator configurable.
2098
Vinay Sajip6dbed2e2010-10-19 20:53:01 +00002099- logging: Allowed filters to be just callables.
2100
Vinay Sajip6fac8172010-10-19 20:44:14 +00002101- logging: Added tests for _logRecordClass changes.
2102
Georg Brandl7004bd12010-10-19 18:54:25 +00002103- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2104
Vinay Sajip062d56b2010-10-19 15:26:24 +00002105- logging: Added _logRecordClass, getLogRecordClass, setLogRecordClass to
2106 increase flexibility of LogRecord creation.
2107
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002108- Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). Also fixed
2109 root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from
2110 ntpath.)
Hirokazu Yamamotob08820a2010-10-18 12:13:18 +00002111
R. David Murraya90032a2010-10-17 22:46:45 +00002112- Issue #1343: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator now has an option
2113 short_empty_elements to direct it to use self-closing tags when appropriate.
2114
Barry Warsawf6219a52010-10-16 01:20:45 +00002115- Issue #9807 (part 1): Expose the ABI flags in sys.abiflags. Add --abiflags
2116 switch to python-config for command line access.
2117
Georg Brandl3844f0d2010-10-15 18:00:35 +00002118- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2119
Georg Brandlb9cd72a2010-10-15 17:58:45 +00002120- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2121 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2122
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002123- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
Victor Stinner4c7c8c32010-10-16 13:14:10 +00002124 characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
Georg Brandl1f7fffb2010-10-15 15:57:45 +00002125
Georg Brandld2413422010-10-15 16:42:14 +00002126- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunad9f57632010-10-14 20:56:20 +00002127 debugging in doctests.
2128
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002129- Issue #9183: ``datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))`` will now return the
2130 same instance as ``datetime.timezone.utc``.
Alexander Belopolsky1bcbaab2010-10-14 17:03:51 +00002131
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002132- Issue #7523: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK to the socket module, where
2133 supported by the system. Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
Antoine Pitroub1c54962010-10-14 15:05:38 +00002134
2135- Issue #10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002136 protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002137 not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried to
2138 access via file:// scheme.
Senthil Kumaran383c32d2010-10-14 11:57:35 +00002139
Georg Brandl268e4d42010-10-14 06:59:45 +00002140- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2141 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2142 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2143
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002144- Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't
2145 match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to
2146 TextIOWrapper in text mode. Patch by Kai Zhu.
Antoine Pitrou834bd812010-10-13 16:17:14 +00002147
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002148- Issue #9003: http.client.HTTPSConnection, urllib.request.HTTPSHandler and
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002149 urllib.request.urlopen now take optional arguments to allow for server
2150 certificate checking, as recommended in public uses of HTTPS.
Antoine Pitrou803e6d62010-10-13 10:36:15 +00002151
Victor Stinner11b1f3d2010-10-12 22:42:37 +00002152- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2153 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2154
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002155- Issue #3873: Speed up unpickling from file objects that have a peek() method.
Antoine Pitrou04248a82010-10-12 20:51:21 +00002156
Antoine Pitroub0182c82010-10-12 20:09:02 +00002157- Issue #10075: Add a session_stats() method to SSLContext objects.
2158
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002159- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2160
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002161Extension Modules
2162-----------------
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002163
Alexander Belopolskyef4a03f2011-01-11 21:44:00 +00002164- Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
2165 initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
2166
Hirokazu Yamamoto4ae5f132010-11-07 14:29:26 +00002167- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound only accepts unicode.
2168
Hirokazu Yamamotoc08c9bc2010-11-07 09:23:15 +00002169- Issue #6317: Now winsound.PlaySound can accept non ascii filename.
2170
Martin v. Löwis72f48422010-10-29 18:20:08 +00002171- Issue #9377: Use Unicode API for gethostname on Windows.
2172
Jesus Cea7e9065c2010-10-25 13:02:04 +00002173- Issue #10143: Update "os.pathconf" values.
2174
Georg Brandl1e908af2010-10-23 17:31:52 +00002175- Issue #6518: Support context manager protcol for ossaudiodev types.
2176
R. David Murraye194dd62010-10-18 01:14:06 +00002177- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2178
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002179- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat
2180 version 2.0.1.
Georg Brandlc01537f2010-10-15 16:26:08 +00002181
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002182- Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string descriptions
2183 and backwards, in order to actually make it possible to analyze error codes
2184 provided by ExpatError.
Georg Brandlb4dac712010-10-15 14:46:48 +00002185
Martin v. Löwis44270f12010-10-11 22:50:33 +00002186- The Unicode database was updated to 6.0.0.
2187
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002188C-API
2189-----
2190
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002191- Issue #10288: The deprecated family of "char"-handling macros
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002192 (ISLOWER()/ISUPPER()/etc) have now been removed: use Py_ISLOWER() etc instead.
David Malcolm96960882010-11-05 17:23:41 +00002193
Benjamin Peterson8f67d082010-10-17 20:54:53 +00002194- Issue #9778: Hash values are now always the size of pointers. A new Py_hash_t
2195 type has been introduced.
2196
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002197Tools/Demos
2198-----------
2199
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002200- Issue #10117: Tools/scripts/reindent.py now accepts source files that use
2201 encoding other than ASCII or UTF-8. Source encoding is preserved when
2202 reindented code is written to a file.
Alexander Belopolsky4a98e3b2010-10-18 14:43:38 +00002203
Benjamin Petersonaa965922010-10-13 21:59:36 +00002204- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2205
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002206Tests
2207-----
2208
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002209- Issue #3699: Fix test_bigaddrspace and extend it to test bytestrings as well
2210 as unicode strings. Initial patch by Sandro Tosi.
Antoine Pitrou99c48302010-11-04 20:48:37 +00002211
Brett Cannoned82ca12010-11-02 19:27:59 +00002212- Issue #10294: Remove dead code form test_unicode_file.
2213
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002214- Issue #10123: Don't use non-ascii filenames in test_doctest tests. Add a new
2215 test specific to unicode (non-ascii name and filename).
Victor Stinner9d396392010-10-16 21:54:59 +00002216
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002217Build
2218-----
2219
Benjamin Peterson076ed002010-10-31 17:11:02 +00002220- Issue #10268: Add a --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions option to configure.
2221
Antoine Pitroub156a462010-10-27 20:13:57 +00002222- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2223
Martin v. Löwisc980ffd2010-10-17 19:36:54 +00002224- Drop -OPT:Olimit compiler option.
2225
Matthias Klose3fbfea12010-10-14 15:24:22 +00002226- Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
2227
Matthias Klose8690ae52010-10-17 13:22:33 +00002228- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
2229
Georg Brandl4fbc0d82010-11-13 13:25:40 +00002230- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different set
2231 of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenf3500e12010-10-20 13:10:12 +00002232
Martin v. Löwise8930222010-10-11 22:38:01 +00002233
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002234What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
2235=================================
2236
Georg Brandl002fa2d2010-10-10 09:40:34 +00002237*Release date: 09-Oct-2010*
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002238
2239Core and Builtins
2240-----------------
2241
Benjamin Peterson5c4bfc42010-10-12 22:57:59 +00002242- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2243 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2244
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002245- Issue #9738: Document PyErr_SetString() and PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002246 encodings.
Victor Stinner257d38f2010-10-09 10:12:11 +00002247
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002248- ast.literal_eval() can now handle negative numbers. It is also a little more
2249 liberal in what it accepts without compromising the safety of the evaluation.
2250 For example, 3j+4 and 3+4+5 are both accepted.
Raymond Hettingerbc959732010-10-08 00:47:45 +00002251
Benjamin Peterson970d1882010-10-02 17:55:47 +00002252- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError. As a
2253 result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
2254
Victor Stinneraef57e32010-10-02 11:50:49 +00002255- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
2256
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002257- Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002258 UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE and
2259 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002260
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002261- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinner5593d8a2010-10-02 11:11:27 +00002262 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin9e88b5a2010-10-01 14:49:24 +00002263
Victor Stinner137c34c2010-09-29 10:25:54 +00002264- Issue #9979: Create function PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
2265
Brett Cannon5305a992010-09-27 21:08:38 +00002266- Issue #7397: Mention that importlib.import_module() is probably what someone
2267 really wants to be using in __import__'s docstring.
2268
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002269- Issue #8521: Allow CreateKeyEx, OpenKeyEx, and DeleteKeyEx functions of winreg
2270 to use named arguments.
Brian Curtin1771b542010-09-27 17:56:36 +00002271
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002272- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002273 float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the expected 1.5.
Mark Dickinsonb09a3d62010-09-23 20:11:19 +00002274
Brian Curtine8e4b3b2010-09-23 20:04:14 +00002275- Issue #9808: Implement os.getlogin for Windows. Patch by Jon Anglin.
2276
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002277- Issue #9901: Destroying the GIL in Py_Finalize() can fail if some other
2278 threads are still running. Instead, reinitialize the GIL on a second call to
2279 Py_Initialize().
2280
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002281- All SyntaxErrors now have a column offset and therefore a caret when the error
2282 is printed.
Antoine Pitroub0b384b2010-09-20 20:13:48 +00002283
Brett Cannonbc2eff32010-09-19 21:39:02 +00002284- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
2285 module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
2286
Nick Coghlan37ee8502010-12-03 14:26:13 +00002287- Issue #9213: The range type_items now provides index() and count() methods, to
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002288 conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and Daniel Stutzbach.
Daniel Stutzbach9f0cbf12010-09-13 21:16:29 +00002289
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002290- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2291 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2292 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2293 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
2294 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
2295 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithe4d63172010-09-13 20:48:43 +00002296
Antoine Pitrou1df15362010-09-13 14:16:46 +00002297- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
2298 re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
2299 wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
2300
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb73072010-09-12 22:42:57 +00002301- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
2302 functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
2303 locale aware and created subtly wrong results.
2304
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002305- Issue #9738: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyErr_Format() raise an error on a
2306 non-ASCII byte in the format string.
Victor Stinner1205f272010-09-11 00:54:47 +00002307
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcba117ef2010-09-10 21:39:53 +00002308- Issue #4617: Previously it was illegal to delete a name from the local
2309 namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
2310 of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
2311
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002312- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as a single
2313 ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable or not.
2314 Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate pairs into a
2315 single character on UCS-2 builds.
Antoine Pitroue4a18922010-09-09 20:30:23 +00002316
Antoine Pitrou6e6cc832010-09-09 12:59:39 +00002317- Issue #9757: memoryview objects get a release() method to release the
2318 underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
2319 memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.
2320
Antoine Pitrou079ce542010-09-08 12:37:10 +00002321- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2322 thread-local storage key.
2323
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002324Library
2325-------
2326
Éric Araujo0cfba092010-11-08 21:48:23 +00002327- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2328
Éric Araujoe7cf9542010-11-06 15:01:07 +00002329- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2330
2331- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2332
2333- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2334 not in build_clib.
2335
Antoine Pitroudbec7802010-10-10 09:37:12 +00002336- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2337
R. David Murray96fd54e2010-10-08 15:55:28 +00002338- Issue #4661: email can now parse bytes input and generate either converted
2339 7bit output or bytes output. Email version bumped to 5.1.0.
2340
Antoine Pitrou59fdd672010-10-08 10:37:08 +00002341- Issue #1589: Add ssl.match_hostname(), to help implement server identity
2342 verification for higher-level protocols.
2343
Antoine Pitrou7980eaa2010-10-06 21:21:18 +00002344- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2345 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2346
Éric Araujo6108bf52010-10-04 23:52:37 +00002347- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2348 gettext.
2349
Éric Araujoef777bd2010-10-05 00:04:20 +00002350- Issue #6706: asyncore.dispatcher now provides a handle_accepted() method
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002351 returning a (sock, addr) pair which is called when a connection has been
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002352 established with a new remote endpoint. This is supposed to be used as a
Giampaolo Rodolà977c7072010-10-04 21:08:36 +00002353 replacement for old handle_accept() and avoids the user to call accept()
2354 directly.
2355
Lars Gustäbel331b8002010-10-04 15:18:47 +00002356- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2357 gname field.
2358
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002359- Issue #8980: Fixed a failure in distutils.command check that was shadowed by
2360 an environment that does not have docutils. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé4bcceef2010-10-03 14:18:09 +00002361
R. David Murray5397e862010-10-02 15:58:26 +00002362- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2363 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2364
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002365- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted with
2366 invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
R. David Murray31e984c2010-10-01 15:40:20 +00002367
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002368- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a ``100 Continue`` response before
2369 sending a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
Senthil Kumaran0f476d42010-09-30 06:09:18 +00002370
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002371- Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module. The API now
2372 conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3. A
2373 test suite has also been added.
Antoine Pitrou69ab9512010-09-29 15:03:40 +00002374
Antoine Pitrouc3ed2e72010-09-29 10:49:46 +00002375- Issue #9962: GzipFile now has the peek() method.
2376
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002377- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002378 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select() can
2379 incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it received
2380 some data with an invalid checksum).
Antoine Pitrou3e1fd272010-09-28 21:23:11 +00002381
Hirokazu Yamamotocc868d42010-09-28 21:08:38 +00002382- Issue #3612: Added new types to ctypes.wintypes. (CHAR and pointers)
2383
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002384- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002385 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary, and
2386 retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets with a
2387 timeout.
Antoine Pitrou6d7df632010-09-27 17:52:25 +00002388
Vinay Sajip9fdd11b2010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002389- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2390
Vinay Sajip32fb6a82010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002391- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2392
Alexander Belopolskyff09ce22010-09-24 18:03:12 +00002393- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2394
Brian Curtin0dac8082010-09-23 20:38:14 +00002395- Issue #9790: Rework imports necessary for samefile and sameopenfile
2396 in ntpath.
2397
Antoine Pitrou70c60442010-09-23 19:51:39 +00002398- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2399
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002400- Issue #1675951: Allow GzipFile to work with unseekable file objects. Patch by
2401 Florian Festi.
Antoine Pitrou7b969842010-09-23 16:22:51 +00002402
Vinay Sajip0637d492010-09-23 08:15:54 +00002403- Logging: Added QueueListener class to facilitate logging usage for
2404 performance-critical threads.
2405
Barry Warsaw31c604d2010-09-22 20:58:04 +00002406- Issue #9916: Add some missing errno symbols.
2407
Benjamin Peterson0dc97ed2010-09-21 21:28:47 +00002408- Issue #9877: Expose sysconfig.get_makefile_filename()
2409
2410- logging: Added hasHandlers() method to Logger and LoggerAdapter.
2411
Antoine Pitrou38425292010-09-21 18:19:07 +00002412- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
2413
Antoine Pitrou52d42502010-09-21 16:08:27 +00002414- Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
2415 object, only munmap().
2416
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002417- logging: Changed LoggerAdapter implementation internally, to make it easier to
2418 subclass in a useful way.
Vinay Sajip212b5902010-09-21 11:31:32 +00002419
Vinay Sajipc84f0162010-09-21 11:25:39 +00002420- logging: hasHandlers method was added to Logger, and isEnabledFor,
2421 getEffectiveLevel, hasHandlers and setLevel were added to LoggerAdapter.
2422 LoggerAdapter was introduced into the unit tests for logging.
2423
Florent Xiclunaeb19dce2010-09-18 23:34:07 +00002424- Issue #1686: Fix string.Template when overriding the pattern attribute.
2425
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002426- Issue #9854: SocketIO objects now observe the RawIOBase interface in
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002427 non-blocking mode: they return None when an operation would block (instead of
2428 raising an exception).
Antoine Pitrou98b46702010-09-18 22:59:00 +00002429
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd61d0772010-09-17 23:27:09 +00002430- Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tk.font.Font and an object of
2431 another kind.
2432
Vinay Sajip19ec67a2010-09-17 18:57:36 +00002433- Issue #9441: logging has better coverage for rotating file handlers.
2434
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002435- Issue #9865: collections.OrderedDict now has a __sizeof__ method.
Raymond Hettinger35c87f22010-09-16 19:10:17 +00002436
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002437- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now handles
2438 non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
Antoine Pitrou328ec742010-09-14 18:37:24 +00002439
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002440- Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket objects
2441 supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw" _socket.socket
2442 objects).
Antoine Pitrou9e0b8642010-09-14 18:00:02 +00002443
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002444- Issue #9853: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and SSLSocket.sendto()
2445 to match the corresponding socket methods.
Antoine Pitroua468adc2010-09-14 14:43:44 +00002446
Éric Araujod8c73c62011-03-21 03:15:22 +01002447- Issue #9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods to make
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002448 them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
Raymond Hettinger98a5f3f2010-09-13 21:36:00 +00002449
Vinay Sajipaf9d10a2010-09-13 20:40:30 +00002450- logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
2451
Victor Stinnere797c162010-09-17 23:34:26 +00002452- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinnerccb706c2010-09-13 19:41:36 +00002453
Antoine Pitrou6464d5f2010-09-12 14:51:20 +00002454- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2455 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2456
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002457- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential values:
2458 d['x'] = d.
Raymond Hettingerdc08a142010-09-12 05:15:22 +00002459
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002460- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002461 it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries which
2462 become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Python 3.1
Raymond Hettingerfa11db02010-09-12 04:12:42 +00002463 approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created
2464 in the first place.
2465
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002466- Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and
2467 encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002468 utf-8 in strict mode) . Patch written by David Watson.
Victor Stinnercb043522010-09-10 23:49:04 +00002469
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002470- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
2471 environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup.
2472 sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to
2473 reencode all filenames in all objects.
Victor Stinner5b519e02010-09-10 21:57:59 +00002474
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002475- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to speedups
2476 up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from Unladen Swallow;
2477 initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Antoine Pitrouea99c5c2010-09-09 18:33:21 +00002478
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002479- The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given order
2480 (formerly, it would sort the keys).
Raymond Hettingerbad3c882010-09-09 12:31:00 +00002481
Vinay Sajip121a1c42010-09-08 10:46:15 +00002482- Logging: Added QueueHandler class to facilitate logging usage with
2483 multiprocessing.
2484
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002485- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which is
2486 friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible
2487 since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
Antoine Pitrou783eea72010-09-07 22:06:17 +00002488
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4b6fdf32010-09-07 21:31:17 +00002489- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
2490 still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
2491 id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.
2492
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002493- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection() would
2494 swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible to fetch the
2495 original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the original error is
2496 re-raised.
Antoine Pitrou4b92b5f2010-09-07 21:05:49 +00002497
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002498- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True, and
2499 the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't be updated
2500 back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
Antoine Pitrou5e38aae2010-09-07 16:30:09 +00002501
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002502- Updates to the random module:
2503
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002504 * Document which parts of the module are guaranteed to stay the same across
2505 versions and which parts are subject to change.
Raymond Hettinger435cb0f2010-09-06 23:36:31 +00002506
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002507 * Update the seed() method to use all of the bits in a string instead of just
2508 the hash value. This makes better use of the seed value and assures the
2509 seeding is platform independent. Issue #7889.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002510
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002511 * Improved the random()-->integer algorithm used in choice(), shuffle(),
2512 sample(), randrange(), and randint(). Formerly, it used int(n*random())
2513 which has a slight bias whenever n is not a power of two. Issue #9025.
Raymond Hettinger05156612010-09-07 04:44:52 +00002514
2515 * Improved documentation of arguments to randrange(). Issue #9379.
Raymond Hettingerf763a722010-09-07 00:38:15 +00002516
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002517- collections.OrderedDict now supports a new method for repositioning keys to
2518 either end.
Raymond Hettingerf45abc92010-09-06 21:26:09 +00002519
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002520- Issue #9754: Similarly to assertRaises and assertRaisesRegexp, unittest test
2521 cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to check that a
2522 given warning type was triggered by the code under test.
Antoine Pitrou4bc12ef2010-09-06 19:25:46 +00002523
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002524- Issue #5506: BytesIO objects now have a getbuffer() method exporting a view of
2525 their contents without duplicating them. The view is both readable and
2526 writable.
Antoine Pitrou972ee132010-09-06 18:48:21 +00002527
Brian Curtin62857742010-09-06 17:07:27 +00002528- Issue #7566: Implement os.path.sameopenfile for Windows.
2529
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002530- Issue #9293: I/O streams now raise ``io.UnsupportedOperation`` when an
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002531 unsupported operation is attempted (for example, writing to a file open only
2532 for reading).
Antoine Pitrou0d739d72010-09-05 23:01:12 +00002533
Gregory P. Smith13b55292010-09-06 08:30:23 +00002534- hashlib has two new constant attributes: algorithms_guaranteed and
2535 algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
2536 guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
2537 algorithms available in the current process.
2538
Brian Quinlanaf38dc52010-09-21 12:28:43 +00002539- A new package ``concurrent.futures`` as defined by PEP 3148.
2540
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002541C-API
2542-----
2543
Benjamin Peterson2bc5c0b2010-09-20 23:01:33 +00002544- Add PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx, which supports passing a column offset.
2545
Benjamin Peterson568867a2010-09-11 16:02:03 +00002546- Issue #9834: Don't segfault in PySequence_GetSlice, PySequence_SetSlice, or
2547 PySequence_DelSlice when the object doesn't have any mapping operations
2548 defined.
2549
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002550Tools/Demos
2551-----------
2552
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002553- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well as
2554 wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded inside gdb)
2555 and the interpreter under test.
Antoine Pitroub41e1282010-09-08 20:57:48 +00002556
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002557Tests
2558-----
2559
Alexander Belopolskye8f58322010-10-15 16:28:20 +00002560- Issue #9308: Added tests for importing encoded modules that do not
2561 depend on specific stdlib modules being encoded in a certain way.
2562
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002563- Issue #1051: Add a script (Lib/test/make_ssl_certs.py) to generate the custom
2564 certificate and private key files used by SSL-related certs.
Antoine Pitrou81564092010-10-08 23:06:24 +00002565
Hirokazu Yamamoto54c950f2010-10-08 08:38:15 +00002566- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2567 in test_os)
2568
R. David Murray11cabcf2010-09-29 01:08:05 +00002569- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
2570 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
2571
R. David Murrayb78b4892010-09-28 22:25:18 +00002572- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
2573
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002574- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by Ned
2575 Deily.
Antoine Pitroub3bfc3d2010-09-21 16:26:09 +00002576
Antoine Pitrou679e0f22010-09-18 17:56:02 +00002577- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2578
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00002579- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
2580
Florent Xiclunadc69e722010-09-13 16:35:02 +00002581- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2582 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2583
Ronald Oussoren01c42892010-09-28 14:38:31 +00002584- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2585
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002586Build
2587-----
2588
Antoine Pitrou19f8edc2010-10-10 08:37:22 +00002589- Issue #10062: Allow building on platforms which do not have sem_timedwait.
2590
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002591- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by Akira
2592 Kitada.
Antoine Pitrou1bf29b72010-10-10 08:10:16 +00002593
Antoine Pitrou5b0e9e82010-10-09 15:24:28 +00002594- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2595
Hirokazu Yamamoto2f816e62010-09-21 18:23:05 +00002596- Issue #9552: Avoid unnecessary rebuild of OpenSSL. (Windows)
2597
Antoine Pitrouf6350d22010-09-21 15:19:14 +00002598- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2599
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002600- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in Python's project file directly. It
2601 used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
Hirokazu Yamamoto234f88d2010-09-16 17:50:57 +00002602
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002603- Issue #9848: Stopping trying to build _weakref in setup.py as it is a built-in
2604 module.
Brett Cannonb82489d2010-09-14 19:41:23 +00002605
Georg Brandlb084b482010-09-12 17:14:26 +00002606- Issue #9806: python-config now has an ``--extension-suffix`` option that
2607 outputs the suffix for dynamic libraries including the ABI version name
2608 defined by PEP 3149.
2609
Georg Brandl27a28582010-10-10 09:49:21 +00002610- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to be
2611 built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
Antoine Pitrou8e6b4072010-09-10 19:44:44 +00002612
Antoine Pitroua3000072010-09-07 14:52:42 +00002613- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2614 Sablé.
2615
Ronald Oussoren9af73802010-09-28 13:57:58 +00002616- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2617 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2618 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2619
Georg Brandlbad09252010-09-05 21:29:17 +00002620
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002621What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 2?
2622=================================
2623
Georg Brandl58a7b462010-09-05 08:30:40 +00002624*Release date: 05-Sep-2010*
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002625
2626Core and Builtins
2627-----------------
2628
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002629- Issue #9225: Remove the ROT_FOUR and DUP_TOPX opcode, the latter replaced by
2630 the new (and simpler) DUP_TOP_TWO. Performance isn't changed, but our
2631 bytecode is a bit simplified. Patch by Demur Rumed.
Antoine Pitrou74a69fa2010-09-04 18:43:52 +00002632
Brett Cannonef0e6c32010-09-04 18:24:04 +00002633- Issue #9766: Rename poorly named variables exposed by _warnings to prevent
2634 confusion with the proper variables names from 'warnings' itself.
2635
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002636- Issue #9212: dict_keys and dict_items now provide the isdisjoint() method, to
2637 conform to the Set ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban.
Daniel Stutzbach045b3ba2010-09-02 15:06:06 +00002638
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002639- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from a
2640 memoryview object.
Antoine Pitroue0793ba2010-09-01 21:14:16 +00002641
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002642- Issue #9549: sys.setdefaultencoding() and PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() are
2643 now removed, since their effect was inexistent in 3.x (the default encoding is
2644 hardcoded to utf-8 and cannot be changed).
Antoine Pitroufce7fd62010-09-01 18:54:56 +00002645
Antoine Pitroub0fa8312010-09-01 15:10:12 +00002646- Issue #7415: PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now uses the new buffer API
2647 properly. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
2648
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002649- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on most
2650 platforms. Previously, it inlined only when using Microsoft Visual C.
Daniel Stutzbacha606faa2010-08-31 19:51:07 +00002651
Benjamin Peterson33856de2010-08-30 14:41:20 +00002652- Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
2653
Benjamin Peterson0e102062010-08-25 23:13:17 +00002654- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
2655
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002656- Issue #9684: Added a definition for SIZEOF_WCHAR_T to PC/pyconfig.h, to match
2657 the pyconfig.h generated by configure on other systems.
Daniel Stutzbach864078a2010-08-25 19:18:59 +00002658
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002659- Issue #9666: Only catch AttributeError in hasattr(). All other exceptions that
2660 occur during attribute lookup are now propagated to the caller.
Benjamin Peterson17689992010-08-24 03:26:23 +00002661
Victor Stinner94908bb2010-08-18 21:23:25 +00002662- Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
2663 filesystem encoding.
2664
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc324ac652010-08-18 20:44:58 +00002665- Issue #5127: The C functions that access the Unicode Database now accept and
2666 return characters from the full Unicode range, even on narrow unicode builds
2667 (Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER, Py_UNICODE_ISDECIMAL, and others). A visible difference
2668 in Python is that unicodedata.numeric() now returns the correct value for
2669 large code points, and repr() may consider more characters as printable.
2670
Victor Stinner6c00c142010-08-17 23:37:11 +00002671- Issue #9425: Create PyModule_GetFilenameObject() function to get the filename
2672 as a unicode object, instead of a byte string. Function needed to support
2673 unencodable filenames. Deprecate PyModule_GetFilename() in favor on the new
2674 function.
2675
Victor Stinner6961bd62010-08-17 22:26:51 +00002676- Issue #8063: Call _PyGILState_Init() earlier in Py_InitializeEx().
2677
Antoine Pitrou671b4d92010-08-17 17:55:07 +00002678- Issue #9612: The set object is now 64-bit clean under Windows.
2679
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002680- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching for
2681 the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghland26c18a2010-08-17 13:06:11 +00002682
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002683- Issue #9599: Create PySys_FormatStdout() and PySys_FormatStderr() functions to
2684 write a message formatted by PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to sys.stdout and
Victor Stinner79766632010-08-16 17:36:42 +00002685 sys.stderr.
2686
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00002687- Issue #9542: Create PyUnicode_FSDecoder() function, a ParseTuple converter:
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002688 decode bytes objects to unicode using PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(); str
2689 objects are output as-is.
Victor Stinner47fcb5b2010-08-13 23:59:58 +00002690
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002691- Issue #9203: Computed gotos are now enabled by default on supported compilers
2692 (which are detected by the configure script). They can still be disable
2693 selectively by specifying --without-computed-gotos.
Antoine Pitrou042b1282010-08-13 21:15:58 +00002694
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002695- Issue #9425: Create PyErr_WarnFormat() function, similar to PyErr_WarnEx() but
2696 use PyUnicode_FromFormatV() to format the warning message.
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00002697
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002698- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front of an
2699 array.
Florent Xiclunaeb6f3ea2010-08-08 22:07:16 +00002700
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002701- Issue #5319: Print an error if flushing stdout fails at interpreter shutdown.
Antoine Pitroubddc9fe2010-08-08 20:46:42 +00002702
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002703- Issue #9337: The str() of a float or complex number is now identical to its
2704 repr().
Mark Dickinson388122d2010-08-04 20:56:28 +00002705
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002706- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the output with no
2707 type specifier failed to match the str output:
Mark Dickinson5b65df72010-08-01 10:41:49 +00002708
2709 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
2710 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
2711
Hirokazu Yamamoto35adf5d2010-11-07 11:32:01 +00002712Extension Modules
2713-----------------
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00002714
Alexander Belopolskyb9588b52011-01-04 16:34:30 +00002715- Issue #8013: time.asctime and time.ctime no longer call system
2716 asctime and ctime functions. The year range for time.asctime is now
2717 1900 through maxint. The range for time.ctime is the same as for
2718 time.localtime. The string produced by these functions is longer
2719 than 24 characters when year is greater than 9999.
2720
Alexander Belopolsky38e29962010-10-01 14:18:49 +00002721- Issue #6608: time.asctime is now checking struct tm fields its input
2722 before passing it to the system asctime. Patch by MunSic Jeong.
2723
Antoine Pitrou00492492010-09-04 20:53:29 +00002724- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
2725 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2726
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002727- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir() in the
2728 posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
Antoine Pitroud3ccde82010-09-04 17:21:57 +00002729
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002730- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private to the
2731 socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be correctly
2732 detected under 64-bit Windows.
Antoine Pitrou67c7ce42010-08-28 20:42:55 +00002733
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002734- Issue #1027206: Support IDNA in gethostbyname, gethostbyname_ex, getaddrinfo
2735 and gethostbyaddr. getnameinfo is now restricted to numeric addresses as
2736 input.
Martin v. Löwisfc0275a2010-08-22 19:33:47 +00002737
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002738- Issue #9214: Set operations on a KeysView or ItemsView in collections now
2739 correctly return a set. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Raymond Hettinger9117c752010-08-22 07:44:24 +00002740
Antoine Pitroub85e1652010-08-18 21:05:19 +00002741- Issue #5737: Add Solaris-specific mnemonics in the errno module. Patch by
2742 Matthew Ahrens.
2743
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002744- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error. Decode NIS data to fs encoding, using
2745 the surrogate error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdfaf9ec2010-08-18 16:12:23 +00002746
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002747- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions other
2748 than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
Alexander Belopolskye29e6bf2010-08-16 18:55:46 +00002749
Benjamin Petersond4efbf92010-08-11 19:20:42 +00002750- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
2751
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002752- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global Interpreter
2753 Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
Antoine Pitroub73caab2010-08-09 23:39:31 +00002754
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002755- Issue #8524: Add a detach() method to socket objects, so as to put the socket
2756 into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
Antoine Pitroue43f9d02010-08-08 23:24:50 +00002757
Georg Brandl08be72d2010-10-24 15:11:22 +00002758- Issue #477863: Emit a ResourceWarning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
Antoine Pitrou696e0352010-08-08 22:18:46 +00002759
Thomas Hellerbf4cc5d2010-08-08 18:16:20 +00002760- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
2761
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002762- Issue #5504: ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
2763 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
Thomas Heller864cc672010-08-08 17:58:53 +00002764
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002765- Issue #9507: Named tuple repr will now automatically display the right name in
2766 a tuple subclass.
Raymond Hettingerd331ce92010-08-08 01:13:42 +00002767
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002768- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order to
2769 prevent crashes.
Brian Curtinef9efbd2010-08-06 19:27:32 +00002770
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002771- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing the array
2772 module from working correctly with arrays of more than 2**31 elements.
Mark Dickinson4f3086f2010-08-06 09:38:58 +00002773
Mark Dickinsondf7f2fd2010-08-03 18:44:16 +00002774- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
2775
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002776- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to free the
2777 result of history_get_history_state()).
Mark Dickinson6b54e1f2010-08-03 16:49:49 +00002778
Mark Dickinson29b238e2010-08-03 16:08:16 +00002779- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
2780 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
2781
Brian Curtinea47eaa2010-08-01 15:26:26 +00002782- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
2783
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002784- Issue #8046: Add context manager protocol support and .closed property to mmap
2785 objects.
Georg Brandl0bccc182010-08-01 14:50:00 +00002786
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00002787Library
2788-------
2789
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002790- Issue #7451: Improve decoding performance of JSON objects, and reduce the
2791 memory consumption of said decoded objects when they use the same strings as
2792 keys.
Antoine Pitrou7d6e0762010-09-04 20:16:53 +00002793
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002794- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and dict
2795 types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
Antoine Pitrou3941a8f2010-09-04 17:40:21 +00002796
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002797- Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly on Windows.
Daniel Stutzbach6c765282010-09-03 12:38:33 +00002798
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002799- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars and
2800 default arguments on all parser classes.
Fred Drakecc645b92010-09-04 04:35:34 +00002801
Fred Drake88444412010-09-03 04:22:36 +00002802- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
2803 ConfigParser.write.
2804
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00002805- Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
2806 frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002807 array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array() constructor now
2808 accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
Antoine Pitrou1ce3eb52010-09-01 20:29:34 +00002809
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002810- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to avoid
2811 issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
Daniel Stutzbach19d6a4f2010-08-31 20:08:07 +00002812
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002813- Issue #9706: ssl module provides a better error handling in various
Giampaolo Rodolà51078b12010-08-29 19:31:49 +00002814 circumstances.
2815
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002816- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by getting
2817 rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
Antoine Pitrou1a9a9d52010-08-28 18:17:03 +00002818
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002819- Issue #1512791: In setframerate() in the wave module, non-integral frame rates
2820 are rounded to the nearest integer.
Mark Dickinson64a38c02010-08-28 17:22:16 +00002821
Senthil Kumaran4bb5c272010-08-26 06:16:22 +00002822- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
2823 falling into recursion.
2824
R. David Murray219d1c82010-08-25 00:45:55 +00002825- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
2826 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
2827
Benjamin Petersonf52c2c62010-08-24 21:03:37 +00002828- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle reflexive
2829 operations on its self, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
Daniel Stutzbach31da5b22010-08-24 20:49:57 +00002830
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002831- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing error
2832 handling when accepting a new connection.
Giampaolo Rodolà9cf5ef42010-08-23 22:28:13 +00002833
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00002834- Issue #9601: ftplib now provides a workaround for non-compliant
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002835 implementations such as IIS shipped with Windows server 2003 returning invalid
2836 response codes for MKD and PWD commands.
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00002837
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00002838- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00002839 errors.
Giampaolo Rodolà76fc8c72010-08-23 21:53:41 +00002840
Vinay Sajipde6e9d62010-08-23 17:50:30 +00002841- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
2842
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002843- Fix functools.total_ordering() to skip methods inherited from object.
Benjamin Peterson06b8b102010-08-23 17:47:43 +00002844
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002845- Issue #9572: Importlib should not raise an exception if a directory it thought
2846 it needed to create was done concurrently by another process.
Brett Cannonee6d6472010-08-22 22:19:11 +00002847
Antoine Pitroub46b9d52010-08-21 19:09:32 +00002848- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
2849 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
2850
Benjamin Peterson23110e72010-08-21 02:54:44 +00002851- Issue #843590: Make "macintosh" an alias to the "mac_roman" encoding.
2852
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002853- Create os.fsdecode(): decode from the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape
2854 error handler, or strict error handler on Windows.
Victor Stinnere8d51452010-08-19 01:05:19 +00002855
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002856- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress`` and
2857 ``gzip.decompress``. Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
Antoine Pitrou79c5ef12010-08-17 21:10:05 +00002858
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002859- Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
2860 ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
Giampaolo Rodolà42382fe2010-08-17 16:09:53 +00002861 certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
2862 structure.
2863
Giampaolo Rodolàccfb91c2010-08-17 15:30:23 +00002864- Issue #8866: parameters passed to socket.getaddrinfo can now be specified as
2865 single keyword arguments.
2866
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002867- Address XXX comment in dis.py by having inspect.py prefer to reuse the dis.py
2868 compiler flag values over defining its own.
Nick Coghlan09c81232010-08-17 10:18:16 +00002869
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002870- Issue #9147: Added dis.code_info() which is similar to show_code() but returns
2871 formatted code information in a string rather than displaying on screen.
Nick Coghlaneae2da12010-08-17 08:03:36 +00002872
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00002873- Issue #9567: functools.update_wrapper now adds a __wrapped__ attribute
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002874 pointing to the original callable.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00002875
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002876- Issue #3445: functools.update_wrapper now tolerates missing attributes on
2877 wrapped callables.
Nick Coghlan98876832010-08-17 06:17:18 +00002878
Benjamin Peterson45c257f2010-08-17 00:52:52 +00002879- Issue #5867: Add abc.abstractclassmethod and abc.abstractstaticmethod.
2880
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00002881- Issue #9605: posix.getlogin() decodes the username with file filesystem
2882 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
2883
Victor Stinner61ec5dc2010-08-15 09:22:44 +00002884- Issue #9604: posix.initgroups() encodes the username using the fileystem
2885 encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written by David Watson.
2886
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00002887- Issue #9603: posix.ttyname() and posix.ctermid() decode the terminal name
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002888 using the filesystem encoding and surrogateescape error handler. Patch written
2889 by David Watson.
Victor Stinner5fe6de82010-08-15 09:12:51 +00002890
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002891- Issue #7647: The posix module now has the ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants,
2892 for use with the statvfs() function. Patch by Adam Jackson.
Andrew M. Kuchling4ea04a32010-08-18 22:30:34 +00002893
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002894- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic comment
2895 indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs without this
2896 marker will not be overwritten or removed.
Éric Araujoda668ff2010-08-14 02:30:34 +00002897
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002898- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked and a
2899 BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the case in
2900 Python 2.5 and earlier).
Antoine Pitrou7c8bcb62010-08-12 15:11:50 +00002901
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002902- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the original
2903 read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely when the
2904 underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original patch by
2905 Jason V. Miller.
Antoine Pitrou32cfede2010-08-11 13:31:33 +00002906
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00002907- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002908 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely
2909 by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
Antoine Pitrou5af4f4b2010-08-09 22:38:19 +00002910
Victor Stinner4a2b7a12010-08-13 14:03:48 +00002911- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
Fred Drakea4923622010-08-09 12:52:45 +00002912 API; new source attribute to exceptions.
2913
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002914- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the current
2915 node.
Florent Xiclunaba8a9862010-08-08 23:08:41 +00002916
Florent Xiclunac17f1722010-08-08 19:48:29 +00002917- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
2918 ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
2919
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002920- Issue #8280: urllib2's Request method will remove fragments in the url. This
2921 is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous behavior
2922 was wrong.
Senthil Kumaranc41e1fa2010-08-08 11:50:22 +00002923
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00002924- Issue #6683: For SMTP logins we now try all authentication methods advertised
Florent Xicluna09245d82010-08-14 16:56:27 +00002925 by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods
2926 they do not support in reality.
Gerhard Häring1c5471f2010-08-05 14:08:44 +00002927
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002928- Issue #8814: function annotations (the ``__annotations__`` attribute) are now
2929 included in the set of attributes copied by default by functools.wraps and
2930 functools.update_wrapper. Patch by Terrence Cole.
Antoine Pitrou560f7642010-08-04 18:28:02 +00002931
Giampaolo Rodolà934abdd2010-08-04 09:02:27 +00002932- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
2933
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002934- Issue #4184: Private attributes on smtpd.SMTPChannel made public and deprecate
2935 the private attributes. Add tests for smtpd module.
Richard Jonesdd24cf62010-08-04 01:19:22 +00002936
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002937- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047 encoded word
2938 encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
R. David Murrayc4e69cc2010-08-03 22:14:10 +00002939
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002940- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as the option
2941 character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars does not contain a
2942 '-', instead of raising an error.
R. David Murray88c49fe2010-08-03 17:56:09 +00002943
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002944- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile data
2945 generated with the profile module.
Georg Brandl2d3c4e72010-08-02 17:24:49 +00002946
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002947- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from the
2948 command line.
Georg Brandl8e43fbf2010-08-02 12:20:23 +00002949
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002950- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats interactive
2951 browser.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00002952
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002953- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid regular
2954 expressions.
Georg Brandlb1a97af2010-08-02 12:06:18 +00002955
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002956- Update collections.OrderedDict to match the implementation in Py2.7 (based on
2957 lists instead of weakly referenced Link objects).
Raymond Hettinger5be21b72010-08-01 22:10:57 +00002958
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002959- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular reads
2960 on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
Antoine Pitrou7ffa1962010-08-01 20:08:46 +00002961
Antoine Pitrouc881f152010-08-01 16:53:42 +00002962- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
2963 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
2964
Georg Brandle6c59502010-08-01 15:30:56 +00002965- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2966 across devices.
2967
Georg Brandlb16e38b2010-08-01 09:06:34 +00002968- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2969
Georg Brandl8f9f4662010-08-01 08:35:29 +00002970- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2971
Georg Brandl920bc0f2010-08-01 08:10:08 +00002972- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2973
Georg Brandlf325e032010-08-01 08:07:49 +00002974- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2975
Terry Reedy74901002010-12-29 19:02:07 +00002976- Issue #8620: when a cmd.Cmd() is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2977 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
R. David Murray7905d612010-08-01 03:31:09 +00002978
Georg Brandl05245f72010-07-31 22:32:52 +00002979- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
2980
Georg Brandl87a15642010-07-31 22:11:11 +00002981- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
2982 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
2983
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002984- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream when
2985 sys.stdout is reassigned.
Georg Brandl78aa3962010-07-31 21:51:48 +00002986
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00002987- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\`` or ``\\?\``
2988 in ntpath.normpath().
Georg Brandlcfb68212010-07-31 21:40:15 +00002989
Georg Brandl6cb7b652010-07-31 20:08:15 +00002990- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
2991
Nick Coghlan632a0c12010-08-17 05:22:50 +00002992- Add lru_cache() decorator to the functools module.
Georg Brandlebb280c2010-07-31 18:09:46 +00002993
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00002994Tools/Demos
2995-----------
2996
Florent Xiclunac7eaede2010-08-09 12:26:44 +00002997- Fix ``Tools/scripts/checkpyc.py`` after PEP 3147.
2998
Antoine Pitrouf767f082010-08-03 17:09:36 +00002999- Issue #8867: Fix ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` to work with files containing
3000 non-ASCII content.
3001
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003002Tests
3003-----
3004
Giampaolo Rodolàbbc47822010-08-23 22:10:32 +00003005- Issue #9601: Provide a test case for ftplib.parse257.
3006
Giampaolo Rodolà419f7042010-08-14 16:45:41 +00003007- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3008
Florent Xicluna39d795d2010-08-08 18:06:13 +00003009- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3010
Mark Dickinsonaf43e9a2010-08-07 12:33:36 +00003011- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3012
Antoine Pitrou482e66a2010-08-04 15:43:16 +00003013- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3014 Michele Orrù.
3015
Giampaolo Rodolàb5c23762010-08-04 09:28:05 +00003016- Issue #8687: provide a test suite for sched.py module.
3017
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003018Build
3019-----
3020
Martin v. Löwisa5e31092010-09-04 14:38:09 +00003021- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
3022
Barry Warsawaa44b2b2010-09-03 18:36:11 +00003023- Issue #9193: PEP 3149 is accepted.
3024
Georg Brandl649971e2010-09-05 17:06:50 +00003025- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and _add_one_to_index_F()
3026 become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrouf68c2a72010-09-01 12:58:21 +00003027
Antoine Pitrou33a29942010-08-30 14:52:00 +00003028- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3029 Sébastien Sablé.
3030
Martin v. Löwis907229a2010-08-15 15:47:25 +00003031- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
3032
Georg Brandlee449c42010-07-31 18:05:35 +00003033
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003034What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
3035=================================
3036
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003037*Release date: 01-Aug-2010*
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003038
3039Core and Builtins
3040-----------------
3041
Victor Stinner8182b712010-07-28 00:40:58 +00003042- Issue #8991: convertbuffer() rejects discontigious buffers.
3043
Antoine Pitrou1ac745b2010-07-11 12:12:00 +00003044- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
3045 compiler.
3046
Benjamin Petersonccabcd42010-07-07 20:54:01 +00003047- Issue #8413: structsequence now subclasses tuple.
3048
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003049- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003050 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead of
3051 the number of bytes specified by the start byte. E.g.:
3052 '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and replaces
3053 with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte ('\x80')
3054 even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence. Previous versions
3055 returned a single u'\ufffd'.
Ezio Melotti57221d02010-07-01 07:32:02 +00003056
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003057- Issue #9011: A negated imaginary literal (e.g., "-7j") now has real part -0.0
3058 rather than 0.0. So "-7j" is now exactly equivalent to "-(7j)".
Mark Dickinson50b79a82010-06-30 11:13:36 +00003059
Benjamin Peterson88968ad2010-06-25 19:30:21 +00003060- Be more specific in error messages about positional arguments.
3061
Victor Stinner4aae1eb2010-06-24 22:08:25 +00003062- Issue #8949: "z" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions doesn't accept bytes
3063 objects, as described in the documentation.
3064
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003065- Issue #6543: Write the traceback in the terminal encoding instead of utf-8.
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003066 Fix the encoding of the modules filename. Patch written by Amaury Forgeot
Victor Stinner2cd12522010-06-17 23:17:37 +00003067 d'Arc.
Victor Stinner0fe25a42010-06-17 23:08:50 +00003068
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003069- Issue #9011: Remove buggy and unnecessary (in 3.x) ST->AST compilation code
3070 dealing with unary minus applied to a constant. The removed code was mutating
3071 the ST, causing a second compilation to fail.
Mark Dickinsond35a32e2010-06-17 12:33:22 +00003072
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003073- Issue #850997: mbcs encoding (Windows only) handles errors argument: strict
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003074 mode raises unicode errors. The encoder only supports "strict" and "replace"
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003075 error handlers, the decoder only supports "strict" and "ignore" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003076 handlers. Patch written by Mark Hammond.
Victor Stinner554f3f02010-06-16 23:33:54 +00003077
Victor Stinner25e8ec42010-06-25 00:02:38 +00003078- Issue #8850: Remove "w" and "w#" formats from PyArg_Parse*() functions, use
3079 "w*" format instead. Add tests for "w*" format.
3080
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003081- Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003082 formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
Victor Stinner06e49dd2010-06-13 18:21:50 +00003083 string formats.
3084
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003085- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
Nick Coghlan5e76e942010-06-12 13:42:46 +00003086 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
3087 location of the raised exception.
3088
Victor Stinner313a1202010-06-11 23:56:51 +00003089- Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
3090 filenames and enable os.fsencode().
3091
Benjamin Peterson285a6892010-06-22 19:21:52 +00003092- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3093
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003094- Issue #8941: Decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash the
3095 interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (higher than
3096 0x10000).
Antoine Pitroucc0cfd32010-06-11 21:46:32 +00003097
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003098- Issue #8950: (See also issue #5080). Py_ArgParse*() functions now raise
3099 TypeError instead of giving a DeprecationWarning when a float is parsed using
3100 the 'L' code (for long long). (All other integer codes already raise
3101 TypeError in this case.)
Mark Dickinsonc7301312010-06-10 16:05:10 +00003102
Victor Stinner600d3be2010-06-10 12:00:55 +00003103- Issue #8922: Normalize the encoding name in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() to
3104 enable shortcuts for upper case encoding name. Add also a shortcut for
3105 "iso-8859-1" in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() and PyUnicode_Decode().
3106
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003107- Issue #8838: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() function. The buffer protocol
3108 doesn't support "char buffer" anymore in Python 3.
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003109
3110- Issue #8339: Remove "t#" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions, use "s#" or "s*"
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003111 instead. codecs.charbuffer_encode() now accepts modifiable buffer objects
Victor Stinner3dcb5ac2010-06-08 22:54:19 +00003112 like bytearray.
3113
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003114- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
Victor Stinner33109a12010-05-28 21:55:10 +00003115 used anymore and it was never documented.
3116
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003117- In str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too large.
Benjamin Peterson59a1b2f2010-06-07 22:31:26 +00003118
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003119- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for invalid
3120 integers n (including n = -909).
Mark Dickinsonf9a5a8e2010-05-26 20:07:58 +00003121
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003122- Issue #8188: Introduce a new scheme for computing hashes of numbers (instances
3123 of int, float, complex, decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction) that makes it
3124 easy to maintain the invariant that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x and y have
3125 equal value.
Mark Dickinsondc787d22010-05-23 13:33:13 +00003126
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003127- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3128 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003129 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transitivity of equality.
3130 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading to
3131 unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects in sets
3132 or dicts.
Mark Dickinsoncc6a9822010-05-21 14:55:26 +00003133
Victor Stinner7d79b8b2010-05-19 20:40:50 +00003134- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
3135 Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
3136
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003137- Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
Victor Stinnere039ffe2010-08-15 09:33:08 +00003138 encoding and surrogateescape error handler instead of the locale encoding to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003139 be consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
Victor Stinner9ca9c252010-05-19 16:53:30 +00003140
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003141- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace (instead
3142 of strict) error handler to escape surrogates.
Victor Stinner372ac5e2010-05-17 01:26:01 +00003143
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003144- Issue #8715: Create PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() function: Encode a Unicode
3145 object to Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding with the "surrogateescape" error
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003146 handler, and return bytes. If Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is not set, fall
Benjamin Peterson0c3d21d2010-05-15 17:43:57 +00003147 back to UTF-8.
Victor Stinnerae6265f2010-05-15 16:27:27 +00003148
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003149- Enable shortcuts for common encodings in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() for any
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003150 error handler, not only the default error handler (strict).
Victor Stinner59e62db2010-05-15 13:14:32 +00003151
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003152- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003153 failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
Victor Stinnerb744ba12010-05-15 12:27:16 +00003154 the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
3155
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003156- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003157 PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the right
3158 encoding.
Victor Stinner0964ee12010-04-30 16:48:45 +00003159
Georg Brandl8569e582010-05-19 20:57:08 +00003160- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3161
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003162- PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses surrogateescape error handler.
Victor Stinnerb9a20ad2010-04-30 16:37:52 +00003163
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003164- Issue #8419: Prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword
3165 arguments.
3166
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003167- Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003168 indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores exceptions
3169 (KeyboardInterrupt).
Victor Stinner14284c22010-04-23 12:02:30 +00003170
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003171- Issue #8092: Fix PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() to support error handler producing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003172 unicode string (eg. backslashreplace).
Victor Stinner31be90b2010-04-22 19:38:16 +00003173
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003174- Issue #8485: PyUnicode_FSConverter() doesn't accept byteearray objects
3175 anymore, you have to convert your bytearray filenames to bytes.
Victor Stinnerdcb24032010-04-22 12:08:36 +00003176
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003177- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003178 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable benefit
3179 compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by Charles-François
3180 Natali.
Antoine Pitrou5bc7ec92010-04-21 22:56:22 +00003181
Benjamin Peterson8380dd52010-04-16 22:51:37 +00003182- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3183 passed to bytes or bytearray.
3184
Philip Jenvey0805ca32010-04-07 04:04:10 +00003185- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3186
Benjamin Petersond856ab62010-04-06 21:55:16 +00003187- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3188 changed.
3189
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003190- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on
3191 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted
3192 to be up to sys.maxsize.
Mark Dickinson3318d292010-04-06 16:53:17 +00003193
Benjamin Peterson8daa49e2010-04-03 22:55:48 +00003194- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3195
Tarek Ziadé03d788d2010-04-03 08:46:49 +00003196- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
3197
Benjamin Peterson80d8fd82010-04-03 01:40:24 +00003198- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3199
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003200- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3201 is set.
Victor Stinner00d6a1d2010-03-25 01:02:29 +00003202
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003203- Issue #8226: sys.setfilesystemencoding() raises a LookupError if the encoding
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003204 is unknown.
Victor Stinner120c2122010-03-25 00:30:28 +00003205
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003206- Issue #1583863: A str subclass can now override the __str__ method.
Victor Stinner808fc0a2010-03-22 12:50:40 +00003207
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003208- Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003209 PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error; raise TypeError instead.
Mark Dickinsond59b4162010-03-13 11:34:40 +00003210
Mark Dickinsonf673f0c2010-03-13 09:48:39 +00003211- Issue #7845: Rich comparison methods on the complex type now return
3212 NotImplemented rather than raising a TypeError when comparing with an
3213 incompatible type; this allows user-defined classes to implement their own
3214 comparisons with complex.
3215
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003216- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
3217 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003218 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site module.
Victor Stinner52f6dd72010-03-12 14:45:56 +00003219
Benjamin Petersonae5f2f42010-03-07 17:10:51 +00003220- Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
3221
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003222- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3223 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner45b9be52010-03-03 23:28:07 +00003224
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003225- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3226 check fails.
Victor Stinner6aa278e2010-03-03 00:18:49 +00003227
Benjamin Peterson23e018a2010-02-27 17:40:01 +00003228- Handle errors from looking up __prepare__ correctly.
3229
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003230- Issue #5939: Add additional runtime checking to ensure a valid capsule in
3231 Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c.
Larry Hastings1373a072010-02-24 22:49:58 +00003232
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003233- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003234 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith0facd772010-02-24 15:42:29 +00003235
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003236- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3237 padding.
Eric Smithabb28c62010-02-23 00:22:24 +00003238
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003239- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for complex.__format__.
3240 Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smith4e260c52010-02-22 18:54:44 +00003241
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003242- Issue #5988: Remove deprecated functions PyOS_ascii_formatd,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003243 PyOS_ascii_strtod, and PyOS_ascii_atof. Use PyOS_double_to_string and
3244 PyOS_string_to_double instead. See issue #5835 for the original deprecations.
Eric Smith68af50b2010-02-22 14:58:30 +00003245
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003246- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when `PyObject_GetBuffer`
3247 fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou05b7c562010-02-02 22:47:00 +00003248
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003249- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3250 very large step value.
Mark Dickinsonbc099642010-01-29 17:27:24 +00003251
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003252- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and
3253 add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new
3254 members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3255 product_type.
Eric Smithf7bb5782010-01-27 00:44:57 +00003256
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003257- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`) could
3258 crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro returning
3259 NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string instead.
Antoine Pitroufc8d6f42010-01-17 12:38:54 +00003260
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003261- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003262 where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a
3263 frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made
3264 against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a
3265 similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a
3266 pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
Antoine Pitroub7fbcd32010-01-16 18:37:38 +00003267
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003268- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace() methods
3269 of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based
3270 on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrouf2c54842010-01-13 08:07:53 +00003271
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003272- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3273 including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40
3274 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when
3275 parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a
3276 memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number
3277 of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
Mark Dickinson81612e82010-01-12 23:04:19 +00003278
Benjamin Petersonaea44282010-01-04 01:10:28 +00003279- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
3280 consistent with other special methods.
3281
Antoine Pitrouda2ecaf2010-01-02 21:40:36 +00003282- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3283 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3284
Benjamin Petersond12362a2009-12-30 19:44:54 +00003285- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3286 AttributeError.
3287
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003288- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3289 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson9ab44b52009-12-30 16:22:49 +00003290
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003291- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3292 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3293 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3294 internal representation of an int.
Mark Dickinsoncbb62742009-12-27 15:09:50 +00003295
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003296- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
3297 executables on OSX.
3298
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003299 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3300 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3301 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren6f6c5622009-12-24 14:03:19 +00003302
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003303- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3304 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou6b7dfc92009-12-12 19:18:27 +00003305
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc64f3ca42009-12-01 21:59:18 +00003306- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
3307 with invalid values.
3308
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d0bddd2009-11-30 00:08:56 +00003309- Issue #6077: On Windows, files opened with tempfile.TemporaryFile in "wt+"
3310 mode would appear truncated on the first '0x1a' byte (aka. Ctrl+Z).
3311
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003312- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3313 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren3c1928a2009-11-19 17:15:31 +00003314
Philip Jenvey1309adb2009-11-17 03:43:14 +00003315- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3316
Mark Dickinson6f1d0492009-11-15 13:58:49 +00003317- Issue #6970: Remove redundant calls when comparing objects that don't
3318 implement the relevant rich comparison methods.
3319
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003320- Issue #7298: Fixes for range and reversed(range(...)). Iteration over
3321 range(a, b, c) incorrectly gave an empty iterator when a, b and c fit in C
3322 long but the length of the range did not. Also fix several cases where
3323 reversed(range(a, b, c)) gave wrong results, and fix a refleak for
3324 reversed(range(a, b, c)) with large arguments.
Mark Dickinsond550c9a2009-11-15 09:57:26 +00003325
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003326- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions raised
3327 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfc438512009-11-01 20:55:33 +00003328
Benjamin Petersonb2e796a2009-10-28 21:59:39 +00003329- Issue #3297: On wide unicode builds, do not split unicode characters into
3330 surrogates.
3331
Mark Dickinsonf9724882009-10-26 21:51:18 +00003332- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a string.
3333
Mark Dickinson27a87a22009-10-25 20:43:34 +00003334- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3335
Antoine Pitroub6ef9632009-10-24 20:47:05 +00003336- Support for AtheOS has been completely removed from the code base. It was
3337 disabled since Python 3.0.
3338
3339- Support for several legacy threading libraries has been disabled. These
3340 libraries are: Mach C threads, SunOS LWP, GNU pth, Irix threads. Support code
3341 will be entirely removed in 3.3.
3342
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003343- Support for OSF* has been disabled. If nobody stands up, support will be
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003344 removed in 3.3. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue8606>.
Jesus Cea6a792292010-05-03 21:18:48 +00003345
Raymond Hettingeraf7adad2009-10-22 11:22:50 +00003346- Peephole constant folding had missed UNARY_POSITIVE.
3347
Antoine Pitrou011bd622009-10-20 21:52:47 +00003348- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
3349 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3350 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
3351
Antoine Pitrou671141d2009-10-19 19:37:25 +00003352- Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
Skip Montanaroba1e0f42009-10-18 14:25:35 +00003353 support.
3354
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003355- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3356 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003357
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003358- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3359 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3360 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauere441cb72009-10-14 19:14:38 +00003361
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003362- Issue #7065: Fix a crash in bytes.maketrans and bytearray.maketrans when using
3363 byte values greater than 127. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrou403ce782009-10-14 17:14:16 +00003364
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7d520792009-10-06 21:03:20 +00003365- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3366 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3367 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3368 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3369
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003370- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3371 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson2683ab02009-09-29 19:21:35 +00003372
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003373- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around after a
3374 reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenvey26713ca2009-09-29 04:57:18 +00003375
Benjamin Peterson4905e802009-09-27 02:43:28 +00003376- Issue #5460: Fix an ambiguity in the grammar.
3377
Mark Dickinson3e124ae2009-09-22 21:47:24 +00003378- Issue #1766304: Improve performance of membership tests on range objects.
3379
Mark Dickinson0a1efd02009-09-16 21:23:34 +00003380- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
3381
Mark Dickinson54a3db92009-09-06 10:19:23 +00003382- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3383
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003384- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output when
3385 writing from multiple threads at the same time.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcccd686a2009-08-29 23:00:38 +00003386
Benjamin Peterson14327712009-08-15 13:23:05 +00003387- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
3388
Georg Brandl953152f2009-07-22 12:03:59 +00003389- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
3390
Raymond Hettingere805ecc2009-07-27 20:16:37 +00003391- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
3392 occurred in the argument chain.
3393
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003394- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3395 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
R. David Murray046f7232009-07-19 02:22:05 +00003396
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8b84ea02009-07-13 20:38:21 +00003397- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3398
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003399- Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool object,
3400 and not an int. Fix the corresponding error message, and the documentation.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc097cd072009-07-07 00:43:08 +00003401
Benjamin Petersonf1664ae2009-07-01 01:28:55 +00003402- The deprecated PyCObject has been removed.
3403
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003404- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3405 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3406 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson835a6c82009-06-30 15:45:17 +00003407
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003408- Issue #6373: Fixed a SystemError when encoding with the latin-1 codec and the
3409 'surrogateescape' error handler, a string which contains unpaired surrogates.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc84ec8d92009-06-29 22:36:49 +00003410
Hirokazu Yamamoto892a37a2009-06-28 11:07:03 +00003411- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3412
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003413- Issue #6687: PyBytes_FromObject() no longer accepts an integer as its argument
3414 to construct a null-initialized bytes object.
Alexandre Vassalottieb6f8de2009-12-31 03:56:09 +00003415
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003416- Issue #1023290: Add from_bytes() and to_bytes() methods to integers. These
3417 methods allow the conversion of integers to bytes, and vice-versa.
Alexandre Vassalottic36c3782010-01-09 20:35:09 +00003418
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003419- Issue #7382: Fix bug in bytes.__getnewargs__ that prevented bytes instances
3420 from being copied with copy.copy(), and bytes subclasses from being pickled
3421 properly.
Alexandre Vassalotti41f58a72010-01-12 01:23:09 +00003422
Collin Winter4222e9c2010-03-18 22:46:40 +00003423- Code objects now support weak references.
3424
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003425- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003426
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003427- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003428 on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install into
3429 "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
Ronald Oussoren501aeff2010-04-18 15:02:38 +00003430
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003431C-API
3432-----
3433
Alexander Belopolskyf0f45142010-08-11 17:31:17 +00003434- Issue #2443: A new macro, `Py_VA_COPY`, copies the state of the
3435 variable argument list. `Py_VA_COPY` is equivalent to C99
3436 `va_copy`, but available on all python platforms.
3437
Mark Dickinsone6fc7402010-08-06 18:55:26 +00003438- PySlice_GetIndicesEx now clips the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]
3439 instead of [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX]. This makes it safe to do
3440 "step = -step" when reversing a slice.
3441
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003442- Issue #5753: A new C API function, `PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders of the
3443 interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This helps fix
3444 `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrouf978fac2010-05-21 17:25:34 +00003445 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3446
Benjamin Petersonfb886362010-04-24 18:21:17 +00003447- Add PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks if all keyword arguments are
3448 strings in an efficient manner.
3449
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003450- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003451 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3452 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou8689a102010-04-01 16:53:15 +00003453
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003454- Issue #7767: New function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow added, analogous to
3455 PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.
Mark Dickinson93f562c2010-01-30 10:30:15 +00003456
Benjamin Peterson8667a9b2010-01-09 21:45:28 +00003457- Make PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString return not equal if the Python string
3458 has '\0' at the end.
3459
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003460- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions PyArg_ParseTuple,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003461 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, PyArg_VaParse, PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords and
3462 PyArg_Parse now raise a DeprecationWarning for float arguments passed with the
3463 'L' format code. This will become a TypeError in a future version of Python,
Mark Dickinsonde604012010-01-01 19:27:32 +00003464 to match the behaviour of the other integer format codes.
3465
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003466- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl1e28a272009-12-28 08:41:01 +00003467
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003468- Issue #7414: 'C' code wasn't being skipped properly (for keyword arguments) in
3469 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords.
Mark Dickinsonf08173b2009-12-03 10:59:46 +00003470
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003471- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3472 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson6ce4a9a2009-11-16 17:00:11 +00003473
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003474- Issue #6151: Made PyDescr_COMMON conform to standard C (like PyObject_HEAD in
3475 PEP 3123). The PyDescr_TYPE and PyDescr_NAME macros should be should used for
3476 accessing the d_type and d_name members of structures using PyDescr_COMMON.
Alexandre Vassalotti2db046d2009-07-22 03:56:36 +00003477
3478- Issue #6405: Remove duplicate type declarations in descrobject.h.
Benjamin Peterson89b89172009-07-03 13:30:25 +00003479
Benjamin Peterson466a7822009-07-02 21:44:01 +00003480- The code flags for old __future__ features are now available again.
3481
Alexandre Vassalotti7b82b402009-07-21 04:30:03 +00003482- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3483 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3484
3485- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3486 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3487
3488- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3489 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3490
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003491- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3492 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3493 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3494 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson05159c42009-12-03 03:01:27 +00003495
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00003496Library
3497-------
3498
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003499- In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
3500 old commands are restored.
Georg Brandlb90ffd82010-07-30 22:20:16 +00003501
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003502- For traceback debugging, the pdb listing now also shows the locations where
3503 the exception was originally (re)raised, if it differs from the last line
3504 executed (e.g. in case of finally clauses).
Georg Brandl0a9c3e92010-07-30 18:46:38 +00003505
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003506- The pdb command "source" has been added. It displays the source code for a
3507 given object, if possible.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003508
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003509- The pdb command "longlist" has been added. It displays the whole source code
3510 for the current function.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003511
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003512- Issue #1503502: Make pdb.Pdb easier to subclass by putting message and error
3513 output into methods.
Georg Brandle59ca2a2010-07-30 17:04:28 +00003514
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003515- Issue #809887: Make the output of pdb's breakpoint deletions more consistent;
3516 emit a message when a breakpoint is enabled or disabled.
Georg Brandl7410dd12010-07-30 12:01:20 +00003517
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003518- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called in the
3519 top-level debugged frame.
Georg Brandl3f940892010-07-30 10:29:19 +00003520
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003521- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in
3522 doctests.
Georg Brandld72e0432010-07-30 09:59:28 +00003523
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003524- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the
3525 source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
Georg Brandl34cc0f52010-07-30 09:43:00 +00003526
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003527- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has been
3528 reassigned.
Georg Brandl25fbb892010-07-30 09:23:23 +00003529
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003530- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as a
3531 breakpoint command.
Georg Brandl44f8bf92010-07-30 08:54:49 +00003532
Georg Brandl2dfec552010-07-30 08:43:32 +00003533- In pdb, allow giving a line number to the "until" command.
3534
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003535- Issue #1437051: For pdb, allow "continue" and related commands in .pdbrc
3536 files. Also, add a command-line option "-c" that runs a command as if given
3537 in .pdbrc.
Georg Brandle0230912010-07-30 08:29:39 +00003538
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003539- Issue #4179: In pdb, allow "list ." as a command to return to the currently
3540 debugged line.
Georg Brandla91a94b2010-07-30 07:14:01 +00003541
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00003542- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple ``User-agent: *``
Georg Brandl0a0fc072010-07-29 17:55:01 +00003543 entries, consider the first one.
3544
Georg Brandl056cb932010-07-29 17:16:10 +00003545- Issue #6630: Allow customizing regex flags when subclassing the
3546 string.Template class.
3547
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003548- Issue #9411: Allow specifying an encoding for config files in the configparser
3549 module.
Georg Brandl8dcaa732010-07-29 12:17:40 +00003550
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003551- Issue #1682942: Improvements to configparser: support alternate delimiters,
3552 alternate comment prefixes and empty lines in values.
Georg Brandl96a60ae2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00003553
Georg Brandlcbb0ae42010-07-28 08:19:35 +00003554- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
3555
Victor Stinnercf448832010-07-28 00:15:03 +00003556- Issue #8966: ctypes: Remove implicit bytes-unicode conversion.
3557
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003558- Issue #9378: python -m pickle <pickle file> will now load and display the
3559 first object in the pickle file.
Alexander Belopolsky455f7bd2010-07-27 23:02:38 +00003560
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003561- Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003562 And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape``
3563 before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
Florent Xiclunaf1046ca2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00003564
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003565- Issue #9384: ``python -m tkinter`` will now display a simple demo applet.
Alexander Belopolskyc02cc272010-07-27 14:16:32 +00003566
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003567- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
3568 increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
Antoine Pitrou3060c452010-08-13 16:27:38 +00003569 simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
3570 used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003571 applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
3572 the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.
Gregory P. Smith5a631832010-07-27 05:31:29 +00003573
Brian Curtin0f0c3322010-07-26 02:36:32 +00003574- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in configparser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
3575
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003576- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
Victor Stinner756f5472010-07-24 02:24:55 +00003577 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
3578 XML-RPC request.
3579
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003580- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with "=", whereas
3581 getopt doesn't accept a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses
3582 ['help='] long options).
Victor Stinnereccc5fa2010-07-24 00:49:20 +00003583
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003584- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime` module. The C
3585 module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available, overrides all classes
3586 defined in datetime with fast C impementation. Python implementation is based
3587 on the original python prototype for the datetime module by Tim Peters with
3588 minor modifications by the PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime`
3589 module with and without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
Alexander Belopolskycf86e362010-07-23 19:25:47 +00003590
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003591- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
Ronald Oussorene186e382010-07-23 11:54:59 +00003592
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003593- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
3594 script being traced. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Alexander Belopolsky3f8ecab2010-07-21 17:43:42 +00003595
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003596- Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py. Thanks Eli Bendersky for
3597 the patch.
Alexander Belopolsky533a1672010-07-20 19:55:18 +00003598
Gregory P. Smith41e6c3d2010-07-19 23:17:22 +00003599- Issue #3704: http.cookiejar was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
3600 parameters.
3601
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003602- Issue #9268: ``pickletools.dis()`` now has an optional *annotate* argument
3603 which controls printing of opcode descriptions in ``dis()`` output.
Alexander Belopolsky929d3842010-07-17 15:51:21 +00003604
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003605- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n combo
3606 crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
R. David Murray45bf773f2010-07-17 01:19:57 +00003607
Victor Stinnere9ebde42010-07-13 23:04:56 +00003608- Issue #9243: Fix sndhdr module and add unit tests, contributed by James Lee.
3609
Benjamin Peterson5ef96e52010-07-11 23:06:06 +00003610- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
3611
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003612- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly treated
3613 keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
Mark Dickinsonb214e902010-07-11 18:53:06 +00003614
Georg Brandl492f3fc2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00003615- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
3616
3617- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
Ronald Oussorend3950522010-07-11 09:05:07 +00003618
R. David Murrayea340a32010-07-09 12:23:21 +00003619- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
3620
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003621- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' RuntimeError
3622 produced when profiling the decimal module. This was due to a dangerous
3623 iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
Mark Dickinson0dd8f782010-07-08 21:15:36 +00003624
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003625- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact power of 10
3626 and the exponent is tiny (for example, ``Decimal(10) **
3627 Decimal('1e-999999999')``).
Mark Dickinsona1236312010-07-08 19:03:34 +00003628
Mark Dickinsonbe64d952010-07-07 16:21:29 +00003629- Issue #9186: Fix math.log1p(-1.0) to raise ValueError, not OverflowError.
3630
Mark Dickinson2cc8a5e2010-07-04 18:11:51 +00003631- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
3632
Mark Dickinson2bd61a92010-07-04 16:37:31 +00003633- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
3634
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003635- Issue #9094: python -m pickletools will now disassemble pickle files listed in
3636 the command line arguments. See output of python -m pickletools -h for more
3637 details.
Alexander Belopolsky60c762b2010-07-03 20:35:53 +00003638
Senthil Kumarandf022da2010-07-03 17:48:22 +00003639- Issue #5468: urlencode to handle bytes type and other encodings in its query
3640 parameter. Patch by Dan Mahn.
3641
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003642- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
3643 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00003644
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003645- Issue #6507: Accept source strings in dis.dis(). Original patch by Daniel
3646 Urban.
Nick Coghlan5c8b54e2010-07-03 07:36:51 +00003647
Brett Cannon8315fd12010-07-02 22:03:00 +00003648- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
3649 implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
3650
Victor Stinnerbc5c54b2010-07-03 13:44:22 +00003651- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolà610aa4f2010-06-30 17:47:39 +00003652 raises an exception.
3653
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00003654- Issue #9110: Addition of ContextDecorator to contextlib, for creating APIs
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003655 that act as both context managers and decorators. contextmanager changes to
3656 use ContextDecorator.
Michael Foordb3a89842010-06-30 12:17:50 +00003657
Brett Cannonf23e3742010-06-27 23:57:46 +00003658- Implement importlib.abc.SourceLoader and deprecate PyLoader and PyPycLoader
3659 for removal in Python 3.4.
3660
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003661- Issue #9064: pdb's "up" and "down" commands now accept an optional argument
3662 giving the number of frames to go.
Georg Brandleb1f4aa2010-06-27 10:37:48 +00003663
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003664- Issue #9018: os.path.normcase() now raises a TypeError if the argument is not
3665 ``str`` or ``bytes``.
Ezio Melotti5a3ef5b2010-06-25 10:56:11 +00003666
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003667- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag on an
3668 OpenSSL structure.
Antoine Pitrou6186bfb2010-06-25 00:07:34 +00003669
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003670- Issue #8682: The ssl module now temporary increments the reference count of a
3671 socket object got through ``PyWeakref_GetObject``, so as to avoid possible
Antoine Pitrou8bae4ec2010-06-24 22:34:04 +00003672 deallocation while the object is still being used.
3673
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00003674- Issue #1368368: FancyURLOpener class changed to throw an Exception on wrong
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003675 password instead of presenting an interactive prompt. Older behavior can be
Senthil Kumaran80f1b052010-06-18 15:08:18 +00003676 obtained by passing retry=True to http_error_xxx methods of FancyURLOpener.
3677
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003678- Issue #8720: Fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
R. David Murraya1b37402010-06-17 02:04:29 +00003679 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
3680
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003681- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of a body
3682 part if the body part ends with a ``\r\n``.
R. David Murray45e0e142010-06-16 02:19:40 +00003683
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003684- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for values
3685 between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
Mark Dickinsonbcdf9da2010-06-13 10:52:38 +00003686
Victor Stinner0f35e2c2010-06-11 23:46:47 +00003687- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
3688
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00003689- Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
3690 value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).
3691
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003692- Issue #8188: Comparisons between Decimal and Fraction objects are now
3693 permitted, returning a result based on the exact numerical values of the
3694 operands. This builds on issue #2531, which allowed Decimal-to-float
3695 comparisons; all comparisons involving numeric types (bool, int, float,
3696 complex, Decimal, Fraction) should now act as expected.
Mark Dickinson08ade6f2010-06-11 10:44:52 +00003697
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003698- Issue #8897: Fix sunau module, use bytes to write the header. Patch written by
3699 Thomas Jollans.
Victor Stinner7f3652e2010-06-07 20:14:04 +00003700
Raymond Hettinger48f3bd32010-12-16 00:30:53 +00003701- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and attribute docstrings.
Alexander Belopolsky69f3fd02010-06-05 15:04:51 +00003702
Martin v. Löwis2d5157e2010-06-04 19:50:26 +00003703- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
3704
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003705- Issue #4768: base64 encoded email body parts were incorrectly stored as binary
3706 strings. They are now correctly converted to strings.
R. David Murray7da8f062010-06-04 16:11:08 +00003707
Lars Gustäbel2470ff12010-06-03 10:11:52 +00003708- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
3709 mistake.
3710
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003711- Charset.body_encode now correctly handles base64 encoding by encoding with the
3712 output_charset before calling base64mime.encode. Passes the tests from 2.x
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00003713 issue #1368247.
R. David Murray850fc852010-06-03 01:58:28 +00003714
R. David Murrayd35251d2010-06-01 01:32:12 +00003715- Issue #8845: sqlite3 Connection objects now have a read-only in_transaction
3716 attribute that is True iff there are uncommitted changes.
3717
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003718- Issue #1289118: datetime.timedelta objects can now be multiplied by float and
3719 divided by float and int objects. Results are rounded to the nearest multiple
3720 of timedelta.resolution with ties resolved using round-half-to-even method.
Alexander Belopolsky1790bc42010-05-31 17:33:47 +00003721
Alexander Belopolskyf03a6162010-05-27 21:42:58 +00003722- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
3723 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
3724
Giampaolo Rodolàa67299e2010-05-26 18:06:04 +00003725- Issue #8806: add SSL contexts support to ftplib.
3726
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00003727- Issue #4769: Fix main() function of the base64 module, use sys.stdin.buffer
3728 and sys.stdout.buffer (instead of sys.stdin and sys.stdout) to use the bytes
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003729 API.
Victor Stinner479736b2010-05-25 21:12:34 +00003730
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003731- Issue #8770: Now sysconfig displays information when it's called as a script.
3732 Initial idea by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadéa7514992010-05-25 09:44:36 +00003733
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00003734- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003735 Fredrik Håård.
Victor Stinnere021f4b2010-05-24 21:46:25 +00003736
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00003737- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003738 Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating contexts that
3739 correspond to the decimal interchange formats specified in IEEE 754.
Mark Dickinsonb1d8e322010-05-22 18:35:36 +00003740
Victor Stinnera92ad7e2010-05-22 16:59:09 +00003741- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
3742 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
3743 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner3fed0872010-05-22 02:16:27 +00003744
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00003745- Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003746 of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler.
Victor Stinner7126dbc2010-05-21 23:45:42 +00003747
Benjamin Petersonaada7b82010-05-21 21:45:06 +00003748- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
3749 of files without one.
3750
Benjamin Peterson4ad6bd52010-05-21 20:55:22 +00003751- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
3752 comparing to a non-mapping.
3753
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00003754- Issue #8774: tabnanny uses the encoding cookie (#coding:...) to use the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003755 correct encoding.
Victor Stinnerf0feec22010-05-21 10:52:08 +00003756
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003757- Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several
3758 ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable
3759 protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`.
Antoine Pitroub5218772010-05-21 09:56:06 +00003760
Tarek Ziadé06710a82010-05-19 22:25:00 +00003761- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
3762
Victor Stinner2ca03c12010-05-19 17:00:07 +00003763- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
3764 compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
3765 stdout is not a TTY).
3766
Victor Stinnerb745a742010-05-18 17:17:23 +00003767- Issue #8513: os.get_exec_path() supports b'PATH' key and bytes value.
3768 subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
3769 os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
3770 is bytes (eg. False on Windows).
3771
Lars Gustäbel1465cc22010-05-17 18:02:50 +00003772- Issue #8633: tarfile is now able to read and write archives with "raw" binary
3773 pax headers as described in POSIX.1-2008.
3774
Florent Xiclunac7b8e862010-05-17 17:33:07 +00003775- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes,
3776 unquote, unquote_to_bytes.
3777
Tarek Ziadéc16a85c2010-05-17 10:38:53 +00003778- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
3779
Victor Stinnerf9faaad2010-05-16 21:36:37 +00003780- Issue #8477: ssl.RAND_egd() and ssl._test_decode_cert() support str with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003781 surrogates and bytes for the filename.
Victor Stinner3800e1e2010-05-16 21:23:48 +00003782
Antoine Pitrou152efa22010-05-16 18:19:27 +00003783- Issue #8550: Add first class ``SSLContext`` objects to the ssl module.
3784
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003785- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
3786 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitrou53b21662010-05-11 23:46:02 +00003787
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003788- The audioop module now supports sound fragments of length greater than 2**31
3789 bytes on 64-bit machines, and is PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.
Mark Dickinson81fece22010-05-11 13:34:35 +00003790
Giampaolo Rodolàbd576b72010-05-10 14:53:29 +00003791- Issue #4972: Add support for the context manager protocol to the ftplib.FTP
3792 class.
3793
Benjamin Petersone87c0fc2010-05-08 19:52:49 +00003794- Issue #8664: In py_compile, create __pycache__ when the compiled path is
3795 given.
3796
Victor Stinner449c4662010-05-08 11:10:09 +00003797- Issue #8514: Add os.fsencode() function (Unix only): encode a string to bytes
3798 for use in the file system, environment variables or the command line.
3799
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003800- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
3801 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou89562712010-05-07 17:04:02 +00003802
Benjamin Peterson225168e2010-05-06 22:29:53 +00003803- Issue #8603: Support bytes environmental variables on Unix: Add os.environb
3804 mapping and os.getenvb() function. os.unsetenv() encodes str argument to the
3805 file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler (instead of
3806 utf8/strict) and accepts bytes. posix.environ keys and values are now bytes.
Victor Stinner84ae1182010-05-06 22:05:07 +00003807
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00003808- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
3809
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003810- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
3811 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
3812 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
3813 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolà8d2dc852010-05-06 18:06:30 +00003814
Tarek Ziadéae4d5c62010-05-05 22:27:31 +00003815- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
3816 Patch by Tres Seaver.
3817
Victor Stinnerd17f2192010-08-15 09:56:07 +00003818- Issue #8390: tarfile uses surrogateescape as the default error handler
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003819 (instead of replace in read mode or strict in write mode).
Victor Stinnerde629d42010-05-05 21:43:57 +00003820
Barry Warsaw83d89982010-05-05 16:18:31 +00003821- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
3822
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003823- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the parent
3824 and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussorenac764d32010-05-05 15:32:33 +00003825
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003826- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
3827 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
3828 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
3829 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
3830 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinsonc69160e2010-05-04 14:35:33 +00003831
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00003832- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003833 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also qensure that calling close()
3834 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrou6be88762010-05-03 16:48:20 +00003835
Antoine Pitrou6e20a1b2010-05-02 19:59:47 +00003836- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
3837 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
3838
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003839- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
3840 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderone6f137ca2010-05-09 03:18:57 +00003841
Georg Brandl25106ce2010-05-21 21:49:47 +00003842- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now works on Mac OS X, as does
Ronald Oussoren4d39f6e2010-05-02 09:54:35 +00003843 webbrowser.get("safari").
3844
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003845- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
3846 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbeld6eb70b2010-04-29 15:37:02 +00003847
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003848- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
3849 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitroubf043492010-04-29 10:11:46 +00003850
Tarek Ziadé6ac91722010-04-28 17:51:36 +00003851- Issue #8295: Added shutil.unpack_archive.
3852
Senthil Kumaran71fb6c82010-04-28 17:39:48 +00003853- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
3854 It should correctly return an empty response now.
3855
Benjamin Peterson95e392c2010-04-27 21:07:21 +00003856- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
3857
Antoine Pitrou06e34a92010-04-27 19:14:15 +00003858- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
3859 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
3860
R. David Murrayad78d152010-04-27 02:45:53 +00003861- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
3862 and mappings.
3863
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003864- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
3865 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
3866 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
3867 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitrou3bcba8e2010-04-25 22:01:43 +00003868
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003869- Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the original
3870 socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout would be
3871 turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).
Antoine Pitrou40f08742010-04-24 22:04:40 +00003872
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00003873- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
3874 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
3875
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003876- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
3877 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitroud3f8ab82010-04-24 21:26:44 +00003878
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003879- Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates and
3880 bytes strings for environment keys and values.
Victor Stinner13bb71c2010-04-23 21:41:56 +00003881
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00003882- Issue #8467: Pure Python implementation of subprocess encodes the error
3883 message using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003884 message.
Victor Stinner4d078042010-04-23 19:28:32 +00003885
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003886- Issue #8468: bz2.BZ2File() accepts str with surrogates and bytes filenames.
Victor Stinner349fd522010-04-23 10:56:17 +00003887
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003888- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
3889 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
3890 keywords.
Sean Reifscheider13daf122010-04-23 09:29:52 +00003891
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003892- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
3893 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00003894 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
3895 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
3896
Antoine Pitrou7062db82010-04-22 13:30:10 +00003897- Issue #8496: make mailcap.lookup() always return a list, rather than an
3898 iterator. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
3899
Victor Stinner35466c52010-04-22 11:23:23 +00003900- Issue #8195: Fix a crash in sqlite Connection.create_collation() if the
3901 collation name contains a surrogate character.
3902
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003903- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
3904 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
3905 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitroufec12ff2010-04-21 19:46:23 +00003906
Tarek Ziadéfb437512010-04-20 08:57:33 +00003907- Issue #6547: Added the ignore_dangling_symlinks option to shutil.copytree.
3908
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003909- Issue #1540112: Now allowing the choice of a copy function in shutil.copytree.
Tarek Ziadé5340db32010-04-19 22:30:51 +00003910
Giampaolo Rodolà5fb313b2010-04-19 22:05:54 +00003911- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
3912 from PORT/EPRT commands.
3913
Tarek Ziadé10a51af2010-04-19 21:31:42 +00003914- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
3915
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003916- Issue #7154: urllib.request can now detect the proxy settings on OSX 10.6 (as
3917 long as the user didn't specify 'automatic proxy configuration').
Ronald Oussoren84151202010-04-18 20:46:11 +00003918
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003919- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
3920 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàceb513a2010-04-18 13:36:35 +00003921
Victor Stinner738446f02010-04-18 00:00:44 +00003922- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
3923 surrogates.
3924
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00003925- Issue #850728: Add a *timeout* parameter to the `acquire()` method of
Antoine Pitroua7ecfe72010-04-17 23:52:21 +00003926 `threading.Semaphore` objects. Original patch by Torsten Landschoff.
Antoine Pitrou0454af92010-04-17 23:51:58 +00003927
Antoine Pitrou2d9cb9c2010-04-17 17:40:45 +00003928- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
3929 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
3930
Victor Stinner0e59cc32010-04-16 23:49:32 +00003931- Issue #8393: subprocess accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates for
3932 the current working directory.
3933
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00003934- Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003935 using backslashreplace error handler.
Victor Stinner5bfe1462010-04-16 13:28:05 +00003936
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003937- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with surrogates.
Victor Stinnercfa72782010-04-16 11:45:13 +00003938
Senthil Kumaranad02d232010-04-16 03:02:13 +00003939- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
3940 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
3941
R. David Murrayd48739f2010-04-14 18:59:18 +00003942- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
3943
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003944- Issue #7316: The acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00003945 module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003946 relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait loop.
Antoine Pitrou7c3e5772010-04-14 15:44:10 +00003947
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00003948- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
3949 encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003950 Python 2.x and 3.x.
Victor Stinner485fb562010-04-13 11:07:24 +00003951
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00003952- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003953 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
3954 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murrayb2416e52010-04-12 16:58:02 +00003955
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00003956- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003957 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
3958 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murrayef3d6bd2010-04-12 14:48:58 +00003959
Tarek Ziadé46cd93a2010-04-12 08:23:49 +00003960- Issue #8375: test_distutils now checks if the temporary directory are still
3961 present before it cleans them.
3962
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003963- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
3964 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrou0c70d2d2010-04-11 22:35:34 +00003965
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00003966- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003967 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
3968 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrou04f6a322010-04-05 21:40:07 +00003969
Raymond Hettingerc50846a2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00003970- Add functools.total_ordering() and functools.cmp_to_key().
3971
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003972- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
3973 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson089b00c2010-04-03 15:51:03 +00003974
3975 >>> Decimal(1.1)
3976 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
3977
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003978- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
3979 directly.
Mark Dickinson98127c32010-04-03 11:18:52 +00003980
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003981- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
3982 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
3983 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
3984 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00003985
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003986- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
3987 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
3988 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
3989 id(Decimal). See also issue #8188, which adds Decimal-to-Fraction
3990 comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonac256ab2010-04-03 11:08:14 +00003991
Raymond Hettinger9c01e442010-04-03 10:32:58 +00003992- Added a subtract() method to collections.Counter().
3993
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00003994- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00003995 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
3996 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
3997 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawd5f9bf52010-03-31 21:36:22 +00003998
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00003999- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
4000 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004001 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna806d8cf2010-03-30 19:34:18 +00004002
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004003- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
4004 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
4005 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
4006 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinsonab4d63b2010-03-27 11:16:00 +00004007
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004008- Issue #8139: ossaudiodev didn't initialize its types properly, therefore some
4009 methods (such as oss_mixer_device.fileno()) were not available. Initial patch
4010 by Bertrand Janin.
Antoine Pitrou39b35432010-03-23 00:25:54 +00004011
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00004012- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
4013 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
4014
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004015- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004016 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
4017 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou910bd512010-03-22 20:11:09 +00004018
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004019- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
4020 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayca2edce2010-03-22 17:48:48 +00004021
Antoine Pitrou3c0fac22010-03-26 19:36:14 +00004022- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
4023 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
4024 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou5733c082010-03-22 14:49:10 +00004025
Victor Stinnere3a1f6d2010-03-22 01:58:35 +00004026- Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII
4027 script, open the file in binary mode and not in text mode with the default
4028 (utf8) encoding.
4029
Florent Xicluna54467e02010-03-21 12:29:50 +00004030- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
4031
Florent Xiclunafaa663f2010-03-19 13:37:08 +00004032- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
4033
Benjamin Peterson00888932010-03-18 22:37:38 +00004034- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
4035
Benjamin Peterson689a5582010-03-18 22:29:52 +00004036- ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
4037 detected.
4038
Martin v. Löwis4b003072010-03-16 13:19:21 +00004039- Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
4040
Matthias Klosea6d9abf2010-03-16 10:51:28 +00004041- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
4042 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
4043
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004044- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Klosec33b9022010-03-16 00:36:26 +00004045
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004046- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
4047 locale.
Matthias Klose82f60912010-03-15 13:46:04 +00004048
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004049- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced by
4050 an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be done
4051 safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
Gregory P. Smitha31f57c2010-03-14 06:52:18 +00004052
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004053- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features. The
4054 default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier Python
4055 versions. This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored by default
4056 in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
Gregory P. Smith580d60c2010-03-14 07:13:25 +00004057
Florent Xiclunaf15351d2010-03-13 23:24:31 +00004058- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
4059 cElementTree module is updated too.
4060
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004061- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been set to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004062 an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real program
4063 name.
Victor Stinnerb33062c2010-03-12 14:27:16 +00004064
Florent Xiclunaa4707382010-03-11 00:05:17 +00004065- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
4066
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004067- Issue #6509: fix re.sub to work properly when the pattern, the string, and the
4068 replacement were all bytes. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Ezio Melottib92ed7c2010-03-06 15:24:08 +00004069
Gerhard Häringf9cee222010-03-05 15:20:03 +00004070- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
4071 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4072
Ezio Melottida227042010-03-14 11:51:00 +00004073- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
4074 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7ed9c4c2010-03-04 12:14:57 +00004075
Victor Stinnercee3ae82010-03-04 00:29:24 +00004076- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
4077 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
4078
Lars Gustäbel01385812010-03-03 12:08:54 +00004079- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the TarFile
4080 class.
4081
Barry Warsawb1938262010-03-01 21:53:00 +00004082- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
4083 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
4084
Florent Xicluna59250852010-02-27 14:21:57 +00004085- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
4086
Florent Xiclunac279ebf2010-02-27 11:31:21 +00004087- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
4088 writing.
4089
Vinay Sajipdb81c4c2010-02-25 23:13:06 +00004090- Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
4091
4092- Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
4093
4094- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4095
R. David Murraybe0698b2010-02-23 22:57:58 +00004096- Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
4097
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004098- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
4099 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller5117b0b2010-02-23 20:25:02 +00004100
Tarek Ziadé8e615ae2010-02-23 06:00:04 +00004101- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
4102
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004103- Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories to be
4104 ignored only to the first file. Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1f9beb2010-02-22 22:16:58 +00004105
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004106- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr(). Noted by
4107 Kan-Ru Chen.
Andrew M. Kuchlingfbacb062010-02-22 16:52:52 +00004108
Ezio Melotti19e4acf2010-02-22 15:59:01 +00004109- Issue #7310: fix the __repr__ of os.environ to show the environment variables.
4110
R. David Murray57c45ac2010-02-21 04:39:40 +00004111- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
4112 messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
4113
Brett Cannonef7d6722010-02-19 16:04:36 +00004114- Issue #7361: Importlib was not properly checking the number of bytes in
4115 bytecode file when it was less then 8 bytes.
4116
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004117- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, Context class methods (with the exception
4118 of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long wherever a
4119 Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument to Decimal.
4120 Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson84230a12010-02-18 14:49:50 +00004121
R. David Murray1f449142010-02-11 00:15:05 +00004122- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4123 interpreter shutdown.
4124
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004125- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in XML
4126 processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed by the
4127 XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in a
4128 processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou99f69ee2010-02-09 17:25:47 +00004129
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004130- Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML entities
4131 when they could't be represented in the requested output encoding. Patch by
4132 Jerry Chen.
Antoine Pitrouc77dd322010-02-09 16:51:16 +00004133
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004134- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
4135 compression type.
Ronald Oussorenee5c8852010-02-07 20:24:02 +00004136
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004137- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
4138 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004139 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address type
4140 is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitroub6375f12010-02-04 20:23:24 +00004141
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004142- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file
4143 position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4144 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrou905a2ff2010-01-31 22:47:27 +00004145 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4146
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004147- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004148 :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside an
4149 archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in
4150 a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups. It also solves an
4151 issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and `readline()` give wrong results.
4152 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroua32f9a22010-01-27 21:18:57 +00004153
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004154- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004155 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4156 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller1f0b6582010-01-27 03:36:01 +00004157
Benjamin Petersond6326642010-01-27 02:25:58 +00004158- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4159
Benjamin Peterson9a11a362010-01-27 01:51:29 +00004160- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
Benjamin Peterson255058f2010-01-27 01:47:14 +00004161
Ezio Melotti38f00332010-01-25 12:39:47 +00004162- Removed the functions 'verify' and 'vereq' from Lib/test/support.py.
4163
Benjamin Peterson25001472010-01-25 03:37:42 +00004164- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
4165 the release file is empty.
4166
Antoine Pitrou1119a642010-01-17 12:16:23 +00004167- Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
4168 module.
4169
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004170- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping headers in
4171 multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of invalid
4172 modifications to such parts by Generator.
R. David Murraya8f480f2010-01-16 18:30:03 +00004173
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004174- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to `binascii.a2bhqx`. Patch
4175 by Florent Xicluna, along with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitrou747e8b32010-01-16 17:55:52 +00004176
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004177- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a 1-byte
4178 argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou2843aa82010-01-15 00:27:43 +00004179
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004180- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4181 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou82feb1f2010-01-14 17:34:48 +00004182
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004183- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4184 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou8e33fd72010-01-13 14:37:26 +00004185
Benjamin Peterson5efea042010-01-13 03:49:50 +00004186- Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
4187
Tarek Ziadéac4e6ea2010-01-11 23:15:52 +00004188- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
4189 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c
4190 file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
4191
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004192- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4193 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéaf77a2f2010-01-08 23:57:53 +00004194
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004195- Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against the
4196 destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.
Antoine Pitrouc1baa602010-01-08 17:54:23 +00004197
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004198- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4199 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou01a15ea2010-01-07 17:57:31 +00004200
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004201- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004202 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4203 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithaafdca82010-01-04 04:50:36 +00004204
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004205- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4206 make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further speedups by
4207 wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitroub1f88352010-01-03 22:37:40 +00004208
4209- Issue #3972: http.client.HTTPConnection now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smithb4066372010-01-03 03:28:29 +00004210 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4211
4212- socket.create_connection now accepts an optional source_address parameter.
4213
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004214- Issue #5511: now zipfile.ZipFile can be used as a context manager. Initial
4215 patch by Brian Curtin.
Ezio Melottifaa6b7f2009-12-30 12:34:59 +00004216
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004217- Issue #7556: Make sure Distutils' msvc9compile reads and writes the MSVC XML
4218 Manifest file in text mode so string patterns can be used in regular
4219 expressions.
Tarek Ziadéc60ea322009-12-21 23:12:41 +00004220
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004221- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4222 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4223 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé8b9361a2009-12-21 00:02:20 +00004224
Senthil Kumaran47fff872009-12-20 07:10:31 +00004225- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4226 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
4227
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004228- Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now raise a
4229 TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like object).
4230 Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou77b338b2009-12-14 18:00:06 +00004231
Benjamin Petersonbf5ff762009-12-13 19:25:34 +00004232- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4233 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4234 the same as passing no argument.
4235
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004236- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel365aff32009-12-13 11:42:29 +00004237
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004238- Issue #5949: added check for correct lineends in input from IMAP server in
4239 imaplib.
R. David Murraye8dc2582009-12-10 02:08:06 +00004240
Raymond Hettinger44459de2010-04-03 23:20:46 +00004241- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingere5fdedb2009-12-10 00:47:21 +00004242
Raymond Hettinger3f9afd82009-12-10 03:03:02 +00004243- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4244
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004245- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4246 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou781eba72009-12-08 15:57:31 +00004247
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004248- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéb88a4962009-12-08 09:45:25 +00004249 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
4250
Vinay Sajip540f2152009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004251- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
4252 TLS with authentication credentials.
4253
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004254- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4255 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadédf872d42009-12-06 09:28:17 +00004256
Martin v. Löwis1679ea82009-12-03 20:57:49 +00004257- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4258 msvc9compiler.
4259
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004260- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004261 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4262 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroub7572f02009-12-02 20:46:48 +00004263
Tarek Ziadéacafc2d2009-11-29 22:24:57 +00004264- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4265 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4266 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4267
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004268- Issue #4486: When an exception has an explicit cause, do not print its
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004269 implicit context too. This affects the `traceback` module as well as built-in
4270 exception printing.
Antoine Pitrou7b0d4a22009-11-28 16:12:28 +00004271
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004272- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4273 Collins.
Antoine Pitrou1fc0d2b2009-11-28 15:58:27 +00004274
Vinay Sajip03f6c112009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004275- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4276
Antoine Pitrou648bcd72009-11-27 13:23:26 +00004277- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
4278 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
4279 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4280
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004281- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()` method
4282 returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4283 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroube6859d2009-11-25 23:02:32 +00004284
Antoine Pitrou7d7aede2009-11-25 18:55:32 +00004285- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4286
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004287- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters.
Senthil Kumaran758025c2009-11-23 19:02:52 +00004288
Lars Gustäbel9520a432009-11-22 18:48:49 +00004289- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4290 raises ReadError on empty files.
4291
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004292- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé26afd482009-11-19 05:39:00 +00004293
Benjamin Peterson3ec9b6e2009-11-19 21:22:27 +00004294- Issue #5037: Proxy the __bytes__ special method instead to __bytes__ instead
4295 of __str__.
Benjamin Peterson32019772009-11-19 03:08:32 +00004296
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004297- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4298 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel7b465392009-11-18 20:29:25 +00004299
Tarek Ziadé11c9d252009-11-18 09:32:34 +00004300- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
4301 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
4302
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004303- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4304 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouf988cd02009-11-17 20:21:14 +00004305
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004306- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan106274b2009-11-15 23:04:33 +00004307
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004308- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4309 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroub8108e22009-11-15 14:25:16 +00004310
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004311- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4312 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4313 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
4314 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
Nick Coghlan260bd3e2009-11-16 06:49:25 +00004315 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4316
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004317- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4318 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4319 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrou45d61a32009-11-13 22:35:18 +00004320
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004321- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004322 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrouc63ecee2009-11-10 21:34:48 +00004323 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4324
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004325- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
4326 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
4327 class to be used without having to subclass.
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00004328
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004329- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foord34c94622010-02-10 15:51:42 +00004330 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
4331
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004332- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004333 default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes recursive
4334 locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, they were slower by
4335 10x to 15x).
Antoine Pitrou434736a2009-11-10 18:46:01 +00004336
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004337- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4338 those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
Antoine Pitroub0872682009-11-09 16:08:16 +00004339 `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
4340
Brett Cannone52c9192009-11-07 23:55:05 +00004341- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
4342 write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
4343
Antoine Pitroubdec11f2009-11-05 13:49:14 +00004344- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4345 which are part of a reference cycle.
4346
Antoine Pitroud83f1e62009-11-04 21:10:38 +00004347- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
4348 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
4349
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004350- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time a
4351 modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test failures
4352 on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
Antoine Pitrou03f13442009-11-02 11:36:51 +00004353
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004354- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4355 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4356 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4357 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith50467882009-11-01 18:42:17 +00004358
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004359- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4360 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4361 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4362 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinsona2d1fe02009-10-29 12:23:02 +00004363
Lars Gustäbel1440df22009-10-29 09:39:47 +00004364- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4365 header as required by RFC 1952.
4366
Tarek Ziadéc7c71ff2009-10-27 23:12:01 +00004367- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4368 Distutils.
4369
Tarek Ziadé8c0e2172009-10-27 21:24:21 +00004370- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4371 an uppercase.
4372
Antoine Pitrouc66363f2009-10-27 17:47:14 +00004373- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
4374 several threads at once.
4375
Vinay Sajip42ead482009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004376- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4377
Mark Dickinson06bb6742009-10-20 13:38:04 +00004378- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4379 larger than emax.
4380
Antoine Pitrou6a448d42009-10-19 19:43:09 +00004381- Issue #7080: locale.strxfrm() raises a MemoryError on 64-bit non-Windows
4382 platforms, and assorted locale fixes by Derk Drukker.
4383
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004384- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4385 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroudc0900b2009-10-19 18:22:37 +00004386
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004387- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran7bb04972009-10-11 04:58:55 +00004388
Vinay Sajipcbabd7e2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004389- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4390 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004391
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004392- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4393 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murraybf2e0aa2009-10-10 00:13:32 +00004394
Benjamin Petersond3afada2009-10-09 21:43:09 +00004395- Make tokenize.detect_coding() normalize utf-8 and iso-8859-1 variants like the
4396 builtin tokenizer.
4397
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004398- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4399 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson56df8872009-10-07 19:23:50 +00004400
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004401- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the I/O library under AIX and
4402 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by Derk Drukker.
Antoine Pitrouca767bd2009-09-21 21:37:02 +00004403
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004404- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4405 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller69b639f2009-09-18 20:08:39 +00004406
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004407- Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with base
4408 class positional arguments.
Thomas Hellerd7cb1b92009-09-18 19:05:13 +00004409
Eric Smith81fd8042009-09-18 13:23:13 +00004410- Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes.
4411
Matthias Klosef6b76b02009-09-13 15:18:53 +00004412- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4413
Lars Gustäbel049d2aa2009-09-12 10:44:00 +00004414- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4415
Benjamin Petersonbe74a372009-09-11 21:17:13 +00004416- Issue #6888: pdb's alias command was broken when no arguments were given.
4417
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004418- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson46ab5d02009-09-08 20:22:46 +00004419
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004420- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4421 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4422 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson825fce32009-09-07 18:08:12 +00004423
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004424- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4425 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson7718d2b2009-09-07 16:21:56 +00004426
Thomas Heller8b939522009-09-04 18:24:41 +00004427- Issue #6239: ctypes.c_char_p return value must return bytes.
4428
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004429- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4430 concatenating strings in http.client's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4431 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4432 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers9c33cbf2009-09-04 17:04:16 +00004433
Brett Cannon1c1dcbf2009-08-30 20:22:21 +00004434- Trying to import a submodule from a module that is not a package, ImportError
4435 should be raised, not AttributeError.
4436
Brett Cannonde4ebfe2009-08-30 19:53:48 +00004437- When the globals past to importlib.__import__() has __package__ set to None,
4438 fall back to computing what __package__ should be instead of giving up.
4439
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004440- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004441 importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an AttributeError before).
Brett Cannon6afbaef2009-08-30 19:08:58 +00004442
Brett Cannon9e0e1a62009-08-30 18:28:46 +00004443- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
4444
Brett Cannon4d75fc12009-08-30 03:47:36 +00004445- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.
4446
Lars Gustäbelbfdfdda2009-08-28 19:59:59 +00004447- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4448
Mark Dickinsond314e1b2009-08-28 13:39:53 +00004449- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4450 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4451
Guilherme Polobcd03df2009-08-18 15:35:57 +00004452- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in tix.HList.
4453
4454- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the tix.Grid widget.
4455
4456- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4457
4458- Issue #1119673: Do not override tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4459 ScrolledText.
4460
Gregory P. Smith01099702009-08-16 18:58:46 +00004461- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4462
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004463- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4464 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloc3b2ae42009-08-16 14:46:16 +00004465
Antoine Pitroua0ceb732009-08-06 20:29:56 +00004466- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new I/O library, which could
4467 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4468 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4469 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4470
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004471- Issue #6622: Fix "local variable 'secret' referenced before assignment" bug in
4472 POP3.apop.
Mark Dickinsonea1158f2009-08-06 16:06:25 +00004473
Mark Dickinson45f799f2009-08-02 20:08:54 +00004474- Issue #2715: Remove remnants of Carbon.File from binhex module.
4475
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004476- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4477 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4478 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson345adc42009-08-02 10:14:23 +00004479
Jack Diederich36596a32009-07-26 22:23:04 +00004480- Issue #6106: telnetlib.Telnet.process_rawq doesn't handle default WILL/WONT
4481 DO/DONT correctly.
4482
Senthil Kumaran67305382009-07-26 04:46:00 +00004483- Issue #1424152: Fix for http.client, urllib.request to support SSL while
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004484 working through proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by
4485 Senthil Kumaran.
Senthil Kumaran97f0c6b2009-07-25 04:24:38 +00004486
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004487- Add importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader to represent the PEP 302 protocol for
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004488 loaders that allow for modules to be executed. Both importlib.abc.PyLoader and
4489 PyPycLoader inherit from this class and provide implementations in relation to
4490 other methods required by the ABCs.
Brett Cannon69194272009-07-20 04:23:48 +00004491
Brett Cannon64ef00f2009-07-20 03:19:18 +00004492- importlib.abc.PyLoader did not inherit from importlib.abc.ResourceLoader like
4493 the documentation said it did even though the code in PyLoader relied on the
4494 abstract method required by ResourceLoader.
4495
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004496- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4497 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4498 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson85424c92009-07-18 14:41:42 +00004499
Antoine Pitrouf3637322009-08-06 21:00:37 +00004500- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1c0c0032009-07-17 06:55:42 +00004501
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004502- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was reported
4503 differently than it did with python 2.x.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc97e5f282009-07-11 09:35:13 +00004504
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004505- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a syntax
4506 error.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2de11152009-07-09 23:07:52 +00004507
Gregory P. Smithd06fa472009-07-04 02:46:54 +00004508- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4509 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4510
Antoine Pitrou54923952009-07-01 14:53:06 +00004511- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
4512
Hirokazu Yamamoto7a9e1bd2009-06-29 14:54:12 +00004513- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4514
Benjamin Peterson5a6deb42009-06-28 21:35:31 +00004515- The deprecated function string.maketrans has been removed.
4516
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004517- Issue #4005: Fixed a crash of pydoc when there was a zip file present in
4518 sys.path.
4519
Alexandre Vassalotticf76e1a2009-07-22 03:24:36 +00004520- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable.
4521
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004522- The os.get_exec_path() function to return the list of directories that will be
4523 searched for an executable when launching a subprocess was added.
Gregory P. Smithb6e8c7e2010-02-27 07:22:22 +00004524
Gregory P. Smith3fdd9642010-02-28 18:57:46 +00004525- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
4526 instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
4527
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004528- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal os.waitpid
4529 and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smitha59c59f2010-03-01 00:17:40 +00004530
Gregory P. Smith1a530912010-03-01 04:59:27 +00004531- Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
4532
Steven Bethard6d265692010-03-02 09:22:57 +00004533- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
4534
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004535- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is a socket
4536 option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
Larry Hastingsf0f37952010-04-02 11:47:10 +00004537
Alexander Belopolsky4d770172010-09-13 18:14:34 +00004538- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
4539 for tracing methods.
4540
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004541Extension Modules
4542-----------------
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00004543
Mark Dickinsonfa41e602010-09-28 07:22:27 +00004544- Issue #9959: Tweak formula used for computing math.log of an integer,
4545 making it marginally more accurate for exact powers of 2.
4546
Mark Dickinsoncf28b952010-07-29 21:41:59 +00004547- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
4548
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004549- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004550 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does not reflect
4551 any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always returns the same
4552 information as the id command. os.getgroups() can now return more than 16
4553 groups on MacOSX.
Ronald Oussorenb6ee4f52010-07-23 13:53:51 +00004554
Martin v. Löwisc9e1c7d2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00004555- Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
4556
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004557- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode (e.g.,
4558 struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception then that
4559 exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where char is unsigned.
Mark Dickinsone26660f2010-07-18 07:48:20 +00004560
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004561- Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x python when
4562 they contain instances of old-style classes.
Alexander Belopolskyd92f0402010-07-17 22:50:45 +00004563
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004564- Issue #9165: Add new functions math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite, to accompany
4565 existing isinf and isnan functions.
Mark Dickinson8e0c9962010-07-11 17:38:24 +00004566
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004567- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by Jason
4568 R. Coombs.
Brian Curtind40e6f72010-07-08 21:39:08 +00004569
Benjamin Petersona9800a82010-07-07 19:04:48 +00004570- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
4571 object in the '?' format.
4572
Alexander Belopolskya11d8c02010-07-06 23:19:45 +00004573- Issue #9000: datetime.timezone objects now have eval-friendly repr.
4574
Benjamin Petersonf751bc92010-07-02 13:46:42 +00004575- In the math module, correctly lookup __trunc__, __ceil__, and __floor__ as
4576 special methods.
Benjamin Peterson8bb9cde2010-07-01 15:16:55 +00004577
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004578- Issue #9005: Prevent utctimetuple() from producing year 0 or year 10,000.
4579 Prior to this change, timezone adjustment in utctimetuple() could produce
4580 tm_year value of 0 or 10,000. Now an OverflowError is raised in these edge
4581 cases.
Alexander Belopolsky75f94c22010-06-21 15:21:14 +00004582
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004583- Issue #6641: The ``datetime.strptime`` method now supports the ``%z``
4584 directive. When the ``%z`` directive is present in the format string, an
4585 aware ``datetime`` object is returned with ``tzinfo`` bound to a
4586 ``datetime.timezone`` instance constructed from the parsed offset. If both
4587 ``%z`` and ``%Z`` are present, the data in ``%Z`` field is used for timezone
4588 name, but ``%Z`` data without ``%z`` is discarded.
Alexander Belopolskyca94f552010-06-17 18:30:34 +00004589
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004590- Issue #5094: The ``datetime`` module now has a simple concrete class
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004591 implementing ``datetime.tzinfo`` interface. Instances of the new class,
4592 ``datetime.timezone``, return fixed name and UTC offset from their
4593 ``tzname(dt)`` and ``utcoffset(dt)`` methods. The ``dst(dt)`` method always
4594 returns ``None``. A class attribute, ``utc`` contains an instance
4595 representing the UTC timezone. Original patch by Rafe Kaplan.
Alexander Belopolsky4e749a12010-06-14 14:15:50 +00004596
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004597- Issue #8973: Add __all__ to struct module; this ensures that help(struct)
4598 includes documentation for the struct.Struct class.
Mark Dickinson4b80ef52010-06-12 15:17:02 +00004599
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004600- Issue #3129: Trailing digits in struct format string are no longer ignored.
Victor Stinnerda0eca42010-06-11 21:50:30 +00004601 For example, "1" or "ilib123" are now invalid formats and cause
Alexander Belopolskyfcdc79a2010-06-12 17:18:45 +00004602 ``struct.error`` to be raised. Patch by Caleb Deveraux.
Alexander Belopolsky177e8532010-06-11 16:04:59 +00004603
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004604- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, the
4605 curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it is not safe
4606 to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
Stefan Kraha3ac44e2010-06-08 14:00:52 +00004607
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004608- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns ERROR_MORE_DATA,
4609 requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Brian Curtin60853212010-05-26 17:43:50 +00004610
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004611- Issue #8692: Optimize math.factorial: replace the previous naive algorithm
4612 with an improved 'binary-split' algorithm that uses fewer multiplications and
4613 allows many of the multiplications to be performed using plain C integer
4614 arithmetic instead of PyLong arithmetic. Also uses a lookup table for small
4615 arguments.
Mark Dickinson4c8a9a22010-05-15 17:02:38 +00004616
Mark Dickinson85eacea2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00004617- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
4618 overflow checks in the audioop module.
4619
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004620- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by
4621 calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally):
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004622 the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to ``td /
4623 timedelta(seconds=1)``.
Mark Dickinson0381e3f2010-05-08 14:35:02 +00004624
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004625- Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta /
4626 timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta,
4627 timedelta) are all supported.
Mark Dickinson7c186e22010-04-20 22:32:49 +00004628
Victor Stinnerfebecd82010-04-16 12:07:30 +00004629- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
4630
Mark Dickinsonc5935772010-04-03 15:54:36 +00004631- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
4632 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
4633 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
4634 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
4635
Matthias Klosea8349752010-03-15 13:25:28 +00004636- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
4637
Matthias Klose9550aa12010-03-15 12:49:46 +00004638- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.
4639
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004640- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlc0e22b72010-03-14 10:51:01 +00004641 handling.
4642
Martin v. Löwis3afc62e2010-02-18 16:27:43 +00004643- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
4644 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
4645
Martin v. Löwis7aed61a2009-11-27 14:09:49 +00004646- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
4647
Mark Dickinson40714af2009-10-08 15:59:20 +00004648- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
4649
Mark Dickinson45f992a2009-12-19 11:20:49 +00004650- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinson12c4bdb2009-09-28 19:21:11 +00004651
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004652- Issue #6877: It is now possible to link the readline extension to the libedit
4653 readline emulation on OSX 10.5 or later.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004654
Mark Dickinson5ea7d642009-09-06 21:24:55 +00004655- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
4656
Brett Cannon2f827382009-08-13 19:58:01 +00004657- Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
4658
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004659- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
4660 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
4661 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinson1f268282009-07-28 17:22:36 +00004662
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004663- Issue #4509: Array objects are no longer modified after an operation failing
4664 due to the resize restriction in-place when the object has exported buffers.
Alexandre Vassalotti9b45cb42009-07-05 06:50:08 +00004665
Alexandre Vassalottiad077152009-07-15 17:49:23 +00004666- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
4667
Matthias Klosea50ffe52010-01-22 01:10:19 +00004668- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
4669 (CVE_2009_3560).
4670
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004671- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread
4672 could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The
4673 import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
Gregory P. Smith24cec9f2010-03-01 06:18:41 +00004674
Gregory P. Smithc78d79c2010-03-01 05:54:14 +00004675- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
4676 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
4677
Matthias Klose4c4b0782010-04-21 22:21:03 +00004678- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
4679
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004680- Issue #7347: winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
4681 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtinb4e8ca12010-04-22 01:52:50 +00004682
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004683- Issue #7567: PyCurses_setupterm: Don't call ``setupterm`` twice.
Matthias Klose635edd12010-07-30 21:40:57 +00004684
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00004685Build
4686-----
4687
Martin v. Löwise38de852010-07-30 17:30:51 +00004688- Use OpenSSL 1.0.0a on Windows.
4689
Benjamin Petersonbbda0c52010-07-17 20:39:23 +00004690- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
4691
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004692- Issue #9189: Make a user-specified CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, or LDFLAGS setting
4693 override the configure and makefile defaults, without deleting options the
4694 user didn't intend to override. Developers should no longer need to specify
4695 OPT or EXTRA_CFLAGS, although those variables are still present for
4696 backward-compatibility.
Jeffrey Yasskind4fcdb12010-07-09 16:30:58 +00004697
Benjamin Peterson31b16a52010-06-21 15:37:16 +00004698- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
4699
Martin v. Löwisec78d0a2010-06-04 17:20:56 +00004700- Issue #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
4701 multiprocessing only.
Martin v. Löwis1a415762010-05-28 15:44:20 +00004702
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004703- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
4704 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds as a
4705 result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's strange choice of
4706 default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
Mark Dickinsonb2153e92010-05-05 22:31:36 +00004707
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004708- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
4709 home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren86b33c82010-04-30 11:41:56 +00004710
Jesus Cea740f53a2010-04-28 11:35:30 +00004711- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
4712
Benjamin Petersone6c9d242010-03-30 17:34:47 +00004713- Issue #3326: Build Python without -fno-strict-aliasing when the gcc does not
4714 give false warnings.
4715
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004716- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
4717 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
4718 shared library.
Antoine Pitrou7a61ba92010-03-21 19:25:26 +00004719
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004720- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer. Exclude 2to3
4721 tests from compileall.
Martin v. Löwis09c86af2010-03-16 11:03:13 +00004722
Martin v. Löwis19ed3c82010-02-15 21:45:06 +00004723- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis7671efc2010-02-15 08:35:16 +00004724
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004725- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
4726 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
4727 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinsonde508002010-01-17 21:02:55 +00004728
Benjamin Petersond78735d2010-01-01 16:04:23 +00004729- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
4730
4731- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
4732 --with-system-ffi flag is used.
4733
Benjamin Petersonb2d90462009-12-31 03:23:10 +00004734- Issue #7609: Add a --with-system-expat option that causes the system's expat
4735 library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included with
4736 Python.
4737
Benjamin Petersone57d6762009-12-30 03:02:03 +00004738- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
4739 found.
4740
Martin v. Löwis7df3b9e2010-01-02 10:06:19 +00004741- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
Martin v. Löwise5692cd2009-12-22 08:57:39 +00004742
Mark Dickinsonf4243f62009-11-15 13:47:27 +00004743- Issue #5792: Extend the short float repr support to x86 systems using
4744 icc or suncc.
4745
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004746- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4747 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4748 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinsona25b1312009-10-31 10:18:44 +00004749
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004750- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren5bbab3e2009-09-06 11:01:15 +00004751
Guilherme Polo5d377bd2009-08-16 14:44:14 +00004752- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4753
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004754- Issue #4601: 'make install' did not set the appropriate permissions on
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc321e5332009-07-02 23:08:45 +00004755 directories.
4756
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004757- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004758 installed.
Martin v. Löwis95c46012009-06-28 09:36:14 +00004759
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004760- Issue #7541: When using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00004761 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussoren585c1732009-12-24 14:21:55 +00004762
Collin Winterbf199072010-03-19 21:17:17 +00004763- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
4764
Matthias Klosec80c93f2010-04-24 17:04:35 +00004765- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
4766
Matthias Kloseb9621712010-04-24 17:59:49 +00004767- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
4768
Mark Dickinsond3aa6462009-09-17 00:06:41 +00004769Documentation
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00004770-------------
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00004771
Matthias Klose62d52fd2010-09-12 16:31:58 +00004772- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
4773 to Doc/license.rst.
4774
Brian Curtinf045d772010-08-05 18:56:00 +00004775- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
4776 with os.kill.
4777
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00004778- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is meant for internal Python use
Brett Cannon3a4e50c2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00004779 only.
4780
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004781- A small WSGI server was added as Tools/scripts/serve.py, and is used to
R. David Murraye821cb62010-03-08 17:48:38 +00004782 implement a local documentation server via 'make serve' in the doc directory.
4783
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004784- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's -J
4785 and -X options.
Barry Warsaw615368f2010-02-05 19:12:30 +00004786
Brett Cannon757df6e2009-08-30 04:00:12 +00004787- Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an
4788 ImportError.
4789
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004790- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4791 Windows.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00004792
Matthias Klosec8b16f82010-01-31 16:14:37 +00004793- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
4794 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tarek Ziadéf3b33222009-08-21 14:22:45 +00004795
Tarek Ziadé7047eb72010-06-06 20:18:42 +00004796- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
4797 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
4798
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00004799Tests
4800-----
4801
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004802- Issue #9251: test_threaded_import didn't fail when run through regrtest if the
4803 import lock was disabled.
Antoine Pitrou1f9dea02010-07-14 11:52:38 +00004804
Antoine Pitrouf48ea7c2010-07-08 18:51:30 +00004805- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
4806
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004807- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled.
Victor Stinner5f22e722010-05-26 17:33:03 +00004808
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004809- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
4810 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
4811 data).
Antoine Pitrouc09c92f2010-05-11 23:36:40 +00004812
Victor Stinnerf58087b2010-05-02 17:24:51 +00004813- Issue #8533: regrtest uses backslashreplace error handler for stdout to avoid
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004814 UnicodeEncodeError (write non-ASCII character to stdout using ASCII encoding).
Victor Stinner0d80a582010-05-02 09:37:08 +00004815
Antoine Pitrou043bad02010-04-30 23:20:15 +00004816- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
4817 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
4818
Victor Stinner45df8202010-04-28 22:31:17 +00004819- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
4820 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
4821
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004822- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
4823 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitrou2c4f98b2010-04-23 00:16:21 +00004824
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004825- Issues #8279, #8330, #8437, #8480, #8495: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written
4826 by Dave Malcolm.
Victor Stinnere7ed1d72010-04-21 13:55:23 +00004827
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004828- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
4829 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murrayedcfeba2010-04-21 01:51:57 +00004830
Antoine Pitrou90ee4df2010-04-06 17:23:13 +00004831- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
4832
Antoine Pitrou503ab332010-03-30 18:56:19 +00004833- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4834
Florent Xiclunad6995eb2010-03-30 19:43:09 +00004835- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
4836 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
4837
Florent Xiclunafd1b0932010-03-28 00:25:02 +00004838- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
4839 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xiclunaeb136182010-03-21 18:49:50 +00004840
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004841- Issue #7783: test.support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files from
4842 the local cache.
Florent Xiclunaf089fd62010-03-19 14:25:03 +00004843
Florent Xiclunab14930c2010-03-13 15:26:44 +00004844- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
4845 effectively raised.
4846
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004847- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a common
4848 TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
Florent Xiclunac9c79782010-03-08 12:24:53 +00004849
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004850- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
4851 --verbose flag.
Florent Xicluna0e62a142010-03-06 17:34:48 +00004852
Florent Xicluna683a7e72010-03-03 00:06:37 +00004853- Issue #767675: enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
4854 filesystem encoding.
4855
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004856- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python is
4857 run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
R. David Murray378c0cf2010-02-24 01:46:21 +00004858
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004859- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is now
4860 also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
4861 original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who
4862 helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti184bdfb2010-02-18 09:37:05 +00004863
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004864- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in test_capi
4865 (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module wasn't built), due to
4866 an uncleared exception.
Mark Dickinsonedff7af2010-02-13 18:34:53 +00004867
Florent Xicluna3f88c0e2010-03-19 14:40:31 +00004868- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use support.bind_port instead of a
4869 hard coded port.
R. David Murraye9e95932010-02-06 05:00:15 +00004870
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004871- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray445448c2009-12-20 17:28:31 +00004872 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
4873
R. David Murrayef1992b2009-12-16 15:19:27 +00004874- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
4875
R. David Murray596da442009-12-14 23:06:11 +00004876- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test.support.find_unused_port
R. David Murray83396232009-12-14 22:45:15 +00004877 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
4878
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004879- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
4880 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
4881 tests.
R. David Murrayba311052009-12-04 00:09:14 +00004882
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004883- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
4884 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murray35768ad2009-11-15 00:23:21 +00004885
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004886- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
4887 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7dc72cc2009-11-14 16:13:02 +00004888
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004889- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of the
4890 encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down the road
4891 because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point to empty
4892 global variables.
Antoine Pitrou060cee22009-11-13 16:29:04 +00004893
Antoine Pitrou941ee882009-11-11 20:59:38 +00004894- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
4895
Antoine Pitrou557934f2009-11-06 22:41:14 +00004896- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
4897 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
4898
Brett Cannoncfed0292009-11-05 01:26:57 +00004899- Issue #7248 (part 2): Use a unique temporary directory for importlib source
4900 tests instead of tempfile.tempdir. This prevents the tests from sharing state
4901 between concurrent executions on the same system.
4902
Brett Cannon0ae45112009-11-05 01:17:22 +00004903- Issue #7248: In importlib.test.source.util a try/finally block did not make
4904 sure that some referenced objects actually were created in the block before
4905 calling methods on the object.
4906
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00004907- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004908 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
4909 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
4910 referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
Antoine Pitrou65c9c642009-10-30 17:25:12 +00004911 :func:`_thread._count()`.
4912
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004913- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
4914 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray27144602009-10-19 15:26:16 +00004915
Antoine Pitrou4de39cd2009-10-10 21:08:31 +00004916- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
4917 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
4918
R. David Murray0bc11ae2009-10-18 22:18:17 +00004919- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004920 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them, and
4921 a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murray097e51f2009-10-07 23:38:55 +00004922
Mark Dickinson2e304402009-10-04 18:43:54 +00004923- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
4924
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004925- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking the
4926 proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code object
4927 bytecode.
Brett Cannon3c273842009-07-20 00:14:29 +00004928
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00004929- Removed importlib's custom test discovery code and switched to
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004930 unittest.TestLoader.discover().
Brett Cannonb49c70c2009-07-15 04:08:33 +00004931
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00004932Tools/Demos
4933-----------
4934
Martin v. Löwis25fcd392010-07-11 17:39:46 +00004935- Issue #5464, #8974: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
Martin v. Löwiscb081b82010-06-04 18:14:42 +00004936
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00004937- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandl62069d32010-07-31 08:56:11 +00004938 added to the `Tools/` directory. They were previously living in the sandbox.
Antoine Pitroua69ba652010-01-18 21:20:53 +00004939
Benjamin Peterson46ea4f72009-06-27 21:40:27 +00004940
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004941What's New in Python 3.1?
4942=========================
4943
4944*Release date: 27-June-2009*
4945
4946Core and Builtins
4947-----------------
4948
Mark Dickinsonad195562009-06-24 19:01:32 +00004949- Issue #6334: Fix bug in range length calculation for ranges with
4950 large arguments.
4951
Raymond Hettinger159eac92009-06-23 20:38:54 +00004952- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
4953 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
4954
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004955Library
4956-------
4957
Georg Brandld07ac642009-08-13 07:50:57 +00004958- Issue #6126: Fixed pdb command-line usage.
4959
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00004960- Issue #6314: logging: performs extra checks on the "level" argument.
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00004961
Facundo Batista10706e22009-06-19 20:34:30 +00004962- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
4963
Benjamin Peterson6a38ced2009-06-14 18:32:19 +00004964- Accessing io.StringIO.buffer now raises an AttributeError instead of
4965 io.UnsupportedOperation.
4966
Vinay Sajip0f6eac22009-06-21 17:46:49 +00004967- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when anonymous.
Hirokazu Yamamoto3d8827d2009-06-14 04:58:16 +00004968 (On Unix)
4969
Gregory P. Smithe88749b2009-06-26 08:05:13 +00004970- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a struct.error when attempting to
4971 store files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
4972
Matthias Kloseab2b7552009-06-22 13:05:52 +00004973Extension Modules
4974-----------------
4975
4976- Issue #5590: Remove unused global variable in pyexpat extension.
4977
Benjamin Peterson01bf2362009-06-13 14:50:22 +00004978
Antoine Pitrou3b1b8072009-05-30 21:01:23 +00004979What's New in Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2?
4980=============================================
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004981
Benjamin Petersonc7c12282009-06-13 13:15:04 +00004982*Release date: 13-June-2009*
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004983
4984Core and Builtins
4985-----------------
4986
Raymond Hettinger94f55832009-06-12 18:40:16 +00004987- Fixed SystemError triggered by "range([], 1, -1)".
4988
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc66f8c432009-06-09 21:30:01 +00004989- Issue #5924: On Windows, a large PYTHONPATH environment variable
4990 (more than 255 characters) would be completely ignored.
4991
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24e581f2009-06-01 21:28:37 +00004992- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
4993 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
4994
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00004995- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Alexandre Vassalottiea3714e2009-07-17 09:34:31 +00004996 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou8e124f32009-05-30 21:41:10 +00004997
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00004998Library
4999-------
5000
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005001- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005002 expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by
Tarek Ziadéc9e6cec2009-07-12 08:27:26 +00005003 Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
5004
Martin v. Löwis83eacca2009-06-12 17:31:41 +00005005- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5006
R. David Murray58641de2009-06-12 15:33:19 +00005007- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from
5008 binary files.
5009
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005010- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
5011 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5012
Benjamin Peterson0926ad12009-06-06 18:02:12 +00005013- Issue #6217: The C implementation of io.TextIOWrapper didn't include the
5014 errors property. Additionally, the errors and encoding properties of StringIO
5015 are always None now.
5016
Antoine Pitroud9dfaa92009-06-04 20:32:06 +00005017- Issue #6137: The pickle module now translates module names when loading
5018 or dumping pickles with a 2.x-compatible protocol, in order to make data
5019 sharing and migration easier. This behaviour can be disabled using the
5020 new `fix_imports` optional argument.
5021
Raymond Hettinger40925d22009-06-04 18:32:39 +00005022- Removed the ipaddr module.
5023
Georg Brandlb54d8012009-06-04 09:11:51 +00005024- Issue #3613: base64.{encode,decode}string are now called
5025 base64.{encode,decode}bytes which reflects what type they accept and return.
5026 The old names are still there as deprecated aliases.
5027
Georg Brandl317185a2009-06-04 09:00:56 +00005028- Issue #5767: Remove sgmlop support from xmlrpc.client.
5029
Martin v. Löwis74b7e442009-06-01 04:23:07 +00005030- Issue #6150: Fix test_unicode on wide-unicode builds.
5031
Antoine Pitrouc06de472009-05-30 21:04:26 +00005032- Issue #6149: Fix initialization of WeakValueDictionary objects from non-empty
5033 parameters.
5034
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005035Windows
5036-------
5037
Martin v. Löwisb7a51562009-06-07 17:55:17 +00005038- Issue #6221: Delete test registry key before running the test.
5039
Martin v. Löwis79b13872009-06-01 04:13:14 +00005040- Issue #6158: Package Sine-1000Hz-300ms.aif in MSI file.
5041
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc11729992009-06-01 21:16:17 +00005042C-API
5043-----
5044
5045- Issue #5735: Python compiled with --with-pydebug should throw an
5046 ImportError when trying to import modules compiled without
5047 --with-pydebug, and vice-versa.
5048
Benjamin Peterson54e8ddf2009-05-30 18:43:49 +00005049
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005050Build
5051-----
5052
5053- Issue #6154: Make sure the intl library is added to LIBS if needed. Also
5054 added LIBS to OS X framework builds.
5055
Ronald Oussoren99aab652009-06-08 21:22:57 +00005056- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
5057 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
5058
5059
Brett Cannonc6d936e2009-06-07 20:09:53 +00005060
Mark Dickinson4eb88b32009-05-11 16:41:34 +00005061What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
5062=============================================
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005063
Benjamin Petersone6ad3872009-05-30 15:30:16 +00005064*Release date: 2009-05-30*
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005065
5066Core and Builtins
5067-----------------
5068
Martin v. Löwis8ed91b22009-05-29 16:22:26 +00005069- Issue #6097: Escape UTF-8 surrogates resulting from mbstocs conversion
5070 of the command line.
5071
Martin v. Löwisc15bdef2009-05-29 14:47:46 +00005072- Issue #6012: Add cleanup support to O& argument parsing.
5073
Eric Smith41669ca2009-05-23 14:23:22 +00005074- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
5075 that would raise SystemError.
5076
Raymond Hettinger2bcde142009-05-29 04:52:27 +00005077- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
5078 function with __func__.
5079
Raymond Hettinger91e3b9d2009-05-28 22:20:03 +00005080- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
5081 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl0c315622009-05-25 21:10:36 +00005082
Mark Dickinson6b1e43b2009-05-20 18:41:04 +00005083- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
5084 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
5085 and imaginary literals.
5086
Hirokazu Yamamoto8223c242009-05-17 04:21:53 +00005087- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
5088
R. David Murraydd226ea2009-05-13 12:27:21 +00005089- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
5090
Mark Dickinsond1ec8b22009-05-11 15:45:15 +00005091- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
5092 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
5093 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
5094 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
5095 didn't match that of float('-nan').
5096
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005097Library
5098-------
5099
Martin v. Löwisb6a748b2009-05-29 15:23:17 +00005100- Issue #4859: Implement PEP 383 for pwd, spwd, and grp.
5101
R. David Murrayfb123912009-05-28 18:19:00 +00005102- smtplib 'login' and 'cram-md5' login are also fixed (see Issue #5259).
5103
R. David Murray1f1b9d32009-05-27 20:56:59 +00005104- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
5105 argument to the 'help' function.
5106
Georg Brandlfaf41492009-05-26 18:31:11 +00005107- Issue #6118: urllib.parse.quote_plus ignored the encoding and errors
5108 arguments for strings with a space in them.
5109
Raymond Hettinger089ba7f2009-05-27 00:38:24 +00005110- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
5111 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
5112
Benjamin Peterson14a3dd72009-05-25 00:51:58 +00005113- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5114 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5115
Martin v. Löwis70ccd162009-05-24 19:47:22 +00005116- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
5117 the directory already exists.
5118
Antoine Pitrou61f77b52009-05-24 15:46:13 +00005119- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5120 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5121 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5122
Antoine Pitrou716c4442009-05-23 19:04:03 +00005123- Issue #5761: Add the name of the underlying file to the repr() of various
5124 IO objects.
5125
R. David Murraycaa27b72009-05-23 18:49:56 +00005126- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
5127 by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
5128
Antoine Pitrouc3ee1662009-05-23 16:02:33 +00005129- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
5130 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
5131 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
5132
R. David Murray87e20742009-05-23 01:30:26 +00005133- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5134 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5135
Antoine Pitrou6e610062009-05-15 17:04:50 +00005136- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5137 deepcopy()ing.
5138
Antoine Pitrouc1d09362009-05-15 12:15:51 +00005139- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5140
Antoine Pitrou37d1c182009-05-14 21:54:00 +00005141- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5142
Antoine Pitrou2ca24f02009-05-14 21:30:46 +00005143- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
5144
Antoine Pitroue4501852009-05-14 18:55:55 +00005145- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
5146 library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in
5147 append mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't
5148 empty.
5149
R. David Murray74b89242009-05-13 17:33:03 +00005150- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5151 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz. This fix
5152 corrects a pydoc regression.
5153
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005154- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
R. David Murray99352742009-05-07 18:24:38 +00005155 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
5156
Benjamin Peterson932073a2009-05-23 16:14:33 +00005157Installation
5158------------
5159
5160- Issue #6047: fullinstall has been removed because Python 3's executable will
5161 now be known as python3.
Benjamin Petersonaccdca52009-05-06 23:26:59 +00005162
Ronald Oussorenbe7149e2009-05-26 21:39:08 +00005163- Lib/smtpd.py is no longer installed as a script.
5164
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005165Extension Modules
5166-----------------
5167
Martin v. Löwisa6a9c4d2009-05-30 06:15:30 +00005168- Issue #3061: Use wcsftime for time.strftime where available.
Martin v. Löwis1b01ccd2009-05-30 06:13:40 +00005169
Martin v. Löwise23c8682009-05-29 16:01:34 +00005170- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5171
Martin v. Löwisdb1c3992009-05-23 10:38:26 +00005172- Issue #6093: Fix off-by-one error in locale.strxfrm.
5173
Benjamin Peterson744af442009-05-23 18:51:49 +00005174- The _functools and _locale modules are now built into the libpython shared
5175 library instead of as extension modules.
Benjamin Peterson3dc22e82009-05-23 17:09:43 +00005176
Antoine Pitrou20327222009-05-24 20:39:11 +00005177Build
5178-----
5179
5180- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
5181 and a python3.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
5182 Clinton Roy.
5183
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005184Tests
5185-----
5186
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005187- Issue #5442: Tests for importlib were not properly skipping case-sensitivity
Brett Cannon1262e7c2009-05-11 01:47:11 +00005188 tests on darwin even when the OS was installed on a case-sensitive
5189 filesystem. Also fixed tests that should not be run when
5190 sys.dont_write_bytecode is true.
5191
5192
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005193What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1?
5194================================
5195
Benjamin Peterson5c5f3de2009-05-06 20:43:28 +00005196*Release date: 2009-05-06*
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005197
5198Core and Builtins
5199-----------------
5200
Mark Dickinson865e01a2009-05-07 16:37:01 +00005201- Issue #5914: Add new C API function PyOS_string_to_double, and
5202 deprecate PyOS_ascii_strtod and PyOS_ascii_atof.
5203
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005204- Issue #3382: float.__format__, complex.__format__, and %-formatting
5205 no longer map 'F' to 'f'. Because of issue #5859 (below), this only
5206 affects nan -> NAN and inf -> INF.
5207
Mark Hammond5a607a32009-05-06 08:04:54 +00005208- Issue #5799: ntpath (ie, os.path on Windows) fully supports UNC pathnames
5209 in all operations, including splitdrive, split, etc. splitunc() now issues
5210 a PendingDeprecation warning.
5211
Eric Smith63376222009-05-05 14:04:18 +00005212- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
5213 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
5214 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
5215 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
5216 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
5217 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
5218 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
5219 the same way.
5220
Martin v. Löwis011e8422009-05-05 04:43:17 +00005221- Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.
5222
R. David Murrayb18500d2009-05-04 22:59:07 +00005223- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
5224 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
5225 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
5226
Antoine Pitrou244651a2009-05-04 18:56:13 +00005227- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
5228 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
5229
Martin v. Löwise0a2b722009-05-10 08:08:56 +00005230- Issue #3672: Reject surrogates in utf-8 codec; add surrogatepass error handler.
Martin v. Löwisdb12d452009-05-02 18:52:14 +00005231
Benjamin Petersond2e0c792009-05-01 20:40:59 +00005232- Issue #5883: In the io module, the BufferedIOBase and TextIOBase ABCs have
5233 received a new method, detach(). detach() disconnects the underlying stream
5234 from the buffer or text IO and returns it.
5235
Mark Dickinson33841c32009-05-01 15:37:04 +00005236- Issue #5859: Remove switch from '%f' to '%g'-style formatting for
5237 floats with absolute value over 1e50. Also remove length
5238 restrictions for float formatting: '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' %
5239 12.34 no longer raise an exception.
Mark Dickinsonf489caf2009-05-01 11:42:00 +00005240
Eric Smith741191f2009-05-06 13:08:15 +00005241- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith58a42242009-04-30 01:00:33 +00005242 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
5243
Mark Dickinsond3ca5572009-04-29 18:47:07 +00005244- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
5245 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
5246
Eric Smith6dc46f52009-04-27 20:39:49 +00005247- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
5248 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
5249
Eric Smithcc32a112009-04-26 21:35:14 +00005250- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
5251
Martin v. Löwis71efeb72009-04-26 01:02:07 +00005252- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
5253 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
5254
Benjamin Peterson193152c2009-04-25 01:08:45 +00005255- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
5256
Mark Dickinsonad476da2009-04-23 19:14:16 +00005257- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
5258 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
5259
Mark Dickinson4a16e3a2009-04-23 19:15:48 +00005260- Issue #3166: Make int -> float conversions correctly rounded.
Mark Dickinsonc6300392009-04-20 21:38:00 +00005261
Mark Dickinsone6a076d2009-04-18 11:48:33 +00005262- Issue #1869 (and many duplicates): make round(x, n) correctly
5263 rounded for a float x, by using the decimal <-> binary conversions
5264 from Python/dtoa.c. As a consequence, (e.g.) round(x, 2) now
5265 consistently agrees with format(x, '.2f').
5266
Benjamin Petersonae937c02009-04-18 20:54:08 +00005267- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
5268 some builtin types.
5269
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005270- Issue #5772: format(1e100, '<') produces '1e+100', not '1.0e+100'.
5271
Eric Smith35e84722009-04-16 20:21:28 +00005272- Issue #5515: str.format() type 'n' combined with commas and leading
5273 zeros no longer gives odd results with ints and floats.
Eric Smith0923d1d2009-04-16 20:16:10 +00005274
5275- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5276 floats.
5277
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005278- The str function switches to exponential notation at
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005279 1e11, not 1e12. This avoids printing 13 significant digits in
5280 situations where only 12 of them are correct. Example problem
5281 value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a
5282 long time.)
5283
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005284- Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a
5285 finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest
5286 sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was
5287 to output 17 significant digits and then strip trailing zeros.
Mark Dickinson3370cce2009-04-17 22:40:53 +00005288 Another minor difference is that the new repr switches to
5289 exponential notation at 1e16 instead of the previous 1e17; this
5290 avoids misleading output in some cases.
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005291
5292 There's a new sys attribute sys.float_repr_style, which takes
5293 the value 'short' to indicate that we're using short float repr,
5294 and 'legacy' if the short float repr isn't available for one
5295 reason or another.
5296
5297 The float repr change involves incorporating David Gay's 'perfect
5298 rounding' code into the Python core (it's in Python/dtoa.c). As a
5299 secondary consequence, all string-to-float and float-to-string
5300 conversions (including all float formatting operations) will be
5301 correctly rounded on these platforms.
5302
Georg Brandl5f90d792010-08-01 22:31:05 +00005303 See issue #1580 discussions for details of platforms for which
Mark Dickinsonb08a53a2009-04-16 19:52:09 +00005304 this change does not apply.
5305
Benjamin Peterson2808d3c2009-04-15 21:34:27 +00005306- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
5307
Georg Brandlabc38772009-04-12 15:51:51 +00005308- The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
5309 maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes. This removes confusion about
5310 the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the
5311 methods available on the str class.
5312
R. David Murraydc6da8a2009-04-09 22:16:43 +00005313- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
5314 its clarity and its speed.
5315
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005316- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add ``do { ... } while (0)``
Matthias Klose091c7b12009-04-07 13:24:27 +00005317 to avoid compiler warnings.
5318
Walter Dörwald8dc33d52009-05-06 14:41:26 +00005319- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
5320 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
5321
Benjamin Peterson0b4915e2009-04-25 21:11:45 +00005322Installation
5323------------
5324
5325- Issue #5756: Install idle and pydoc with a 3 suffix.
5326
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005327Library
5328-------
5329
Victor Stinner870f09a2010-06-17 21:43:33 +00005330- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
5331
Martin v. Löwis403117a2009-05-24 19:19:17 +00005332- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
5333 specific Python version.
5334
Raymond Hettingereb816952009-05-29 01:22:18 +00005335- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
5336 whitespace.
5337
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005338- Issue #5940: distutils.command.build_clib.check_library_list was not doing
Tarek Ziadédd9f65f2009-05-06 07:26:24 +00005339 the right type checkings anymore.
5340
Thomas Heller00cfc372009-05-05 19:04:40 +00005341- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
5342 return directories.
5343
Georg Brandl243ad662009-05-05 09:00:19 +00005344- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5345
Georg Brandl991f9202009-05-05 08:31:54 +00005346- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5347 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5348
Georg Brandleaa84ef2009-05-05 08:14:33 +00005349- Issue #5923: Update the ``turtle`` module to version 1.1, add two new
5350 turtle demos in Demo/turtle.
5351
Antoine Pitrou3c33e082009-05-04 21:21:36 +00005352- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
5353 extracting a file to the root directory.
5354
Hirokazu Yamamotobbb9be72009-05-04 05:56:46 +00005355- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
5356
Antoine Pitroua9f48a02009-05-02 21:41:14 +00005357- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5358 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
5359 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
5360
Benjamin Petersonc6b607d2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00005361- The json module now works exclusively with str and not bytes.
5362
Gregory P. Smithe54dff52009-05-01 22:13:48 +00005363- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5364 Contributed by Google.
5365
Antoine Pitrou7fff0962009-05-01 21:09:44 +00005366- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5367 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5368
Raymond Hettinger1f0db402009-04-29 00:38:08 +00005369- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
5370
Thomas Hellerc1edc2d2009-04-28 19:55:58 +00005371- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5372
Antoine Pitrou7a0fedf2009-04-27 22:31:40 +00005373- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
5374 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
5375 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5376
Antoine Pitrou57f3d932009-04-27 21:04:19 +00005377- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
5378 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5379 initialized before.
5380
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005381- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5382 names which should not be exported.
5383
Thomas Heller34596a92009-04-24 20:50:00 +00005384- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
5385 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
5386
5387- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5388
Mark Dickinsond4d95f82009-04-24 14:06:19 +00005389- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
5390 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
5391 instances.
5392
Mark Dickinsoncf63f2f2009-04-22 17:50:21 +00005393- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
5394 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
5395 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
5396
Antoine Pitroucf4c7492009-04-19 00:09:36 +00005397- Issue #5734: BufferedRWPair was poorly tested and had several glaring
5398 bugs. Patch by Brian Quinlan.
5399
R. David Murray9e94ddf2009-04-13 17:06:33 +00005400- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
5401 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
5402 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
5403 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
5404 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
5405
Matthias Klosea3d29e82009-04-07 13:13:10 +00005406- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
5407 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
5408
Walter Dörwald1b08b302009-04-25 14:13:56 +00005409- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5410 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5411 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5412
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005413Extension Modules
5414-----------------
5415
Benjamin Petersone04b6272009-05-04 22:25:21 +00005416- Issue #5881: Remove old undocumented compatibility interfaces in hashlib and
5417 pwd.
5418
Mark Dickinsonea835e72009-04-19 20:40:33 +00005419- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated float coercion
5420 for integer type codes: struct.pack('L', 0.3) should now raise
5421 an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
5422 The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
5423
Georg Brandlbb190152010-07-31 21:41:42 +00005424- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
5425 using Berkeley DB.
Matthias Klose535336f2009-04-07 13:49:45 +00005426
Nick Coghlan47384702009-04-22 16:13:36 +00005427Tests
5428-----
5429
5430- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
5431 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
5432 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
5433 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
5434 can be adjusted to use it over time.
5435
Walter Dörwald4ba80132009-04-25 12:48:43 +00005436- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5437 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5438 incorrectly on __exit__.
5439
Benjamin Petersonb173f782009-05-05 22:31:58 +00005440C-API
5441-----
5442
5443- Issue #5630: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been added.
5444
Benjamin Petersonbd35b032009-04-04 23:16:41 +00005445
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005446What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2?
5447=================================
5448
Benjamin Peterson88f14352009-04-04 21:06:52 +00005449*Release date: 2009-4-4*
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005450
5451Core and Builtins
5452-----------------
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005453
Eric Smith1e1d7d22009-04-03 22:25:33 +00005454- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
5455 integers.
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005456
Benjamin Peterson8f76b492009-04-03 22:22:42 +00005457- Issue #5666: Py_BuildValue's 'c' code should create byte strings.
5458
Benjamin Peterson7fe98532009-04-02 00:33:55 +00005459- Issue #5499: The 'c' code for argument parsing functions now only accepts a
5460 byte, and the 'C' code only accepts a unicode character.
5461
Georg Brandl406b3d82009-04-11 21:24:37 +00005462- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
5463 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
5464
Brett Cannon0759dd62009-04-01 18:13:07 +00005465- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
5466
Georg Brandlab6f2f62009-03-31 04:16:10 +00005467- Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
5468 insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.
5469
Guido van Rossum0ad59d42009-03-30 22:01:35 +00005470- Issue #5604: non-ASCII characters in module name passed to
5471 imp.find_module() were converted to UTF-8 while the path is
5472 converted to the default filesystem encoding, causing nonsense.
5473
Benjamin Peterson09832742009-03-26 17:15:46 +00005474- Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
5475
Ronald Oussorenfa1fcd12009-03-30 23:16:10 +00005476- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
5477 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
5478
Antoine Pitrou3a652b12009-03-23 18:52:06 +00005479- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
5480 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
5481 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
5482 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
5483
Mark Dickinson17e4fdd2009-03-23 18:44:57 +00005484- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
5485 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
5486 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
5487
Mark Dickinsonbd792642009-03-18 20:06:12 +00005488- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
5489 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
5490 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
5491 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
5492 default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
5493 the internal format.
5494
Mark Dickinson081dfee2009-03-18 14:47:41 +00005495- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
5496 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
5497 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
5498
Eric Smith8ec90442009-03-14 12:29:34 +00005499- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
5500 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
5501
Antoine Pitrou652e7072009-03-13 19:25:20 +00005502- Issue #5392: when a very low recursion limit was set, the interpreter would
5503 abort with a fatal error after the recursion limit was hit twice.
5504
Matthias Klose042f1332009-04-04 14:32:42 +00005505- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
5506 short file names.
5507
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005508Library
5509-------
5510
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005511- Issue #2625: added missing items() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray548ac412009-04-02 19:44:43 +00005512 mailbox.MH.get_message().
5513
Hye-Shik Chang944820b2009-04-02 10:33:16 +00005514- Issue #5640: Fix _multibytecodec so that CJK codecs don't repeat
5515 error substitutions from non-strict codec error callbacks in
5516 incrementalencoder and StreamWriter.
5517
Georg Brandl33c28812009-04-01 23:07:29 +00005518- Issue #5656: Fix the coverage reporting when running the test suite with
5519 the -T argument.
5520
Raymond Hettinger3f10a952009-04-01 19:05:50 +00005521- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
5522
Georg Brandl4ed72ac2009-04-01 04:28:33 +00005523- Issue #5624: Fix the _winreg module name still used in several modules.
5524
Benjamin Petersona1b49012009-03-31 23:11:32 +00005525- Issue #5628: Fix io.TextIOWrapper.read() with a unreadable buffer.
5526
Jesse Nollera9314042009-03-31 22:36:44 +00005527- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
5528 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
5529
Jesse Noller32d68c22009-03-31 18:48:42 +00005530- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
5531
Hirokazu Yamamoto16caab02009-03-31 13:44:06 +00005532- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
5533
Jesse Nollerf8d00852009-03-31 03:25:07 +00005534- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
5535 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
5536
Brett Cannon7f6b4f82009-03-30 21:30:26 +00005537- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
5538 bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
5539
Jesse Noller7af4ef82009-03-30 16:47:15 +00005540- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
5541 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
5542 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
5543
Benjamin Peterson48e24782009-03-29 13:02:52 +00005544- Issue #5595: Fix UnboundedLocalError in ntpath.ismount().
5545
Antoine Pitrou66994e12009-03-29 00:45:26 +00005546- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
5547 (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
5548
Benjamin Peterson59406a92009-03-26 17:10:29 +00005549- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
5550 io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.
5551
Lars Gustäbel42e00912009-03-22 20:34:29 +00005552- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
5553 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
5554 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
5555 partial bzip2 compressed data.
5556
Mark Dickinson79f52032009-03-17 23:12:51 +00005557- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
5558 specifier to Decimal.__format__
5559
Mark Dickinson9c59fe02009-03-17 18:15:08 +00005560- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
5561 '>' alignment characters.
5562
Antoine Pitrou0ae29cf2009-03-13 22:33:17 +00005563- The error detection code in FileIO.close() could fail to reflect the `errno`
5564 value, and report it as -1 instead.
5565
Antoine Pitroua28fcfd2009-03-13 23:42:55 +00005566- Issue #5016: FileIO.seekable() could return False if the file position
5567 was negative when truncated to a C int. Patch by Victor Stinner.
5568
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005569Extension Modules
5570-----------------
5571
Benjamin Petersone099b372009-04-04 17:09:35 +00005572- Issue #5391: mmap now deals exclusively with bytes.
5573
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005574- Issue #5463: In struct module, remove deprecated overflow wrapping
5575 when packing an integer: struct.pack('=L', -1) now raises
Mark Dickinsonb40b9472009-03-29 16:58:21 +00005576 struct.error instead of returning b'\xff\xff\xff\xff'. The
5577 _PY_STRUCT_RANGE_CHECKING and _PY_STRUCT_OVERFLOW_MASKING constants
5578 have been removed from the struct module.
Mark Dickinsonae681df2009-03-21 10:26:31 +00005579
Benjamin Petersond1735892009-03-07 18:46:21 +00005580
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005581What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 1
Barry Warsaw97f005d2008-12-03 16:46:14 +00005582================================
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005583
Benjamin Petersona58a6262009-03-07 16:34:40 +00005584*Release date: 2009-03-07*
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005585
5586Core and Builtins
5587-----------------
5588
Benjamin Peterson4fa88fa2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00005589- The io module has been reimplemented in C for speed.
5590
Raymond Hettingerb0d56af2009-03-03 10:52:49 +00005591- Give dict views an informative __repr__.
5592
Eric Smith5e5c0db2009-02-20 14:25:03 +00005593- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
5594 used when using str.format() with str, int, and float arguments.
5595
Hirokazu Yamamoto575d1332009-02-16 09:13:20 +00005596- Issue #5249: time.strftime returned malformed string when format string
5597 contained non ascii character on windows.
5598
Benjamin Petersonf5b52242009-03-02 23:31:26 +00005599- Issue #4626: compile(), exec(), and eval() ignore the coding cookie if the
5600 source has already been decoded into str.
5601
Antoine Pitrou79eee6b2009-02-13 14:01:05 +00005602- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
5603 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
5604
Mark Dickinson87ec0852009-02-09 17:15:59 +00005605- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
5606 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
5607
Benjamin Petersonee1ae7c2009-02-08 21:07:20 +00005608- Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
5609 returns a non-number type.
5610
Benjamin Peterson87618552009-02-08 15:00:52 +00005611- Issue #5182: Removed memoryview.__str__.
5612
Mark Dickinsonc008a172009-02-01 13:59:22 +00005613- Issue #1717: Removed builtin cmp() function, dropped tp_compare
5614 slot, the C API functions PyObject_Compare and PyUnicode_Compare and
Mark Dickinsone94c6792009-02-02 20:36:42 +00005615 the type definition cmpfunc. The tp_compare slot has been renamed
5616 to tp_reserved, and is reserved for future usage.
Mark Dickinsonf02e0aa2009-02-01 12:13:56 +00005617
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005618- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingere8364232009-02-02 22:55:09 +00005619 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list() and bytearray().
5620
Mark Dickinson1124e712009-01-28 21:25:58 +00005621- Issue #4707: round(x, n) now returns an integer if x is an integer.
5622 Previously it returned a float.
5623
Antoine Pitroub52ec782009-01-25 16:34:23 +00005624- Issue #4753: By enabling a configure option named '--with-computed-gotos'
5625 on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
5626 evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
5627 speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
5628
Antoine Pitrou81fabdb2009-01-22 10:11:36 +00005629- Issue #4874: Most builtin decoders now reject unicode input.
5630
Mark Dickinson9ffc0202009-01-20 20:45:53 +00005631- Issue #4842: Don't allow trailing 'L' when constructing an integer
5632 from a string.
5633
Benjamin Peterson05e782f2009-01-19 15:15:02 +00005634- Issue #4991: os.fdopen now raises an OSError for invalid file descriptors.
5635
Antoine Pitroue4bc7f62009-01-17 21:06:43 +00005636- Issue #4838: When a module is deallocated, free the memory backing the
5637 optional module state data.
5638
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00005639- Issue #4910: Rename nb_long slot to nb_reserved, and change its
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005640 type to ``(void *)``.
Mark Dickinson8055afd2009-01-17 10:04:45 +00005641
Antoine Pitrou8d4e5052009-01-13 22:59:11 +00005642- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
5643 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
5644 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
5645
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf343e012009-01-12 23:58:21 +00005646- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
5647 __next__ method.
5648
Mark Dickinsone5e298f2009-01-12 20:49:19 +00005649- Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
5650 function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
5651 to an integer. Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.
5652
Martin v. Löwis7c2b66c2009-01-12 08:21:03 +00005653- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
5654
Martin v. Löwisec59d042009-01-12 07:59:10 +00005655- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
5656
Antoine Pitrouab868312009-01-10 15:40:25 +00005657- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
5658 common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
5659 amount of loop unrolling.
5660
Antoine Pitrou14b78f52009-01-09 22:27:08 +00005661- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
5662 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
5663 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
5664 Martin von Löwis at
5665 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
5666
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00005667- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
Antoine Pitrou8043cf82009-01-09 19:54:29 +00005668 having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
5669 previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.
5670
Antoine Pitrou05608432009-01-09 18:53:14 +00005671- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
5672 flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
5673 and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
5674 to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
5675
Raymond Hettinger35631532009-01-09 03:58:09 +00005676- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
5677 instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
5678 Python's overall memory).
5679
Antoine Pitroud35cbf62009-01-06 19:02:24 +00005680- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
5681 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
5682 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
5683 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
5684 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
5685
Antoine Pitrouc3b39242009-01-03 16:59:18 +00005686- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
5687 one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
5688 items, rather than the size in bytes.
5689
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00005690- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
5691
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc374e2202009-01-01 23:05:36 +00005692- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with
5693 non-ascii characters in its name could fail with a "SyntaxError: None" error.
5694
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005695- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when ``_fileio.FileIO`` failed
5696 to open file with a bytes filename on Windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto0f22d692009-01-01 16:03:45 +00005697
Antoine Pitrou7ddda782009-01-01 15:35:33 +00005698- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
5699 did not get collected.
5700
Nick Coghlanf1f2f682008-12-30 07:29:12 +00005701- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
5702 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
5703
Georg Brandlccc47b62008-12-28 11:44:14 +00005704- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
5705 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
5706
Skip Montanaro80072cb2008-12-23 03:51:14 +00005707- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
5708 fail.
5709
Antoine Pitrou51f3ef92008-12-20 13:14:23 +00005710- Issue #3106: Speedup some comparisons (str/str and int/int).
5711
Antoine Pitrouf289ae62008-12-18 11:06:25 +00005712- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list, dict and set
5713 comprehensions. Original patch for list comprehensions by Neal Norwitz.
5714
Antoine Pitrou621601a2008-12-17 23:18:19 +00005715- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
5716 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
5717 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
5718
Mark Dickinson54bc1ec2008-12-17 16:19:07 +00005719- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int.
5720
Mark Dickinsonda2706b2008-12-11 18:03:03 +00005721- Issue #2173: When getting device encoding, check that return value of
5722 nl_langinfo is not the empty string. This was causing silent build
5723 failures on OS X.
5724
Jeffrey Yasskinb9083f32008-12-11 06:18:33 +00005725- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
5726 exceptions.
5727
5728- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc10b24e82008-12-10 23:49:33 +00005729 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
5730
Mark Dickinsonfd24b322008-12-06 15:33:31 +00005731- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyBytesObject)" with
5732 "offsetof(PyBytesObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
5733 bytes instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
5734 (on average) per allocation of a bytes instance.
5735
Christian Heimesa872de52008-12-05 08:26:55 +00005736- Issue #4533: File read operation was dreadfully slow due to a slowly
5737 growing read buffer. Fixed by using the same growth rate algorithm as
5738 Python 2.x.
5739
Antoine Pitrou5504e892008-12-06 21:27:53 +00005740- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
5741 which there are buffer exports (e.g. memoryview instances).
5742
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00005743- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
5744 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
5745 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
5746 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Matthias Klose7e1b8fa2008-11-26 17:22:04 +00005747
Antoine Pitroubc420402008-12-07 20:14:49 +00005748- Issue #4569: Interpreter crash when mutating a memoryview with an item size
5749 larger than 1.
5750
Benjamin Peterson371ccfb2008-12-27 19:03:36 +00005751- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
5752
Gregory P. Smithccc5ae72009-03-02 05:21:55 +00005753- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
5754
Walter Dörwaldc1651a02009-05-03 22:55:55 +00005755- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S, %R and %A in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
5756 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
5757 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
5758 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
5759
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005760Library
5761-------
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00005762
Tarek Ziadé04fe7c02009-10-25 23:08:47 +00005763- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
5764 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
5765
Victor Stinnere125f132010-05-15 21:04:43 +00005766- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé978cca62009-10-24 13:38:27 +00005767 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
5768
Vinay Sajip96d4aa32009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005769- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé05b30342009-10-02 23:56:02 +00005770 Distutils.
5771
Tarek Ziadé31d46072009-09-21 13:55:19 +00005772- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
5773
Tarek Ziadé165581c2009-09-09 08:48:07 +00005774- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
5775 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
5776 Michael Haubenwallner.
5777
Tarek Ziadé4a608c02009-08-20 21:28:05 +00005778- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
5779
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc347802009-07-28 22:18:57 +00005780- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
5781 opening an empty or very small file.
5782
5783- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadé2f19bb12009-07-22 08:57:28 +00005784 behavior is similar when used with -O.
5785
Benjamin Petersonbed7d042009-07-19 21:01:52 +00005786- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
5787
Tarek Ziadéf8926b22009-07-16 16:18:19 +00005788- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
5789 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
5790 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
5791 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
5792
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00005793- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
5794
5795- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
5796
Florent Xiclunae7eaec62010-08-08 18:03:44 +00005797- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.message from a
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00005798 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
5799
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005800- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadéb7815e32009-07-10 09:14:31 +00005801
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005802- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadédd07ebb2009-07-06 13:52:17 +00005803 attribute.
5804
Tarek Ziadé05bf01a2009-07-04 02:04:21 +00005805- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
5806
Tarek Ziadée10d6de2009-07-03 08:33:28 +00005807- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
5808
Alexandre Vassalottie52e3782009-07-17 09:18:18 +00005809- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
5810 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
5811 descriptor errors
5812
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005813- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé0156f912009-06-29 16:19:22 +00005814 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
5815
Vinay Sajipd4fabf42009-07-13 11:28:25 +00005816- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé8f480e52009-06-28 21:30:52 +00005817 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
5818
Tarek Ziadé25bd2062009-06-28 21:26:27 +00005819- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
5820 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
5821
Tarek Ziadé5e06a652009-06-16 07:43:42 +00005822- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
5823
Tarek Ziadéff543362009-06-11 09:25:41 +00005824- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
5825
Tarek Ziadéabcc3f42009-06-11 08:31:17 +00005826- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
5827 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
5828 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
5829
Hirokazu Yamamoto2703fd92009-05-29 09:14:04 +00005830- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
5831 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
5832
Tarek Ziadé77c8b372009-05-28 13:01:13 +00005833- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
5834
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005835- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé822eb842009-05-19 16:22:57 +00005836 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
5837
Tarek Ziadé93fb3aa2009-05-18 12:29:06 +00005838- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
5839
Tarek Ziadéd18a84e2009-05-18 08:07:46 +00005840- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
5841 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
5842
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005843- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadé5af55c62009-05-16 16:52:13 +00005844 subcommand.
5845
Tarek Ziadé4210c6e2009-05-14 20:20:47 +00005846- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
5847 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
5848
Tarek Ziadéff0e5002009-05-12 17:14:01 +00005849- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
5850 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
5851
Tarek Ziadé06fbee12009-05-10 10:34:01 +00005852- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
5853 for old-style extensions.
5854
Tarek Ziadébe5b1b92009-05-09 10:09:11 +00005855- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
5856
Tarek Ziadé5662d3e2009-05-07 21:24:43 +00005857- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
5858 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
5859 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
5860 Cournapeau.
5861
R. David Murrayb507d2e2009-04-29 15:34:32 +00005862- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
5863
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00005864- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadé81623822009-04-29 08:07:44 +00005865 anymore.
5866
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005867- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadé939f9c82009-04-25 12:53:56 +00005868 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
5869
Tarek Ziadé23336082009-04-25 12:39:56 +00005870- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
5871
Thomas Hellerd3cfe992009-04-24 20:10:24 +00005872- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
5873
Tarek Ziadé822e1d42009-04-13 12:37:57 +00005874- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
5875
Georg Brandl1f9fa312009-04-27 16:42:58 +00005876- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
5877 a value in SafeConfigParser.
5878
Tarek Ziadéf396ecf2009-04-11 15:00:43 +00005879- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
5880
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00005881- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéa6191802009-04-09 22:02:39 +00005882 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
5883
Tarek Ziadéf6370502009-04-05 22:57:21 +00005884- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
5885 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
5886
Tarek Ziadé889b0aa2009-04-05 21:49:36 +00005887- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
5888 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
5889
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005890- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadéea261632009-04-05 18:33:34 +00005891
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00005892- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl236f7972009-04-05 14:28:42 +00005893
Brett Cannonf47e84c2009-04-01 16:06:01 +00005894- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
5895 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
5896 threads.
5897
R. David Murraye59482e2009-04-01 03:42:00 +00005898- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
5899 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
5900 that it was failing to do localization.
5901
Tarek Ziadéb2e36f12009-03-31 22:37:55 +00005902- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
5903 Brandl.
5904
Antoine Pitrou350370c2009-03-14 00:13:13 +00005905- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
5906 character.
5907
Tarek Ziadé516db942009-03-11 12:52:00 +00005908- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
5909 Tim Golden.
5910
Raymond Hettinger5bb0f0e2009-03-10 12:56:32 +00005911- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
5912
Guilherme Polof45b4cc2009-03-07 02:19:14 +00005913- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
5914 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
5915 window flashing.
5916
Guilherme Polo56f5be52009-03-07 01:54:57 +00005917- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
5918 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
5919 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
5920
5921- Issue #5193: Guarantee that tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
5922
Tarek Ziadé63b64c02009-03-07 00:51:53 +00005923- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
5924 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
5925
Hirokazu Yamamoto54d0df62009-03-06 03:04:07 +00005926- Issue #5334: array.fromfile() failed to insert values when EOFError was raised.
5927
Hirokazu Yamamoto8e722bc2009-03-05 14:33:01 +00005928- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
5929
Hirokazu Yamamoto0c988172009-03-03 22:41:26 +00005930- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
5931
Raymond Hettinger2d32f632009-03-02 21:24:57 +00005932- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
5933
Raymond Hettingera4f52b12009-03-02 22:28:31 +00005934- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
5935
Raymond Hettinger0663a1e2009-03-02 23:06:00 +00005936- configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
5937
Benjamin Petersone0124bd2009-03-09 21:04:33 +00005938- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
5939 import guess_extension`` was used.
5940
Hirokazu Yamamoto10c99372009-02-28 12:21:53 +00005941- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
5942 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
5943
Hirokazu Yamamoto39c6dea2009-02-28 10:56:50 +00005944- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
5945 overrun.
5946
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00005947- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed ``*.pyo`` was breaking Distutils
Tarek Ziadéf0721222009-02-28 10:16:43 +00005948 bdist_rpm command.
5949
5950- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
5951
Tarek Ziadé38e3d512009-02-27 12:58:56 +00005952- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
5953
Tarek Ziadé0f31e6d2009-02-25 22:31:38 +00005954- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
5955 in Distutils tests.
Barry Warsawd8ccd1c2008-11-21 15:13:37 +00005956
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005957- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
5958 IronPython.
5959
Hirokazu Yamamoto0654ccd2009-02-18 16:38:00 +00005960- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
5961 The file was resized to wrong size.
5962
5963- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
5964
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005965- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé0d0506e2009-02-16 21:49:12 +00005966 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
5967
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00005968- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadéc1375d52009-02-14 14:35:51 +00005969 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
5970
Tarek Ziadé68c50952009-02-13 23:04:17 +00005971- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
5972 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
5973
Tarek Ziadé811d6242009-02-13 22:26:15 +00005974- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
5975
Mark Dickinsonc28ad272009-02-12 17:58:36 +00005976- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
5977 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
5978 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
5979
Antoine Pitroub353c122009-02-11 00:39:14 +00005980- Issue #4631: Fix urlopen() result when an HTTP response uses chunked
5981 encoding.
5982
Thomas Heller465c8022009-02-10 18:59:04 +00005983- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
5984 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
5985
Tarek Ziadé7d5e9872009-02-10 12:36:33 +00005986- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
5987 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
5988
Brett Cannonbefb14f2009-02-10 02:10:16 +00005989- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
5990 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
5991 ctime of the files involved.
5992
Guilherme Polob681df42009-02-09 22:33:59 +00005993- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
5994 deadlock.
5995
Benjamin Petersona86f2c02009-02-10 02:41:10 +00005996- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
5997 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
5998 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
5999
Guilherme Poloae098992009-02-09 16:44:24 +00006000- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
6001
Nick Coghlan9a1d6e32009-02-08 03:37:27 +00006002- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
6003 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
6004
Nick Coghlan3f48ae32009-02-08 01:58:26 +00006005- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
6006 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
6007 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
6008 Vajda.
6009
Guilherme Polo491aee22009-02-06 23:16:11 +00006010- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
6011 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
6012 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
6013 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
6014
Eric Smith0e5b5622009-02-06 01:32:42 +00006015- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
6016 Ross Light.
6017
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006018- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadéd3409de2009-02-06 01:18:36 +00006019 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
6020
Tarek Ziadé70a74eb2009-02-06 00:38:35 +00006021- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
6022 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
6023
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006024- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé5874ef12009-02-05 22:56:14 +00006025 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
6026
Guilherme Polo7f423952009-02-02 21:17:09 +00006027- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
6028
Raymond Hettinger85602262009-02-03 04:19:10 +00006029- The shelve module now defaults to pickle protocol 3.
6030
Brett Cannone61426e2009-01-30 01:31:34 +00006031- Fix a bug in the trace module where a bytes object from co_lnotab had its
6032 items being passed through ord().
6033
Antoine Pitrou0dcc3cd2009-01-29 20:26:59 +00006034- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
6035 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
6036 "src.new").
6037
Guilherme Polo5f238482009-01-28 14:41:10 +00006038- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
6039
Raymond Hettinger89e12962009-01-26 02:09:03 +00006040- Removed isSequenceType(), isMappingType, and isNumberType() from the
6041 operator module; use the abstract base classes instead. Also removed
6042 the repeat() function; use mul() instead.
6043
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006044- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettinger0f055172009-01-27 10:06:09 +00006045 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
6046
6047- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
6048 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
6049
Tarek Ziadé0302cf52009-01-26 17:23:20 +00006050- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
6051 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
6052
Tarek Ziadé4d4456f2009-01-25 18:27:45 +00006053- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
6054
Raymond Hettingerd07d9392009-01-27 04:20:44 +00006055- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
6056 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger6b3b0fc2009-01-26 02:56:58 +00006057
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006058- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger30729212009-02-12 06:28:27 +00006059 allowed non-integer arguments.
6060
Jesse Noller41faa542009-01-25 03:45:53 +00006061- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
6062 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
6063 examples.
6064
Mark Dickinsoncddcf442009-01-24 21:46:33 +00006065- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
6066 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
6067
Martin v. Löwisacbf4612009-01-24 16:19:45 +00006068- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
6069 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
6070
Martin v. Löwis59e47792009-01-24 14:10:07 +00006071- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
6072 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
6073
Vinay Sajipb672b6d2009-02-19 12:36:11 +00006074- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Noller6fd47e22009-01-23 14:09:08 +00006075 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
6076 be disabled, and not compiled.
6077
Antoine Pitrou08838b62009-01-21 00:55:13 +00006078- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
6079 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
6080 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
6081 traditional 2.x file object.
6082
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006083- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
6084 parameter was set.
6085
Mark Dickinson8dd05142009-01-20 20:43:58 +00006086- Issue #4842: Always append a trailing 'L' when pickling longs using
6087 pickle protocol 0. When reading, the 'L' is optional.
6088
Brett Cannonafccd632009-01-20 02:21:27 +00006089- Add the importlib package.
6090
Jesse Noller9a0fc972009-01-18 21:12:58 +00006091- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6092 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6093
Jesse Noller1cbb17a2009-01-18 19:45:18 +00006094- Issue #3325: Remove python2.x try: except: imports for old cPickle from
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006095 multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerf70a5382009-01-18 19:44:02 +00006096
Benjamin Peterson9953a8d2009-01-17 04:15:01 +00006097- Issue #4959: inspect.formatargspec now works for keyword only arguments
6098 without defaults.
6099
Georg Brandl65ce6ad2010-09-05 17:32:31 +00006100- Issue #3321: ``_multiprocessing.Connection()`` doesn't check handle; added checks
6101 for Unix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
Jesse Noller6214edd2009-01-19 16:23:53 +00006102 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
6103
Jesse Nollerb0516a62009-01-18 03:11:38 +00006104- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
6105 in sharedctypes.py.
6106
6107- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
6108 __getattr__.
6109
Gregory P. Smithde3369f2009-01-12 04:50:11 +00006110- Issue #3826 and #4791: The socket module now closes the underlying socket
6111 appropriately when it is being used via socket.makefile() objects
6112 rather than delaying the close by waiting for garbage collection to do it.
6113
Raymond Hettingerb8baf632009-01-14 02:20:07 +00006114- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
6115 counting.
6116
Antoine Pitrou308705e2009-01-10 16:22:51 +00006117- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
6118
Thomas Heller5e4e4272009-01-08 09:34:20 +00006119- Issue #4867: Fixed a crash in ctypes when passing a string to a
6120 function without defining argtypes.
6121
Antoine Pitrou42db3ef2009-01-04 21:37:59 +00006122- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
6123 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
6124 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
6125 Jacques Frechet.
6126
Mark Dickinson315a20a2009-01-04 21:34:18 +00006127- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
6128
Guilherme Polo3f5f8222009-01-03 22:00:39 +00006129- Issue #3638: Remove functions from _tkinter module level that depend on
6130 TkappObject to work with multiple threads.
6131
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006132- Issue #4718: Adapt the wsgiref package so that it actually works with
6133 Python 3.x, in accordance with the `official amendments of the spec
Antoine Pitrou38a66ad2009-01-03 18:41:49 +00006134 <http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0>`_.
6135
Raymond Hettinger771ed762009-01-03 19:20:32 +00006136- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
6137 to the decimal module.
6138
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006139- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
6140 cast as floats.
6141
Mark Dickinsonf9236412009-01-02 23:23:21 +00006142- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
6143 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
6144
Georg Brandl1cdd83c2009-04-05 20:24:29 +00006145- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandl3a9b0622009-01-03 22:07:57 +00006146 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
6147
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006148- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
6149 the function is not a generator.
6150
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006151- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
6152 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadé9df8ce32008-12-30 23:09:20 +00006153
Vinay Sajip6268cbc2009-01-21 00:19:28 +00006154- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé4450dcf2008-12-29 22:38:38 +00006155 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
6156
Martin v. Löwis1f1620e2008-12-29 16:27:13 +00006157- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
6158
Martin v. Löwise354d782008-12-29 16:03:04 +00006159- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
6160
Antoine Pitrou5acd41e2008-12-28 14:29:00 +00006161- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
6162 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
6163
Georg Brandldb7b6b92009-01-01 15:53:14 +00006164- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
6165 works as expected in the interactive environment.
6166
Antoine Pitroudb5fe662008-12-27 15:50:40 +00006167- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
6168 Gabriel Genellina.
6169
Antoine Pitrou180a3362008-12-14 16:36:46 +00006170- Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char
6171 boundary.
6172
Nick Coghlanf088e5e2008-12-14 11:50:48 +00006173- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
6174 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
6175 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
6176
6177- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
6178 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
6179 Alexander Belopolsky.
6180
6181- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
6182 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
6183 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
6184 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
6185 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
6186 Alexander Belopolsky.
6187
6188- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
6189 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
6190 Alexander Belopolsky.
6191
Antoine Pitrou7c59bc62008-12-13 23:20:54 +00006192- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
6193 a non-ASCII letter.
6194
Lars Gustäbel43fcf3a2008-12-12 14:58:38 +00006195- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
6196
Benjamin Peterson433f32c2008-12-12 01:25:05 +00006197- Issue #4021: tokenize.detect_encoding() now raises a SyntaxError when the
6198 codec cannot be found. This is for compatibility with the builtin behavior.
6199
Facundo Batista708d5812008-12-11 04:20:07 +00006200- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
6201 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
6202 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
6203
Skip Montanaroc1ce2862008-12-06 17:25:02 +00006204- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
6205 libs.
6206
Georg Brandlf9734072008-12-07 15:30:06 +00006207- Added the subprocess.check_call_output() convenience function to get output
6208 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6209
6210- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6211 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6212 Content-Disposition headers.
6213
6214- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
6215 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
6216 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
6217 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
6218 doesn't configure logging.
6219
6220- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
6221 exception.
6222
Georg Brandleee31162008-12-07 15:15:22 +00006223- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
6224 statements.
6225
6226- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
6227 not a malformed option.
6228
6229- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
6230 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
6231
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc9d4742008-12-05 01:40:43 +00006232- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
6233 the corresponding tests now pass.
6234
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbc2ce572008-12-05 01:02:21 +00006235- Issue #4537: webbrowser.UnixBrowser would fail to open the browser because
6236 it was calling the wrong open() function.
6237
Fred Drake9a0a65b2008-12-04 19:24:50 +00006238- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6239 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6240 Content-Disposition headers.
6241
Matthias Klose2c7e3ee2009-01-10 17:08:25 +00006242- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
6243 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
6244
Benjamin Peterson5c6d7872009-02-06 02:40:07 +00006245- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
6246 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
6247 and getservbyport().
6248
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven0a866942009-05-08 14:18:00 +00006249- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
6250
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006251Tools/Demos
6252-----------
6253
Antoine Pitrou8a681222009-02-07 17:13:31 +00006254- Issue #4704: remove use of cmp() in pybench, bump its version number to 2.1,
6255 and make it 2.6-compatible.
6256
Guilherme Poloa7d27972009-01-28 16:06:51 +00006257- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
6258
Antoine Pitrou2a013ea2008-12-27 20:39:28 +00006259- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
6260
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006261
6262Build
6263-----
6264
Benjamin Petersonf53eec82009-05-23 19:36:27 +00006265- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
6266
Martin v. Löwis8482ef92009-05-05 16:14:30 +00006267- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
6268
Antoine Pitrou8966c992009-05-01 21:18:27 +00006269- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
6270 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
6271
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006272- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipaffbd872009-06-11 10:11:47 +00006273 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose55708cc2009-04-30 08:06:49 +00006274
Matthias Klose906785c2009-02-22 23:18:38 +00006275- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
6276
Martin v. Löwis11f72102009-02-10 13:13:30 +00006277- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
6278
Martin v. Löwisbc186a82009-02-02 15:32:22 +00006279- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
6280
Martin v. Löwise97637d2009-01-11 09:45:11 +00006281- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
6282
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006283- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
6284
6285- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
6286
6287- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
6288
6289- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
6290
6291- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
6292
6293- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
6294
6295- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
6296
6297- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
6298
6299- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
6300
6301- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
6302
6303
6304C-API
6305-----
6306
Sean Reifscheider642d96a2009-08-01 23:55:06 +00006307- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
6308 NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
6309
Mark Dickinson21776072009-02-10 16:13:25 +00006310- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
6311 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
6312
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006313- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6314
6315- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
6316 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
6317
6318- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6319 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
6320
6321
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006322Extension Modules
6323-----------------
6324
Gregory P. Smith365a1862009-02-12 07:35:29 +00006325- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6326 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
6327 implementations or external openssl library).
6328
Mark Dickinson29500f62009-01-15 15:36:10 +00006329- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
6330
Martin v. Löwisa9b54c72009-01-11 09:30:50 +00006331- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6332
Antoine Pitroubcd5cbe2009-01-08 21:17:16 +00006333- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
6334 (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
6335 on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
6336
Martin v. Löwis5c88d812009-01-02 20:47:48 +00006337- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6338
Antoine Pitrou31f30b12009-01-02 17:34:35 +00006339- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
6340 or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
6341 is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
6342
Georg Brandlb1441c72009-01-03 22:33:39 +00006343- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6344
Martin v. Löwis05bfe1f2008-12-29 18:21:47 +00006345- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6346
Mark Dickinsone675f082008-12-11 21:56:00 +00006347- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6348 OpenBSD.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcefae8c42008-11-21 23:08:09 +00006349
Antoine Pitrou3ad3a0d2008-12-18 17:08:32 +00006350- Issue #4583: array.array would not always prohibit resizing when a buffer
6351 has been exported, resulting in an interpreter crash when accessing the
6352 buffer.
6353
Martin v. Löwis841edad2008-11-30 10:36:49 +00006354
Jack Diederiche0cbd692009-04-01 04:27:09 +00006355- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6356
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006357Tests
6358-----
6359
Antoine Pitrou88909542009-06-29 13:54:42 +00006360- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6361 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6362
Guilherme Polo2a998fa2009-06-21 17:40:07 +00006363- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6364 Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
6365 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
6366 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
6367
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006368- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajipad5fa2f2009-04-27 13:55:05 +00006369 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murraya21e4ca2009-03-31 23:16:50 +00006370 from test support, which does the conversion.
6371
Guilherme Polo9de29af2009-01-28 20:40:48 +00006372- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6373
6374
Brett Cannon7317c1e2008-11-25 19:19:17 +00006375Docs
6376----
6377
Georg Brandl52b92cc2008-05-25 09:43:03 +00006378
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00006379**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**